Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1889-07-12
AN01HBR QUEENSTOWN.
Destruction by Flood In q New
York Village Of Ths.t
Inflated Name. E K -, :. E
Fifteen People Carried Away
with a Wrecked Bridge
and Drowned. -:
Destructive Fire at Carson, Iowa
+ Two Serious Railway
r. Ef.-* Wrecks.


ALBANY, N. y, July ia special to
The Union from Johnstown, N. Y. says
Fifteen persons were carried down the
Cayudetta creek, by the food. -Four
bodies have been recovered. Heavy
rains choked streams and flooded whole
districts. Schriever's large mill in this
place was carried away. Twenty people
were ON Ferry street bridge when the
arch fell into the rushing torrent which
was filled with wreckage and humanity.
Cries for help alarmed the residents. Ar
expedition was organized. Lanterns
were procured and parties went along
the stream with ropes to assist in the
rescue. One person hung in the water
near the Johnstown, Fonda and Glovers
dale railroad bridge, one-quarter Of q
mile down stream. AS ho foated past
those on the shore, he cried:
''For Gods Sake Help Me-
He was swept by in the current, SO close
to the shore that a man who was in q
boat boat secured Sc S to pile Of Of wreckage go'
swept under the floating sdriftwood
later clinging to plank and shouting
for help, but we're swept out of sight be-
low the railroad bridge.
At 4 a. In. the body of Burt Speed we'll
Is years of age, was
Recovered from the Debris
1T this place. An hour later Albert
Cokely was pulled out from under the
driftwood that had lodged back of Evans
mills. Soon after the body of man
named Treadwell was found in the same
place. At 81 a. M. the body of Charles
Frear, % years of age, a carpenter, was
uncovered from under the wreck al
Evans mills. The bodies are badly
bruised. They were removed to police
headquarters, where they will be held
pending coroner's inquest. Charles
Abbott was carried down from the Ferry
street bridge to the dam, where he went
over, going down a distance of sixteen
feet, but miraculously succeeded in
swimming and escaping without injury.
Peter Evin, stonemason, says he
Went Down with Fifteen Others
and was carried under the Ferry street
bridge, but succeeded in getting out be.
low. He was bruised about the face.
Purdy Case rescued two men named
Nellis and Vosburgh by means of ropes.
Citizens are engaged in removing the
wreckage of Schriever's mill, near the
depot, where they think other bodies
have been lodged. 1t is believed that
the two men who went down on plank
lost their lives at the dam, and that their
bodies were carried down the stream
and are now floating in the Mohawk
river. No one knows how many people
were drowned, or who is missing. The
food was SO great, and the current SO
swift that no help could be rendered
without great danger The State street
iron bridge and the railroad bridge were
both swept away. They were large
structures.
During the heaviest part of the storm
Main and Blocker streets, in Glovers-
vile, were flooded with water. A num-
ber Of residences in the upper part of the
town are
Entirely Surrounded by Water.
The two iron bridges on the Central and
the Fonda, Jchnstown and Gloversville
railroad at Fonda nre gone. The pecun-
iary less will not he SO very great. The
railroad and State street bridges in
Johnstown were large first-class struct-
ures. The Ferry street bridge consisted
of an arch spanning the entire width of
the stream. 1t was upon one of the
plank walks that the people were stand
ing when the arch was carried away.
Schrievers large mill
Is Entirely Wrecked.
and will entail loss of $4,000. There
are several small buildings in the village
which are partially ruined, their founda-
tions being undermined. Many of the
bridges on country roads along the val
ley are gone. Some of the fields
Of glain are partially covered with
water.