New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-11
THE CAYADUTTA DELUGE.
FOUR BODIES RECOVERED AFTER THE
WATERS SUBSIDED
SEARCH FOR THE MISSING AND THE DEAD
TRAFFIC. RESTORED ON THE NEw4YoRK
CENTRAL-THE DAMAGE DONE
THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY.

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| CENTRAL|rHE DAMAGE DONE
THROUGHOUT THE VALLEY.
| Albany, N. Y, July 1O.-A dispatch from Johns
town, n. Y, says: Fifteen persons were carried
down the Cayadutta Creek by the cloudburst
| last night -Four bodies were recovered this morn
| ing. There is as yet certainty of the loss of
more than four lives, and these victims were a
| bridge at Ferry-st. viewing the food after the
| storm. They had been warned to keep Off the
| structure, as 1t was considered dangerous. One
| end of the bridge dropped into the water but was
not carried away. Twenty persons were on the
bridge when the arch fell into the rushing
| torrent. Cries for help alarmed the
residents Chief Mcdonald, with President
Northrup, Of the village, Police Justice Anderson
and Others organized searching expedition.
Lanterns were procured, and men went along
the stream with ropes 10 assist in the rescue. One
person was splashing and plunging in the
water near the JohnStOwn, Fonda and Gloversville
| Railroad bridge, one-quartcr of a mile down the
stream. As he foated past those on the shore,
he cried: " For Gods sake help me-" He was
| swept by in the current, close to
the shore that man who was in a
boat secured to pile of wreckase got hold Of
him, but owing to the swift current was unable
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driftwoOd. Two other persons came down a
moment later cIingng TO a plank and shouting
for help. They were swept ont Of sight below
! the railroad bridge The bodies OF the following
named persons have been recovered:
| COI.DAUGH Albert age twenty.six a glove.cutter.
He leaves wife.
FREAR Charles carpenter age hfty-seven. He leaves
wife and daughter.
| STEADWELL Burt sixteen, employe in the glove
He O a
| TREADWELL, -.
| number of persons are still missing The
search for dead and living was continued all
night. At 4 a. m. the body of Burt Steadwel
| sixteen years of age, was recovered. An hour
| later Albert COldaugh was pulled out from under
| the drftwood that had lodged back OF Evans 5
mills. Soon after the body Of man named Tread
well found in the same place. At IA. m
| the body of Charles Frear was found under the
wreck at Eyans's mills. The bodies are badly
bruised
Charles Abbott was carried down from the
Ferry-st. bridge over the dam, but he succeeded in
swimming ashore and escaping without injury
Peter Evin, a stonemason, says that he went down
with fifteen others and carried under the
| Ferryst. bridge, but got out below. lie was
bruised about the face. Purdy Case rescued two
men named Nellis and Yosburgh by means of ropes.
The centre OF the storm yesterday was about
four miles northeast of Johnstown. Two creeks
unite here. One is the Cayadutta proper, rising
in the mountains north of Gloversvle, and the
other the Mexican, or West Branch. The cloud
buIst about five p. m. two miles east of the
town, on the road to Perth. 1t evidently
covered several miles Of territory. The
4 railroad bridge at this place and the one
,-se tho Cayadrt'a Crcc'- at Fonda we're washed
| away The New-York Central Railroad was washed
out for 300 feet at a point one half mile east OF
Tribes Hill, and half mile further east, near
Aiken another washout occurred, tearing out the
track for 100 feet. The washout delayed all
trains Late in the afternoon, however, the Cen
tral trains bound east transferred from Aiken
TO Fuller Station, on the West Shore Railroad,
and brought over that line to South Schenectady,
where connections were made with Albany. This
morning the trains were running over the West
Shore as stated, but about half an hour behind
time, the delay being caused by the transfer at
Fuller Station. BY $40 this afternoon one track
of the Central Railroad bridge at Fonda and two
tracks at the washout at Aiken were repaired
sufficiently to allow trains to pass, and orders
we're issued for all trains to remain on their own
road With the slight delay of using a few miles
of single track all trains running as usual.
The food carried away two skin mills one of
in the village limits and Oh the bank of Cayadutta
Creek Several coal sheds and small buildings
were also swept away The big iron railroad bridge
at Johnstown was swept away and also
the iron railroad bridge over Cayadutta Creek at
Fonda All the wagon bridges over the creek
between JohnstOwn and Fonda were also carried
away. Great damage has been done all through
the valley Two dams across Cayadutta Creek
were swept away one at SERVERS mll taxing
the mill with it, and the other about midway
between JohnstOwn and Gloversyllle Inc CIV
ing way of the latter dam increased the force OF
the food that swept away the stone bridge at
Peuy-st.
1t rained nearly all night, but this morning
the rain ceased and the food had gone down.
Evidences of the rayages Of the waters are seen
all through the valley. AbQNe JOhnstOW9 Tue
culVerts and bridges are washed dWd!, anu inc
creek is lined with wreckage from TIE Nooa
Tho creek rapidly, as II an immense reservoir
had been poured into IL suddenly .,
During the heaviest part Of the storm NAM ana
Bleecker sts., i'll Glovefsyille, were Hooded Inc
new pavement in Bleecker-st. was torn up Ior sew
eral blocks. \ number OF houses III the upper pdtV
of the town were surrounded by water Inc IOuh-
dation walls of new stone building IN NotCn
Main-st. GloveTsville were partly carried away
Great damage was done, not only at JohhsIoEHH,
out down the Mohawk Valley to Amsterdam. INC
,vatcr poured down the gullies, streams ana smali
creeks near Amsterdam, spollnS all crops ana uo-
ing to John Pettingll was carried through Put
nam's Creek.
INSPECTING THE BROKEN BRIDGES.
A STATEMENT FROM SUPERINTENDENT sHANA
HAN AS TO THE DAMAGE DONE
BY THE FLOOD.
Albany. July 1O.-Mr. Shanahan, Superintendent
of Public Works, and his assistant, John T. Ashe'
have just returned from the region of the floods