Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-06-07
GREAr FLooDs ELSEWHERE
which De-IrOy Mach Property aud
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Protracted heavy rains have caused nu
merou- floods elsewhere m Pennsylvania
IN New York IN MARYLAND and virginia
and m Washington. which would furnish
many columns for the newspapers were 1t
not for the overwhelming disaster in the
Conemaugh valley, many times greater
than all the other floods together At III
mira y y. the Erie railroad bridge was
anchored To- its place saturday night hy two
trains of loaded freight cars The water
rose 10 the cars which. with the bridge
acted a. II dam and forced the water back
through the city on the north side Of the
Chemung river, where the principal bust
ness houses are located The water cover
ed the streets 10 depth Of two or three
feet, and the Easements of the stores were
flooded. The only possible way Of enter
ing the Rathbon House the principal hotel
Of the city was 10y boats. which were row ed
directly into the hotel office Late in the
evening 20OU feet Of the embankment was
forced away, and the water carried the
railroad tracks aud everything else before
1t. The damage 10 property III Elmira and
vicinity is estimated at $500. 900 The
crops throughout the Chemung valley are
almost totally destroyed
The loss from floods at Carlisle. Pa. will
be over S2OO,OO Along the line Of the
Harrisburg and Potomac railroad for miles
the road bed, bridges and tracks have been
washed away
Sunday evening despatch from Wash
iugton said that the usually quiet Potomac
had become ii raging torrent 1t had burst
it, banks, covered the flats and submerged
some of the streets The whole city was
out 10 see the strange spectacle presented
10y the broad eXpanse of water some fears
are expressed that the foundation Of the
W ashlngtnn monument might have been
seriously damaged, hut although they are
believed to be wholly groundless. care
full examination will bee made The water
put ont the fire ia the engine which runs
the elevator ia the monument
A despatch from Lewisburg, Pa. saws
the flood on the west branch of the Susaue.
hanna river Is unprecedented The water
is four feet above the high water mark Of
the great flood of 1865 Every bridge on
the Susquehanna river from Sunbury, IN
northumberland county 10 Cleartield. in
Cleartield county has been swept away
WilliamspOrt was the scene Of fright
full disaster Monday From - % 80 per
sons were standing on the bridge at Market
street, which spans the Susquehanna river,
when with sudden and mighty surge the
-
of houses, and all sorts of driftwood, swept
the bridge away The sight-seers were
thrown into the rushing river. Their at
tempts u save themselves were desperate
and pitiiul, and few were successful Al
most III the twinkling of an eye the crowd
who few moments before had watched
with so much interest the tempestuous rush
of the waters, was swept out of sight and
vanished IN the muddy depths Of the Sus
quehanna.
Both at Willamsport aud at Lock Haven
the enormous bOoms, holding millions of
feet of timber, were broken and nine tenths
of the lumber was lost
The Virginia rivers were swelled t. over
flowing and wide spread damage was done
The damage in Rockingham county alone in
land ruined bridges and fences washed
away and crops destroyed will exceed $500,
600
In Maryland there has been serious loss
of property, and list is given OF victims
of the floods IN various parts of the state
Navigation on Chesapeake bay Is seriously
interrupted by the masses of logs, sections
of buildings and other ruins ahuat Sew
eral side wheeler steamers have been dam
aged by the tremendous logs striking the
wheels Looking southwark for miles from
hanna and far out into the bay the water is
thickly covered with the floating timber
and wreckage swept down by the Susque-
hanna
1t was estimated by careful count on
Monday that 200 logs, large and small, were
swept past Havre de Grace every minute
At that rate there would he T. 900 logs an
hour. II Is estimated that over 20, GOO. 600
feet Of cut and uncut timber has passed
Havre de Grace.
A careful summary Of the dispatches
shows that the hood-swept area extends
over all Virginia east of the Blue Ridge,
the Potomac valley, the mountain region
Of eastern Maryland, all middle Pennsyva-
MIA from around historic Gettysburg north
ward, and a part of the lake region of
western New York. The property loss is
very great and the loss of life is from POO
10 3OO-a visitation which at any other time
would produce profound sensation.