Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-01
LOODS CAUSE DEAi.I.
Frightful Havoc in the Big State of
 Pennsylvania.
LOSS AT NsTOwN
That Place Has Many Houses Inun. dated, and the Loss of Life will be Very Great - 300 Bodies Counted Floating Down the stream.

Very Great - 300 Bodies Counted
 Floating Down the stream.
 TOMBSTONE, Penn., June 1.-The loss
 of life and property by the flood along
 the Conemaugh river has been terrific
 The flood Is the worst that has ever been
 experienced. Hundreds of houses have
 been swept away, scores of lives lost. railroad traffic Is suspended and the river is still rising.
 The story which few hours more will tell will be terrible one, as the reports come in from farther down the river. It Is feared that the list of lives lost as re- ported now will be swelled into the hun dreds before tho flood subsidies.
 At this place railroad business is prac- tically suspended. The Pennsylvania road is completely blockaded, its tracks are under water and no trains from tbe east have passed for twenty-four hours.
 At least a hundred houses arc inup- dated and the people are being removed from the second-Story windows.
 The railroad bridge aoross the Conc maugh was swept away afterward. The water has reached the second-stery win dows of the depot, forcing the telegraph operators and employees to vacate.
 The Conemaugh river has swept away thousands of dollars worth of property tains, where there was waterspout yes- terday.
 A telegram just received from Long Hollow says a number of houses hav6 been swept away down the Conemaugh river and that some twenty-five or thirty people are supposed to have been drowned. A number of bodies were seen in the drift and debris, but on &C., count of the raging water they could not be rescued.
 The telegraph wires are down at obtain details. Some reports place the number of lives lost as high as fifty.
 A telegram from New Florence states that tho water ran up almost like tide twenty-three feet above the Iow-water mark. Almost every bridge on the river has been swept away.
 The artificial lake two miles above this place and covering an area of one square mile with an average depth of 20 feet, burst, and this great body of water poured into the already raging Cone maugh. Several hundred people would have been drowned had 1t not been for who gave the alarm and the people residing in the lowlands left their homes by the score. Their houses were carried away and nothing was saved.
 The water rose so rapidly and so high that the railroad telegraph operators were compelled to leave the tower at the station. At o'clock last evening it was reported that at least seventy per sons had been seen floating in the river past Long Hollow. Some of them were not dead and were clinging to pieces of drift, but could not be rescued.
 A telegraph operator at Sang Hollow, twelve miles below Johnstown, reported that he had counted the bodies of sev- enty-ave victims of the flood as they were borne past on tho bosom of the cording to reports of Pennsylvania rail- road officials, over 200 bodies were counted floating down the stream,
 W1LLIAMsPoRT. Pa., June 1.-The big gest flood since the memorable one of 1865 is now on it's way down the west branch of the Susquehanna river. Ad- vices from points north of here indicate that much damage has already been done by high water, and what may fol- low no one cares to predict. A great volume of water has fallen in this part of the country in the past few days, and all the streams are bank full. Tel egraphie and railway communication are very seriously interfered with. Numer- ous land slides are reported all along the road north of here.
 At Clearfield the water Is rising at the rate of one and half feet per hour. A half dozen bridges have been swept away, and the streets of the town are overhowed. The people are rowing about in boats. The booms at Caledonia and Curwensville have broken, and 1t Is feared that the Lock Haven boom will break before morning.
 Lumberme1 here fear that in the latter event the Williamsport boom will not stand the strain and that 225, ,OOO, ,OOO feet of logs, valued at over $5, ,00O, 900, will be carried away on the flood. The river Is rising rapidly here. and by morning will probably be twenty feet above low water mark. The Beech creek railroad has sustained losses that will aggre- gate s25,OO0. The rain Is falling in tor rents tonight, and the present outlook Is anything but encouraging.
 PITTsBuRa, June IA special from Tyrone, Pa., says: '.The Juniata river has overfowed its banks at this place, and flooded tho southern portion of the city, causing great damage. People had to be removed from their homes in wagons. All of the railroads centering at Tyrone are greatly damaged. One man is reported drowned at Owensville. A dispatch from Clearfield says that two youhG idulcS WeTo uTOWueQ there While endeavoring to escape from the flooded district"
 RICHMOND, Va., Juno 1.-The heavy rains for the past twenty -four hours have caused washouts on all the roads running Into Richmond except tue Richmond and Petersburg road. No. trains left Rich mond laet night on any road except this one. The people in the lower portion of the city arc moving their goods and chat tels to moro elevated places. A tremen- dous freshet in the James river is ex- pected.
 SHAMoKIN, Pa., June I.-The heavy rain of the past thirty-six hours has caused great damage. All collieres in this vicinity have been forced to suspend and many are washed out. No trains have arrived, bridge west of here hay ing been swept away. Advices from points on the Reading road and branches show great damage. The trains are all late.
 GREENsBURG, Pa. June 1.-The latest reports places the number of drowned at 200. Over 600 persons were caught by the raging water and carried upon drift. These were rescued for distance of ten or twenty miles. Great excitement pre- yails throughout the western portion of the state.
 HARRIsBURa, Pa.. June 1.-An exten-