Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1889-06-07

finally the force OF the current
carried buildings across streets
and vacant lots and dashed them
against each other, breaking them
into fragments.
These buildings were freighted
with the poor wretches who so
shortly before had laughed at the
cry OF danger. In some cases as
many as fifteen people cnld be
counted cliDging to a single build
ing.
1t is said to be next to impos-
sible TO get to JOhnstown proper
TO day in any manner except by
row-bOats. The roads are cut up
so that even the cOuntrymen re.
fused to travel over them in their
toughest vehicles. The only hope
is to get within about three miles
of JOhnstown by a special train or
by hand-car.
PITTsBURG, ia, June Re
ports from all along the Kiskimln-
eta river into which the COnemaugh
empties are most distressing. The
river near Saltzburg Is filed with
wreckage. The volume Of water is
unprecedented. The iron bridge
connecting Blairsvllle with Blairs
vile intersection has been carried
away and with 1t train of heavily
loaded cars standing on the bridge
to hold it in place. This wa the
largest and strongest bridge on the
West pennsylvania railroad. All
towns IN the KlskImineta valley
are more or less flooded. Among
them are LiyermOre, Saltzburg,
AppOlo, Leechburg and AvenmOre,
having populations from 5000 to
10000 each. Coketowu is reported
completely submerged.
GREENsBURG, PA, June l.
The first section of the day express
which passed here at Q o'clock was
lying between Sang HOiloy and
Johnstown yesterday afternoon
when the water came down, and
the food cut one of the cars. con.
tanning about fifty or sixty passen.
gers, loose and it was carried away
and it is supposed the passengers
have perlshed. A few Of the occu
pants of the other cars may have
escaped, but it lS doubtful.
DUBOIS, PA, June 1.-The
heaviest floods in this section Oc.
Cured Thursday and yesterday.
The rain came down in torrents,
without intermissiou, until yester-
day noon. The lOw-lying parts of
the First Ward were entirely sub
merged, while small out.buildings,
in many cases fiOated away.
WASHINGTON, June 3.-The
food here has subsidized. The loss
to property all along the wharyes
in Washington aud Georgetown
and in the business portions OF the
city which was submerged all day
Yesterday is lncaIculable, but will
probably reach one million dollars.
Many poor people living IN the
submerged portions OF the city lost
everything they had. The draw
on the Virginia side OF the Long
bridge, together with one span OF
the bridge, we're carried away early
this morning by the rushing but
rapidly falling waters OF the Poto'
mac, and thus all railroad cOmmu-
nlcatIon with the sOuth is cut of.
Railroad communication with the
West Is also interrupted aud no
western mails have been received
at the post-Ofiice since Saturday
morning. Westeru and south
western mails are expected tonight
ria Buffalo aud New York, and
thence to Washington over the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. From
the South along the Alexandria,
Fredericksburg and Richmond and
the Virginia Midland roads come
reports OF the destruction of bridges
and washouts that will put a stoI
to all travel and traffic south for
week. The Western Union tele
graph wires are broken aud the
service south and west badly Grip
pied.
RICHMOND, VA, June 3.-rhe
river here is rapidly falling and by
night will be in the banks Of The
river. The damage here has been
very considerable IN the way ol
damaged goods, mud, sc. In the
inundated districts no one person
however, has sustained any great
loss. The reports from all portions
of the State indicate that the rail
roads have been heavy losers
Bridges have been swept away,
arches aud other masonry wrenched
out OF 2lase, and washouts have oc-
curred at innumerable places.
So far as heard from the losses
at Fredericksburg and vicinity
seem to have been the heaviest lu
the State. They are placed at five
mllIious, but it is believed when
the waters recede aud the excite.
ment passes away those figures
will shrink considerably.
PETERSBURG, VA, June 3.-Not
within the memory of the Oldest in
habitsnt has Petersburg been Wis
tied by food as fierce and de-
structive as IL at which surprised II
on Saturday. From the very heavy
rainfall on Friday it was to be ex-
pected, of course, that there would
be considerable of freshet, but
all anticlpAtiOns were surpassed by
the reality. Such a volume OF tur-
bulent waters has not rushed down
the App0mattox within a halt cen
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