New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-02
RIVERS STEADILY RISING.
THE CHEMUNG AND GENESEE HIGHER THAN
BEFORE IN YEARS.
ELMrRA PARTLY UEDgr wATER-RocHEsrEs
PREPARING FOR A FREsHET-THE
DAMAGE DONE.

DAMAGE DONE.
F,m,ra- June 1.-The food has reached the highest
mark ever known here. The ChemunS RIVER
sioh,ean feet above its normal level, and at OeOes
xss rising at the rate OF an inch In nVo minu'es
Erie and Delaware. LackaWaRua and Western usns
NOM tho Fast are all stopped here and cannot sei
further West. Northern Central Ralrosd orhsa
ia washed out at watkins. Miles OF dat lands win
growing crops under water, and Immense dsnses
4 beinr done Houses and bridges are Hosting doT1
ssream The stores all along Wa'erst. have ~
tur 20 eight feet Of water In their eeuars' Az
lives are reported lost large part OF 'n' '%
Is under water. .-... OIL ..,. -.
Rochester June l lspecial.-The indications 10.
night are that serious food Is 10 a'iet this city ana
tie Gcnesee Valley. The Gencsee RIVER mas rp'en
six feet since morning and Is now rising ~ the ra~ "
three inches an hour Al Geneseo the hais ars COW
cred with water for miles, and In some iocshle'
is four feet deep stock and crops have suHs'ea
heavily At the nurseries In the valley tho damage
viii amount to hundreds OF thousands OF dollars a
largo drove OF fine horses owned by the Caledonia
stock Farm is on the fats and will be drowned one
bridge al pansville fne iron structure Is rinco,
and the bridge az GeBeseo will probably oe cGrea
avay The merchants In the business part Oh '"S
city To- night began removing their goods from Oas
ments and ground floors The worst Is harea rs
takes twenty to twenty-four hours Tor ths he'a
waters to reach Rochester, and the Hood has po'
reser, OR near Cuba has been swept away but tA's
cannot at present be verified.
oiean, June 1.-The largest food In years is raging
to-day Many houses in the lower part OF the Guy
ARE flooded Streets are travelled by boas, sever"
ncoplo had to be rescued fom their houses. ms
DAMAGE viii be heavy all along the Allegheny River.
Mount Norris June The rain which SGT In IN
the Genesee Valley on Thursday night, eliminated
On FRIDAY nIrnt In the greatest waterfall for years.
20. Gvc hours from 10 p 10 3 a m. on saturday
,hn wafer fell IN torrents. cuivert over aain-st.
h,,kc and the water backed over a number OF acres
q, gardens filling cellars and badly washing the
Gardens, The culvert on the Dsnsville branch Oh
tho Erie road in this village was washed out Fiss
for miles are covered with water and acres Oh corn
Ar, submerged There have been no trains north 90
the Erie or Western New-York and Philadelphia rcsas
this morning culvert over the principal strre' "
pansville Is reported washed ont. The rain frOm IL
TO 3 o'clock fell in almost perfect sheet.
Newburg, n. Y, June 1 tspeciaD.-It has rainsa a..
most necessarily up the Hudson for TWO Gays isna
mart NJ the time gale accompanied the rain. wash
out occurred on the West Shore Railroad at Tomphhs
Cove, where also stone boat was sunk Al haVer
straw, Duchess Junction, yewwindscr, Cornwall
Verplanh's Point, and other BRICK manufacturfns
points ali work has been stopped Telegraph anV
telephone wires have been inteHered WIN AM Va, 10
have been blown down All along the rffcr .uV
streams are pouring great hoods OF water lhto IT, css.
night the wind was terrific, and although perucHxs
has been badly damaged small boats have osea
sunk along shore and large vessels have hsn 20 S
or sail with bare mastE. IL ~ one OF INC worst WIZ
and rain storms along the Hudson In thirty years