Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-03
FLOODS IN NEW YORK.
Elmira Inundated, Crops Destroyed
 and Many Lives Lost.
DAMAGE ALL AROUND.
Thirteen Lives paid to Have Been Lost at Corning Alone-Bridges Washed Away in MaDy Places-Rsilroad Property and Crops Suffer-.

here Is from foot to foot and half higher than ever before known. Tester day afternoon two bodies f1oated down the river. A roof, upon which three per sons were clinging, is said to have passed by the city. The body of 8 female baby was washed ashore in the lower portion of tho city.
 Saturday night the Erie railway bridge was anchored in its place by two trains of loaded frci ght cars. The water rose to the cars. which, with the bridge, acted as dam, and forced the water back through the city on the north side of the Chemung river, where the princi- pal business houses arc located. r
 The water covered the streets to depth of two or three feet, and the base 1nents of the stores were quickly flooded. causing thousands of dollars of damage. | On the south side of the river the waters were held iu check for several | hours by the ten-foot railroad embank- 1 ment. but hundreds of families were driven into the upper stories of their houses. Two thousand feet of the en- bapkment was carried away and the water carried the railroad tracks and | everything else before it. An extensive lumber yard in the path of the rushing water was swept away, many horses were drowned, and the people living on the flats were rescued with great diffi- culty.
 On the big flats twelve miles west of here three miles of tracks were washed away, and at Corning the big bridge across the river Is gone.
 The Erie express No. l that arrived here Saturday afternoon Is held here by the flood. Part of the Delaware, Lacka- wanna and Western railroad bridge across the river at Waverly has gone. On the Northern Central branch of the Pennsylvania system the west-bound ex- press train that left here Fridry night is Railroad men say the road will not be | open for a week.
 The damage to property in this city and vicinity Is estimated at $500, 900. The crops throughout the Chemung Valley arc almost totally destroyed.
 The Fall Brooke railroad has lost two bridges and their track Is badly washed out between Knoxville and Westf1eld
 Thirteen lives are said to have been ''as AxnovHa, nS % E. Y., June s.-A terrible rain storm visited this section early Saturday morning. All the streams were swollen far above high water marks, and fields and roads were overf1owed. No less than dozen bridges in this town were carried away, and newly planted crops are utterly ruined.
 The water continued to rise rapidly and two dams at the ponds above the village gave way and the water rushed madly down into the village. Nearly every street in the place was overiowed
 were driven to the upper floors for safety. Almost every rod of railroad track was covered, and much of 1t will have to be rebuilt. The track at some points is covered fifteen feet with earth, and trains cannot run for two or three days.
 WELLsvILLE, N. Y., June B. The heavy rains here raised creeks into rivers and rivers into torrents all through this section Never in the experience of the oldest inhabitant has Wellsville been 3 visited with such a flood. Both ends of the town have been submerged water in many cases standing clear to tho roofs
 of houses
 Farms on the flats along Dykes creek 2 and Genesee river for miles are under ! three to ten feet of water. Buildings, bridges. farming implements and live , stock have been going down tho river all
 day. Several bad washouts occurred on
 all the railroads. Edward Fuetterer was
 drowned yesterday.
 HoRNEnLsYILLE, N. Y., June 3.-Sev- are gone and the highways are impassa ble. The railroads will suffer, particu larly the Erie, whose property in the
 vicinity of the shops Is completely sub
 merged. work being totally abandoned Many washouts are reported on the diff. ferent sections of the Erie.
 I CANAsERAaA, N. Y., June 3.-The freshet was the most destructive evel
 known here. A considerable portion O.
 this village was inundated. The maiI street iron bridge was lifted and carried ! forty rods down stream. It Is almos = completely wrecked. Everywhere thu damage Is very great.
 Amerloa's Bioyolists in Dublin. 8 DUBLIN, June 3.-The visiting Ameri 8 can bicyclists have arrived at Dublin Two of them had bad falls on the roae F from Queenstown, one of them severel,
 spraining his ankle. The escort of th'
 cyclists was largely augmented by Dub 3 lin amateurs outside the city, and these l with an immense crowd of followers ; combined to give their arrival the char E acter of a triumphal entry into tho city
 The visitors will reach London on June 10 ms. stockslagef Steps Out. 2 WASHINGTON, June 3.-The resignation = of MT. Stockslager. commissioner of tn a General Land office. which was tendere'
 to the presidept on March 4. has beel
 accepted, to take effect on June 20. MI Il Stockslager has been granted leave o ! absence until then. During this tim | Assistant Commissioner StOna will h