Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-06-02
A HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST.

The most of the accumulat. Ion of bull dines
which were swept by the angry ws.ters 20
the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, piled up
fully fifty feet high, have burned to the
waters edge. Before the buildings took
fire many people, dead end alive, were
taken from them, and in several instances
the unfortunates were so wedged in that it
was necessary to chop their legs of to re-
lease them. The Catholic Church was also
destroyed by fire this morning. A number
of people were on the roof when the
structure took fire, and all of them were
consumed in the flames. The damage is as
vet unestimable. regardless of the great loss
/. of life. The Pennsylvania Railroads loss
will DE enormous.
THE LOSS AT YORK.
YORK (Pa.), June 1st.-A number of
| bridges in the county have been swept
away, and the loss in the county, exclusive
| of the city, which is about $4,000, is esti-
mated at 100000. James Mclivaine was
drowned this morning.
THE sUsQUEHANNA AT wILKEsBARRE.
| W1KEsBARRE (Pa.), June 1st.-The Sus-
| quehanna river at this point began rising
| rapidly this afternoon and it is continuing
at the rate of a foot an hour. Reports are
coming in this evening from the country
districts to the effect that the crops are
badly injured by the tremendous wind and
heavy rain.
Several washouts on the mountains have
occurred and trains due here are delayed
| CONDITION AT sHAMoKIN.
SHAMoKIN (Pa.), June 1st.- Seven
bridges and twenty houses in this vicinity
have been swept away. The damage to
mining property cannot be estimated. A
number of the colheries are flooded and
many are completely wrecked. 1t will be
two weeks before the mines can resume.
The losses are estimated at $4,000 There
| were no fatalities.
DESTRUCTION IN CUMBERLAND VALLEY.
CARLISLE (Pa.), June 1st.-The heaviest
food ever known in the Cumberland val
vey is now in progress. There is great
loss of property along the line of The Gettys-
burg and Harrisburg Railroad. Several
miles of track were swept away and on the
line OF the Harrisburg and Potomac Rail-
road there were many washouts, and
bridges, telegraph wires and poles carried
away.
AT Williams Grove the great Granger
picnic grounds is entirely flooded and sew
eral of the summer buildings swept away
Ali the bridges. perhaps ten or twenty,
have been carried away. On one of them
Henry w. Ellison and his wife sought
shelter, and it is thought they went down
with the bridge.
PARTLY SUBMERGED.
DUBOIS (Pa.), June 1st.-The heaviest
floods in the history of Dubois occurred
Thursday night and yesterday. The rain
began falling at II P. NJ. and came down in
torrents without intermission until yester-
day noon. The low-lying parts of the
! First Ward were entirely submerged. The
small outbuildings were lifted from their
foundations, and in many cases foated
away. The greatest excitement prevailed
| in the vicinity of Pentzrun, which sepa-
rates the First and Second Wards of the
city. At one time the buildings which
face the stream were in danger OF having
their foundations undermined, but now all
Is safe. No casualties are reported.
RELIEF EXPEDITIONS.
HARRISBURG, June 1st.-The great rain
storm has entailed great loss here. In the
east and south ends of the city the water
rose above the banks of Paxton creek,
swept away the bridges and reached the
first stories of the houses.
Last night hundreds of families were in
distress and forced to leave their homes.
The Mayor conducted relief expedition
which utilized all the boats to be had, and
while the rain came down in torrents he
and his associates did good work While
| thus engaged the Mayor and one of the
officers narrowly escaped drowning.
THE sUsQUEHANNA RIVER
At this point is eighteen feet above low
water-mark and rising every hour. hide
pendence Island is completely covered
| The tracks of the Pennsylvania south of
here are covered by two feet of water.
Advices just received from points up the
river say the beautiful lighthouses built by
| Harrisburgers, about ten miles from here,
were washed away, as were the sheds and
| outhouses of every kind. Great embank-
ments here have caved in. culverts and
| sewers demolished and great trees laid
| prone.
MORE DISASTERS.
| PHILADELPHIA, June 1st-A dispatch
received at Z. NJ. from Pittsburg states
that the Pennsylvania Railroad people sue
ceeded in getting a temporary wire through
| from,Sna gHollow to the western end,of the
railroad bridge, which is west of Johns
town. The debris, lodged against the
! bridge and piled up to distance probably
| of forty feet, is stated to be still burning.
| Until the flames die out so as to admit of
passage across the bridge nothing can be
| done toward repairing the heavy washout
| between the bridge and JohnStown Station.
Iron Company's plant on the north side of
] the Conemaugh River at Johnstown is
A COMPLETE WRECK.
Until this dispatch was received it was
not thought here that this portion of the
plant had been seriously injured The
| plant is said to be valued at So 900 OGO.
a dispatch received at the Pennsylvania
| Railroad office this afternoon says consd-
cradle damage had been sustained to the
| railroad property. 1t is feared the bridge
| crossing the west branch of the Susuue-
| hanna at Linden will go. This bridge was
previously reported as being ballasted with
a heavily loaded freight train. Additional
| information from the Philadelphia Erie
branch is that the four-span
BRIDGE ACROSS THE JUNIATA RIVER
At Granville has been carried away. The
water is still rising in the Juniata. Be-
tween Granville and Tuscarora, a distance
of forty miles, nothing is known of the
condition of the roadbed or the bridges
| OF the twenty bridges south of Ralston on
the Northern Central branch five are
| washed away and all the rest badly dam
| aged.
The Cumberland Valley Railroad lost the
new iron bridge crossing the Potomac
river near Williamsport, Maryland. The
| bridge across Sennenahoning creek at Sen
| mentioning is also gone, and the bridge
over the same stream at Heating is badly
| damaged.
THE ROARING sUsQUEHANNA.
The railroad yard and tracks at Empori-
UNI have been badly washed out.
AT Williamsport the west branch of the
Susquehanna is said to be thirty feet high
| There is eight inches of water on the floor
of the railroad station there This would
indicate that nearly the whole city was
overlooked.
At Harrisburg the Susquehanna river is
still rising.
AT Steelton two and half feet of water
flows over the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks, and the steel plant at that place is
also submerged.
| WAsHINGToN's MONUMENT SURROUNDED.
| WASHINGTON, June 1st.-The latest re-
ports from Harper's Ferry say the Potomac
and Shenandoah rivers are rising at the
rate of one foot per hour. Cattle boats
and other drift are running thick. The
river is very high here and is rising. The
water has reached B street and has put out
the fire in the engine-house at the Wash
ington Monument and stopped the ele-
vator. Cellars on the south side of Penn
sylvania avenue are flooded
Last night, after fall of rain almost
equivalent to cloudburst, the lock gate at
| the end of the Chesspeake and Ohio Canal