Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-03
THE FLOODED EASTERN sTREAMt
Great Damage Done Throughout Eastern
Pennsylvania.

the Schuylkill yesterday attained the high
est point reached in this city for twenty
years, involving destruction to property
estimated at from $4,000 to $40,
The park drives were submerged. the boat
houses flooded, and some of The streets
near the river banks were under water to
the depth of between four and five feet.
The cellars OF two paper mills and about q
dozen houses we're flooded. All work at
Manayunk and the Pencoyd iron works
opposite was stopped owing to the en-
croachment OF the waters.
Throughout the eastern section OF the
state the rainfall was very heavy. Many
houses and mills along the Brandywine
creek in the vicinity OF Westchester and
Downington were flooded and business was
serioueiy interrupted.
At Williamsport the bridges over the
Susquehanna had to be ballasted with
heavily laden coal cars. -... ... ...
A large section of the Schuylkill valley in
tho vicinity of Norristown and Conshocton
is almost entirely under water. Consider
able damage was done, but no lives were
reported lost in the state.
The reports received to-day are to the
effect that the water in all the larger
streams is subsiding.
Plainfield's Damage and the Danger Yet
Menacing. SIS
PLANF1ELD, N. j., August 1.-The pres
ent estimate of the damage done by the
food from the broken dam at Feltvile to
Cadmus dam, distance Of five miles, is
$25O,OOO. The streets in Plainfeld are
damaged $4,000.
The large upper dam at Feltville is re-
ported leaking badly, and it may break at
any time. More rain will prove disas-
ferrous. The dam is twenty feet high, and it
holds back lake mile and a quarter
long, from 300 to 500 feet wide and 80 feet
deep in some places. II it gives away Scotch
plains and Fanwood will probably be swept
out of existence and Plainfield inundated.
THE SENATE. COMMITTEE COMING
To Investigate the Subject of Irrigation in
Montana.
MILES CITY. Mont, August 1.-[Special to
The Miner. THE senate committee on ir-
rigation is expected to reach Miles City
Tuesday night next by special train.
A meeting was held last night by citizens
to determine as to the manner in which
the committee will be entertained. Mayor
Redd presided. A committee consisting of
}. r. Scott and Colonel George Schulz will
60 to Glendive to meet the party and &C
company it here. Then the committee will
be conducted in carriages to points OF in
terest near the city, where can be seen the
effects of irrigation on the soil. The rivers,
water courses, lands possible of irrigation
and all matters appertaining thereto will
be explained by a speaker and by maps.
After this is completed dinner will be
given the committee at club rooms and a
public reception will be held. Two hundred
and City dollars were raised for the enter
tainment. The committee will travel
through the valley by day only. It is ex-
pected that the stop in Miles City will not
last over six hours.
Investigating the Subject of Irrigation.
ST.. PAUL, August 1.-The United States
Senate committee on irrigation Of arid
lands in the west, commenced it's labors
here, to-day. A delegation from Dakota
was present and was heard touching the
necessity for irrigation in certain sections
of that state.