Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-08
HOW RENOp.a SUFFERED.
One Hundred ana Firy Families No,
 Living in Box Cars.

Living in Box Cars. DRIFTwooD. June e.-The loss by the flood in the town of Renova will reach s25O.O Ontario avenue, for distance of three-quarters of Q mile. Is total wreck. Previous to the deluge the town had an opera house, valued at about s20,OoO. It was as0 feet long, and 22O feet tloated down the 6usquehanna!
 three-span bridge over the west branch of the Susquehana, which cost s4O,o0o, was entirely swept away One hundred and fifty families in Renoya are living in box cars. Twenty-Five or thirty buildings were carried down the river and over 100 others were completely ruined by tho drifting logs, which smashed in the sides and passed on through and then wont down with the current.
 There was rise of 34 feet at Repova and 40 feet at Heating. station on the Philadelphia and Erie road twelve miles this side of Renova. Every lumber dam this side of John Dubois big reservoir on the summit of the mountains to Drift wood, 8 distance of fifty miles, was washed away.
 Big sawmills tloated down the stream, and their site is alone marked by tho rusting engine. The Philadelphia and Erie track from Renova to Heating, q distance of twelve miles, was- entirely washed away. Nine hundred men from the Renovn shops have been working day and night to build new track. Tho bridge at Heating went down with twenty-three cars loaded with coal which had been run on the bridge to hold it down.
 Trees and timber were washed under the ..bridge, and lodged there in such quantities that the bridge was lifted from its foundatron, and with the cars floated down the river past Renova. The owner of one of the cars recognized 1t as 1t floated by, and 1t was through him the people Of Renova first know the Heating bridge was gone.
 On Monday last T. c. Hippey, general superintendent of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad, foated past Renova in fatboat. He was bound from St. Marys to Williamsport, and to the citizens of Re nova he gave the first news of the Johnstown disaster.
 In Lock Haven the water was six feet higher than ever before. Hotel guests were compelled to remain on the upper floors for three days. A part of the boardwalk on Main street was lifted by the flood and. carrying man with 1t, was washed down the river forty miles, land ing on an island. The man did not lose his nerve, but maintained his position on the raft, and after reaching the island made his way to the mainlana and walked home over the mountains. No- body had expected to see him again, dead or alive.
 Half hundred houses at Lockhaven were washed away or upset. Seventeen bridges from Cleartleld to Lockhaven on the Beach Creek railroad were washed away. At Winterburn. on the low grade division of the Allegheny Valley railroad, tho Johnstown horror would have been repeated on smaller scale had it not been for the railroad embankment which held back the water from a bursted lumber dam. There Is culvert under the embankment- Through 1t the water rushed until clogged up by timber, tear ing away half the stone foundation un- derneath large frame house and widen ing the creek so that half of the house is hanging over the edge without any SUD- port