Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-01
Damage Caused By The Col
 lapse Of Eight Dams.
IA STEAM TUG BLOWN TO ATOMS.
Sullivan Is Arrested In
 New York.
A RAILROAD WRECK IN OHIO.
Lord Salisbury's Speech At The Ministerial Banquet.
auE JERSEY FLOOD.

Terrible Damage in PIatnfaeld Caused
 by the Breaking Away of Eight
 Dams - Factories, Business Blocks
 and Residences Ruined-Gas Mains
 Broken and Sewers Bisconnected-
 Thirty Bridges swept Away.
 PLA1NFIELD, N. J., July 31.-The first dam to break in this vicinity WI at Feltville, five miles north of here. The break ocou1 1ed at 4 o'clock and the lush of water cal..ed away and absolutely obliterated two smaller dams below at Seeley's Paper mill, carsing loss of $20,000. The water llshed down to Scotch Plains, completely inundating the village. Cellars were flooded end al. the bridges were swept away. The Baptist church here is badly damaged and the old cemetery surrounding it is badly weshed out, in many places exposing the graves. A. D. Shepard's place wes completely flooded out. The Derby Fur mill here lost $1O,0OO in stock and machinery. The great body of water divided, part of it forcing it's way for & mile across the fields until it reached Cedar Brook, little stream running through the eastern portion of Plf'nfeld. 1ne brook be- came liver and then a lake and portion of Plainfelds choicest resident locality was under water up to the first sto1.., of the houses.
 The heaviest loser here is Job Mole, the mayor of the town, who owrs more than a hundred handsome dwellings. His property is damaged to the extent of 1000. The
 property of Leo Daft, the electrician, is bad- ly damaged. Mir. Bowers loes is $5,000 by damage to his furniture. James Martin lost several valuable cows. The Park avenue church was threatened with destl 1ction. 6oti Qf yvTl yEa a haH ant but the building is sste, though damaged to
 the extent of $2,000. Many gallant re soues were me 1e in this paI3 of the town by people who, becoming frightened, attempted to leave their houses and were caught in the flood. Eugene Laiae, assistant fire chief, yves
 swept down the stream while out in boat
 assisting others, but wes rescued by breaking of Tiers dam threatened to cut @ big swath through the business portion of the town, and brook which 1lns through that part of the place ;s bridged over with buildings on Somerset street. The space underneath was not sufficient to carry off the water end it backed up into the street. Martins blacksmith shop and several smaller buildings were lifted end thrown in 8 heap into the middle of the street. French's mill wes undermined and stands suspended over a yawning gap. His carriage fac ory is tots tering and may fall. Blinn's Hotel stands with it's foundations exI osed to the veiJ bot tom. Hiram's cal -iage fact o1J is badly dsmaged and Ryerson's cal-iege rer osit or5 was damaged S10,0O0. Among the losses here are the following French Brothers, 1 5000; L. M. French, l-iage fact oIy, sl,- GOO; Homans carriage factory, $3, 900; Blir 1's
 Hctel, $5,000.
 In Somerset street there 's g hl'.y thirty feet wide and twenty deep. The gsl mains are broken aud the sewers disconnected. Mu. sic Hall, in which Dookstadsrs troupe was playing, was damaged $4 ,000. A corner of the foundation j, WE ,hed out end the stage has sunk two feet.
 The breaking of Wilson's dam in Ws ,hing ton valley let down an immense body of W.
 ter to the dam at Watumpka Falls. Little damage was done until the masonry which was built supplementary to the natural fa", gave way, when large me ,s of water, thirty feet high, fairly leaped against the falls Masonry and rocFs tumbled together, rnd | what was once picture 1que rssoid :s absc lutely gone. Coddington's ice horses, barns | and mills were swept away, involv ! ing loss of s30,0OO. Sony Bre ok goi1 | through farming country west of the tonl | so that the subsequent damage was eight | Of the ffty-two large bridges in Union coun | ty thirty are said to be gone, involving lcc: | to the county of more then SiO,0OO. NJ lives ere lost end no serious CT sualtie3 art reported.
 The los, of live stock !, slight. Altogeth
 CT eight dams in Plain6eld were washed
 away. The breaking of the New Brooklyn dam, two miles south, end the one at Cad mus mill caused little sei.ors damage. othe than washing out the road. A washout at the Berknsn street railroad bridge caused
 great delay to travel, or'y one of the fou
 tracks being safe.
 NEW YoPx, July 3l.-On the Bronx rive
 some canal boats broke i. om their mooring
 and SO damaged the drawbridge of the liar lem River branch of the New Haven ant
 Hartford railroad near West Farms tha
 freight and passenger trains were seriorsl.