The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-07-11

eral skin factories along its banks, val
ued at many hundreds of dollars. A
number of other buildings and out
houses were also swept away. The
Fonda, JOhnstown & Gloverville rail-
road loses seven or eight bridges.
creek, and on it viewing the flood were
some thirty or forty persons. This
bridge was torn from its foundation,
but it is not known positively how
many persons, if any, were lost. At /
Fonda the Central Hudson railroad |
bridge was carried away almost bodily, |
taking with it the telegraph wires and |
practically isolating Fonda. The wa
ter is three feet deep in the streets and |
rain is still falling.
LATER.
JoHNsTowN, n. Y, July 1O.-Fif- |
teen persons were carried down the
Cayudetta creek last night. Four
bodies we're recovered this morning.
Heavy rains last night choked the
streams and flooded the district.
Schriever's mill in this place was car
ried away. Twenty persons were on
the Ferry street bridge when the arch
was filled with wreckage and human
ity. Their cries for help alarmed the
residents and Chief Mcdonald of the
village police, President NOrthup,
Justice Anderson, and others, organ
lied searching expedition. Lanterns
were Immediately procured and par
ties went along the raging stream
with ropes to assist in the rescue of
persons. One was seen splashing and
plunging in the water near the john
stown Fonda and Gloversviile railroad
bridge, one quarter of mile down the
stream. Ash fioated down stream,
past those on shore he called: For
Gods sake help me!'' He was swept
by in the current 80 close to the shore
that man an who n,, was in aac boat at
got hold of him. but in the
swift current was unable to hold him
and he was swept under floating de-
briS two other persons came down
moment later clingine to pland and
shouting for help. They were swep
out of sight below the railroad bridge
at O'Clock a. m. The body of Burt
Speedwell, Is years old, was recovered
from the debris at this place. An hour
later Albert Seeley was pulled from
the drift that had been lodged back of
Evans mill. After the body of man
| named Treadwell was found in the
same place at 8 a. m, the body of Chas.
Scar, 55 years old WIS uncovered from
under the wreckage at Evans mill.
The bodies are badly bruised. They
| were removed to police heanquarters
| where they will remain, pending cor
onerS inquiry. ChaS. Abbot was car
ried down from Ferry street bridge to
the dam which after going distance
of eighteen feet but miraculously sue
ceeding in swimming ashore and s.
Gaping without injury. Peter Evans,a
stone mason, says he went down with
fifteen others and was carried under
| the Ferry street bridge, but succeeded
| in getting out below, He
was bruised about the face
Purdy Case rescued two men named
Nellis and Osbury by means of rope.
| Citizens are engaged this morning in
removing the ,wreckage of Schriver's
mill, where they think other bodies
have been lodged. 1t is believed that
the two men who went down on plank
lost their lives at the dam, and that
| their bodies were carried down the
stream and are now floating in the
Mohawk river. No one knows how
many people were drowned or
WI who d is missing ing The he food was
SO SO s sSift an that the NO c"r ReFp
could be rendered without
great danger. The State street iron
bridge and the railroad bridge were
swept away. They were large struc-
lures. Yesterday afternoon during the
heaviest part of the storm Main and
/
| flooded with water. The new pave
ment in Beecher street was torn up
for several blocks. A number of re-
| sidences in the upper part of the town
are entirely surrounded by water. The
| foundation walls of a new stone build
ing being constructed on North Main
/ street GloverSville, were partly car
ried away. The iron bridges on the
Central and Fonda, JohnstoWn & Glow
| ersville roads at Fonda are gone. The
pecuniary loss will not be 80 very
great. The railroad and State street
bridges in JOhnstOWn were frst-cIass
structures. The Ferry street bridge
consisted of an arch spanning the en-
tire width Of the stream. It was upon
one of the plank walks that the people
were standing when the arch was
carried away. Schreiver's large
mill is entirely wrecked and win
entail loss of about $4,000 There
are several small houses in the village
which are partially ruined, their foun-
the bridges on the country roads along
the vally are gone and some fields of
grain are partially under water. The
loss to property at Gloversville will
probably be covered by $50, eco. 1t is
quite likely that including the loss Of
the bridges in the Mohawk valley and
that at Fonda. $40, 600 will cover the
damage wrought by yesterdays storm,
The missing are as follows: r. u.
Simmons, Of the firm of r. y. Sim
mons & company, painters; Willie
Myers, nine years old and a son of
Widow Myers; Miss Ada Miller,
twenty-five years old. The number
lost cannot yet be determined as the
estimates vary from six 20 thirty. The
creek is being dragged but il is thought
that some of the bodies have foated in
to the Mohawk river at Fonda. The
bodies recovered were taken charge of
by DIR. j. Letter. the coroner. The
bodies were removed to the police sta
ton and identified and were then taken
by friends.
Tbs loss of money at Johnstown will
reach many thousand OF dollars.
Thousands of skins that were being
dressed are floating down the CayudetT
| Ia. Among the bridges carried away
was an iron railroad bridge at Fonda.
Cayudetta creek was never before SO
high. The creek rose from twelve to
/ fifteen feet in thirty minutes
By the washing away of the
bridges on the Fonda, Johnstown
and GloversviIle railroads both north
| and south Of JohnstOwn that place is
completely shut on from railroad COM
munication. The last train from
GIoversville reached JohnStown at Z
o'clock last night. The Cayudetta en-
pties into the Mohawk at Fonda and
Fonda is flooded. Two bridges on the
Mohawk turnpike were carried away.
Travel is stopped. The Central rail
road and Johnstown railroad bridges
| were both destroyed. Passengers are
transferred. G.. z. Mills s. Co. s plast-
a1- mill was WrpsfrRf The Eor,ns-.-.. =.