Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1889-07-18
LIVES LOST In THE FLOOD
Many Buildings and Bridges Ruined
i'll the Mohawk Valley.
The Water Overlooked and DESTROYED
Farms to a Great Extent.
Pennsylvania is the Scene of Another
Fearful WashOut.

JoHNsTowN, n. z. Fifteen persons
were carried down the Cayudetta
creek Tuesday night. Four bodies were re-
covered this morning. Heavy rains last
night choked streams and flooded dis
tricts. Schriever's large mill in this
place was carried away. Twenty people
were on Ferry street bridge when the
arch fell into the rushing torrent which
was filled with wreckage and humanity.
Anderson and others organized search
ing expedition. Lanterns were procured
and parties went along the stream with
ropes to assist in the rescue. One per-
son was seen splashing and plunging in
the water near the Johnstown, Fonda l.
Gloverville railroad bridge, one quarter
of mile down stream. As he foated
past those on the shore, he cried: For
Gods sake. help mel! He was swept by
in the current, so close to the shore that
man who was in a boat secured TO a
pile of wreckage got hold of him, but
owing to the swift current was unable to
hold him and he was swept under the
floating driftwood. Two other persons
came down a moment later Ginning to a
plank and shouting for help, out were
swept out of sight below the railroad
bridge.
The bodies of Burt Speedwell, 10 years
of age, Albert Cokeley, man nam cd
Treaowell, and Charles Frear, 55 years of
age, carpenter, were recovered today.
The bodies are badly bruised.
Citizens are engaged this morning in
removing the wreckage of Schriever's
mill, near the depot, where they think
other bodies have been lodged, n one
knows how many people were drowned
or who is missing. The flood was
SO great and the current so swift that
no help could be rendered with
out great danger. The Stste-street iron
bridge and the railroad bridge were both
swept away. Yesterday afternoon during
the heaviest part of the storm, Main and
Blocker streets, in Gloversviile, were
flooded with water. A number OF resi-
dences in the upper part of the town
are entirely surrounded by water.
AMSTERDAM, NY. The water poured
down the gullies, and small
streams and esmall creeks leading
from the roads to Johnstown from this
city, uprooting trees, spelling all crops
and destroying farm houses, barns, etc.
barn belonging to John Petipgill was
carried through Putnam's creek, one of
the swollen streams, to an arched oulvert,
over which the New York Central, at
Tribes Hill, runs and acted as a dam over
which the roaring waters rushed, wash
ing out all four tracks of the Central for
distance of 1000 feet, and laying waste
valuable farm land on the south side of
the tracks.
LATER.
SCHENECTADY, n. Y.-There is as
yet Eo certainty of more than four
lives lost at Johnstown, and these victims
were on alb ridge viewing the flood after
the storm. The bridge dropped into the
water but was not carried away, This
afternoon the tracks and bridge at Fonda
and at Kens were sufficiently repaired to
permit the passage of trains. The total
damage in the valley of Cay adutta to the
mills, bridges and crops will reach $780,