St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-14
FRESHETS OF THE EAST.
Considerable Damage Done in New York
and Pennsylvania.
WATERS NOW REcEDING.
Lightning Strikes an Italian Hut and
Four Persons Are Instantly
Killed.

VAIEKIOWN, N. L. Scpt. 10 ilc
rain which has fallen in torrents almost
continually for five days past has
swollen every stream in this section to
spring freshet height, and to-day the
effects are seriously felt hereabouts, by
the almost complete tying up of
the road of the Rome. Watertown Il
Ogdensburg railroad and its branches;
the destruction of mills and other dam-
age to manufacturing and farm prop
erty. A big washout occurred on the
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg rail-
road between Evansville and Pierrpont
Manor, in this county, last night, the
flood carrying away the track for about
thirty feet, and making deep chan
mel across the line. A new iron
bridge which had just been completed
at Centerville, mile west of Richland.
on the Rome branch, was also carried
away during the night. This morning
one of the stone abutments was washed
away, and the other is going now. Near
Deer river, west of Carthage, on the
Utica 81 Black River division.
there is another waShout, but this
will be repaired within few hours. it
is hoped. At present. however, direct
railroad and mail communication from
Northern New York is cut off with the
South, and will be until the Deer river
break is repaired. North OF here no
break is reported.
The state highway bridge between
Deer river and Copenhagen and a new
iron highway bridge at Deer
river were washed out last night.
A cheese box factory belonging
to Edmund Need at Deer river
was carried away. No traius are run
ming on the Carthage d AdirondackS
railroad this morning on account OF
washouts. The cause of the washing
away of the Centerville bridge was the
breaking of the dam above. A saw
mill was carried away at the same time.
Carthage & Adirondacks railroad,
four of them being serious.
Between Benson mines and Oswe-
gatchie fifteen rods OF track have been
swept away. A culvert is washed out at
Jayvllle. At Z a. N. there were ten
inches of water over the track at the
latter point and all the houses and
stores are flooded to the depth of three
feet. In Carthage many houses on the
flats are flooded and the residents on
Tannery island are moving to the main
land, fearing the breakwater will give
way.
PITTsBURG, Pa, Sept. 13.-Advices
from all sources up the Allegheny and
in the northern districts show the high
waters to be SubSlding. though not with
out considerable damage having first
been inflicted. At Oil City the in
r,f nd
Allegheny is stationary to falling,
while petty farmers and low
lying residents are busy repairing triv-
ial damages. The waterspout in Akron,
o.. last night quilted the hill streets,
while streets on the flats have been
badly washed, and the loss on property
there will be so large that special
meeting of the city council has been
called to devise means of repair
ing the extraordinary damage. The
railroads suffered greatly, while the
canal tow-path is badly washed out, also
railroad bridge. Near Akron. o..
whole farms have been washed out.
Flowing must be done over again and
fields of crops must be entirely re-
sown. At the headwaters of the
Allegheny river railroad travel is
still badly interrupted and Irvine
though the river is falling. At Newcas-
tie the Shenango river is nearly as high
as during the disastrous flood of 1881,
though the waters in both this stream
and the Neshannock are rapidly de-
creasing. Many county and two
railroad bridges are down and
the Nypano road is still transfer
ring passengers over numerous wash
outs. Many head of stock on bordering
farms are reported drowned by the high
river, while county fairs as rule have
proven failures, all races being aban-
doned. The danger point has been
passed, however. and all reports agree
on the more favorable situation.
New YORK, Sept. 13.-A terrible
thunderstorm passed over Sedan, near
Brewster's, OH the Harlem railroad. at
p. m. to-day. At the new Sedan reser-
yoir there is shanty where Italian
workmen live. When the storm began,
group in the building. Lightning
entered the shanty, and instantly
killed four of them. The Italians be-
came crazed with fear, and rushed from
the building amid the widest confusion.
The shanty was not shattered i'll the
least, and the lightning is said to have
entered an inch aperature in the roof.
A half mile from the fatal scene a
woman was stunned by a shock of
lightning and has not yet recovered.
PARKERsBURGH, w. ", Sept. a.
The Little Kanawha was twelve feet
aud rising last night at Grantsville;
Tygart creek is out of its banks, and
coming out with such heatlway that tow
boats cannot pass up the Little Kama
VIVA. The Big and Little Hooking
rivers are rising very fast and doing
much damage. The roads out of this
city and on both sides OF the Kanawha
are in many places under water and i'm
passable. Farmers will lose heavily all
along the streams in this vicinity.
COLUMBUS, o.. Sept. 13.-The Scioto
river rose again slightly this morning.
but at noon began to fall again. ALI
damage in the valley is considered past.
The damage is confined to overflow of
bottom lands and is not extensive.
OswEGo. n. Y, Sept. 13.-Great dam
age has been done by floods in the east
ern part of Oswego county. Forty road
bridges are gone and washouts have oc-
cured. Part of the village of Pulaski
is under water.