Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-09-18
TOO MUCH WATER.
Floods Cause Immense Damage In
Many Places.
Railways. Mills. Factories and Farms
Suffer-Large Tracts of Land Inan-
dated Bridges Washed Away
ana Houses Flooded.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa, Sept. l5.-Adyices
from all sources up the Allegheny and
in the northern districts show the high
waters to be subsiding, though not
without considerable damage having
first been inflicted. The water-spout in
Akron. O., quilted the Hill streets.
while streets on the fats have been
badly washed, and the loss on property
there will be SO large that a special
meeting of the city council has been
called to devise means of repairing the
extraordinary damage.
Near Akron, O., whole farms have
been washed out; blowing must be done
over again. and fields of crops must be
entirely resown. Al New Castle the
Shenango river IS nearly as high as dur
ing the disastrous flood of 1881, though
the waters in both this stream and the
rapid NeshannoclS are rapidly decreas-
ing. Many head Of stock on bordering
farms are reported drowned by high
rivers, while county fairs as a rule have
proven failures.
WATERFOWL, y. Y, Sept 15.-The
rain, which has fallen in torrents al
most continually for five days past, has
swollen every stream in this section to
spring-freshet height and to-day the
effects are seriously felt heceabouts by
the almost complete tying-up of
the Rome. Watertown & Ogdens-
burg railroad and its branches,
the distraction OF mills and other
damage to farm and manufacturing
property.
AT Copenhagen, Lewis County, Camp
BELLS machine shop was tipped over
by the flood during the night, and
Lampher 4 Keys saw-mill and cheese
box factory and Wards saw-mill we're
carried away At New Boston, Lewis
County the New Boston saw-mill and
cheese-box factory we're carried
away. Many acres of good farm
land are under water in this vicin-
ity. The cause of the washing
away of the Centerville bridge
was the breaking of dam above. Alta.
m. there was ten inches of water over
the tracks 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 the Tannery island are
moving to the main land, fearing the
break water viii give way.
OswEGo, N. Y, Sept. 15.-The unpre-
cedented rains in this vicinity have
transferred Oswego County creeks into
roaring rivers. Salmon river is higher
than ever before and is doing great
damage. Part Of the village of Pulaski
is under water. More than fifty inn
portant bridges are gone and the water
is still rising.
EVANSVILLE, O., Sept 15.-The high
waters in the Muskingum valley have
done incalculable damage to the corn in
the lowlands. Hundreds of acres are
submerged and the crop is ruined. The
damage to the Government works has
been heavy.
COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 15.-The Scioto
river has reached stage which is the
cause of more than ordinary damage.
All the low lands north and south of the
city are submerged and the loss to crops
amounts to several thousand dollars
The stream as it passes through the city
has had its channel changed by levee,
and the result is the overflow of several
factopiac