New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-08-25
GREAT DAMA,sMBY FLOODS.
BRIDGES, DAMS AND TRlie as SWEPT AWAY
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
rsr WORST STORM IN LANCASTER COUNTY FOR
SIXTY YEAIaS-PASSENGERs DELAYED
BY THE wAsHoUTS.


lancaster. Penn. Aug. 24-Last nights storm
=, northern Lancaster County was the heaviest ID
,ixtv years. Seven BRIDGES number OF oulio'
ues. sheds and fences were washed away, ana
,osny cattle vel drowned At Millway an I'M
,oense iron oil tauk was carried 100 feet
Reading, Penn, Aug 24.-As the result oil laS'
nights storm mo trains were running to-day on ohe
2esding Railroads Lebanon Valley branch DC
tween Reading and Lebanon. Near WafnerSVine'
IN this branch just after the engine OF ireleii'
,rain passed over culvert in safety, the culSoi'
was washed away and the entire train OF ten cam
nlunged into the culvert and were swep1 on
August Kohn, a tramp stealing a ride hao iee
broken and his arm injured. over one-tiiii" u %
mile of track was washed away.
The breast Of the big dam at the hooeSol,l'
,rrnaca which furnishes Robesonia in this county,
With water broke, and gardens, fences' Vese.''"ie
,oraons and roads were all washed out, and trees
,nrooted. Over 800 feet of the Reading haliroau
Company,s track, near Robesonia Station was
,orried away. AT the railroad station this after
,ocn il was learned that the tracks between
pohosonia and the wreck at the culvert, weSt Oh
,Vernersvjlle. had been temporarily repaired ouO
"a trains was permitted 10 leave Reading tOr tne
roe,e Of the wreck except the workmens tram
rbe passenger trains bound west are oelhg heiu
:. the station in this city. The washOut WbeTe
tle freight train plunged into the cnFe1v Is 'VV
f>et long, and very deep. Several huhored pas
sancers were compelled to spend the nlght IN the
trim near the wreck There are quite numoer
~ people from abroad stombOund in this clty, ana
The Reading Railroad Company he's 200 men at
work at the scene of the washouts along inc
Lebanon Valley Railroad, erecting temporary
structures for the passage OF trains Inc hrs'
train win probably leave Reading for Lebanon
et n very late hour tonight. The Reading and
eplumbia road is still impossible.
In this city one-fourth of the streets were
,mder water. Hundreds of cellars were filed !;
,ewers were choked up, and in many houses the
flood reached the first floors.
Another culvert at Frtztown, on the Reading
fnd Columbia Railroad. between Reading and
Lancaster, was washed away, and half a mile
of track and no trains are running between
these points to-day. Tue wires ON the Reaolng
ind Columbia Division are down, and communlca-
tion west, south of Sinking Spring, in this county,
las been cut off. temporary telegraph ONCE
las been opened at the scene of the wreck and
(. large force of employees were put TO work thls
morning clearing away the wreclzage and repair
ing the damage. Passengers for Harrisburg ana
the Western mails are sent through by way OF
Auburn UnlS morUluSs IlC4S hNiS SN'~ASA &c
washouts between Reading and Allentown, out
the damage was soon repaired
At Mohrsville in this county, eight dams. each
lalf an acre TO acre in extent were washed away
and the hat factories and mills will be unable TO re-
tune until the dams breasts have been rebuilt.
This will take at least three weeks. The bridge
tad three piers Of the Reading and Southwestern
Railroad Company at Hendelton, this county,
were carried away and a mile of it's track was
= k9ept away. Neah Hum5urs, In this COMFY,
three baTrs belonging to Daniel Riegel, John
l1ogle and William +. KOller were destroyed by
lightning Loss, $4,000.
The Schuylkill River was nine feet above low
water mark at IL o'clock last night. AT q. m.
The water had fallen to seven feet and at o'clock
il was still five and half feet above low water
mark
There was CONSERVATION at the Bowman Evan
teical camp-meeting near MOhrsville, this county.
lightning struck number of trees and some OF
them in falling came dangerously near crushing
tents regular stream of water rushed through
the woods and Garfield away bedding and furni-
ture. Bishops Bowman and Esher, of Chicago,
Who present. say that in all their experience
they have never witnessed such storm at camp
meeting.