Morning journal and courier., 1891-02-27
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
From ALI Quarters.
HIGH WATER AT ALBANY.
Many Thoroughfares Turned
Into Canals.
FIERCE COMMANDMENT At IQUIQuE.
Million Dollar Blaze at
Minneapolis, Mimi.
THE TUNNEL ACCIDENT HEARING.
Queen Victoria at a Ship
Launching.
FLOODS I'm NEW YORK.


The Mohawk River ut Its Highest
Stage Since 1S65-The Central Rail-
road Badly Crfppled-The Streets of
Albany Flooded-Br1dge In Danger
of Being Carried Away. ~
UTICA, Feb 26.-The Mohawk river at 7
o'clock this morning Was at the? highest
stage it has been since March II, 1865.
The water is now falling almost as rapidly
as it rose last night. A severe rain storm
in the early part of last evening was the
cause of the flood. The river was already
at full banks and when the rain came the
tributaries swept down the great streams
and sent the Mohawk booming. There has
been very little damage in this city except
that arising from flooded stores and cellars.
The Central Hudson railroad is badly Grip
pied in its service to-day. The West Shore
tracks are being used by the Central be-
twt en- Rotterdam junction and this city,
and the trains that have not been aban-
doned are hours behind time. A Central
bridge at Garoga creek west of Fort Plain
has been swept away. Fort Plain is
submerged and people there are using
boats. There is big ice jam just above
Palatine bridge and much damage has
along the Mohawk valley from here to
Schenectady come reports of ice jams and
overlows that are causing immense dam
age. The weather is cool and clear and it
is thought the worst is over. The ice is
we'll broken up in the river and with tho
subsistence of this flood will disappear all
fear of further damage this spring.
HUDSON, N. Y, Feb. 26.-Au trains on
the Hudson River railroad are detained at
this city until further notice, by reason of
high water and ice on the track between
Stuyvesant and Albany. A train for Al
bany will be sent to Chatham over the
Hudson branch of the Boston and Albany
railroad and thence to Albany.
ALBANY, Feb. 26-The high water in
the Hudson river is invading the streets
of the city on the east side and causing
suspension of traffic except by rowboats in
these streets. EARLY this morning the
Susquehanna and West Shore trains had to
cease running to the depot and passengers
were transferred from a point some dis
lance away. Cellars that have been free from
water during freshets in the past few years
were flooded to-day. At 5 o'clock the wa
ter was fifteen feet above mean low tide,
being the highest of any freshet in five
years. At noon the water crossed Broad
way at the steamboat square and Broadway
electric cars were compelled to stop their
trips at that point The pressure against
Columbia street bridge threatens to carry
it away Should the bridge go the damage
that would result to many boats, steam and
sail, would be very great. Superintendent
Bissell said this afternoon that the New
York Central tracks were under water both
south and west of here and that the water
was rapidly creeping up on the West
Shore tracks. If the floods continued
much longer trains could not be run over
the West Shore very long The tracks of
the Hudson road on Quay street between
Columbia and Quackenbush, were under
water, and several cars careened. A gang
of men set to work and secured the cars to
prevent their sliding into the basin. At
o'clock the water was still rising at the
rate of two inches an hour.