Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-08

meadow but from it everything had dis
apneared and now if is but a honeycombed
waste. The damage at Spartansburg will
possibly reach $4,000. The food next
caught Ianb's dam and woolen mill about a
mile below, 1t is gone. Added to this
food ,ras that from Shirley creek and
Five Mile run. where a dozen dams were
washed AWAY. J. NJ. Kerns' mill is DAM
aged and the bridge wrecked. Bridges and
dams were also swept away at Hydetown.
At Pstch's Hollow, where Shirley creek and
Five Mile run and the Triplet, as the third
stream is known, all JOIN, the water was
spread out over path 800 feet wide.
The Intensity of the Damage.
To-day it was stream that scarcely meas
ured 10 feet Here Goodrich's dam broke
and 200. 600 feet of timber broke loose ID.
1. Thomas. who has charge of Shelmadine
barn tlOated of, but escaped with his life.
At Fish Flats, on Five Mile Run, the resi-
dence OF c. A. Day was flooded out
The loss in Oil Creek valley can hardly
be estimated. At least $40, 600 worth of
bridges have been swept away, some, in
many instances. being completely ruined by
the flood. In Spartansburg it was reported
that at Riceville, on the west branch of OIL
creek, dam had burst and that two men
had been drowned while trying to save the
logs. They were Canadians and brothers
Their names are given as John c. and
Frank Faquar. This is the first loss of life
reported above Titusville.
At Cory the waters of French creek
have almost destroyed the Philadelphia
and Erie road and the Western New York
and PENNSYLVANIA cannot be used for over
8 week. The food there tore away the big
stone culvert of the Philadelphia and Erie
road and then ate away the roadbed of the
Western New York and PENNSYLVANIA for o
distance of $50 feet
Until to-day Cory has been shut of from
everywhere. One train was run down part
way from Erie this morning, but the pas
sengers had to be transferred. All the
cellars are flooded on First and Main,
Center and Washington streets and all the
boardwalks have been carried away. The
damage to household goods is very heavy.
Ruins on the Lower Lands.
On the way down from Spartansburg I
met Contractor John Rough, of Titusville
He was coming over the country from Erie
He said that at Cory he had to pay 81 so
to say SIX words over the telephone to
Titusviile. The worst place he saw, he
said, was at Union CITY, on French creek,
where he said S75 600 would not cover the
and Pennsylvania depot the creek changed
its course ana plowed out a course 100 feet
wide and six feet Deep The depot was also
partially destroyed and tracks washed COM
pletely away.
saw one piece of 80 feet of track that
had been torn from its bed and with the ties
still cllnging TO the rails 1t was carried
dozen rods TO one side. The main street of
the town is utterly destroyed, and it is now
filled with rocks and rubbish. The founda-
tionS were partly washed from a number of
business houses, and they have partly
fallen in.
A fine iewelry store is lying on its side
halt a block from its foundations The
tannery is gone and a big planning mill was
torn in two, half is standing and the other
half has gone down the creek MANY other
houses are flooded and hundreds are home
less, but are being cared for as well as pos
sible by those who escaped injury. So far
as can learn not single life was lost L
don't see how they escaped Every bridge
there IS down and the beds of the railroad
tracks are all honeycombed
EDWIN O. CHRISTY.