Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-03-14
MANY BOATS WRECKED
Floating Ice Cleans Out Rond.
 out Creek.
STEAMERS ToRNFRoM THEIR DOCKS

The Ice Gorge at Eddyvills Breaks. Let
 ting the Great Mass of Water and Ice
 Down Into the Creek-EverSthInE Car.
 ried Before 1t-Exciting Scenes and
 Marrow Escapes HOm Death-RaiIway
 Bridges Down on the Central Hudson
 Destruction at Other Points. RoNpoUT, N. Y, March 14-The great foe gorge below the dam at Eddyville broke yesterday. The immense body oi water behind 1t rushed down the creek, carrying thous6nds of tons of ice with it. This struck the Cornell fleet, which win ters here, and swept almost every steam boat and 40 or 50 other boats out into the river.
 The ropes which moored the boats be- tween the Delaware & Hudson canal dock and the mainland were snapped like thread, and even heavy anchor chains were broken. Ip the course down the creek many boats were badly stove, and the Pittston, valued at sic, 900, and the Adri- attic, at $S, ,000, are thought to be so badly damaged that they will sink.
 The news of the great flood spread over the town, and in . very short time the docks were crowded with people. The cries of the men on the helpless boats and the crunching of the big steapers and canal boats as they were stove, added to the rush of water, caused the most intense excite rpent. Ropes thrown out to hold the boats availed nothing The larGS side wheeler Norwich and the tug 0. D. Mills, the only drifting boats. They had great difficulty in saving themselves.
 Besides about 25 steamboats, 80 North ern canal boats loaded with ice and 25 Delaware & Hudson boats were swept away. Many of those were crushed and sunk on the way down the creek. Some of the canal boats were occupied by families, and they were rescued with great difficulty. The sight of the women wranginR their hands, and the frantic men, was witnessed with borrow by the people on shore. Those in the boats either jumped ashore as the craft swung in or escaped over the i'm mense cakes of floating Ice.
 The dam below Eddyville formed Satur- day. The heavy rain Saturday caused the river to rise fully eight feet. A large part of Eddyville was inundated, and fam higher ground. The damage there will amount to many thousand dollars.
 The Lawrence Cement company had 10, 900 barrels of cement, valued at $22, 900, stored in their Eddyville mill. This is a total loss.
 The great pressure of water on the ice dam caused it to give way, and the flood in Eddyville disappeared with rush down the creek, breaking the ice before it. Boats all along the creek were swept down the stream, n:ingling with those moored here.
 The ferryboat Transport, with about 20 passengers aboard, was caught in the mass of boats, and Is now helpless Her passen- gers were terribly frightened. Most of them escaped by jumping from the floating l to the firmice The ferryboat had only just begun running
 FONDA, N. Y., March 14-The ice in the Mohawk river from this village west is all intact, and the water continues to rise All the lowlands are inundated with sev- eral feet of water. The Cayadutta creek is exceedingly high, and in places the Cen tral railroads tracks are covered with the water.
 At Canojoharie and Fort Plain people who live on the lowlands have vacated their homes and moved to higher ground. Central-Hudson passenger trains from | the East are being run over the West | Shore, ill consequence of the tracks being washed out near Schenectady. The abut- ments of the New York Central & Hudson river railroad bridge over the Delaware & Hudson tracks were undermined yesterday | by the flood and caved in all four Central | tracks and the Delaware & Hudson tracks | were blocked. The delay is serious and l will take at least twenty-four hours to | repair.
 Unless the Ice moves soon great damage will result to property between this village and Utica. The river is clear of ice east of | here to Schenectady.