The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1893-03-18
BREAKING THE ICE KINGS
REIGN.
Immense Destruction of Property.


Tuesdays papers contained detailed ac
counts of the breaking mp the ice 10 the
several streams in New York, Pennsylvania
and elsewhere. We give the following sum
mary:
An ice gorge formed in the Mohawk river
three miles above Schenectady, New York,
Yesterday, and the resulting food inundated
a portion of the city. including the great
plants of the Edison General Electric Com
pany and the Westinghouse Company. Four
thousand men were laid off work in conse-
auence. and all the exhibits which the Edison
Company were preparing for the World )
Fair were partially destroyed. A section Of
the tracks of the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company, mile south of Schenectady, was
washed away. stopping traffic also on the
New York Central. which crosses at that
point. The total damage is estimated at
$500, 900.
An ice gorge in Roundout creek, below
Eddyville, New York, gave way yesterday
afternoon. I've steamers of the Cornell
Steamboat Company and about SO canal boats
we're swept into the Hudson. The steamers
were badly stove, and number of the canal
boats were crushed. IL is thought the loss to
the steamboat company will be about S40,-
600 A ferryboat was caught in the Ice aud
her passengers escaped by jumping on float
ing ice and making their way 10 hrmer ice
above.
When the ice foe in the Lower Geuessee
river, New York, broke up Saturday night,
the steamer City of Rochester was torn from
its mooring at Charlotte and hurled against
the Rome, Wstertown and Ogdensburg bridge,
being completely wrecked. Two yachts and
ferry boat were carried into the lake and
lost.
Over 1900 men and boys are Idle in the
Hazelton District by reason of the flooded
mines, and in the Northumberland county,
Pa, region yesterday 1000 hands were thrown
out by floods.
The ice gorge in the Susquehanua at Lin
den, Penna., brok yesterday morning, causing
much damage at Wiiliamspor,.
The water in an abandoned mine on Sharp
Mountain burst through its barriers yesterday,
and the flood caused considerable damage
in Yorkville, d suburb of louisville, Penn
sylvania.
During heavy rain at Reading, Penna.,
yesterday, two houses in course of erection
collapsed, see four workmen were buried in
the ruins and seriously injured.
The city of lena, Michigan, was flooded on
Sunday by an unprecedented rise ofthe waters
Of the Grand river, the manufacturing sections
of the city being submerged At Grand City
the damage is estimated at 100000 lumber
and other property being carried away by
the torrent. A large steamboat was carried
over the flooded districts, and is tied to tree
two blocks from the river.
A boom containing 100000 feet of logs
at Flint, Michigan, was broken by the pres
sure of the ice on Sunday, and Hamiitou's
dam was carried away.
The food situation at Grand Rapids, Michi-
gan, was aggravated on Tuesday by the prev
alence of blizzard. The river continued to
rise, and scores of factories and mills had to
shut down. Reports reached Kalamazoo,
Michigan. on Tuesday that dams both north
and south of there had given away. Thous-
ands of acres of land are inundated, and
loss of life is feared.