Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1894-05-26
WATER-BOUND.
Business Suspended and Railroad
Traffic Blocked by Floods.
Enormous Damage to Property in Penn
sylvania and New YorIt-Johnstown
Again a Sufferer-Farmers
Lose Their Crops.
TEN LIVES LOST.

bridges, houses and other property
have been destroyed. Ten lives have
been lost already. The rivers are
still rising and the damage is be-
coming worse hourly. The cellars
of all the business and dwelling
houses along the banks of the streams
are under water and people are moving
their goods to upper rooms. Some of
the timid are leaving their houses and
seeking places of safety on higher
ground. Part of the exhibition build
ing is inundated and the league base
ball park is out of sight.
The list of those dead, so far as |
known, is as follows:
Two children of John Knaskoky, aged and |
10 years respectively, fell into the creek at |
Wilkesbarre and were drowned; Thomas Nc |
Feeters, aged 10, drowned at East Conemaugh |
while trying to ride a log; Adrian Weichel, |
driver for D. ]. Heinze at Sharpsburg, Pa. |
drowned while trying to rescue team of
horses that were floundering in the water;
William Weitman aged Is, drowned at Alle- |
gheny unknown man drowned at Hers is |
land; unknown man drowned ut Frankstown;
two unknown men, members Of Calvin branch
of the industrial army, drowned in an over
turned freight car at Johnstown; unknown
man drowned in the Juniata at Huntingdon
AT midnight the Monongahela, Alle-
gheny and Ohio rivers were still rising
and flooding all the cellars in the lower
part of Pittsburgh and Allegheny.
From % to 80 feet of water is expected
in the Monongahela. This will be or
9 feet short of the stage registered
during the disastrous flood of ten years
ago. The people living in the lowlands
are moving all their effects to the up
per stories of their houses
PHILADELPHIA, May 22.-The storm
in the eastern part of Pennsylvania
has been raging for nearly to days, and
looks as if it may continue. The
Schuylllill river began rising rapidly
Sunday and has been gradually rising
ever since with every prospect of a
flood. The city fronts on both sides
of the river are overtlowed. The
under nearly feet of water
for considerable distance. All
the mills and factories along the
Schuylkill river from Reading to this
city, distance of 80 miles, are closed.
AT Norristown the water is % feet
deep in some of the mills. The Della
ware and Lehigh rivers are swollen
considerably and are still rising rapid
ly. All navigation on the Delaware
IL Lchigh canal is stopped, the water
covering the banks. The Reading rail-
road between here and Norristown has
feet of water over the tracks.
The storm has been bad one on the
farmers, many corn fields have been
ruined, the corn being washed frsm
the ground. Throughout the city trees
were blown down, cellars flooded and
many washouts occurred. A dozen or
more families in South Pottstown
have been driven out of their houses.
All the factories along the Lehigh
river are closing down. At Easton and
Bethlehem the factories are flooded
with feet of water. The flood at
Reading is likely to prove as disastrous
as that of 1889. Three bridges have
been carried away on the Pine Creek
division of the Reading railroad at
Suedburg, Stony Creek and Dauphin
and traffic is completely checked. The
reports from the coal regions say that
many of the collieries have been flooded
and it may require week to pump
them ont
WHLIAMsPoRr, Pa, May 22.-The
river continued to rise during the
portion of the city is under water. The
Western Union Telegraph office, which
is situated on comparatively high
ground, has inches of water on its
floor. There has been no telegraphic
communication with Lock Haven since
5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at which
hour the telegraph operator was driven
from his Office by the rising flood.
Surrounded on every hand by the
slowly rising destroyer which has al
ready swept away 81, 900, 900 worth OF
property and may sweep away $1,000,-
600 more, the condition of Williams
port is indeed pitiable. With 33 fee,
more water in its channel than is its
normal height, the north branch of the
Susquehanna threatens to engulf the
town. Every foot of ground in the city
is from to feet under water, and
much of it is 10 feet below the sur
face of the stream. Many of the fami
lies are homeless.
DANsvuLE, n. Y, May 22.-The flood
now being experienced is the worst thai
has occurred in the Genesee valley fol
years. The water is , feet above higt
water mark of the great freshe
five years ago. AS far as the eye
AN see down the valley is
vast expanse of water. Immense
trees torn from the banks of the
raging streams and all sorts o
timbers and wreckage are floating
everywhere. The destruction of grow
ing and newly planted crops is com
plete, and the damage the farmers
have sustained will run up into the
hundreds of thousands. The Bradne
creek at Cummingsville has swep
everything along its banks, car
rylng down acres of rich farm
ing land and depositing thu
soil in the creeks in the valley below
SEVEN WE'RE INJURED.
Boiler Explodes ut New York and Crashe
Through IA Big Building.