The farmers' union. (Memphis, Mo.) 1891-1895, 1894-05-31
FLOODS WILD SWEEP.
KEYSTONE STATE THE SCENE
O: A OELUGE.
Horrors Of the Johnstown Flood May Be
Repeated - williamsport, Lock Haven
and Other Towns Are Under Water-Sev-
eral People Drowned.
Great Da mage Done.

Furious floods have broken loose
thrOu yhOut Central and Western Penn
sylvania and already great damage has
b-el dore. They are sweeping down
every valley. carrying destruction tc
loss to property Of all kinds will be
enormous. Several PEOPLE have been
| drowned and it is feared that there will
lie great Il SIS OF life. as the floods are
the worst tina. have occ urred in this
State since 1889, the year OF
! the Johnstown calamity. Thu beau
titul city of Willia,n=port that
! suffered so severely in 1889, is threat
| ened with de.truct;ol, and people fear
that ths horrors Of five years ago may
! be repeated in the Susquehanna Val
lev. Steady rain pouring down for
! three days swelled all tle streams, and
hume -ous cloudbu SITS along the trib-
| utar.es OF the Sus ,uehanna River have
caused the streams to overflow their
banks. The great lumter boom near
William sport broke. There were 1885,
! 010,o feet OF logs in the BOOM and
they rushed down the river and will te
a complete loss.
The SusQuchanni River has teen
rising eadiIy according to dispatches.
Nearly the entire bu mess portion OF
WilliamspOrt i. under water. The
We tern Union Telegraph Office, which
Is situation N com Garatlyety high
ground had thee ect Of water on the
floor, ard the telegraph operators
were forced to abandon their instru-
mcnts and seek /. p ace Of safety. Pas
sengcr train. On the Pennsylvania
Road are only running az far as
Dewart, and no trains are running over
the NOrth crn Central Railroad be-
tween William sport and Elmlra.
vvill:.m.pnrt Under Water.
At one o'clock Monday afternoon the
water in the river hai coached height
of thirty-one feet above low water, one
foot higne than the disastrous hood
of 1899. Tho entirc-city j. under water
which ranges in depth from four tt
twenty feet. AL the logs of the loon
sawmilis and houses in the lower par
part Of the city. Not a telegraph o.
telephone wire is working out Of thu
city, with the single exception of {
shaxy long-distance telephone wire
which was placed at the disIos o
the Associated Press correspondent
J The loss has already reached more
than million dollars, and, the dis
patch says, unless relief soon comes, i
will DO three times As much.
} The boom a. Lock Haven broke ant
1905, COO feet OF logs have been lost
, The Upper Linden boom also broke
, 1t contained 49, 10000 feet OF logs, ant
: they have gone down. There ar
about l5O,0o0,oOo feet of logs in tn
} main b ON and hall as many more il
: the city mill-ponds that may 60 on
= twenty-five foot flood.
There has been no telegraphic com
, munication with Lock Haven since
, o'clock Sunday afternoon, at whic
, hour the telegraph operator was drive
from his Office by the rising AooC
The flood there is very high. and be
tween Fel,efon and Rising Spring
two spans OF one of the railroad bridge
{ were carried away. There is a sever
foot flood in Lycomirg creek. and g
d Rising Springs the water is eightee
l. inches higher than it was in 1889.