The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1894-05-25
STORMS.
Four Drowned OF Chicago and
Marrow Escape.
bradford, Pa. Flooded aud One Million
Dollars Worth OF Lumber Washed
Away at willinmspoFt, Ia. People
Taken From Houses Ia skins.

CHICAGO, May 2L- -Four more victims
were added 10 the death list from the
Lake Michigan storm. which has not
ended yet. by the finding oia rowboat
ON the beach Sunday morning The
dead men were young mechanics, who
were ont Of employment and hired the
boat to 60 fishing Thursday afternoon
just before the great gale came upon
them
Two more lives were saved Sunday
from the mertiless storin-tossed lake
by the brave crew Of the life-boat sta
toned at the mouth Of the river II
seems almost miracle, but II IS
true nevertheless, that Steve Myers,
aged eighteen and John Gelsner, aged
fourteen, the rescued yonths, had been
on the north pier. of Illinois street,
since last Thursday morning without
food and exposed to the waves and
cold.
PITrsBunGn, Pa, May Train
crews Sunday night on the pennsyl.
vanla road reported that they had not
seen the Conemaugh river so high as II
is now since the great flood. When
they passed Johnstown wreck train
was located ON the big stone bridge
The company feared the debris would
pile apagainst the structure and wash
away the banks al the end
There Is no danger Of the bridge 90
ing just above Coucmaugh the coal
triple which supplies the engines with
coal was washed out yenturesonc
boy got out too far, ana was carried
down the stream and drowned. The
kisiSimentas river Is very high.
The lower part Of lohnstown IS
partly flooded. and merchants had grca,
work inremoying thc.rgoods TO higher
places, The Conemangh Lumber Co
had about $4,000 worth Of timber car
carried away This tore away two
bridges and did considerable other
damage.
BRADFoRp, Pa, May a. The rains
have turned the streams in this section
into torrents. The east and wcs,
branches Of the Tula are a quarter of a
mile wide Houses hcrc are flooded
and many iRmiljes and their goods
have been rescued with skifs.
Thomas Potter leaped into The East
branch Sunday afternoon and rescued
an eighteen-months-old child that wa.
being swept away The railroads have
been holding down their bridges with
loaded ears.
ON the ground Hoor of the Henderson
house there Is six inches Of water, and
twenty business houses ON Mnin street
are in a worse condition. sixty feet OF
the B., r. q Z railroad track has been
washed out, and the trains came IL
over the Erie tracks from Limestone
HuNrINeroS, Pa, May el The grcai
flood here has been exceeded only one,
in the history OF the Juniata valley
the last four days rainfall having raised
the Juniata river and Raystown branch
twenty-one feet above low water mark
entailing a great destruction Of prop
erty.
In this place the waters flooded the
lower streets driving the people from
their homes, and in the lower farming
districts whole families are impris.
oncd IN their houses. unable TO be res
ered owing to the turbulence Of the
water
Three bridges spanning the Juniata
and Raystown branch have been swept
away. The destruction Of scores OF
mine bridges and washouts ON public
roads have closed an rural approaches tc
this place. The Gas Co.'S plant here Is
submerged and the lower floors Of
many business houes are flooded.
MIR Jacob Miller was drowned ai
Saxton while trying 10 save some prop
erty.
a landslide az Ryde station on the
Pennsylvania railroad covered III,
south track for distance of nenrly q
mile, and Il portion OF the track wa,
washed away Great damage TO prop
erty and farm lands along the Baystowr
branch is reported.
WiiLnMsPoRr, May 2l.--At O'Clock
Sunday morning the great boom will
its sl,OO0,0o0 worth OF uncut lumber
gave way. and Williamsport awakened
at dayhreak 10 "a sense OF great fnan
oial disaster.
At 1890 II was not certain that tho
BAY boom had broken. 1t was prob
ably a section Of the upper portion Of
the main structure or the Linden
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