The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-05-22
A Severe Storm.

One of the severest storms that ha
visited this section for many years begar
on Sunday morning and is still continu
ing. Rain has fallen in torrents for thu
past '48 hours and the indications are tina
it will not cease to-day. In the lowe
portion of Mount Holly the cellars are al
| filled with water. Monroe and White
streets are flooded, and the water is still
rising.
Last night many horses in the stables
in the lower part of the town were remov
ed to higher ground, the stables being in
undated.
In the country districts the wind and
ram have played havoc with growing
crops and breaking limbs from fruit trees.
/ AT Smithville there is so much water
that work in the machine shops had to
be abandoned.
One of the dams at Birmingham broke
away yesterday, and it is reported that
the one at New Lisbon has also teen de-
molIshed.
The Delaware river has been swollen so
that its banks have broken in many
places.
On the Jersey shore, between East Riv-
ton and Cambridge, the bank broke this
morning, causing the water to overflow
many acres of reclaimed land.
AT Delanco the land of Wallace Lippin-
colt, who has spent years in trying to re-
claim it, is overlooked by the high water
in the Rancocas creek. The Pensauken
at West Palmyra has also overlooked its
banks, placing many acres of titled land
beneath the water. At Beverly many
small pleasure boats, as we'll as several
boat houses, have been washed away by
the heavy tides.
A 4. t1,oo o. ftrr
iously. On Sunday a three-masted
schooner in distress was noticed off Har-
vey Cedars. The wind was blowing so
hard from the east that it was impossible
to keep the vessel off, and she went
ashore during the night.
AS the life-saving crew went off duty on
May LIST. volunteer crew was gotten to-
gether and, after several hours hard work,
succeeded in getting the crew, composed
of eight men, ashore. The vessel is a
complete wreck. 1t was the A. F. Crock
EFT, APO tons burden, from Rockland, Me-,
loaded with lumber.
At Toms River, the east winds and the
spring tides together have made an ex-
tremely high tide, backing the water up
in the upper Barnegat Bay and Toms
River. The Central railroad track, which
runs along the river bank for half mile,
has been submerged all day. with water
breaking over it, but the trains have been
run across with great deal of rrecaution.
The rainfall has been almost unprece-
dented-a precipitation of 3.18 inches &C.
curing in "a hours beginning on Sunday
at noon.
A bad washout occurred at Palmyra
last night and freight engine was thrown
from the track. pug" Fine, the engineer,
Ia ha
boy branch are being run by way of
Mount Holly and the Burlington branch.
DAMAGES ELSEWHERE.
Pennsylvania is suffering severely from
the storm, and reports of great damage
from the flood come from many points
along the Susquehanna, the upper Della
ware and the Allegheny rivers and their
tributaries. Many railroad and other
bridges have been swept away. Galleries
were inundated and forced to suspend.
Railroad travel was totally interrupted in
some sections. Last night Williamsport
was submerged, and the city was cut off
from communication with outside points.
The Conemaugh, at Johnstown, carried
away a large section of the Pennsylvania
Railroad tracks and caused other damage
at from $75, 200 to $3.50, 600. The
Kittanning dam, parts of which gave
way on Sunday night, was yesterday de-
clared unsafe and the people of Holli-
daysburg warned of their danger. The
canal basin at Easton was broken by the
flood last evening There have been va
rious reports of loss of life, the total
reaching about 10.
In Philadelphia the Schuylkill and Del
aware rivers are greatly swollen. Oper-
atoms at the Paramount Water Works
and the Ninth Ward Gas Works and
many industrial establishments along the
Schuylkill are suspended, sewers and
water mains have burst in various sections
of the city, and the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad station at Twenty fourth and
Chestnut streets is SO badly flooded that
no passenger traffic can be carried on
there The Norristown Branch of the
Reading Railroad above Manayunk. can
not be used At 1890 o'clock this morn
feet ii inches of water were passing
over Farmount dam. The tide in the
Schuylkill reached maximum height, 1t
is said, of % feet.