New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-23
THE FLOODS SUBSIDING.
RIVER TOWNS IN PENNSYLVANIA
BREATHE EASIER.
RAILROADS STILL IN BAD SHAPE. But THOU
SANDS OF MEN ARE AT WORK REPAIRING
THE RAvAGEs OF THE sTORM-LYCoM


wiiNamsport, Penn. May 22-wiriamsport to-day
emerged from its enforced isolation. and began 10
calculate the damage done by the food. At 4
O'Clock yesterday afternoon the food had reached
its height here. and registered % feet above low
water mark. or two feet less than on June ]. lsSs
Wll!amsport and the entire West Branch Valley
presents a sorry sight indeed An estimate OF the
financial loss for Willamsport and Lycomlng Coun-
~ at this time is s3.ccoOco This city sustained
It's greatest in the wreck Of the Susquehanna
boom and the loss OF 100000 feet Of logs held In It,
At ! o'clock yesterday afternoon the boom burst
and the logs went floating down the river These
logs I'm their rough condition were worth >lo a
.GO feet Manufactured here. they would have been
worth twice that sum In consequence the loss to
the lumbern.en alone will foot up to over S"n.e0
Added to this. the loss occasioned by wrecked
bridges the stock Of merchants household Effects
damages crops. etc. will easily bring the DAM
age up 100000.
\ number Of drowning accidents have been re-
ported but yet these rumors have not been CON
frned The Marlet-st. bridge went out at II
o'clock yesterday morning and the Maynard-st
bridge followed at o'clock In the afternoon These
bridges were Of iron. and replaced after the
1889 flood. each costing about $4,000. one small
span Of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge at its
eastern end in Montgomery was damaged. while the
double-track ron bridge of the Reading Railroad
and the new county iron bridge at Muncy are a
total loss The bridge Of the Reading Company cost
$4,000 and has been I'm use HALE over four years
Harrisburg. Penn May 22.-Until late hour last
night the residents In the southern section OF the
city removed their household effects. The HOUSES
along Race-st have three feet OF water on the first
floor. At Steeton and Lochie the 1883 flood is re-
peated. In the west side lying on the river side OF
the canal the 20 residents living In the second
story four feet OF water covering the street. The
river broke the Cameron meadows and INTO
the canal. The only parts Of the Pennsylvania steel
plant that were started up to-day were the open
hearth and the slab mills. The river this evening
is slowly receding. and the worst Is be-
leved to be over 4 child fell ont Of the window
Of "A house AT Steeiton and was drowned. No other
accidents have been reported
Through travel over the Pennsylvania Railroad Is
practically suspended. From all Indications the
damage suffered by the various railway lines IN THIS
State will equal that done by the disastrous Aood
Of 1883
Johnstown. Penn May 2e.--As near as can be
estimated the loss by the food IN the Conemaugh
Valley VIII be ahou. 5000. statement Of ind-
v!dual losses is a. follows: Pennsylvana railroad
$1,000: Eleventh Ward $500. Swanks Pottery
s'0o: Gauter AMI Cambria Works. $1,000; Johns
town residents. $1,000: Pennsylvania traffic store
$1,000: damage 10 city bridges and walls. No'N"'
John McCoushcy. $500: other losses Will reach
sScO
Plttsburg May 22-The Pennsylvania Ratroad au-
thort.es here report that the foods between johns
town and Conemaugh are rapidly subsding. AMI
stimed by tomorrow noon At mo latest. This morn
Ing over thousand men put to work build
ing trestle upon which temporary tracks are
10 be laid until the former conditions ~ ~" roahn~
and track system have been restored. the ra'lr'''
officials saw that Bridge NJ 6 reported washed
away. f. intact. ana Will not have 20 Doe rebuilt al
though part u the extensive and costly nlinS w'ch
constitute. an approach has been wa9hcl away
The trains continue - ~ best 'Nov can. 10y
way ~ the Huntington branch tho Batmore and
ohio Ra-p-ey ana ths Southwest Penn
At Frecport tho water undermined Lauimah
unplate mill wreckng a.
ON Sunday night passenger train sent out from
Altoona on the Raid Eagle Valley road TO Lock
Haven stuck IN the mud NJ MillhaH It'd" '''"-
men and paesoncers were rescued in hooi@ THIS
morning nothing hut the sinokesiack on u" engine
e. visible above tn" wr""kas'.
H-aJlock Penn. MAY - An extensive land
slide has injured tho First Presbyterian church
budding o. the extent tha' AZ least pr ~ ''"
been completed Tho pnrt wrecked coni9ins ~"
nov, e. e,l organ presented los andrew Carnegie
Tho instrument is not set damaged
po,.svlle Penn May p Rain has storpoi fallinc
mic morning hu, tre weather IA threatening only
,bre coillerIes are working n ~" Srhurlklil region
:, will ,ate weeks 20 pump ou' ~" mines. and ~"
cos, will roach many thousand The WORK OF got
ting Tho railroads. I'm ORDER is hoine nus'e by many
~ 4. to-,lav ha-lcr than ever IN" flooding com
pany is running no through trains IN ~" W ,.lams-
sau tickets over i's Schuylk.n valley division to
po'n's further south than NoTis'own
Reading. Perm May O. TIC Schuykill River
ceased rising AZ mis- point about midnight ana Az
dancer ~ further damage g. row over. None ~ tho
b-idcoe along the Schuyikill were disturbed al
though the water ran over and through them Many
~ the Industrial plants In Fron-si were no"l"l ana
considerable damage was done. orr Painter q 90
cav n VIII take several weeks before they can r.
sumo work In thor foundry
Phoonlxvlle Penn. May 22-Thc Schuykn River
a, This poin, was eighteen feet above low-waior
mark at O'Clock this morning AMI rising. The en-
tire plaut Of the Phoenix Iron Company Is sub.
merged TO n depth 81 from three TO eight 1eet, ana
ali opera lions have ceased
Mauch Chunk. Penn. May % Every one or the
fourteen corlcrlos - the Tchlgh Coal and Navlga-
ton Company located AT Ncsquehoning ana Pans
ford IL flooded Twenty dead mules were taken our
Of No ! shaft NJ NesquchOning this morning
Eaeton Penn. May THE food NJ this place IL
snl,sldjng The Iehigh and Delaware rivers have
fallen considerably last night and this morning. inc
darnare done IS large. especially to the lshgh oaI
and Navigation Company. whose large basin mere
gavo way lat evening. At first the damage was
placo1 al $1,000. but II will now exceed NNn~. II
v,lu reqliirc at least three months work b"fore
REORGANIZATION 10 Ncw-YOrk and Phlladclphla VIA
fhc Morris ana Delaware division canals can DE
resumed