The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-05-25
FLOODS WILD SWEEP.
KEYSTONE STATE THE SCENE
OF a DELUGE.
Horrors of the Johnstown Flood May BE
Repeated = wiIiiamsport, Lock Haven
and Other Towns Are Under watrr-sev-
eral People Drowned.
Great Damage Done.

Furious floods have broken loose
throu yhout Central and Western Penn
sylvania and already great damage has
been d)re. They are sweeping down
every valley carrying destruction to
vi lagos, hamlets and cities, and the
loss TO property of all kinds will be
enormous. Several PEOPLE have been
drowned and il is feared that there will
be great less OF life, as the floods are
the worst that have occurred in this
State since 1889, the year of
the Johnstown calamity. TIL, beau
tiful city OF William port that
suffered 80 severely in 5S9, is threat
ened wi h &c truct,o ;, and people fear
that In horrors OF five years ago may
be repeat I'd in the Susquehanna Val
ley. Steady rain pouring down TO-
three days swelled all I lie streams, and
hume Gus cloud-bu SITS along the trib-
ar es OF the Sus .uehannl River have
caused tie str ans to overflow their
hank. The great lumber boom near
Willism sport broke. There were 49,
600, 900 feet of logs in the boom, and
a complete loss.
rising 'eadiiy acccr ling to dispatches.
Nearly the entire bu mess portion of
Williamspo-t is under water. The
We tern Union Telegraph Office, which
Is situation IN com aratively high
ground had tn zee feet of water on the
floor, and the telegraph operators
were forced to abandon their instru-
ments and seek p ace of safety. Pas
senger I. aims on the Pennsylvania
Road are only running as far as
Dewart, and no trains are running over
the Northern Central Railroad be-
tween William sport and Elmira.
wiliiamsport Under Water.
At one o'clock Monday afternoon the
water in the river had reached a height
of thirty-one feet above low water, one
foot highe than the disastrous Hood
of 1889. The entire city is under water,
which ranges in depth I. ON four to
twenty feet. All the logs of the loom
have been swept away, as W 9ll as many
sawmills and houses in the lower part
part of the city. Not telegraph or
telephone wire is working out of the
city, with the single exception of a
shaSy long-distance telephone wire
which was placed at the DISPOSAL of
the Associated Press correspondent.
ILo lOSS l. ~ dlTodIy TcdCneu IHOTo
than a million dollars, and, the dis
patch says, unless relief soon comes, it
will be three times as much.
The boom az Lock Haven broke and
15,00),G feet OF logs have been lost.
The Upper Linden boom also broke.
1t contained 10, 100 feet of logs. and
they have gone down. There are
about l50,000,C0) feet OF logs in the
main b ON and half as many mole in
the city mill-ponds that may go on a
twenty-five foot flood.
There has been no telegraphic COM
munication with Lock Haven since
o'clock Sunday afternoon, at which
hour the telegraph operator was driven
from his Office By the rising flood.
The flood there is very high, and be-
tween Peliefon and Rising Springs
two spans OF one of the railroad bridges
were carried away There is seven
foot flood in Lycomirg creek, and at
Rising Springs the water is eighteen
inches higher than it was in 1889.