New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-21
FLOODS IN PENNSYLVANIA.
WORST STORM IN FIVE YEARS.
RUMORs OF BROKEN DAMS DRIVE PEo-
PIE INTO A PANIC.
BOTH THE sUsoUEHANNA AND JUNIArA TWENTY
ONE FEET ABOVE THEIR LEvEL-MILL'
IONS OF FEET OF LOGS LOOSE
Nr-cJt DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.

IONS OF FEET Or LOpo LcNoH
MUCH DAMAGE TO PROPERTY.
Harrisburg. Penn, May 2O-Unless the fooA
gates Of Heaven are soon closed the great MAY
freshet Of 1889 will be repeated. The susque-
hanna has risen at this point thirteen feet since
morning. coming up three feet since O'CLOCK
this evening All its tributaries are reported
booming and many bridges will be swept away
North and west, the rain has been very hea'y'
and a great food is feared. There was ciouu-
hurst at Remove this afternoon and when the
train which reaches here at 10 O'CLOCK iett LOCK
Haven this evening there was three feet OF water
IN rho station at that place. At Keating. an
other point on the Philadelphia and Erie Rail
road the river was thrty-two feet high ana
still rising. Near Huntington along the Juniata'
the railroad tracks are under water anu oe-
tween Lewistown and McNeytown teiegrap"
wires are down. At II o'clock the river Is r'si"S
at the rate Of eight inches an hour.
Altoona Penn. May 90 l1:3O p. m-The reser'
voir at Kittannng Point, which supplies TINS
city with water, has just broken
Altoona PENN May 21 1890 a. m.-Ine water
N Kittanning Point Is falling. The preah 's IA
the centre Of the dam, and II the rain does ho'
increase in violence It is thought the worst dam
ger IS over.
Wuuamsport. Penn, May 2o.-This city Is pass
tho through a state Of flood excitement un-
oou,lled since the memorable June l. 1889 wnen
,ha rver reached the unprecedented height Oh
,birtvthree and a half feet and inundated TWO
thirds of the CITY, For forty-eight hours past
ro,r bae been falling throughout the west
Branch watershed and tonight the river Is
twenty-one feet high and rising rapidly. Inc
conditions are shrouded in such uncertainty '""s
no man can predict what the night VIII prine
forth. and the widest and most extraVasah.
,,roors are aeoat. Proitng by the experience OF
eva wears ago. those in prospective danger nave
snent the dav removing their effects to places Oh
safety and this Sunday has been a pediain III
! Wiliamsport Thousands OF men workeo HAe
! beavers removing goods TO high ground or 10 'ie
upper stories of buildings. and the ruihoie u
beavv, wheels. the shouts Of excited men and inc
ringing of alarm bells broke the Sapoath saiA-
ness and ma le the day an exciting ohe'
! r,ho situation tonight is discouraging TO say
Tho least for the rain Is still falling In torrents
and all tho streams west Of this city are raging
ada A. least 10 600 900 feet of logs have gone
doun the river but the big boom. with It's l0o'-
600 900 feet. remains intact. Boom BOSS Diieha''
was busy with his crew and steamer all uay.
They visited the main boom and did their pest
% s,rangthen all weak points. Mr.. Dinehart SAID
,ba, IA Thought he could hold the logs this DOOM
| contained on a twenty-five or twenty-sA ioo'
! flood
Between the hours Of noon and O'CLOCK 'he
| boom at Linden broke There were aoou' i0'V'''-
ooo foot IN the structure and when It gave way
the logs started down stream IL was a' Ais'
Thought that most OF the logs could be caught IN
49, ro,,, boor but II was not deemed advisable
% do this owing 10 the fact that the pressure
| an the structure was then almost too heaVy iot
:, ~ hear The runaway logs were therefore al
| lou,ad 70 mass Iockhaven boom was reporter 10
have given way under the pressure OF his"
water. and 1t was asserted that lo'OOV'VVo iee'
started down stream on ten-foot hood' i.-'"-
bernen here were of the opinion that ire LOGS oss
| could be caught ana ehol's "e''
them safe harbOr .,,, ,hot
rho logs and boom at Two Mile ana Coohs ~. nu,
branches Of Kettle Creek broke IooSe 60 "a Ou
t,5 ~ the high water the logs will come on
! through and probably reach here.
wmiamsport. Penn. May 2l.-At o'clock TINS
morning the great boom. with us Hlllion y,
dollars worth OF uncut lumber gave way anu
U,riamsport will awaken al daybreak TO sense
Of great financial disaster i"' '' "
five feet high.
Huntingdon. Penn. May 2O.-To-day's great
food has been exceeded only once IN the his'ois
of the Juniata Valley. the last four days ram
fall having raised the Juniata River anu ''e
Rovstoyn Branch twenty-one feet above low
,.,tar mark entailing great destruction 10 prop
ertv. In this place the waters Hooded 'he lower
streets. driving the people from their homes anu
in the lower farming districts whole iaHhes are
imprisoned in their houses. unable 10 De Tea
nn,ing TO the turbulence Of the streams lhree
new iron county bridges. spanning tne Julla.i
and the Raystown Branch have been swept away;
The destruction OF scores OF minor p,luses a.lt
u.,ehouts on public roads have closed all rural
approaches to this place. The gas COMPANY
plant here is submerged and the lower hoois u
many business houses are flooded ~ .u
Mrs Jacob Miller was drowned az SaNlon "his
trying 10 save some property r..,
4 landslide at Ryde Station on the Pennsyi-
vania Railroad covered the south track lor
d,Stonca of nearly a mile. and part or the track
was washed away. Great damage TO ptopsi - {;
and farm lands along the hays'o"" D'a"'" -
reported.
,Iohnstown. Penn. May 2O.-The heaviest rain
storm since the big nocd of 1889 ceased this
morning, and the early light disclosed flooded
streets and allies. and cellars full of water Mer
chants here worked all night getting goods KEEP,
I'm cellars TO higher places, wnere the water M couie
not damage them. About SloOOo worth "a ~ lI'ioo'
belonging to the COnemaugh LUMBER COMPANY
| broke loose and was carried away, tearing GOVT
two bridges and causing great damage: Fifty
feet OF a stone wall along the Conemaugn hiVe'
we're washed away. Crops IN the region ai'
ruined entailing loss OF thousands or dollars,
Reports from Ebersburg at o'clock to-nlgh
say the heaviest rain since 1889 Is lanhs emes '
and the streets are under water brluees ac'oss s
small streams are swept away. Reports say th'
farms are washed out. and there is great loss
One farmer reports loss OF $ooo on sp,ins 0HpS s
3 Trhe rasn AT Ehensburg continues. and the rivel
here Is likely again to be much swollen when tne
, streams in the north empty into It, the WIDEN
ing OF the river beds here Is the ony snIiis VIZ
nrevented heavy financial damages. II not exten
siye loss Of life The water was nigher las
night than at any time since the big hooa. >o.,.
During the storm the Baltimore ana oni'
e tracks were submerged and trains were much oe
e layed The street cars had to stop running a
{ $50 last night At the historic stone priuse LIN
0 water was thirteen feet nine inches hign
1 bradford Penn. MAY 2O-Three days incessan
rain and the flooding Of mountain streams have
= swollen the east and west branches OF the Tun
{ ..ex,.o,,. l,raax into a raging torrent. Tit