Morning journal and courier., 1894-05-22
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From All Quarters.
GREAT DAMAGE BY FLOOD
Houses Swept Away and
Lives Are Lost
TEARS WERE IN PowDERlYs eyes
He Declares That He Has
Not Been Expelled
BOSTON DEMOCRATS ARE ANXIOUS
Want the Senate to Adhere
to the Platform
BOSTON DEMOCRATS ARE ANXIOUS
SUBMERGED BY FLOODS.

SUBMERGED BY FLOODS.
The Schuylkin River is Raging Like
a Mountain Torrent Schooners
Swept From Their Moorlnas-Hish
Floods at Harrisburg.
PHILADELPHIA, May 21-The food that
has swept down the SchuylkiIi river all to-
day has been gathering strength and vol
ume with each hour, and tonight the river
is raging like mountain torrent. Above
the dam at the city waterworks the river
has spread over the grass lands and drive
ways of Paramount park. The damage
there is confined principally to wash outs
on the drives. Below the dam the river is
confined to a channel about half the width
of that above by lines of whsrves. At this
part the waters have overlooked the
wharves and backed up into the etrests
and houses two squares from the banks.
The water is three feet deep over the tracks
of the Baltimore and Ohio road, and two
feet of water covers the ground floor of
the company's station at Twenty third and
Chestnut streets. There is elk feet of wa
ter In the Baltimore and Ohio tunnel be-
tween Arch and Spring Garden streets and
all travel south has been interrupted over
the road since noon.
Above South street bridge a fleet of
schooners was moored to the wharves.
One of them was torn from its moorings
this afternoon. 1t swept down upon another
schooner and within few minutes six
schooners and canal boat were whirline
down the river In tangle and soon struck
an sbutment of the bridge and came to q
Tho y,nf1 OF Of tho Pohork
Barr snapped off close to the deck, the
bowsprlt of the Laura broke short off and
the Mary Lord cspsized and the mizzen-
mast went over the side. Tonight the
schooners are still jamned together against
the pier and all are in danger Of capsizing.
On the Delaware river front the water
overlooked the wharves and considerable
freight was ruined.
Mansyunk, ons of the great mill districts
of the city, the water is twenty-five feet
above low water mark, and the food Is up
to the second floor in a score of mills.
Several hundred thousand dollars will not
cover the damage done there by the waters.
It is still raining hard here to night.
Communication with Williamsport WAS
restored to night by the Pennsylvania rail-
road and several dispatches were received
from that city by the railroad officials.
Although Williamsport is more or less sub
merged the damage done does not appear
to be great and no lives are known to be
lost. The greatest sufferers were the lum
Der men, who lost heavily by the sweep
ing away of their booms.
HARRIsBURa. Pa, May 2l.-At 8 O'Clock
tonight the river was twenty-four feet
above low water mark and still rising. The
Pennsylvania railroad is running trains via.
Columbia and York. In South Harris.
burg the people are moving out Of their
houses. Independence island and Islam
park are both under water. ALI the indus
trial establishments in the southern part of
the city, including the iroa and steel
plants have shut down. There Is rumor,
which lacks confirmation, that five men
we're drowned this evening at Clark's
Ferry.
JoHNsTowN, Pa May 81. AT noon the
waters of the Conemsugh river were reced-
ticipated. The body of food victim
foatsd past the city at noon.
WILLIAMsPoRT, Pa, May 21.-The Sus-
quehanna river has risen to thirty three
feet. The Pennsylvania railroad bridge
| over the river is standing the pressure sol
| idly, but four spans of the Market street
| bridge have gone and three of the four
| spans of the Maynard street bridge have
gone. Both are iron structures, and the
pecuniary loss will be heavy. No lives
l have been lost. A number of small boats
were capsized to-day, but all of the occu.
pants were rescued.
rain which have fallen have caused dis
astrous floods along the line of the Penn
| sylvanin road and through traffic has been
| obstructed to euoh an extent that trains
may not be running for forty eight hours.
The tracks east of Bennington for dis
lance of eighteen miles were more or less
damaged. In come places immense wash
/ out occurred.
PorTsrowN, Pa, May 81 The storm
| continues as fercely as ever throuRheu,
this county and there are no signs ot
abatement. The damage to colleries ant
railways will exceed 5000 The Read
ing company is the heaviest loser. On the
Reading railroad at least twenty bridges
have been lost completely or are badly
damaged, besides much havoc with en-
bankments. Not mail train left here to
day east or north over the Reading and Il
is impossible for the Reading to run any
trains on the Williamsport division, ss tn
line is broken on all sides of Tamaqua ani
| at Gilberton. No trains have arrived owe
the Pennsylvania railroad from the south
since noon. The Sohuylkill wss never 81
high as now. The turnpike below here Il
flooded to the depth of about three feet.
Reports of loss of life are now COMING
in. John Brown, aged seventeen, wa
drowned this evening while rying to eros
! creek at Forestville. Edward Evans, al
old man is reported drowned near Hecke
mont was washed out to day and severs
members are missing. Among these are
| woman and her new babe. An abandoned
mine drift located on Sharp Mountain nea
here was filled with sulphur water. Thi
augmented by the heavy foods from tn
mountain caused the drift to break
The largo body of water dashed dow
the mountainside, taking with 1t
small dam. The water all rushe
| into the big grounds surroundin
the mansion of Mrs. F. P. Kaercher an
flooded the cellar and the ground fool
The elegant furniture and part of tn
house were wrecked. A family name
tScott were also washed out and lost the
all. At Mahonsy City and Girardville,
order to prevent the blockading of Gu
verts, all the bridges were torn down an
the distractions removed.
HAzLEoN, Pa, May 21.-Up to 10 p. u
rain has fallen here necessarily. Eve,
colliery in the LshiRh region is browne
out and ten Thousand men are out of worl
Landslides and washouts have occurre
l alOuk tuc uusyAtdhln ouu DEhuCuc
As q result of the landslide at Penn h
ven an express train on the Lehigh tract
WAS run into by an engine and seven en-
ployes were severely Injured. The passe
gers on board the express train We
thrown violently about, but none we
seriously injured.
. EAsroH, Pa. May 21.-The waters fro
the swollen Lshigh river to-day overflow
,. the basin here where the Lshigh canal ar
l Delaware division canal meet and undo
S mined the eide of the basin. Great mass
of masonry fell out into the Dslsws
river. The basin outlet lock into the Del
s ware river was torn away. The loss to t
Lshigh Coal and Navigation company
heavy.
81 CLEAN, N. Y, 21.-The water is just
. the highest mark of 1889. East Olean a
e lower suburbs are submerged. During 4
!, night house owned by Pat Rown, foot
L Barry street, went down the Alleghal
and smashed against the Union etre
bridge. There are several hundred houi
q l. E. "a