Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-05-24

depot, compelling the agent to move
| papers and instruments from the ticket
Office to the second story of the build
ing. 1t is thought the tracks of the
Columbia & Port Deposit railroad are
badly washed.
Ohmits, Steel and Wood Islands, in
the Susquehanna, are covered with
water. There Is little doubt that the
packed fish on Ohmit's Island, owned
by William Pennock, are lost, His horse
and raft were conveyed in safety to
Roberts Island.
Near the Presbyterian Church in Port
Deposit the water is ~ feet deep in the
street. Several houses occupied by
Italians have been flooded TO their
rooms. The railroad tracks are covered
from the depot to ths granite quarries
OF McClenahan & Brother, and from
the Rowland Manufacturing Co.'S plant
to tho lower end Of the town. Last even.
ing tho railroad company moved 69 cars
from its sidings here to Perryville.
All railroad communication has been
cut off both north and south, and i. will
be several days before the tracks can he
cleared of debris.
During the day, from 8 o'clock a. M,
the riverrose inches. This is within
IL inches of the high-water mark of
1889 and within few inches of the ice
gorge rise in February, 1893. At Ii
o'clock tonight the water had fallen
about six inches. Not as many logs
have been passing during the afternoon
rs during the morning. Tonight, how.
ever the procession Of logs is passing in
large numbers.
Many people who have been forced to
move all valuable things to places of
safety hope that the worst may DO over,
but the prospect is not encouraging. At
10 O'Clock tonight nearly one mile OF the
street in Port Deposit is covered with
water and at the lower end of the town
the board walk is floating. No public
school was held to-day, as the approach
was cut off by the high water.
BRIDGES WASHED AWAY.
CUMBERLAND, Nd, May 23.-The
excessive amount Of rain which has
fallen in the past week has swelled all
mountain streams in Allegheny and
Garrett counties. The president Of the
county commissioners has received word
that several bridges in the eastern part
Of Allegheny county had been washed
away.
IN PENNSYLVANIA.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 23.-The
water in the Delaware and Schuylkill
rivers continued To rise until about
noon yesterday and considerable addi-
tional damage was done to property,
especially OF Manayunk and the Falls
of Schuylkill Shortly after 1 o'clock
the food began to subside and from
height of feet at Z o'clock in the morn
ing, the water passing over the dam at
Paramount had fallen to z feet s inches
above the breast. The Baltimore 81
Ohio railroad station, at Twenty.
and Chestnut streets, was still flooded,
but il is hoped to have il in condition
for the resumption Of traffic to-day.
Trains ran between this city and Norris.
town over the Reading railroad last
evening. The South street bridge was
kept closed to travel because of fear
that the schooners Light of the East,
Mary Q. Stuart, Robert j. Barr and
Laurel and scow, which were wedged
against one of the piers, would carry
away the superstructure,
The city of Williamsport was prob
ably the greatest sufferer by the flood, a
conservative estimate placing the loss at
S3,O00,O00. The great lumber boom at
that point, as we'll as that at Lock
Haven, were broken, and millions of
feet of lumber were swept down the
stream, carrying away bridges and dam
aging other property on either shore.
At Williamsport it was estimated that
the homes of 10000 people were made
mi mi, % hitn hlo fNhA nnoalinfr H.,
the Schuylkill valley enabled the rail-
roads to resume operations yesterday,
but in the Conemaugh the Pennsylvania
railroad line was still broken, and
through trains between Plttsburg and
Altoona had to be sent round by way of
the Baltimore & Ohio and Huntingdon
and Broad Top roads. On the Phila-
delphia division trains were sent by way
of the Lebanon Valley and Cornwall
and Lebanon railroads to Conewago.
Heavy rain fell last night in the Conc
maugh Valley, and another disastrous
rise in the waters of that stream is ap-
pretended at Johnstown and vicinity.
The Susquehanna river overlooked its
banks at Sunbury yesterday morning,
covering one-thrd of the town to
depth of from one to five feet. 1t was
reported that four families had persisted
on the island at Herndon.
LEwIsBURG, Pa, May 23.-Two spans
of the Lewisburg wagon and railroad
bridge have been Knocked out by the
floods and two more spans are in great
danger, solid mass of logs and debris
ten acres in extent being massed against
them. There has been great destruction
in East Lewisburg, village of 200 in
habitants, opposite this place. All of
the houses have been deserted. The
water is rapidly falling, and no further
damage is looked for. There Is no COM
munication with the outside world
except by way of New Berlin noun
tains and over the. Reading railroad
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