Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-05-24
RAGING WATERS.
Heavy Storms in Pennsylvania
and New York.
CITIES AND FARMS ARE FLOODED.
Hundreds of People in a State OF Panic and
Forced to Flee from Their Homes
Dams Give Way-Much Person.
al Property Lost.

al Property Lost.
WILLIAMsroRr. Pa, May 21.-With
me horrors of the disastrous food of
1889, which spread death and destrue-
ton throughout this valley, brought
back to memory by sweep of water
that promises to be as great as that of
five years ago, the people of this city
were in state of panic that turned
the usually quiet Sunday into one of
remarkable excitement. Since Friday
night a steady and almost continuous
downpOur of rain has been swelling
all the streams, and late last night
numerous cloudbursts along the Pine
creek and other tributaries of the west
branch of the Susquehanna have made
it impossible to confine the water with
in the banks of the streams. 1t has
therefore spread out over the coun-
try, and at every point is
pouring into the main river. Graf
fus run, tributary which empties
into the river below the city, over
flowed its banks and spread over a con-
siderable portion of the city at about
noon yesterday, flooding many houses
and driving the occupants from their
homes. All of the houses We're occu-
pied by poor people, and the rise was
so sudden the sufferers lost much of
their personal property. -Four miles of
track of the Glen Allen Lumber Co.
road have been swept away.
The boom at Lockhaven has
broken and S15. 900 900 feet of logs have
been lost. The Upper Linden boom
also broke at 500 last evening. 1t con-
tanned 10, 100000 feet of logs, and they
have gone down. There are about $780,
O09,0 feet of logs in the main boom
and half as many more in the city mill
ponds that may go on a twenty-five
| foot flood.
BRADFORD INUNDATED.
BRADFORD. Pa, May 21.-The worst
| food in Bradford's history rushed
| through Tuna valley yesterday.
| Twenty streets contiguous to the
creek are inundated and hundreds of
families are in the swim. The Douglas
dam is partly torn away. Weaver's ice
house is in ruins. The North street
| bridge is gone and several railroad and
street bridges are in danger.
YOUNGSTOWN AGAIN FLOODED.
| YOUNGSTOWN, Pa, May 21.-The heavi-
est rainstorm since the big flood of 1889
ceased yesterday morning, and early
| light disclosed flooded streets and all
alleys and cellars full of water. Mer-
| chants here worked all night getting
| goods out of cellars. About $4,000
worth of timber belonging to the Con-
nemaugh Lumber Co. broke loose and
was carried away, tearing two bridges
away and causing great damage. Fifty
feet of stone wall along the Come
maugh river was washed away and
crops in the vicinity were ruined. en-
Il J. IN
Reports from Ebensburg at 10 o'clock
last night said that the heaviest rain
since 1889 was falling there and the
streets were under water. Bridges
across small streams were swept away.
The report said that the farm crops
were washed out, and everything was
big loss.
| JUNIATA ON A RAMPAGE.
HUNTINGTON, Pa, May 21.-Within
the past twenty-four hours the Juniata
| river and the Raystown branch have
| risen % feet. flooding the low-lying
farms and imprisoning entire families
| in their homes who cannot be reached.
A landslide near Ryde station on the
| Pennsylvania railroad covered the
south tracks for three-quarters of a
mile. and the tracks below this city
washed out. The country approaches
| to Huntingdon have been closed to
travel by the destruction of bridges
and washouts.
At Sloyestoyn, Bedford county Mrs.
Jacob Miller, while trying to save her
personal belongings, was drowned,
Whole farms on the Raystown branch
have been practically ruined, build
ings and fencing washed away and
crops destroyed.
BRIDGES SWEPT AWAY.
HARRISBURG. Pa, May 21.-The iron
bridges at Mill Creek, Mapleton and
McVeytown were swept away yester
day by the high waters of the Juniata
| river.
BIG DAM GIVES WAY.
ALTOONA. Pa. May 21.-The dam in
the Horse Shoe curve, above this city
broke at 11:3O o'clock last night. ID feet
of it being carried away. The people
living in the valley had ample time t.
get out of the way of the running
water. If the heavy rainfall continues
the rest of the dam will probably be
carried away. Altoona gets its water
| supply from this body.
FLOOD IN NEW YORK STATE.
GENEsEO. y. Y, The heaviest rain
storm for years. lasting now forty-eight
hours, has caused great flood in the
Geneseo river and an immense amount
of damage has been done. The river
continues to rise at the rate OF to L:
inches an hour. and only lacks Is inche.
j of the highest flood in ten years.
| FLEEING To THE MOUNTAINS.
COBURN. Pa. May 21.-The water i:
two feet higher here than it was il
1889 and the people of the valley art
fleeing to the hills and mountains fol
safety.
Mrs. Leases Illness.
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