The record-union., 1894-05-21

taken out of their houses in boats during
the night, and on Clarence, River ana
Hilton streets a rescue corps OF sklfis
rescued many more.
Luckily there were no fatalities. An
eighteen months baby fell into the
west branch this evening and was swept
away in the current. Thomas Potter
leaped into the creek and after desper-
ale struggle saved the child. The flood
from the east branch covered the terri
tory over which runs the Erie Railroad S
tracks, the Western New York and Penn
sylvania tracks and those of the Brad
ford. Bordwell and Kinna Railways.
Webster street is naVigable by boats.
Across Corydon to Newell avenue TO
Main and then down Davis street there is
a rushing body of deep water, and skifts
ply from the Riddle House up and down
the streets.
At the Henderson House on the ground
floor there is six inches of water. Twenty
business houses on Main street, between
Webster and the Erie Railway, are in a
still worse condition. Sixty feet OF the
b. r. and tracks, just below the city
eastern line. have been washed out, and
the trains of that road come in over the
Erie track from Limestone.
The fire-alarm bell sounded this morn
ing at O'Clock, and the firemen were
called out to help people from their
houses. They did excellent work. A
carload of lime in a storehouse near the
track about Elm street became water
soaked and fired the building while un-
dergoing the slackening process, and in
the flood up to their waists the firemen
had further work to do. The rain yes
terday, last night and to-day fell as if
from cloudburst, but this evening it
has abated somewhat, and it is believed
the worst is over.
TRAINS ABANDONED.
JAMESTOWN On. W, May 20.-Au the
trains on the d. Il A. road have been
abandoned, owing to the damage to its
tracks by the storm. A portion of the
large bridge at Loana is washed away.
There is heavy landslide, covering the
tracks for quite distance between Fal-
cone and Reggy, and the railroad bridge
at Frowsburg is washed out. The waters
of the Canadian Creek have risen until
the stream is nearly half mile wide be-
tween Loana anu Fredonia.
In Dunkirk the lower portions OF the
places are flooded. No special damage
has yet been reported in this city.
FLOODS TO SECOND FLOORS.
HUNTINGTON (Pa.), May 20.-With the
past twenty-four hours the Janau River
and the Rexton branch have risen twenty
two feet, flooding lowly farms and inn
prisoning entire families in their homes
who cannot be reached. Portstown, a
suburb Of this town, was flooded to the
second floors OF the houses.
The gas works here have been tempo
rarily abandoned, owing TO the rising
waters, and many residences and busi-
ness houses are flooded to the second
floors. The Iron County bridges at
Mapleton and Mill Rock have been
swept away. A landslide near Ryde
Station, on the Pennsylvania road, COW
cred the south tracks for three-quarters
of mile, and the tracks below this city
are washed out. The country approaches
to Huntington have been closed TO travel
by the destruction OF bridges and wash
outs. At Sloyestown Mrs. Jacob Miller,
while trying to save her personal belong
ings, was drowned. Whole farms on the
branch have been practically ruined.
bridges have been washed away and
crops destroyed.
STREETS UNDER WATER.
JERSEY SHORE Pa, May 19.-At 7
o'clock tonight, wind and rain are Great
ing trouble throughout the entire city.
1t has rained heavily all day almost un-
ceasingly since last week, and tonight
there is thirty foot flood in the west
branch of the Susquehanna River, and it
is believed will reach higher point than
was reached in 1889, as the river is rising
at the rate of a foot an hour. The water
is now standing several feet deep in the
streets in this city. All documents and
valuable papers have been removed from
the county offices and taken to places of
safety.
At Phillipsburg the water is already
higher than it was in the flood of 1889.
AT Clearheld the Beech Creek Railroad
is under water. SuD1riutenQaut Palm or
has been out on the road maxim an effort
TO protect the company's property.
Several bad washouts on the road have
been reported. Church services all
through this section to-day were aban-
dOned, and people have spent their time
anxiously watching along the river to see
the flood of water coming. All tele-
graphic communication with the outside
world has been cut off.
At Dubois, Pa, 4 9l00 inches of water
fell in the last forty-eight hours, and all OF
the lands are flooded. People are Obliged
to leave their homes.
SUSQUEHANNA STILL RISING.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2O.-Dispatches
to the Pennsylvania Railroad officials re-
port that it has been raining several days.
and that the waters ofthe eSusquehanna are
still rising, and that conservative esti-
mate places the probable rise at from
live 10 l66t. az heDOVa The
water has risen to twenty-five above low
water. At the latter point the river is
rising a foot an hour.
At WestpOrt the sides have been re-
moved from the western end of the rail-
road bridge and the water is flowing
freely through it.
Communication with Karthous has
been cut Oft since l1:30 this morning.
Part OF Lockhayen is under water and
the flood there is very high, aud at Belle
tonte is rising, and bridges have been
carried away. 1t has been raining since
yesterday.
AT Bixler's vineyard a number oi
bridges have been carried away.
AT Upton the bridges have been
shifted. All the quarries are being
worked to their capacity. and large forces
of men are loading cars with cinders to
be run on the bridges and EN- mbankments
should the flood threaten them. Railroad
| officials say stone and trestle timber is
ready for use at Loekhaven should the
| flood carry away the railroad bridge Oh
| roadbed there.
JoHNSToWN STREETS FLOODED.
JoHNsTowN pa, May 2O.-The
! heaviest rainstorm since the big flood o.
1889 ceased this morning, and early light
| disclosed flooded streets and all The
alleys and cellars full of water. Merch-
ants here worked all night getting goods
out of the cellars. Fifty feet of stone wal
along the Connenaugh River was washed
away and crops in the vicinity were
ruined, entailing loss of thousands o.
dollars.
Reports from Ebensburg at 10 O'Clock
tonight say the heaviest rain since 1885,
is falling there, and the streets are under
water. Bridges across small streams are
swept away. The report says farm crops
are washed out. The rain at Ebensbure
continues, aud the river here is likely tc
be again much swollen when the streams
in the north empty in it. The ringing Of
fire bells is the only thing which pre-.
vented a financial if not an extensive loss
of life. The water was higher last night
than at any time since the big flood. The