The record-union., 1894-05-22

is in a condition of excitement and anx-
iety over the encroachments of the water.
All over the business portion the city
is submerged to an average depth of six
feet. Not train has entered or left the
city for twenty-four hours and every
wire is down. The telegraph Office is
four feet under water and the telephone
exchange is almost as bad. The only
means of reaching the outside world is
one telephone wire. The water now
seems to be at standstill, but there are
grave fears the end is not yet in sight.
WATER FIVE FEET DEEP II HOUSES.
SUNBURY (Pa.), May 2l.-The operators
OF the Western Union office at Williams
port were forced TO abandon their Instru-
ments at IL o'clock to-day The water
was four feet deep in the Office The pas
Senger trains on the Pennsylvania road
are running only as far as Dewart. No
trains are running over the Northern
Central Railroad between Nilliamsport
and Elmira. There is a serious wash-out
on the Reading road below Williamsport.
No Reading trains can enter, Williams
port depot being flooded and the tracks
under five feet of water.
FLOOD AT OIL CITY.
OH CITY (Pa.), May 2l.-tn this city
the flats are inundated and easements are
flooded. This is the district that was
y,
sixty-nine lives.
HOMES ABANDONED.
NEWPORT (Pa.), May 2l.-The Juniata
water mark. The families on front streets
are abandoning their homes. The water
is flooding the first stories of the houses.
Two planning mills are under Eve feet of
water. The loss is heavy.
SToCK-YARDS UNDER WATER.
PHILADELPHIA, May 2l.-At Mana
yunk the mills have stopped. The water
is rushing through the streets, and the
Inhabitants are padding about in boats.
The water is four feet deep in the stock
yards west OF Philadelphia. The boat
houses and pleasure craft have been
swept away in Paramount Park.
HIGH WATER IN NEW YORK.
RoCH ESTER, May 2l.-The Genessee
River is within foot OF high water
mark. The cellars in the business por-
ton of the city are filing with water and
the river is on a level with the tracks of
several railroads.
DANvILLE IN. W, May 2l.-In the
Genessee Valley the water is two feet
above the high-water mark of the great
freshet OF five years ago. AS far as the
eye can see there is an eXpanse of water,
timbers and wreckage. The farmers lose
hundreds of thousands in crops. Traffic
is suspended on the Danville and Mount
Morris Railroad.
ELMIRA On. W, May 2l.-The Che
mung River is fifteen feet above low
water mark and rising six inches an hour.
The Northern Central is not running
trains. The Erie Is having difficulty.
RIVERS RAPIDLY RISING.
EAsToN (Pa.), May 2l.--The Delaware
and Lehigh Rivers are rising rapidly.
The Lehigh is higher than at any time
since 1889. The people living along the
banks of the latter stream have been
compelled to move all their beds to
place of safety. Tonight 200 feet of wall
at the mouth of the Lehigh gave way and
fell into The Delaware River and the
great body of water this let loose caused
the Lehigh to fall fully two feet. Shortly
afterward 1t began to rise again and more
trouble is apprehended.
AN UNUSUALLY HIGH TIDE.
NEW YORK, May 2l.-An unusually
high tide prevailed along the coast last
night. AS far as ascertained no serious
damage has been done.
Two vessels are reported in distress off
Seabright n. J. The track of the New
Jersey Central was washed out between
Seabright and Highland Beach and the
sand piled ten to fifteen feet high. Nor
mandie Station is entirely covered by
sand, and between Morgan and South
Amboy, on the New York and Long
Branch Railroad, the sand is piled ten
feet high. AT Coney Island and Brighton
Beach the railroad tracks are submerged.
The sea is running over the beach into
the meadows.