The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-22
FURY OF THE FLOOD.
The Water 81 Feet High at Williams
port-Johnstown' Narrow Escape.


Williamsport,. Pa, May 2l.-At |
/ O'Clock this afternoon the water in the
Susquehanna river here had reached a
hight of thirty-one feet above low water,
one foot higher than the disastrous flood
of 1889. The entire city is under water
from four 10 twenty feet deep The water
is still rising at the rate of six inches an
hour. All the logs at the boom, which
broke at o'clock this morning, have been
swept away, as well as many saw-mills
and houses IN the lower part of the city.
All telegraph and telephone communi-
cation with the outer world is now sus-
pended, the offices being flooded and
closed as this dispatch is being sent. In
the business portion of the city. the water
has reached depth of eight feet and
shows no signs of receding. The rain is
still coming down in torrents The loss
has already reached more than s., ,O0O, 900,
and unless relief soon comes it will be
three times that amount. No trains
have arrived or departed from the city
for twenty-five hours.
RAMPAGE OF THE CoNEMAUGH.
Johnstown, Pa, May 21, a. p.-The
water of the Little Conemaugh is on the
rampage. Lincoln bridge is guarded by
police, who permit no one to cross as the
structure is being battered fercely by
floating logs and debris, and is in immi-
nent danger of being washed from its
foundations. The frame building at the
bridge approach was swept away few
moments ago and another bridge is tot
tering, Fire and church bells are ring
ing, whistles blowing, and people fleeing
from the rushing waters. So far no loss
of life is reported and it is not thought
there win be any.
The water is now receding and all dan
| ger is past.
THE DAMAGE.
Pittsburg, May 21.-A brief dispatch
| from Johnstown this morning says: The
damage by the food in Johnstown is esti-
mated at about Sl26, 600. The damage
| road between Johnstown and Altoona is
| placed at 1925, ,000 Owing to many wash
| outs along the railroad it is not thought
| that through traffic can be resumed be-
| fore some time tomorrow BY the caving
| in of an embankment upon which were
several freight cars two boxcars went
| down into the river. In on of them five
tramps were sleeping. Three escaped /;
| two were drowned. 1t is supposed they
THE FLOODS sUBsDNG.
Washington, May q. -Advices this
| evening from Western Pennsylvania indi-
cate that the foods there are subsiding,
| and while a great deal of damage has
been done in the aggregate, there has
been no serious disaster in any
one spot, The greatest loss has
been in the Conemaugh valley,
where Johnstown is situated. and the
heaviest single loser is the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company in bridges, tracks,
cars and buildings. Travel over the
| Eastern division, between Altoona and
Pittsburg, has been suspended. All of this
Company's through trains make detour
over the Baltimore and Ohio company's
| tracks from Altoona to Pittsburg. East
of the mountains in Pennsylvania, the
floods in the streams are on the increase
tonight and vast amount of damage is
being done over the whole country, but
no great single disaster has as yet been
reported. The same condition of affairs
prevails throughout the entire state of
New York.
HIGH WATER AT PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia Pa, May 21.-Four and a
half inches of rain have fallen here since
Thursday last, and all the streams in this
section of the country are out of their
banks. The food that has swept down
the Schuylkill river all today has been
gathering strength and volume with each
hour, and tonight the river is raging
like mountain torrent. Above the dam
at the city water works the river
is wide and it had room to spread over the
| grasslands and driveways Of E'airmount
| Park, and the damage there is confined
| principally to washOuts on the drives.
| Below the dam, the river is confined TO
a oh mol a hO11t half the width a bu
| lines of wharves on either bank. AT this
part the waters overflowed the wharves
| and backed up into the streets and houses
two squares from the banks.
RAILROAD FLOODED.
The water is three feet deep over the
tracks of the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road, and two feet of water covers the
| ground floor of the companys station at
| Twenty-third and Chestnut streets.
There are six feet of water in the
| Baltimore and Ohio tunnel between Arch
| and Spring Garden streets, and all travel
south has been interrupted on the road
since noon to-day.
The Schuylkill river is twenty feet
| above the low water mark at Manyaunk,
| a suburb of this city, and several of the
! streets are flooded.
Every mill along the banks of the river
| is flooded and a general shutdown has oc-
| Cured
The river is rising at the rate of seven
inches an hour. Several vessels were
swept from their moorings in the Schuyl-
kill river and one was sunk in collision
with a bridge pier
REACHED 35 FEET.
Williamsport, Pa, May 81, 8 p. m.-The
river reached 80 feet at O'Clock
tonight, making a new record for its
foods An hour later the water had be-
gun to recede and at 9 o'clock it had
fallen l foot. The loss to the city will
| aggregate 81, 100000.