The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-11
AN OLD TIME FLOOD
The Delaware Rises to
Trenton Cellars and
Fills Them.
HIGH WATER STOPS MILLS
Titus Wooden Mills Fire Out
Wilson's Dye Works Flooded
Islands and Wharyes
Submerged.
Snecial to The .Ieascu Citu Ncins.

afternoon, anu gradually duPAhSH'eo
volume until at three o'clock yesterday
afternoon it was within about eighteen
inches of the mark reached in the early
days of 1894. The rise then was caused
by an ice gorge at Perriwig. Nothing of
the kind exists this year. The swollen
river is caused by the heavy rains of
Monday and Tuesday, and the melting
of large quantities of snow along the
De- wares tributaries In the mountain
Gus region north of here.
The manifestations are the same as
those of the o~ld-fashioned spring freshets,
of which the old inhabitant loves to DIS
course and tell you how he saw people
taken out of Dicky Mendham's second
story windows by persons who were
rowing boats on Warren street, north of
the creek. in six or eight feet of water.
AS the volume of water that comes down
the Delaware grows less each year in the
ratio that the land is denuded OF its
forest growth, the old-fashioned freshet
is not likely to occur again, but the
sights of yesterday were very much like
those of the other days, except the river
could not equal its former feats of de-
structiveness. 1t came within four feet.
however. of the mark it made in 1888,
fWlGu luG TlSG WIS QuS " dA - jain
In 1877 there was a high freshet that ex-
ceeded the present one. when boats were
roWed on Ferry street almost to Warren.
The present is the greatest freshet since
STEAMER Dip NOT ARRIVE.
scheduled to be at her wharf Yesterday
flood tide. 1t is needless to say that she
did not make her appearance Her
wharf was at least ten feet under water.
rna t Of h earrf reig nTs she'd aseeaH'iHs over 'H'
John Duffy and William Bailey sat
in front of their hotel, at the corner Of
Fat Til and i Ferry wyts s=srs sess,.n ~dis np 80 issfy
very doors. 1t had already invaded all
the cellars on the west side of Fair street
between the rolling mill and the railroad
sidewalks at the alleyway leading to the
river. and running down the cutters on
that side Of the street to the ioweSS poin5
ran up the low alleys toward South War
rem street. At half-past three O'Clock
ne he t tie Has b 5un4 abe r; Sg5: d ascq not SHOW 10
the effect. 1t continued to rise, slowly
but surely, and the apprehension was
raised that the water would enter the
BACKED Up THE CREEK.
The rise n the river, of course, caused
4 large quantity of water to back into
he Assanpink Creek. and the result at
Wilson's mill. on Factory street, was
seven or eight feet of water in the dye
house of the mill As the mill was
result 1t made the taking OF Of the Dig
belts that run from the water-Wheels to
the rooms above necessary, however. AIT
and securing Departments We're flooded.
rq nas in nry he G gssr of y 10 = i 's eng aassy house onss
cellars Of ali the houses on Warren street
almost to the corner of Lafayette. Some
of the Lafayette street houses were also
found to have water In them.
food IS Sol. Kaufman, who keeps the
Bazaar on South Broad street. He has
and last winter, fearing an ice gorge
would result in his cellar again being
1ooGed, he rented the store formerly
establishment, on South Warren street,
and therein stored all the merchant Sc
usually kept IN his cellar. An danger of
had iot the EN- m1~erchandise replaced S in his
cellar. His cellar is now flooded and
the goods are damaged by the water.
MILLS FLOODED.
The water reached the boiler house of
Titus Wooden Mill on the river bank
and extinguished the fires. Howard TITUS
said yesterday that as soon as the feod
lighted. the mill would resume opera
tons. No damage was done here as
everything that the water. could injure
4IdG D6Sll H dllI-CIQdUlOu VI Lie
At WaIton's four mill, on Fair street,
near Factory, $50 barrels of flour were
orudently moved out on Tuesday. Where
hey stood there was two feet of water
yesterday afternoon. There will be some
loss suffered, however from damaged
machinery.
Up at the Calhoun street bridge, where
the canoeists store their craft, and at the
sub house of the Algonquin Canoe Club,
the water was a trespasser. but WITHOUT
house was washed from its foundations
and toppled to pieces. This is at the
bridge.
On the opposite side of the river the
houses of Joseph B.ilalgham, Bernard
Igan and William kendriek, on Norris
Stand, are partially submerged and the
about a half a mile. The resort of the
Sunday School picnbcs is all under wa
ter saw the highest portion of the
THE CAMDEN AND AMBoY FLOODED
Owing to the high waiter no trains
reached Trenton from Camden yester-
above B~ordemtown. at the lock. were
submerged and passengers on the trains
were transferred st Burlington, reaching
Trenton from BRISTOL. Borderntown peo-
compelled to reach here by wagon roads.
When II was found impossible to send
trains through by BordentoWn they
The rest of the day.
Last evening hhe water IN the river
had lowered somewhat from its highest
pANGER FEARED AT LAMERTvILLE
A despatch from Lambertville says
The Delaware is nov seventeen t. -, feet
over its banks at Stockton, four miles
above this city. The Raritan Cana
FEEDER banks are in bad condition and
ere thought to be slowly giving way.
If q break comes, the water will rush
down the canal, which flows through
this city, and the houses along its banks
viii be flooded. All the houses along
IRE now badly flooded, and their occu-
pants are moving TO higher land. The
CANAL from New Hope, just across the
Delaware, to Bristol, I'a-, is greatly
The SITUATION AT BoRDENTowN.
A despatch from RordeQtown says that
The railway bed on the Amboy division
mile and a helf, and the Delaware and
Paritan aCnsl, are covered with water.
The employees ait the Canal Collectors
office go to and fro In boats. The pas
senger boat Florence, plying between
Bordentown and Philadelphia. was I'M
able to make her trip yesterday morn
ing. She could not get nsar enough to
her pier to take or passengers.
The gas works have been flooded and
| last night the city was IN darkness. The
! side began to rise last night and the peo-
Die who live neal the shore having be-
| come anxious as to the outcome, moved
their goods to the high grounds.
sPIoTAULEs In BOSTON.
Here in Boston the formal condition is