The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1895-04-13
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Heavy Rainfalls and Melting Shows
Do Much Damage

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Delaware River the highest Since 7e
Industries Obliged 70 Shut Down
-Hud son River Overflo~s. 81
EAsToN, Pa, April 1O.-Not since De.
cember II, 1878, has the Delaware river
been as high as Wednesday morning
At that time it reached 20 feet
above low water mark. At l0
O'Clock Wednesday it was ~ feet
above and still rising. The old
Delaware bridge built in 1905 is in
danger. The Edison electric light
plant, which furnishes power for the
transit company, is partly submerged
and the entire electric road is tied up.
Only the incandescent portion OF the
plant can be operated.
Industries Compelled to Shut Down.
Front street, between Spring Garden
and Church streets, is flooded and resi-
dents Tuesday night moved out in
boats. The retaining wall along
the Delaware has been greatly
damaged. All industries along
the Delaware and Lehigh have been
compelled to shut down. Navigation
on the canal is suspended. Numerous
small buildings along the banks OF
both rivers foated away during the
night The Lehigh Water com
pany has been compelled to
stop pumping, but there is wa
ter enough in the reservoir to last
for several days and no water famine
is expected. The loss to property in
this vicinity will be heavy. The Della
ware has backed up the Bushkill and
all -four mills are shut down.
Dispatches from the upper Delaware
report the water rising. The Lehigh
river, backed by the Delaware, at
Easton, overdowed it's banks and
flooded all the storehouses along the
Easton water front.
Situation in Hudson River Towns.
KINGSTON, N. Y, April 10.-A heavy
food has been raging in the Hudson
river and the streams in this section,
caused by steady rain that fall
for twenty-four hours. People are
moving into the upper stories OF
their houses at Eddyville, Rosendale,
high Falls, Kerhonkson and other
places. Thousands of dollars worth OF
damage was done along the Ulster &
Delaware railroad. Another storm is
looked for, and if the rainfall is heavy
it is feared the guard lock at Eddyvi1le
will be washed out.
TROY, N. Y, April 10.-The Hudson
river continues to rise, and the water
is now extending into the dock streets.
The Citizens steamboat dock is under
water, and the mills near the river,
which depend for power upon the Hud-
son river, have been compelled to shut
down. ..
PORT JERv1s, N. Y, April l0.-The
most disastrous food that has visited
this section for seventeen years is now
prevailing. The Neversink and Della
ware rivers have overfowed their
banks and fields for miles along
their courses are submerged. Farmers
along the Neversink from this village
to Oakland have suffered great dam
age. A large number Of bridges have
been swept away, and railroad traffic
is badly impeded.
4 Garden Land Washed Away.
/ DuNK1RK, n. Y, April 10. "A serious
food was threatening Tuesday, but the
rain ceased during the night and the
danger is over for the present.
Nearly 100 cellars were flooded
here and considerable damage
done. The Canada Way creek
overfowed between Fredonia and Bou-
lands farm, near the lake. Fences
were carried away and several hundred
feet of valuable garden land was
washed out and carried into the lake.
Flood Receding.
BUFFALO, N. Y, April lo.-7The rain
which has been falling necessarily for
tweaty-four hours ceased Tuesday
night and the weather Wednesday was
clear and warm. Buffalo creek is rap
idly receding and the threatened mum
dation of the southern part Of the city
is averted.
Floods In Now England.
BosroN, April 1O.-The heavy rain
fall during Monday night has swollen
all streams iii New England tremen-
dously. The stone dam at Bernard
ston, Mass, went out Tuesday morn
ing. The Deerfeld and Green rivers
are very high and much damage will
result. Several mills and other estab-
lishments in Connecticut are closed on
account of the high water.
Freshers In Now Hampshire.
PLYMOUTH, N. H., April l0.-The
rains of the past thirty-six hours, melt
ing the snow in the mountains, have
caused big rise Of New Hampshire
waters, and, IN consequence, many
hundreds of acres Of interval land are
under water. Ice is breaking up,
blockading roads and rendering bridges
unsafe for travel.
Disastrous Floods In Hungary.
LONDON, April 10.-A dispatch to the
Daily News from Vienna says that
serious floods are prevailing in Hum
gary. Szegdin, capital Of the county
Of Czongrad, which is on the Thesis
river at the influx Of the Marc, is
threatened with an inundation. The
water now almost covers the bikes pro-
tecting the town. In 1879 the town
was nearly destroyed by . great food.
In Peeska $40 houses are flooded and
many OF them have collapsed. In
Hxer bf,alxR 900 houses are flooded and