Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1897-07-21
A IMMATURE JOHNsTOwN.


State--Nine Lives known to be Lost.
Newberg, N Y, July IA. Melzigah
reservoir, in Fishkill Mountains, near
Mattewan, burst at 3 o clock this morn.
ing, owing to the heavy rains. The
water ran into the creek aud two miles
below, near Duchess Junction, washed
away brick yard buildings, including
boarding house occupied by laborers.
II is reported here that nine of them
were drowned and others are missing.
The flood washed away 200 yards of
the Hudson River Railroad track.
Trains are stalled on each side of the
breach, f
There were two reservoirs ON the
mountain, the lower one half a mile
distant from the otLer. The upper dam
gave way, letting the volume OF water
into the lower reservoir. This also
burst, and th- water rushed down
through ravine. Van Buren, & Timo.
ny's brick yard, on tie Hudson Just
below Duchess Junction, is mile dis.
tant from the site of the lower reser-
voir. Withoutwarning the food reach.
ed them through the raviIe and made
terrible havoc. Buildings were torn
in pieces and their occupants carried
away in the raging food. The water
works system was operated by private
company and supplied the villages Of
Mattewan and Fishkill on the Hudson.
A temporary treste has been built at
the break in the Hudson River Railroad
track aud the Montreal express, south
bound, has passed over. 1t will be late
this afternoon before trains can be run
on time.
At o O'Clock seven bodies had been
recovered. Two of them were those of
Peter Mulligan and wife, who kept one
of the two boarding houses for brick
yard laborers that were swept away by
the food. The nan es of the others are
not known. 1t is reported that twenty
are still missing. Tons of earth and
sand were washed down in the flood,
and men are digging into this mass to
recover other bodies.
Trains were stalled all the way from
Fishkill to Poughkeepsie. One of these
was a Cook excursion train, the pas
sengers on which expected 70 star. fo-
Europe today.
The loss of life at Timony's brick
oard, Duchess Junction, by the flood
this morning is now stated at nine.
There were about thirty laborers in the
boarding houses that were swept away.
ALI escaped but nine. One man bad
On arm broken and others. suffered
minor injuries.
The identity OF SIX bodies recovered
has been established as follows: Peter
Mulligan and wife, Mrs. John Conroy,
wife of the engineer of the brickyard
Willie Ferrey, Selma Lowary, aged
six yearS; John Zinca, Hungarian
laborer.
News of the bursting of the Beacon
Mountain reservoir received here, says
that three buildings, two of which were
boarding houses, were swept away by
the rushing water and that twenty
people are missing. Five bodies have
been recovered. They are those of
Peter Mulligan and wife, mother
with a child, and the wife of the en-
gineCr at Timony's brickyard.
The reservoir, the bursting of which
caused the havoc at Duchess Junction
this morning, is situated in the Fish
kill Mountains, about mile east oil
the junction. 1t collects the surface
water from the north side of Soutt
Beacon and the south side of a neigh
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tide water. It's overflow reaches the
Hudson by way Of small stream
known as Townade Greek. At tn,
west end of the ravine are the devas
tated brickyards. The reservoir is O
oval shape, about 500 feet long and 30O
feet wide, and thirty to thirty five fee
deep. 1t is used as an auxiliary sup
ply to the regular water works system
OF Mattewan and Fishkill landing, from
the main source of which it is distan
about four miles.
The largest reservoir Of this system i
considerable lake near North Beacon
which has massive masonry and lie in
tact. A second reservoir, situated mucl
lower down the mountain, which wa
built to reduce the pressure into tn
pipe, is also unbrokep. These two hav
direct connection with the Duches
Junction reservoir, though all thre
feed into the same pipes.
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