The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-12-21
HEAVY LOSS OCCURS.
Disastrous Floods In Pennsylvania
and New York.
Much Damage to Property and Sew
eral Fatalities Reported - Ex-
tremely Cold Weather
Causes Suffering.

which for severity and destructiveness
has not been equaled in this section
for 25 years visited eastern and CEN
trail Pennsylvania Saturday night,
causing almost unprecedented damage
and resulting i'm the loss of probably
Is human lives. The havoc in the
coal regions is enormous and the loss
to railroad and mining companies will
amount to millions of dollars. The
Schuylkill, Lehigh, Susquehanna and
Juniata rivers have risen as high as Is
feet above their levels and all of their
tributaries have overfowed, inundat-
ing the surrounding country in more
than dozen counties. lnnumerable
washouts have occurred on the Penn
sylvania, Philadelphia & Reading,
Northern Central, Lehigh Valley, New
Jersey Central and Lackawanna rail-
roads. Bridges were carried away
and traffic is at standstill.
A fast freight train on the Phila-
delphia and Erie division of the Penn
sylvania railroad went through the
bridge spanning Lycoming creek,
between Williamsport and Newberry,
at six o'clock in the morning. Three
tranmen were killed. The engine
and nine cars were engulfed in the
icy water. The creek was greatly
swollen and no efforts could be made
to reach the bodies. Near Hazleton
n miner was drowned. Three men
are said to have been drowned at
Pottsville, and miner was blown in
to culvert Mt Wilkesbarre and
killed. At Ralston aboat loaded with
Italians capsized and seven are said
to have lost their lives.
Part of Allegheny and Pittsburg
were submerged, household goods and
stores that were placed in cellars and
Easements we're damaged and coal
fleets on the river were twisted from
their moorings and sent crashing
down the Ohio, threatening destruc-
tion to whatever came in their course.
In York state.
New York, Dec. 16.--Warm weather
and rain followed by high winds have
resulted In fearful damage all over
New York state. On Saturday the
SHOWS in the northern sections thawed
rapidly, causing the rivers and creeks
to rise and the valleys were inundated.
Heavy rain followed, during the night,
accompanied by winds OF great veloc-
ity. Trains were blocked for many
hours, landslides were frequent and in
the lowlands and valleys hundreds of
dwellings were flooded. while the dam
age to farm lands and buildings is very
great. Few lives so far have been re-
ported as lost.
Corning reports that the Chemung
and Canisteo valleys have had the big
gest flood since June, 1859, Sunday
The Chemung and Canisteo rivers over
flowed their banks and for miles east
and west the lowlands are flooded and
great damage has been done. The VIII
lage of Painted Post has been under
water and the water is two feet deep
in most of the dwellings. The Erie,
Lackawanna and New York Central
roads all suffered from washouts and
landslides.
Damage mt Ithaca.
At Ithaca the damage is estimated al
$4,000 The food was the most dis
astrous experienced since 1857. The
nearby creeks became raging torrents
by midnight. A dwelling house was
swept away and Sunday no trace Of it
could he found. The power and light
ing plant was washed out and two troll
ley cars swallowed up in the food. All
street car traffic is suspended and the
city is in darkness. Lumber yards and
buildings suffered immensely and the
wreckage, blocking the channel of Six
Mile creek, turned the stream from
its course and the whole lower part of
the city was overflowed. Miles of the
Lehigh Valley & Lackawanna railroad
tracks were washed way and no trains
reached Ithaca. Several bridges were
washed away. Percy field, at Cornell
university, was turned into lake and
the university power plants were aban-
doned.
Much suffering Reported.
st. Paul, Mimi, Dec. 16.-The off,
cial report of the weather bureau
contains the cheering information
that the backbone of the present cold
wave has been broken. From all of
the stations in the far northwest re-
ports are that there has been de-
cided rise in temperature, the most
of them giving readings but slightly
below the freezing point. Sub-zero
weather continues to be reported,
however, but not of such an intense
character as was shown by the map
for the previous "a hours. In st.
Paul the maximum Sunday was two
below, and at eight o'clock the Their
momcter showed four above. The
rapid rise In the Canadian northwest
has induced snow storms and cloudy
weather, but the snow fall has not,
so far, been heavy enough to cause
material delay to traffic. Despite the
suddenness and intensity of the cold
wave but few fatalities have been re-
ported.
John swinton Dead.
New York, Dec. 16.---John Swinton,
journalist, economist and orator,