The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-07
WEST NEW YORK DELUGED
GREAT DAMAGE WROUGHT IN
 MANY PLACES.

nebris and Many Bridges Washed
 Away-Lower Part of HorneIIsvIIIe FIooded-Great Damage to Crops.
 Buffalo, July GA terrific rain and windstorm swept over western New York at an early hour to-day. Rivers and creeks rose rapidly, overflowing their banks and sweeping away houses and barns and live stock. The loss will reach into hundreds of thousands of dollars. Telegraph and telephone wires are down and communication with small towns in Wyoming, Niagara and Cattaraugus counties is difficult to es- tablish. This city was not in the path of the storm.
 A dispatch from Arcadia says the flood at that place claimed one victim and did $10O,0O0 damage to property. Minnie Loper, who kept bakery on the bank of the creek was drowned early in the day. The downpour and the cloudburst above the village turned the creek into a torrent and the water rose very rap idly:
 It was several feet deep on the low lands before any one realized the dan- ger Miss Loper's bakeshop was swept out into the stream, but it had not gone far before it fell apart. Miss Lopers body was recovered.
 There were many narrow escapes. At Yorkshire, two miles below Arcade, the approaches to the bridge were washed away, but the bridge is standing. Miles of roadway are so gullied or buried in debris that they will have to be rebuilt. At SanduslSy, few miles from Arcade, it is reported that two houses were washed away. From every where come reports of live stock being killed. The loss to Individuals will be very high and the loss to the town from the destruc- tion of bridges and roadbeds will also be high.
 Hornellsville, N. Y, July GA tre- nendous downpour of rain early to-day caused one of the worst floods of the year in this vicinity. All of the lower part of the city was soon flooded. Great alarm was felt for the safety of some of the people living in the low lying lands and the fire bell was rung to arouse them. Railroad traffic in both directions was completely tied up to- day and not train arrived in the city after a. m. The storm came on sud denly and great damage was done. Three houses were unders1ined and carried away. No casualties have been reported.
 Pike, N. Y, July 6.-At daybreak this morning Pike was under four feet of water Almost every bridge over the creeks in Niagara and Alleghany coun- ties and in the southern part of Wyo- ming county was washed away. It is estimated that the damage in this town and in the immediate vicinity will amount to quarter of million of dol lars. Much stock was killed, but so far as known no person is missing.
 Batavia, N. Y, July 6.-The heavy rains for the last six days have swollen Tonawanda Creek to degree never before known even in the worst spring freshets. A torrential downpour fell at midnight, making the situation perilous for persons living near the river. Sher- if Hixley drove to all the houses that would be endangered by the flood and gave warning. At 3:30 D. m. the flood came over the banks of the creek, which are fifty feet high and the water began to run across Main street at the jail. The country looked like lake for miles around. Hundreds of acres of farm lands are under water and the damage will be great
 Scores of houses on West and South Main streets were entirely surrounded by water and rowboats were plying in the thoroughfare at o'clock tonight. The water was still rising in the west ern portion of the village at that hour, but it was receding south of the town, and it is believed that the worst is over.
 Both the Erie railroad and the Attica branch of the Central are under water most of the distance between Batavia and Attica, and are badly washed out. Several barns and houses were struck by lightning and burned.
 Attica, N. Y, July 6.-The rains sent Tonawanda creek swirling over it's banks. It has never been so high be- fore. The reservoir of the Attica Wa ter company, two miles south of here, gave way under the pressure and the east end of the dam at the Attica mills was washed away. Lower Main street in the village is four feet under water Dead cattle, wagons and wreckage of all kinds were washed down stream on the crest of the flood. Seven iron bridges in this town were carried away.
 Hundreds Of acres of hay and crops are ruined. The railway roadbeds are badly washed out.
 Portage, N. Y, July 6.-The worst storm ever known in this section is now sweeping down the Genesee Valley. Rain fell heavily for twenty-four hours and at an early hour this morning cloudburst sent the streams over their banks. The river is now a torrent mile wide. At o'clock this morning everyone living in the lower part of the town had to abandon their homes. The farms are laid waste and no field crops can be saved. Houses and barns were swept down the river. The roadbed of the Pennsylvania railroad is washed out in many places.
 Warsaw, N. Y, July 6.-The loss from the floods in this city will reach $100,- 900. Oatka Creek, flowing through the center of the village, burst it's bounds and, making a. channel through the principal streets, carried devastation in