Gilpin observer., 1902-07-10
FLOOD IN NEW YORK
STORM WORKS HAVOC IN WEorr-
ERN PART OF STATE.
Whole Towns Are Inundated and
Tracks and Bridges Swept Away.
Storm Damage Amounts to Mill
ions-But One Fatality Reported.


Rochester, N. Y. July 2.-News
from the food-devastated districts in
this section of the state are coming
in slowly. Reports from Medina
show that a cloudburst struck that
place, doing great damage. Today
there are evidences of great hood
and wreckage is piled up along water
ways which have been dried up for
a month.
Mount Norris reports the Genesse
broke through its banks east of the
village and has ruined thousands Of
dollars worth of crops on the fertile
flats below here. Many fine farms
have been entirely ruined.
Nunda reports the greatest food
in the history of that section. Large
fields of growing crops have been
washed away. ground and all. Dalton
has also suffered greatly. Portage.
vile, Pike, Lamont, Roseberg, Fill.
more and many more towns have been
under water since Sunday morning.
The farms all about Portageville are
laid waste and no field crops can be
saved. Houses, barns and live stock
are being swept down the river. The
tracks of the Pennsylvania are washed
away and a new road will have to be
laid at many places before trains can
be moved. Pike reports the loss of a
large iron bridge. the postofflce build.
ing and opera house.
Every iron bridge between Bliss and
Pike, eight in number, is down. almost
every small bridge and sluice is gone
and highways are torn up, making
travel impossible.
A dispatch from Arcade says the
flood at that place claimed one victim
and did damage to the extent OF $780,
OO0. Minnie Loper, who kept bak-
cry on the bank of the creek, was
drowned early in the day. The down.
pour and the cloudburst above the viii
lage turned the creek into a torrent.
The water rose very rapidly and was
several feet deep on the lowlands be-
fore anyone realized the danger.
Miles of roadway are SO quilted or
buried in debris that they will have TO
be rebuilt At Sandussy, lew miles
from Arcade. it is reported that two
houses We're washed away
From everywhere comes reports of
live stock killed. The loss to indi-
viduals will be very high and the loss
to the towns from the destruction OF
bridges and roads will also be high
Two miles of the New York Cen
trail tracks on the Niagara Rochester
branch were washed out by the flood
An eastbound special freight train
ran on the weakened road and wa.
wrecked. Bridges east OF Middlepor
were dislodged by the torrents ang
miles of fences We're swept away.
The loss at Warsaw viii reacf
100000. Oatka creek. flowing
through the center OF the village
burst its bounds and making a chan
mel through the principal streets. ca.
ried destruction in its wake. Houses
and barns were swept bodily down the
street, together with an immense
amount of debris brought down from
the surrounding hills. The city wate-
supply for fire and domestic purposes
is cut off.
Canandaigua, n. Y, July IA
100000 cloudburst is the extent OF
the storm that burst upon this section
of the country along the west shore
of Canandaigua lake. At Granger
Point a barn was carried half way
into the lake. The vineyards are un
der from two to three feet of waite :