The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-08
ROCHEsTER's REPORT OF Loss.
Large Section of state Devastated by
Floods.

Rochester. N. Y July From
Churchville come reports that Black
Creek is the highest ever known even
in spring freshets. 1t is out of Its
channel and causing great damage to
growing crops along its banks. Hun
dreds of acres of peas, corn. beans
and potatoes, sugar beets and the
other crops are under water and
ruined The dam at Byron is report
ed broken and the creek is still rising
at a great rate.
Honeoye reports six bridges includ-
ing an iron structure on Mill creek
washed away and heavy damage to
crops.
Penn Yam says that many thousands
of dollars damage has been done to
residences along the course of the
creek flowing through Hammondsport
and cattle were rescued from flooded
pastures with great difficulty. Mt. Nor
ris reports the Genesee at that point
easily two feet higher than the best
previous record at any time of the
year. Early yesterday 1t 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 flood in
the history of that section. The state
foot bridge over Kishiqua creek has
been washed away and the town is in
darkness. Large fields of growing crops
have been washed away, ground and
all. Dalton has also suffered greatly.
Port village, Pike, Lamont. Roseberg.
Fillmore and many other towns have
been under water since Sunday MORN
ing. The farms all about Port Village
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 roadbed will
have to be laid at many places before
trains can be moved.
Pike reports the loss of
large iron bridge. the post
office building, Powers store
and opera house, a meat
market, cheese factory, drugstore. two
dwelling houses and the villege ware
house.
At Lamont the mill dam has gone
out, washing away a bridge. Large
numbers OF dead cattle were seen
floating down the river during the
day.
Godfrey Pond Bursts.
Stafford reports heavy damage from
the flood. The embankments of God
frey Pond, a large sheet of water
owned by the New York Central rail-
road and which furnishes its large
standpipes al Byron, was unable to
stand the strain and with a roar
heard for miles the large mass of
water departed on its destructive
course. carrying bridges and every
thing movable before it.
Middleport reports all dams swept
away in Johnsons creek with dam
age of hundreds of thousands of dol
lars and all business is at a stand
still. The crop damage is also coma
siderable. Five bridges in the town
are gone.
Bliss reports the iron bridge of the
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg over
Wiscoy creek gone, leaving gap of
rs feet; also that some two or three
thousand feet of the bank are washed
out from under the track from two TO
twenty feet deep between here and
Eagle and nearly every small bridge
and cattle pass from here to Hardys
is gone. Four of the FIVE large iron
bridges on the highways in this town
are in the creek. Every iron bridge
between here and Pike, eight in num-
bridge and sluice is gone and high
ways are torn up. making travel i'm
possible.