New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-03-09
TRENTON FLOOD DROPS.
Waters Recede After Big Ice Dam
Breaks.

The hood ~ yesterday morning IN the Della
ware River at Trenton subsided even more ran
idly than IL had risen. and by noon the water
was about at normal high water mark The sud-
den rise OF The food was due TO an ice ian,
formed at Per1wig. below the new railroad
bridge in the February thay. and thoroughly.
soHdifed by the severe cold which followed
The heavy ice from above IN the break,,, %
Monday night piled against the Perrfwir barrier
20 a height of about thirty feet. and not ur+r
the waters had been backed up TO "a heIaht OF
twenty feet above high water mark did the r.-as-
sure become sufficient 10 break through the
dam. When this barrier broke and was car
red away by the accumulated food above. the
waters fell
The water began rising as the ice from Wash
ington Crossing so CadWaladcr Park ca--,
Gown the river about 10 O'Clock on No7da,
hight in half an hour the low l-irp sf,..a+s
along the river I'm South Trenton were lIr5a-
ron six 70 twelve feet Of water Abou+ II
O'clock the fee dam at Pe-riwig was carried
out and by Z o'clock yesterday morui1r the
Hood was within the river banks The egrif-
current in the river soon carried away ali +b.
ice which had not been stranded on the low,
grounds and by noon these See cakes and tl,a
"reckage constituted an thar was 10 be- seen og
the foods work
so LIVES LOST
That no lives were lost i1 Fcr-v-Tf -,re-.
large number OF Italians lived below f,,a
wafer Power Canal. was due to The heroic rorl-
q rescue conducted single handed Iv John
race who got out hts boar as soon as the water
reached the danger lue and conveyed twenty
persons 10 safety. Te dil not cease rfs -yo-l,
eniA every house on The west side of Ferrv-st
ad been visited and its occupants taken ashore.
lslr-
pecated when it is understood that the oakes
~ Ice coming down the river and crowded
non It's channel into the streets were from three
" hpe feet ;hick, and weighed several tons
each
When the food was at its highest. the boiler
room hoor n the State House was under nearly
Two feet Of water. An hour later the floor was
again clear. except for the coating OF thin mud
which the waters left.
MANY BRIDGES INJURED.
The bridge across the power canal AZ the
lower enc OF the Capitol grounds was not serl-
o1sly injured. but the footbridge above was
'Arorn of its foundation az the river end and
Yesterday seemed about 20 faI into the canal
4he wagon bridge orcr the canal just above the
ioo'orige went down, and would have carried
the two bridges below but that the truss
securely anchored TO a tree IN the Capitol
h-hos with strong wire cable. The Gouver-
-eef-st- ard HermiteRe-ave. bridges across the
water Power Canal were wrecked. and a bridge
over the raceway was carried away. About
twenty feet or the uiauking u the Warren-st
bildee over The Water Power Canal was washed
away The ferry--t bridge. over the Water
ONer Canal nas weakened. and "a is said VIII
..1fe To be rebuilt. None - the bridges across
N.s ilrer were seriously injured.
Ihe pavements Of many ~ the flooded streets
laid
=, ~ Lafayette. Fair and Ferry SITS. and p7r-
s 1ous ~ Fan and Union SITS. were left. when the
olers receded. cakes Of ice large that they
- l'etelT blocked The way The low land back
~ the capitol across the Water Power Canal.
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