The citizen., 1913-04-04
NEW YORK FLOODS
BREAK RECORDS
GENESEE RIVER DOES MUCH DAM
AGE IN THE BUSINESS SECTION
OF ROCHESTER AND BUFFALO.

Rochester, y. Y Unprecedented
floods are sweeping New York State.
The whole country between Buffalo
and the Pennsylvania line is affected.
AT Albany it is predicted that the
Hudson will pass the high-water mark
of 1857, which was 2116 feet.
Part OF Schenectady, y. Y. has been
abandoned. Rivers in the Ad.rondacks
have caused great damage Part OF
the International Paper Company's
dam at Glen Falls has given away.
The food III the Hudson River at
Castleton, nine miles south Of Albany,
caused the abandonment of the New
York Cantrals Hudson River division
for through trains.
Most OF the trains from Albany and
the West we're sent over the Harlem
division by way of Chatham. but some
used the West Shore to Weehawken.
The foods along the Central held up
most of its milk trains.
The flood record of 1865 has been
broken in western New York, and from
nearly every hamlet and town come
tales of damage and suffering.
in Rochester the Genesee River
overiowed its banks and flooded Ply
mouth avenue and Front street, the
latter in the heart of the business sec
ton.
At Lyons the Clyde River has risen
II feet, and many families have been
forced to leave their homes. Barge
canal work, representing thousands of
dollars, has been destroyed.
Canadaigua, Seneca and keuka lakes
are at the highest level ever known.
The Erie, Pennsylvania and New
York Central railroads and trolley
lines are badly crippled throughout
this section, and schedules are merely
a matter of luck.
The Genesee Valley, south of Roch-
ester, is vast lake, and hundreds of
head of livestock have perished and
fully 200 families are out of their
homes.
Buffalo.-A cold wave and clear
weather have checked the floods in
western New York, and streams in
Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Wyoming,
Niagara and Erie counties receded al
most as rapidly as they rose. Hun
dreds of families driven by the high
waters are returning to their mud
filled homes.
From Buffalo, Olean, Hornell and
other cities gangs of laborers are
being sent to repair washouts and to
strengthen railroad bridges strained
to the breaking point by unprecedent-
ed high water
Hundreds of miles of highways are
still impossible and as many highway
bridges were destroyed. Normal con-
ditions cannot be restored for several
weeks
Three great barge canal gates at
Fort Plain have been swept away.
White River Junction, Vt.-Floods
in the Connecticut River Valley drove
people from their homes in Rutland
West Rutland, Chittenden, Barnet
White River Junction and at Woods
vile, n. II.
Service on the Boston and Maine
Central and Central Vermont railroads
was demoraliZed.
Telephone service in many places
was interrupted and heavy property
damage was done.
The population of Chittenden, near
Rutland, were forced to fee to high
land when the East Creek went over
/ its banks.
Half Rochester Is Under Water.
Rochester, n. Y,-Not since 1865,
when Rochester, then city of $4,000,
suffered immense damage by floods,
has the city faced such a serious situ-
alton as now. Half the business sec
tion is under water, which in some
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