The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-03-29
FLOODS CAUSE LOSS
IN UPSTATE CITIES
Two Men Are Drowned: Two
Others Are Missing at
Schenectady.
RESCuERS LOST ON RAFT
Water In Eastern Part Of State
Subsidies and Danger
Seems to Be Past.
RESCUERS LOST ON RAFT

ALBANY, March 2s.--Five persons are
dead a. q result Of the mood In New York
state last nlsht and to-day and others
ere known to have escaped drowning By
narrow margins.
The ten-year-old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph Titania OF Jamestown was drowned
tonight when he fell on Chsutauqua
Lake footbridse while trying to cross II
In face Of four feet OF water. The stream
there has risen to such a height and Is
running SO violently that search for the
body Is impossible.
william Walker. a farmer Of Rathbonc,
was swept from submerged culvert while
frying to drive across II. He was car
ried 100 yards by the muddy stream. but
managed to grasp n plank and paddle to
safety. His horses were drowned.
Two Drowned a. schenectady.
Al Schenectady two men were drowned.
two others are missing and two bridges
have been destroyed by the floods In
the Mohawk River. The river established
a new r, cord by rising to twenty-five feet
above low water level at noon to-day.
1t caused the worst flood this city has
ever ,kpeTenvpd.
The Two men drowned were linesmen
employed by the New York Telephone
Company. Their boat was capsized by
floating ice near wreck Of the Freeman
Bridge. which had been swept away y
short while before. The drowned men
are John Inglis Of this city and John
Becker of Amsterdam. third man In
the boat. William Ryan of Schenectady,
WAS rescued while drifting down stream
hanging to his overturned boat.
The two missing men were on raft
rescuing persons from houses inundated.
A sudden current carried their raft into
midstream and that was the last seen Of
them.
The RcNtord Bridge valued at $500
was completely demolished early In the
day. The Glenvill. Bridge, connecting
Schenectady and Scotia. was threatened
at noon when the water reached = level
slightly above the ooring, but was saved
by the gr.aking OF the ice jam at Cres-
cent. eight miles down the river.
washouts on the Railroads.
Roads. creeks and railroad tracks
throughout western New York are covered
with two to six feet OF water. Al Addi-
son high water caused closing OF three
factories. The washing out OF n culvert
Mt WAylsnd tied up the Rochester division
OF the Erie most OF the day. The New
York Central has had three washouts
near Corning. Water everywhere through
the Chemung Valley is creating havoc.
At o'clock Tonight the water in the
Hudson at Albany had reached point
about thirteen feet above normsl and
the United States local weather bureau
at that time announced that the rise. IL
any. would b. slight thereafter Indi-
cations are that the flood has reached
its crest
A drop OF eight feet in the Mohawk
River at Schenectady. where an lee gorge
had formed, gave the hope that the SEQ
tia bridge, which had been threatened
all day. would be saved
Points below Albany report that the
Hudson Is rapidly clearing Of Ice. Be-
tween Hudson and Athens the ferry Ia
running. Danger of an ice gorge In tn,
vicinity OF Athens passed Tonight. when
the contributing streams emptisd II vol
ume OF water sufficient to carry dowr
stream all ice formations
Lake Chanplain has risen four feet
and unless the water recedes the dam
age from the Hood will surpass that OF
last spring. when losses reached thou
sands OF dollars and the water mark
touched highest point In local history.