Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-04
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column to blizzards which have swent
the city caused some people to tele-
phone for information about floods,
| especially those which have followed
cold snaps. The most recent flood
Following cold spell, oddly enough,
occurred just ten years ago to-day.
ihls singular coincidence recalls that
tho flood of decade ago was known
us the Ice ilood," as the Susouehannu
| mad been frozen from is to "a inches
oy a series OF cold waves, some of
which sent down the mercury around
and degrees. The ice broke on
the Sd and on March 4, 1904, the
Susquehanna rose to 1913 feet, carry
ing huge cakes over portions of South
Harrisburg and turning the islands in
front of the city into icy fortresses.
This was the year when enormous
gorges formed at Turkey Hill and
other points below AIiddletown and
caused grave apprehension as to what
mignt happen here. There was an
other March flood, caused by the melt
ing or heavy SHOWS and the accom-
panylng breaking of the ice, on March
1-3, in 1909. this being the flood dur
ing which the eastern section of the
Harrisburg bridge went down. The
crest OF this flood was on March 2.
when 1t got up to 23.9 feet. The worst
Hood ever known since they began to
keep records in Harrisburg was the
famous flood of June, 1889. On June
the water rose to 27.1 feet. Some
people said that the pumpkin" flood
or years before had flooded a greater
nf 10,
not so many islands in the stream in
those days and the banks had not been
Iilied OUT. This was an autumn flood,
which is rarity. In 1894, five years
after the June flood" the Susque-
mamma rose on May 20 to 25.2 feet.
Ihe st Patrick's Day flood" as that
OF March ~, 1865, was known, regis
S, ssreu "a ~ Feet at the water house. The
Susquehanna has been pretty we'll be-
haved since the great ''ice flood" al
though II has gotten uD around 1S feet
occasionally. Just what it is going to
DO this year with a fair amount of Ire
covering Its surface and a tremendous
amount or snow all over it's watershed
anu anu srlputarles locked in from one to
TWO teet OF ice is problematical.
People here who are interested in
temperance movements have followed
with interest the first election on MAX
ing a county dry in Ohio since the
wave or revivals has been sweeping
over the country and it is interesting
10 note that the majority in favor of
keeping wet Mahoning county, COM
pared with that of five years ago.
showed big slump. Five years ago the
wet people won by 1881 and this wear
they barelypulled through with 257. and
the election may be contested. Youngs.
town is the big town of this county
and a steel town at that In all %. .OO0
Votes were polled, Youngstown going
wet by 1900.
Inc farmers of Lebanon and Lam
caster counties, says DR.. Kalbfus. are
not only showing themselves to he
humanitarians by looking after the
quail and other game birds. but thev
are lnsuring a supply of game next
ioll' In some of the districts of these
the farmers have driven many miles in
thelr sleighs to scatter grain in the
where quail are known
TO abound. In some parts of the
cumberland Valley this same care is
pelng taken. The deep snow is caus-
ing the death of many birds, as they
cannot set out to obtain food
Welshmen in this city have received
copies of unique menu of a banouet
nelo IN Wllkes-Barre. A number of
the younger generation of Welshmen
IN that city had dinner and one of
the older Welshmen determined to put
one over. He was an authority on the
Welsh language and he wrote ont the
menu in the ancient tongue. The
printers got by all right, but when
the banqueters got it they had to ask
for aid. '''
The usual Monday registrations at
the Harrisburg hotels did not get
started this week until to-day. Cen
orally there is a rush of travelling men
10 the Harrisburg hotels on Mondays
IN order to attend to business here or
10 10 get TO towns in the neighborhood.
The storm upset train service Mondav
ana many of the men who come from
New York and other eastern cities did
not arrive until to-day, although some
Oh them had made reservations last