New Britain herald., 1915-08-04
Fourteen Bodies of Victims Recovered--Scores of Homes and Dozens of Factories Swept
 Away--Mayor Requests Troops
STREETS IN NEW YORK CITY AND ss SUBURBS TURNED INTO RIVERS
Vessels Held Up at Harbor Entrance
 Small Schooner Sunk, Captain and Sailor Drowned Northern Coast, of New Jersey Hard Hit Tent Colony Near Coney Island Lev elled Heavy storm in This State.

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 elletl Heavy storm in This State.
 Erie Pa, Aug. 4-Coroner D. S. Hanley shortly before noon today es- timated that fifty persons perished in last nights flood. Mayor Stern, at 10 o'clock said the number probably would not exceed 25, but after a sur ley of the debris and checking over a list of missing, Coroner Hanley rais- ed the estimate to fifty. :
 With the coming of daybreak, Erie turned to the task of recovering bodies of victims and fourteen had been placed in the temporary morgue. The flood caused by the overflow of Mill ! Creek, following the bursting of the Gleenwood Dam, swept through a sec ,Stion of the city block in width and a mile long, killing scores of persons and causing property loss of $s,o0o,- O0O.
 Identified Dead.
 The identified dead are:
 Emma Osbourne, 4. z ah John Donovan. city fireman. E Sweeney Anderson, so.
 John Higgins, 40, a printer. James Higgins Jr. IT. { Mrs. John Higgins and infant Mrs. Cora Anderson Main, 28
 Katherine P, Carroll,
 Thomas Langd on.
 The entire police and fire forces ot i. the city worked throughout the night on the ruins, recovering fourteen bodies from an area that included ap- z pr oximately one-half of the deyastat- ed district The men worked under
  the four members of the city council. Distance Of Mile. The district swept by the flood ex- sstents from twanty-sixth and French streets, in the uptown business sec tion, to tenth and State sreets, a disance of about a mile.
 Mayor Stern has made request for a company of the Pennsylvania National guard to patrol the ruined section Of the city
 ~ After almost an aII-day rain a heavy thunder shower eliminated in cloudburst. For an hour residents along the course of Mill Creek through the east center of the city watched the slow rise of the stream due ro a rain !fall of nearly three inches in six hours.
 Glenwood ,Dans Bursts.
 At ss45 last night the Glenwood dam, three miles above the city, carry sng with it the homes of those who had waited until the Vast minute to leave.
 Four blocks lon either side of the stream, including State street, the main business artery of the city, were covered with 8 depth of from six. inches to five feet
 Factories Swept Away. ex The Loemhuis Wagon Works, and hhe Nelson Machine shop each occu- pying nearly half block, were the largest structures to be swept away. The Jareski and Lowell Wood Work ing plants, of the largest manu- factories in the city. were covered with fifteen feet of water.
 Early this morning gas mains all t8 over the city were cut off, and tele- phone, street car and electric lighting service were paralyzed
 Electric Wires Down.
 Danger from falling nigh tension & electric wires became apparent. and Inc authorities threw heavy guard of police and volunteers around the flooded section. Many poles. weighted with wires and undermined by the food, drOppedg Into Inc streets.
 The charitable societies, the arrnory ; hotels and hastily organized shelter clubs gave refuge to ihundreds who saved but their own lives and few minor belongings Tn the night dan ger of broken electric wires and the twenty-five mile current or the flood made work of rescue extremely peril ous and details of the drowning of a quarter of a hundred, thought lost in the flood, were meagre. The body of John Higgins, washed up at Sixth and German streets, was the only one re- covered at daylight. The life saving crews from the Lake Fire shore front, and the members of the naval militia have already started the search for others known to have been swept . away.
 The narrow escape Of Fire Chief McMahan. with four fremen In suc- cessful attempt to rescue three women led to the report of their death but they jumped to safety from second story windows as the house was washed away from under them
 Three Serious Accidents.
 Only three srious accidents had been reported at the hospitals up to an early hour this morning Two would be rescuers were struck by floating
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