The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-07-08
Hundreds of Families Flee
Inundated Homes as
Loss Mounts.
CROP TOLL Is HEAVY
Trains, Cars Are Stranded:
Victims Plunged Into
Swollen Streams.
BY United Press.

OOOA 1il0 anu raging I1OOQS
spreading over wide areas in
New York State, New Eng
land and Canada took at least
a score of lives today, caused
millions of dollars damage,
forced hundreds of families to
evacuate their homes and
marooned hundreds of others
in water-blockaded homes,
trains, buses and automo-
biles.
United Press dispatches showed
Il deaths attributed to the most
serious storms in New York State
in more than a decade Tentative
estimates put property damage at
over $10,000,000. Hundreds of homes
we're completely or partly inundated
and at least $50 cottages were car
ried into open water. Crops Suf-
fered heavily.
An automobile carrying four per-
sons was swept from the highway
into Chenango Greek, the sheriff's
office at Binghamton was advised
Virtually all of the flood victims
were drowned, eight of them in or
near Ithaca.
TOrrential Rains Blamed
The storms extended from vest
ern New York to Ontario and New
England and varied from turbulent
floods in the New York area to
heavy fog which delayed shipping at
Boston. Among the New York areas
suffering heavily were Elmira,
Kingston, Ithaca, Bath, Watkins
Glenn, Whitney Point, and Bing-
hamton.
The flood waters, arising from tor
rental midsummer rains, inundat-
ed large sections in the Mohawk
Valley, the Sawkillerak area, the
Finger Lakes area, the Hudson
River valley, the Conhocton River
valley and in the Ithaca region,
where half of the city, home Of
Cornell University, was under water
with damage estimated at ST 900 900.
At least two trains, most of the
occupants vacationists returning
home, were marooned with little
prospect of immediate rescue.
Hundreds of vacationiSts also we're
caught and isolated on highways in
buses and automobiles.
Water Covers Houses
Houses in lowlands were covered
at depths varying from few feet to
rooftops. In many instances, res
cue parties we're turned back by
flooded roads.
Communications we're disrupted
or crippled in the entire area.
Three of the dead were identified.
They were William Simons, Is, IA
Their of four children; Miss Harriet
Garnund, Watkins Glen, a school
teacher, and George Tarbell, so.
Ithaca, a prominent real estate
agent. All were drowned.
Four we're swept to watery graves
at Myers, 10 miles north of Ithaca.
when a bridge over Salmon Greek
collapsed. Two other persons who
fell into the raging torrents were
rescued.
35 Children Rescued
All four persons in the automobile
which was washed off the highway
about four miles north Of Ithaca
were believed lost. The automobile
could be seen sWirling around in the
river. Attempts we're made to re-
cover the bodies.
Three passenger railroad trains
were stalled all night because Of
washouts. The Black Diamond Of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad was
blocked by water one mile from
Ithaca, while two Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western trains we're stalled
outside Bath, N. Y.
Virtually all of Steuben County
was under water The thrilling res
cue of 35 children from an open-air
camp was reported from Hornell.
Farmers with high hay wagons as
sisted in the rescueS.
Crops Are Destroyed
Half of Timpkins County was
flooded. Scores of cottages were
swept out to open water One man
died of heart failure, attempting to
evade the waters which swept his
cottage from its foundations.
Great suffering was feared unless
immediate aid was organized AS
sistance Of Red Cross units was re-
quested in many localities
Cornell University opened its
doors to residents Of Ithaca who
we're driven from their homes by
the rising waters.
Practically all creeks, streams,
rivers and inland lakes flooded their
banks. Torrents rushed down
mountain sides sweeping debris and
destroyed crops into valleys and low
lands.