Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — DANCER FROM HIGH WATER. [ARTICLE]

DANCER FROM HIGH WATER.

Manufactories and Public Property Tlurcat- . ened with Destruction. At Erie, Pa., the flood situation is serious and a large number of manufacturing establishments are in the road of the high water. A train on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio was ditched near Saegerstown and Engineer Lake, of Salamanca was killed. SevAral were injured. A train load of Denver excursionists were transferred from the Nickel-Plate to the Lake Shore for safety. . One Nickel-Plate bridge at Moorehead is out and only the weight of a freight train holds the main bridge in the city. The Pittsburg and Erie is under water for miles and other roads are submerged. The Are department bells have rung several alarms to get out citizens’ assistance for the hundreds whose homes are now involved by the Increased floods. The damage to city factories, city property, and private pioperty will aggregate $250,000. The services of William T. Sullivan, a postoffic e inspector at St. Louis, have been discontinued owing to the insufficiency of tne appropriation for this service. Ten or twelve officers will be dropped from the rolls next week. A memorial to the late Jay Gould is to be erected at his birthplace, Koxbury, Delaware County, N. Y., in the shape of a Presbyterian church.