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Home My WebLink Aboutflood of 1935 enfield and surround area scrapbook historian collection (13)1'�[�'Ri-i>QC�{R#Roaac-v�-s.vrsa -sw.. _ .. ._ _- - - -• Dawn, soggy and gray, revealed a scene of extensive hamage. It also added to the unverified death toll. The only consolation that the coming of day brought was the "lie" to wild rumors that eight had died at Portland Point. While the damage in that community was considerable, there was no lose of life. / saved lives at Portland. The old Rapid rescue work Hance store, now occupied by the Claude Rodee family and several boarders, was washed from sight. Just five minutes before the structure collapsed and disappeared into the darkness of Cayuga Lake, all occupants were re- moved by employes of the Penn -Dixie Cement Company, That firm and the Cayuga Rock Salt Company were closed today through the loss of power occasioned through the storms. Damage was considerable. Crop Damage Heavy 6?atervlile and other I feet mark the stream's downward Dryden, course through the rock walled and neighboring places suffered chiefly steep gorges. from crop damage, deluged roads Varna Span Weakened and annoyance. i5liile water in Already weakened from the every place surpassed flood levels, creek's smashing drive Sa the long damage was centered chiefly about (span near Varna. Traffic is not per- Ithaea, Myers and Trumansburg• mitted over this route since the Three lifeless bodies, lining the roadway bordering the stream is newly cut bank of Salm in Creek, also under water over a large area. were mute testimony as to what oc- With diminished mdtor traffic Burred there. A search was still on and no rail traffic whatever the for the body of George Solomon. city was completely isolated early The lifeless forms of his father, this morning. Roads are being im- brother and cousin were wedged proved rapidly but it may be sev- tightly against the bridge on which eral days before trains will again they disappeared from sight. operate on schedule. The three victims were recovered Six -Mile Creek broke its walls at 9A0 a. m., by John Hranik, Carl and with the aid of Buttermilk Davis. William Saunders and John Creek flooded all of of the south - Dickson. Undersheriff Mortimer east section of the city. The Five- Darl'ng and Deputy Donald Ellis Mile Drive was cracked and broken, superv`.sed the undertaking which covered with rock and silt and the was accomplished under dangerous homes along its course were scarred condition:. Undermined homes and reminders of the battering received stores, flooding of the entire com- from the water propelled stones. munity and shocked villagers pre- The deeply flooded flats of the dominated the scene today. A Buttermilk Falls section also washed out railway and homes tot- covered a long expanse of D. L. & tring and sagging from flood wa- W. Railroad track which sank from er effects were incidental to the . its elevated embankment beneath scenR the muddy waters. One Stan Diiseing I Despite waters that dived from Reports from Trumansburg indt- the hillside along Cayuga's west shore, Boy Scout and Girl Scout cated a like condition, A six-foot campers at Frontenac and Com- wali of water roared through its stock were unharmed. The girls main street smashing store, and were not even awakened but the other obstructions in its path. Miss Frontenac campers observed a Giroux was definitely accounted for; flooding of the camp's shoreline as dead,. Joe Liffela, ", could not l area. be accounted for late this after- 1 noon. • Livestock, trapped lowlands, I Yangtse River were drowned. Farmers s all over the county spent the -night attempt- ing to save their cattle and horses. To a considerable event they were lee Imperils successful. One farmer was al- leged to have lost s,000 chickens, e another lock Sobil cows. These rn_ Missionaries mocould not be confirmed. - COttagers also felt the impact of the Hood's mighty blow. Docks washed into Cayuga Lake, many Nanking, China — (/) — Three buildings were undermined and separate groups of American mis- damaged as a result. The lawns at elonaries were reported In grave Taughannock State Park are gone. danger tonight as the Yangtse The storm battered buildings re- swept over the dikes protecting main- Stewart Park, the airport, Shasi, an important port in South- end the new golf course are under ern Ureh province. water as are Percy and the high The mission groups are repre- school athletic fields. sentativea of the American Episco- Bridge Fights Stream Pal Church mission, with head - Today, concern of city officials I quarters In New York, the Cove - turned to the black iron bridge Inant Mission Society, with head- wb!cb carries the Auburn Branch j quarters in Chicago, and the Of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. Sol- 'Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Idly founded on rock and concrete, Missouri, with headquarters at St. the powerful span finally suc- Louis. from the missionaries, the eumbed to the battering of flood Aside waters Its east aide sagged at 10 foreign population in Shashi is a. m- two hours later it had small, dropped lower, but at press time it The Yangtse River swept through still held Its Own with the mad- Central China on a rampage of dened stream. death and destruction as govern - The creek broke from its course mental reports stated that mil - Vona of at the bend Just below the bridge damage are affected and d and channelled its way through the Property damage will reach a etag- gering figure. golf course. Far back in the hills and nearer the city at Forest Home, The "Arabian l Nights" will be Fail Creek bears an ominous ap- translated into Uzbek by the Uz- pearance. Great billows of water bekistan Institute of Languages sin( to heights of eight and 10 and Literature in Russia. State Deluged mun Th - Rc (Continued from Page One) Bing: homes were being pressed Into use tonlo to care for 100 or more motorists nang held here by impassable roads. day i Two miles of the Delaware, Mrs. Lackawanna and Western Railroad port( bed were washed away west of their here along with a bridge, Th A washout also was reported on dren the Rochester division of the Erie temp Railroad. Four feet Of water Ali covered the tracks. of a Most of the bridges on the Bath- nang Hammondsport Railroad were resci feared lost along with many feet ing 4 of its roadbed. Ja The Babcock Manufacturing who, Company plant was flooded and a Cana large supply of lumber was under field' six feet of water. rope, The state fish hatchery'at Cold Spring was reported In ruins, but Si' It could not be 'reached to verify flies the damage. Rev. The grounds of the United States - mer veterans home were under water Tiou, and the state road to Lake Keuka Fork was washed out In many places by In , the angry Conhocton. .nang the 3 Feared Drowned their Geneva-(M)-.A nurse and two' Wea children of a Watkins Glen con- Warr tractor named Sutes were believed Vail, , drowned last night when the cot- risin tage in which they were spending At the summer was washed into Sen- was eca Lake by flood water at Hector. who the New England Hit Mail Boston--(/P) -Promise of clearing of skies came today in the wake of a strei severe rainstorm which swept dilla Northern New England yesterday Roo( and last night, leaving a trail of Wal broken bridges, undermined high- St ways and railroads and ruined Jure crops, pus] Work trains labored throughout in a the night repairing washouts on A the Rutland Railroad at Arlington esca and East Dorset and it was be- over lieved service would be reeumed rooi between Rutland and Troy, N, Y., atte during the day, too Landslides, set in motion by con, sins tinuous rains, filled highways be- tween Suringfleld, Vt. and Keene, N. H., while the concrete paving on the main highway between Ban. nington, Vt., and :ttanchester, Vt,�