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Home My WebLink Aboutflood of 1935 enfield and surround area scrapbook historian collection (58)A a Eoctors and Nurses 'Loss 5 Milliol ilize to Succor As Area Staeless Refugees Mobilize l`Toll of Lightning and Floods Mounts in Up- state Area as Downpour Continues; Debris -Filled Lake Four al Planes Survey Loss Feet Above Normal — �' 4 DIE AS SALMON CREEK SPAN FALLS; hannock Boulevard Ba SYRACUSE HIT BY WIND AND FLOOD — Trumansburg Has $ 4'1,-- Damage — Highways s WHILE GOV. HERBERT H. LEHMAN was preparing to "throw the whole resources of the State" into flood rescue Skies cleared today over a flood-desc and relief work, the staggering scope of the almost statewide damaged to the extent of $5,000,000, a i havoc caused by Sunday's rain torrents became more and s more apparent. Continuing rain Monday increased the criti. authorities began the task of reconstruct cal nature of the situation in many areas. jsmashed by uncontrollable streams which THE DEATH LIST MOUNTED STEADILY during the day I death to 11 persons. �:. until it reached a total of 20 known fatalities with several Ithaca was concerned today, not Witt ',. other possible deaths of persons reported missing. I which overflowed their banks early Mono a IT BECAME APPARENT that the early estimate of $109000,- 1 but with a Cayuga Lake level 41/2 feet a 000 storm losses —at first believed much too large —was Battered cottages lined the shores. The h • ip,, probably close to the correct figure. ' ] (MEANWHILE DOCTORS AND NURSES were being mobilized with floating debris.However, dams are standing the at, in the worst stricken of the upstate areas and furious efforts and are in absolutely no danger of giv' wer&,being to ee4 and clothing to the hundreds „ upon hundreds �. water supply is also in normal conditi r ITHACA AND TOffiPBINS COUNTY were among the regions It is not necessary in Ithaca to boil the which were worst stricken. Bath was in a critical post -storm using. Such precautions outside the cit} ex: situation. Aviators flying out of Binghamton were checking Every effort also is being made to b '•", up on the disaster in the lowlands of the Southern Tier. those affected by the flood. Ithaca, t .. , AT HORNELL the situation was very serious, two-thirds of expect a slow but sure return to its foi l� the place being under six feet of water, two hospitals with - A out water supplies and scores homeless. Outside relief for Ithaca and its RAILROAD RIGHTS OF WAY, clogged with storm debris or forthcoming from Washington. A rep the Rural Settlement Section of the cut off by washouts, brought service to a standstill in many (' ,•� sections of the State. No trains or buses were entering or Department of Agriculture had been ,i I leaving Ithaca. 'Two army planes with Red Cross offici Four of the total of 20 who lost their lives to the storm clans were also enroute to the city. I were killed while the downpour of the rain was at its height on Scenic Taughannock Boulevard Sunday, one by heart failure in trying to protect his home from humped and in places whole sections c flood and three by lightning. constructed two years ago were miss The other deaths were drownings, due to the flood condi- �4�s above t ev Ijltd t..mI I which prevailed after the storm, of test o e t a e gtatlxa�llira, ll The Associated Press said a new Highways Shattered i' storm warning, for communities g further down the Susquehanna River, Trumansburg suffered $700,000 dam was issued at Binghamton Monday street business district. The State Parks afternoon m the Chenango River, least $750,000. State highways throughout gauged at 2e:06 feet, swept out two undermined, broken and in places a tots bridges in Binghamton and over- From Groton, Newfield, Ovid, Inter flowed severed lowlying streets, burg, Caroline, Sheldrake, McKinneys, The Chenango floods Into the sus- Point, Dryden and Freeville came report f.t quehanna River here. The Susque- age. Rumors, however, about the loss of hanna was gauged at 16:17 feet, exaggerated. So too were the reports l Thousands of persona were feared. Health officers emphatically de, . marooned in the Binghamton bull- Receding streams in Ithaca and else« ness section as police closed all and the danger of dams collapsing from bridges leading to residential sec- to Which they were. subjected has passe tlonn- Lake Still Rising , ,ii Residents of waterfront streets were - The lake was Still rising at noon desl warned to be prepared to leave at - the flood gates at Cayuga had been oper once. North of here, the Chenango off the extra supply. Guy W. Pinck, d r1 = had passed Its crest and was slowly receding, weather bureau officials re - Beer at Syracuse, said, "The situation is •;x ported. memory and I believe it is the worst in Here 1s a report of the fatalities: "Ithaca, muck of which lies in the STORM DEAD the brunt of the rise," the engineer add i, to, GEORGE S. TARBELL of Ithaca, that the Seneca River, closed to navi widely known lawyer, died of ex- was unable to dump Cayuga's waters s bavation in fighting the flood. keep the level from shooting upward. WILLIAM SIMONS of Utica, check -Up Hampered father of four children, struck by Telephonic communication he,, the bulldlm aided, lightning, not been completely restored as yet Joe LI(fe❑ MISS HARR= GARNUND, Wat- which hasadded corudderably to undermined klns school teacher, struck by the difficulty in obtaining accurate Boris Gera lightning. information. Careful investigation Three e JACOB NARONZY of Pitcher, 'by The Journal reveals the follow- ranging fro a. Chenango County, struck by light- Ing deaths: carried awm ning. George S. Tarbell, died at his mansburg AFTER-STORDI DHOW\INGs cottage from exposure and exec- at Perry Ci ARTHtm BROEAW of Interlaken, tiop trying to salvage valuables. and Mrs. -� drowned when his car was washed ',Ties Alice Ferri, of Sreldrake, Trumansbu off the Elmira -Ithaca highway near ew,'pt 'd'"Rha...from an automobile More Buttermilk Falls. near the. Buttermilk Creek To this to MISS ALICE FERRIS also of In- bridge. The body has not been be added at terlaken, a passenger In Brokaw's fo ceding wad ` automobile. J So!omnn, 56, drowned beneath th JOHN SOLOMON, Myers, Tomp- when Timm Creek bridge that g mar k:as County, aotl his three son,, went out when their drowned when the Salmon Creek I1 L Nicholas. 14, nd ge, 17, the Ruttern bridge on which they were stand- ar^is sons; and Jt� Isaacs, 14, a 1). 1' C I fag was washed away. nephew, drowned with Air. Solo- flats. JOHN ISAACS of Myers, drowned with the Solomon. wman. All bodies ire recovered. Still P•.: ROBERT B. HARTPUMZ of Slag. Miss Lillian Gib. 46. of station, ". baton, who disappeared wrien his Trumansburg, carrie s ;has Hall, la,t automobile pluap d Into old Chen- LLa 111-foot Ball of wajpr crushed (Pica« ( ango Canal. Storm conditions s... All caned the Accidezt.