Salt Lake Herald | 1873-10-22 | Page 2 | A Freshet

' t . A Freshet. New York, 21. The freshet along the Oswego Midland railroad, through Sussex county, was the most severe ever known. Three thousand acres of land were overflowed, in somo places covering the i- ; s" of f.-ives. The loss bv the aeciden! l i-t uiht was $2o,000 to 5:10,000. .Rafts a re being be-ing constructed to transfer the passengers pas-sengers and baggage over the Pey-ronnoek Pey-ronnoek river, where the accident occurred. oc-curred. Tlie accident was caused by the abutment of a bridge being tin-derminod tin-derminod by the storm. An engino, onomilk and one produce Car were wrecked. Barnes, the engineer, Tier-ney, Tier-ney, fireman, and Sheridan, brake-man, brake-man, were seriously injured.