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Show SPRING FLOODS DO IMAGE Melting Snows and Steady-Rainfall Steady-Rainfall Swell Streams to Dangerous Proportions. New York, March 28. Spring floods have set in throughout the valleys val-leys of the stale and already much property damage is reported. The warm weather of the last few days melted much of the heavy snow which fell earlier in the month. This with a steady fall of rain throughout through-out the night has swollen many streams, many of which are out of their banks, flooding towns. At Troy, the Hudson river has assumed as-sumed flood proportions and merchants mer-chants along the river are removing goods. Amsterdam reports part of the bridge which spans the Mohawkriv-er Mohawkriv-er there carried away by high water and ico. At Schnectady, .the Mohawk river is over the Scotia dyke and the lower low-er streets of the city arc flooded. Ice is jammed against the bridge connecting con-necting Schnectady and Scotia. There is also a heavy ice pack against the Erie canal aqueduct. The Rcxford bridge has already been carried car-ried away. The river is riBlng rap-Idly. Albany. N. Y., March 28. The Hudson Hud-son river is rising rapidly here and merchants along the water front are moving to places of safety. Buffalo. N. Y March 28 Towns in western Nfew York are threatened with a repetition of the disastrous floods of a year ago. In the lowlands, low-lands, Tonawandas ' people are going to and from their homes in boats owing ow-ing to the overflow from the Tona-wanda Tona-wanda and Ellicott creeks. At Batavla the municipal sewage disposal plant is eight feet under water. A culvert in Erie railroad near Attica At-tica was washed away last night, causing the dispatch of trains over the New York Central tracks. At Corning and Chemung river Is ten feet above normal and has flooded the highways west of the city. At Olean the Allegheny river has overflowed over-flowed Its banks and the southern' portions of the city are under water. Columbus, O. March 2S. With the Great Miami and White Water riven raging, tho Scioto climbing a fooi an hour, and the Muskingum and Lick-lug Lick-lug rivers out of their banks along the lowlands, anxiety was felt during last night of a recurrence of tho disastrous dis-astrous floods of last March. Damage so. far reported has been coufined to the southwestern section of the 3tate |