Show WIND AND WATER Damage Done by Spring Floods The Rochester Accident The high waters of the spring have be unto un-to rush down the mountain sides to COWl flats to sweep away bridges and to overwhelm over-whelm cities and villages The advmuv guard of the years hurricanes twit < rs cyclones as the violent storms of this country are variously called has already made its up pearance The winds first victim wo Annie Graham of Rochester N Y who as the dispatches have already told was carried down with a par of the Com street bi idge in hat city during a wind storm of a few days I THE ROCHESTER ACCIDENT From a Photograph ago The cut accompanjiug this gives an excellent ex-cellent idea of the appearance of the wrecked bridge just after the accident The Genesee river at this point and at this time of year is a mighty rushing torrent and there could i have been no chance of saving the poor girl after she once struck the water Rochester has been supposed to be outside the territory of dangerous winds The present disaster was caused by the falling of a line of heavy telegraph poles which ran across the bridge rather than any direct effect of the wind on the structure itself Only the northern footway foot-way was destroyed and the victim was walking walk-ing along this footway on her way to lunch when she was sw away 1 t lIrJP u NG IN COCHECTON IVmomm Frank Leslies The second cut given herewith shows how the good people of Coehwton N Y were rMiged to go to market dm ing the flood there which accompanied the breaking up of the ice jam on the Delaware river It is not often that one can row his boat right into a store and make his purchases and it isnt every storekeeper who will show the enterprise displayed played by the Cochecton merchants in keeping open their places of business just as if there was no flood at all i H 7 HIGH WATER IN CHICAGO r From Sketches The city of Chicago has not been free from flood troubles this spring as the dispatches have already shown The sketch here given shows the straits to which the people in the flOOded districts have been driven |