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Show The Floods Slowly Receding. Lock Haven, January 7. The flood has subsided to the 8-foot mark, and travel is resumed on the railroads to-day.. The damage dam-age to the Pennsylvania oanal is extensive. Port Deposit, January 7. The Susquehanna Susque-hanna is higher than it has been since , the great flood of 1865. All cellars and basements base-ments at the lower section of Port Deposit are filled with several feet of water. Early this morning ' the oocupants could be .seen moving their provisions, etc., to the upper floors. All the wharves in town are submerged. Lumber .yards are also partially submerged, and the proprietors pro-prietors have found it necessary to surround their yards with booms. The water is within with-in a few inches of covering the tracks of the Columbia & Port Deposit Kailway. The river at Columbia, Pa., is nearly ten feet above low water mark. Dispatches from up the river are to the effect that the west branch is slowly rising, while the north branch is receding slowly. "The prevailing cold weather to-night will materially affeot numerous tributaries of the Susquehanna, and it is thought the water has attained its maximum., - ; . . . - v- r- ?r i ' '-- Ati,t.J m |