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From the Doyle: town Democrat.Destructive Freshet.One of the most destructive freshets known to our citizens, look place in conscqueuce of the sudden rise of the water in the river Delaware, on the evenings of Thursday and Friday, ami continuing at its height the greater part of Saturday. The large bridge erected across the river at Rciglesville is entirely swept away. By the undermining of the abutment on the Jersey side, one half of tho Centre Bridge at Mitchell’s old Ferry, went down, and in its course, struck and carried off one half of the ; New Hope Bridge—the entire Bridge at Taylorsville, and one half of the Yardleyville Bridge.f W WThe only Bridges remaining on the Delaware are those at Trenton, Kaston and Belvidere— the latter much injured. During the whole time the river was tilled with houses, barns, sheds, out-buildings, canal and coal boats, lumber of every description, logs and timber—various articles of household goods and kitchen furniture, family cradles, and even a coffin was seen going down. The dead bodies of horses, cattle, hogs, sheep arid poultry. .Many valu-| able buildings on both sides of the river have been undermined, and entirely ruined. Hundreds of families abandoned their dwellings in time to save their lives, but such was the rapid, rise of the water, that ail their clothing andCFgoods were either swept away or destroyed.It is supposed that the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal, has sustained very se-• wrious damage by the washing a wav of the batiks.| The water wheels at Weils’ Falls have been carried off—and the several aequeducts either carried off, or very much damaged.
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Jeffersonian Republican
Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, US
Fri, Jan 22, 1841
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