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Source citation
“Freshet in the Susquehanna River,” New York Times, February 10, 1857, p. 1: 2.
Newspaper: Publication
New York Daily Times
Newspaper: Headline
Freshet in the Susquehanna River
Newspaper: Page(s)
1
Newspaper: Column
2
Type
Newspaper
Date Certainty
Exact
Transcriber
Meghan Allen, Dickinson College
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Transcription
The following text is presented here in complete form, as it originally appeared in print. Spelling and other typographical errors have been preserved as in the original.
Freshet in the Susquehanna River.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Monday, Feb. 9.
There is a flood in the Susquehanna. The ice is gorged four miles below this city, and is piled upon the railroad some ten or fifteen feet high. The trains are, or course, suspended both ways. It is reported that a couple of bridges over the Juniata have been swept away, together with several pieces of the Cumberland Valley Bridge. An enormous destruction of property is threatened.