NEWSPAPER & ARCHIVE
Catskill, Oct. 9 - While a hundred spectators were on the lower village bridge to-day watching the most destructive freshet seen here in thirty years a brick barge broke from its fastenings and crashed into the bridge, carrying away the longest span. Five men went down with the mass of iron, and two of them - CAPT. MICHAEL MORAN and WILLIAM DWYER - were drowned. The others were swept ashore and escaped.
The village is without electric lights to-night, and the trolley road is tied up, owing to the freshet having put out the fires at the electric light station.
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