The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-06-18

wreck and two-horse teams were required
70 haul away the immense stumps and logs
that we're swept into and against the shop.
Two freight cars near the shops were
lifted from the tracks and carried 80 yards
from where they had been left.
The food marks about these wrecked cars
and shops show a height of six feet.
At the Glendon colliery, about 500 yards
east of Mshanoy City, the food did disas-
trous work. The Valley tracks we're
washed 10 feet from their beds and an iron
railroad bridge has completely disappeared.
The material is probably covered up by
debris and mud.
The field Of destruction between Glendon
colliery and the eastern limits of Mahanoy
City is about $50 yards wide.
When the rush of water reached the
borough limits it split, half the water
rushing down the P. s. r. railroad back of
Kaier's brewery to the P. & r. embank-
ment, when it turned to Main street. The
remainder of the water rushed past the
Lehigh Valley depot to Main street and
then turned towards Centre.
Just before the food divided it washed
four cars from the p. s. r. tracks against
the mountain side and blocked the msnway
of EImwood colliery.
The part of Mahanoy City that suffered
most from the food was between the Le-
high Valley depot and Centre street, on
Main street.
W. W. Lewis cellar, next to the Lebigh
Valley depot, was in bad condition. Mr..
Lewis lost about $500 worth of liquors that
were stored in the cellar.
R. j. Grifiths' livery stable suffered
considerably. Several carriages were
badly wrecked and one of Aliens circus
advance wagons was deposited upon an i'm
mense heap of debris.
DR.. Bricker was at this stable when the
flood came and was badly bruised in max
ing efforts to escape.
Boyers wheelwright shop, an immense
well built structure, is almost total
wreck.
The rear part of the Derrick House looks
like junk shop. When the barroom door
of the hotel was forced open the water was
washing over the bar. At noon to-day
water five feet deep remained in the cellar,
The kitchen, dining room and other apart
ments on the first floor of the hotel were
filed with rubbish of every description.
In the kitchen the mud on the floor was
foot and a half deep. In the sitting room
was found a large hog that had been
washed in. 1t was alive and ran off as
soon as it was carried to the street. The
proprietor of the Derrick House put his
loss at 5000.
All the residences on Main street from
the Derrick House to the Reading bridge
suffered great damage. Furniture, carpets
and other household goods on the first floors
of these houses were ruined by water, mud
and stumps of trees.
The board covering of the culvert in
front of Hulsman's hotel was heaved up So
that the planks were six feet in the air.
All the pavements in this locality were
swept away.
Kaier's paint house, next to Hulsman's |
hotel, is complete wreck.
The buildings on the west side of Main
treet and north of the Reading tracks re-
,eived their full share of the food. The
occupied by Squire Fogsrty and
Mrs. Coyle are damaged to the extent of
everal hundred dollars. The families were
'bliged to move out to-day. The first
loors of the buildings we're heaved up and
ropped back into the flooded cellars.
Seiberts and neighboring slaughtering
louses suffered greatly Some of the build
ngs were carried several feet and then
brown upon their sides.
All the buildings on Centre street, from
lain street to the base ball grounds, have
CODED cellars, the water being five feet
Ugh in some of them. The loss of mer-
hsndise and other goods, by reason of this
ooding, will amount to several thousand !
ollars (
Several people on North Main street /,
AFRO wly escaped losing their lives by 4,
'ason of the food One of them was {
Allen, 7s years of age. She q
,cupied the basement of the house owned 9
? Mrs Grifaths. She was unable to flee ,
place of safety and when young