The Penn's Grove record., 1894-05-25
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DLAsUGE AND
For over week beginning "Wednesday
week, 10th, to Friday it rained every
day. Not only rained but many times
poured and flooded both upland and
meadow. On Thursday night it pour
ed in the lower end of the County and
on Friday evening of last week it rain
ed and blew furiously in this region.
The rain came in sheets and the wind
ragged with fury. Limbs were broken
and trees quaked. S. NJ. Justices COW
shed was blown down and bis new barn
moved a lew inches on its foundation.
+. II. Green had one barn blown down
between others on his farm, and the
end ont OF others, so furious was the
gale from the South.
William Slape's WAGON shed was
blown over and Clement Lanning,s com
demolished. cut
The storm did some damage to The
sturgeon fleet at Bay Side. Edward
Somers, of Pedriektown, had his wharf
and caviar house entirely washed away,
and one Of his boats washed up on the
marsh. He lost two kegs of caviar.
William Anderson, of the same town,
lost his butchering wharf and some
paraphanalia. Several boats were filled
and nets tangled. James Strimple ar
rived home from Bay Side on Thursday
and reported fishing good OH Wednes-
day.
On Saturday night the storm got to
the northeast and rained hard all day
Sunday and Sunday night, so that the
immense amount of water which fell
overlooked high as well as low lands.
The continued northeast wind caused
a very high tide Oh Monday night, and
most meadow banks WAS broken or
overlooked aud much damage done to
growing crops.
Water run all day Tuesday over
Main Street below the railroad crossing.
A new breach was washed out on Sim
kins' land below the station and the
front of Wilmer Clark's lot and the
Glass Company's river front at the edge
of the meadow at the upper end of the
town ware badly washed. Cellars were
flooded deeper than ever before.
Peter Keen, II Of our Oldest eiti-
zens, informs US that he has lived al.
most continuously in,his present home on
Delaware Avenue for forty-six years
and never had water so deep in his cell
lar before.
Salem creek was so flooded that the
families who live in the small houses at
Hawks and Long Brige had to move to
the second story as the first was flooded.
The greatest damage befalls the Della
ware River Railroad Company, as the
road bed has been overlooked and wash.
ed out in several places. There has
been no through traffic since Sunday.
On Sunday night nearly a mile of rail.
road between Repaupo and Gibbstown
was submerged and a bad breach made.
On Monday night the road bed was
washed away just above Paulsboro for
a distance of 50 feet and to a depth of
eight feet.
Those who started down Monday
morning from Philadelphia had to he
brought to the Repaupo washout in a
West Jersey train and transferred in
boats and reached Penn's Grove about
noon since which time no passengers
have got through. Some Bay Side fish,
ermen lett Penn's Grove and Pedrick-
town Tuesday morning but had to take
a small boat to reach Paulsboro, from
which place they went to Germania
Park and took the steamer Reybold.
Mails have been very irregular, some
time one and two a day came in and
went out.
Supt. Green has had forty men at
work day and night. The Repaupo
washout was repaired Thursday and all
Thursday night was put in OIL the
Paulsboro meadow, but when the tide
arose Friday morning all the dirt put
in was washed out. Mr.. Green hopes
to have trains running this Saturday.
There was a wasllout on the Salem
road neal WOodst0wn and a bridge car
ried away at Middleton which stopped
travel and mails to Salem but the dam
age was sOon repaired.