The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-14

Easements and cellars all along the
thoroughfare caught more or less of the
flood. Fred Durr's place caught little
water through tho skylight which had
two oanes of glass broken through by
the hail. Two banners strung across
Lackawanna avenue advertising pleas
IRE events will advertise no more.
The skylights In the roofs Of the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western car
shops were riddled into atoms by the
hail and allowed the rain to pour into
the buildings in torrents.
Between Monroe and Madison avenues
a Laurel Hill car became uncontrol-
able on account of wind and rain, and
at the corner of Madison avenue and
Pine street the car jumped the track and
ran down Pine and came to n stand
still by coming In contact with the curb
line OF the sidewalk. Three or four
passengers were on the car, but no one
was injured.
The frame OF a new building near
Nay Aug park was raised yesterday be-
fore the storm came frisking about.
There is no frame there now or any
The wind made a clean sweep.
At the foot of Franklin avenue the
wind fastened itself to the roof of p. f.
and NJ. I. Howley's storage warehouse
and ripped a portion Of it off before de-
sisting. A lady whose name cannot be
learned stepped off of a Nay Aug car
at Prescott avenue and attempted to
lift wire that was in her way. 1t hap
pened that the innocent looking wire
was heavily charged with electricity
and as soon as the woman took hold of
1t she received 4 terrible shock that
stunned her for several minutes.
DAMAGE. AT OLYPHANT.
At Olyphant the greatest damage
was done at the new electric plant
which is being erected near the Della
ware and Hudson station. The build
ing in which the plant is located is a
frame structure 40x70 feet and one-story
in height. Alongside the building was
n 6S-foot iron stack. While the storm
was raging fiercely one of the guy
wires supporting the stack gave way
and the mass of iron fell on the build
Ing, demolishing it. Nine men en-
ployed in the building att the time es-
capped serious injury by throwing them
selves under the boilers. Spruks Broth
ers, of this city, had the contract for the
construction of the building and their
loss will amount to several hundred dol
lars. The stack and machinery of the
plant was put in by the Scranton Sup
ply and Machinery company. The
stack broke in two when it fell.
Great damage was done in Olyphant
by water. Lackawanna avenue was
converted into a river and on Susque-
hanna avenue q number of large trees
were uprooted. Portions Of the fence
about the central school building were
razed to the ground.
A large amount of damage was done
on the South Side by the wind and
rain. The roof of the Scranton Button
factory on Brook street was loosened
and part of 1t was blown off. A smoke
stack was blown down on the brewery
OF Casey & Kelly, and the South Steel
Mill had to suspend operations for an
hour on account Of the fear that some
Of the high stacks would come down
and crush out the lives of the work.
men. They retreated to place of
safety until the wind subsidized.
Scarcely a house from the Roaring
Brook to Brook street along South
Washington, Cedar Pittston, Prospect,
Stone and Irving avenues escaped
without broken window light. Trees
and fences were laid low. Streams Of
water came tearing down the cross
streets, tearing up gullies as they went
along, and carrying with them to the
lower streets large deposits Of mud and
gravel. From this cause on Cedar and
Pittston avenues the trolley cars were
delayed until force of men with shov-
els unearthed the rails.
NO OUTLET FOR WATER.
The block bounded by Elm street,
Remington and Cedar avenues and
Brook street, was almost inundated.
The water came down in huge volumes,
and having no corresponding outlet,
was damned up. The residents who
were In their houses. could not get out
and vice versa. After an hour or SO the
water flowed away. but the cellars are
soaked. and the vegetation in the gar
dens was destroyed.
That part of Cedar avenue between
River street and the bridge was flood
ed SO tha. the water was coming in
over the curbipg. Men got out with
rakes and shovels and kept the cutters
open to the sewer basins. This pre-
vented the houses on the lower side
from being flooded. An immense VOL
ume Of water came down from the
Orchard grounds and down River
street. The avenue, after the storm,
loked like a macadamized road instead
of an asphalt pavement.
Pittston avenue was flooded from AL
der street to Beech, and the residents
were ou. with thir mops. brooms. etc,
to keep the water from the cellars The
South Washington avenue Flats did
not escape the deluge, but strange to
say, there was not any unusual dam
age done by the surplus water. While
the streets were knee deep in water,
there was less complaint about damage
from that cause than came from the
avenues higher on the hill But there
was sever visitation Of hail.
In Minooka the lightning was very