The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-05-20

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but no great particular damage. The
Scranton Railway company suffered
the most. Its entire system was Grip
pied. and as a consequence the street
corners were crowded with belated per-
sons.
The hollow on Carbon street, back of
the Dickson works, contained five feet
of water, and it rose high enough to
flow down the street to the river. 1t
found its way into cellars and rose SO
high in the stable of Mrs. Mary Bar
rett and Mrs. Gordon that the horses
had to be taken out.
Four cars loaded with passengers
were stalled between the crossing of
the Delaware and Hudson and the
Ontario and Western crossing. The
motors were disabled by the lightning,
and the passengers had to walk down
the Delaware and Hudson tracks to
Vine street and climb up over the hill
to Penn avenue where relief cars We're
in waiting to bring them to Lacka-
wanna avenue. When they got to
Lackawanna avenue they were about
as bad off. No cars were running on
any of the other lines.
CARS OFF THE TRACK.
The Laurel Hill line was in bad
shape. Four cars were derailed along
the route. The water had washed so
much mud on the tracks that the cars
left the rails. There was a car off at
the Moses Taylor hospital, one near
Laurel Hill park one under the Erie
and Wyoming bridge and another near
the end of the Throop line. The Taylor
line had three cars with burnt out"
motors, and on the South Side and
Ptttston lines a similar condition pre-
vailed. The culvert under the Della
ware and Hudson railroad at Spring
street, Moosic, was filled nearly to the
arch with water, and the tracks were
covered with about eighteen inches Of
silt. The Stone avenue line was not
open further than Prospect avenue.
and the Bellevue cars were blocked
from going to the end Of the line on
South Washington avenue.
The Linden street side of the court
house square was submerged. The
catch-basin at the corner of Washing
ton avenue got blocked and the water
spread out over the street and side
walks, and was up to the base stone
of the Washington monument. Pur-
cells bath room was unable to accom-
modate it's patrons until an hour after
midnight. The water backed into the
steam room and carried much mud
with it. The basement of the Board Of
Trade building was flooded to q depth
of two feet, but no damage was done,
as the bottom is cemented and the
walls are either brick, cement or stone.
CELLARS FILLED.
Every basement along Linden street
from Adams avenue to the cathedral
received more or less water. 1t backed
into the pits in the Linden street car
barn and filled them. on Adams ave-
nue., at the corner of Mulberry street,
the water backed over the sidewalks,
but not much went into the Easements
in the vicinity
On Spruce street the water backed
! over the sidewalk and into the base
ment of the new bank building next to
| the Mears, and after the rain stopped
| and the sewers carried off the water
| there was a coating of mud on the
| pavement ten inches deep.
| The greatest damage reported was
| the washout on the Bloomsbury divis-
| ion of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
! Western for 150yards north of the Belle
vue station. a large drain pipe going
under the tracks got blocked and the
water tore down the sOuth-bound track
and washed away that portion Of it
Trains had to pass on the other track
The water that tore up the railroad
embankment flowed into the supply
shaft Of the Bellevue colliery and into
the boiler room, quenching the fires in
the latter place, and in the bottom
vein of the shaft it rose to a height
of two and one-half feet.
outside Foreman Green was OF the
opinion that the colliery would not bt
in shape for work before Monday by
reason of the surplus water. 1t will
take several hours to pump the water
from the boiler room alone,
A gang of section hands went tC
work as soon as the storm was over
repairing the washout.
PHELPS STREET AGAIN.
The first place almost that suffers il
a big rain storm is the vicinity o.
Phelps street, which is drained by tht
Fourth district sewer Reports o
flooded Easements came from there
but the storm was of more inconveni.
ence than damage to the residents o
that district.
The wind was high and it knocked
down some trees on the South Sid
along Cedar avenue. The fence ol
South Washington avenue enclosing
Schwenks base ball park was blown
down.
The freight train on the Jersey Cen
tral that leaves for the south at mid
night was delayed on account of muC
on the tracks between Scranton stree
and Bellevue. A force of men cleared
the road in two hours.
Pittston avenue, between Alder stree
and Willow was flooded and the base
ments of Harry Klsuminzer, Jacol
Demuth and Jacob Miller were hal
filled with water and mud.
ON WEST SIDE.
West Scranton did not escape som,
damage by the heavy down pour al
will be seen by the few instances
noted below.
A large maple tree was broken of
about half way up the trung and com
pletely blocked passage along the side
walk and tore a guy wire o
the street railways cable loose Th
tree is one of the few beautiful maple
which stand near the curb along Wash
burn street on the right hand side jus
amove Main.
Luzerne street from Thirteenth I,
Nineteenth street was covered by wate
to depth of 4 inches to a foot. Gel
lars were filled along this street an,
a large tree was blown across tn
sidewalk near Fifteenth street.
The lower end of Scranton street be
low Seventh was badly washed out
This filling was only put in few day