New-York tribune., 1901-08-25
MCCH DAMAGE IN PENNSYLVANIA
FOUR DROWNED AT MAUCH CHUNK-RAIL-
ROAD TRAFFIC DELAYED.

Philadelphia Aug. 2-Reports received in this
city tonight state that the heavy rains which have
fallen almost necessarily in the last week through
out the State have resulted in the most disastrous
flood experienced in many years At Mauch Chunk
the storm was attended by four fatalities. Jesse
Struthers a prominent citizen Of Mauch Chunk
and three boys, named McClaffery, McGinley and
Johnson were standing a bridge spanning
Mauch Chunk Greek. when the supports collapsed
and the four were precipitated into the water and
drowned The stream had become a raging tor
rent by the bursting Of dam half mile above
the borough line.
The Mauch Chunk Creek Is fifteen feet above its
normal mark and all the towns In Carbon County
along its course have suffered much damage
Bridges culverts and arches are destroyed and the
loss TO the borough and to the property holders will
he many thousands of dollars. Business is at a
standstill.
4 yashout on the Sunbury Branch OF the Penn
sylvana Railroad delayed traffic several hours. In
Shamokin Tamaqua, Shenandoah Pittston and
other mining towns many collieries have been
flooded and work has been suspended.
A. Tamaqua the rain fell In torrents from 3
o'clock this morning until O'Clock this after
noon The lines OF the Central Railroad OF
New-Jersey between Tamaqua and Mauch Chunk
and the Pottsvile branch of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railway tied up owing to the
washouts The schuylkn River and the Panther
and wabash creeks this point are
flowing their banks and many bridges have been
washed away. All the cOllieries in the Panther
Creek Valley are flooded. Crops In the Catawissa
Valley, a farming section. are practically ruined
The Hudsondale Reservoir, four miles from
HazIeton, which supplies that town with water
broke through fits banks. and the tracks OF the
Lehish Valley, the Quakake Branch, which
runs close by. completely inundated. There
was a landslide the Lehigh Valley at Penn
Haven this afternoon, delaying traffic three hours
The storm will cost Bedford County thousands
of dollars replace bridges washed away and
damage done TO roads. In some townships IL will
be necessary TO lay special tax to meet the ex-
one of the heaviest losers was the Bedford
oppea by high water some farms are almost
ruined. the top soil being almost entirely washed
away. In Snake Spring Valley holes eight feet
deep wsp washed out I'm the road.
WIND AND CLoUDBURsT NEAR SCRANTON.
Scranton Penn. Aug. "a (speciaD.-A windstorm
and cloudburst visited Naffin HIN. part of Dun
more destroying two barns. owned by John Boland;
threw John Armstrong; house from its foundation,
and moved an Italian family tenement TO the edge
OF a precipice At Dughill newly settled place
near Moosic many OF the residents are preparing
enrtnr Rrook mines Several dwellings have been
damaged and it IL believed the entire hill Will be
affected.
RAIN FLOODS LEHIGH VALLEY TUNNEL.
susouehanna Penn, Aug. A-The heavy rain
storm last night flooded the tunnel on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad and the Black Diamond express
and other passenger trains Of that system are run
| TO Carbondale, thence over the Delaware ana Hud-
son Railroad TO Scranton and south to the Lehigh
Valley.
| Hazleton Penn Aug 2i.-Rain has fallen in this
region since O'Clock this morning. The tracks
| OF the Lehigh Valley Railroad at Beaver Meadow
are are ss sys Sss ana ssea four feet for distance
about one hundred yards and trsfhc on that branch
OF the road has been suspended many ooiheries.