Evening journal., 1902-03-01
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RAGING TORRENT
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some damage. The lower story was flood |
ed and the big race wall was broken |
down. This wall has stood many fresh |
cts but the present rise in the stream |
made big breach in the race bank. The |
race supplying the water works was at
one time last night filled with floating |
lumber and other wreckage.
Beyond Eleventh Street
Mud on streets more than a foot deep
testifes to the high tide over Eleventh |
street bridge. The cabin dwellers report
that they were kept up all night guard
ing their homes from the torrent thatl
threatened to tear the cabins from their
mOorings. Several small boats were re-
ported to be lost, the tide breaking thel
ropes that held them and carrying them
out to the river. A large bateau from up
the Brandywine was thrown against the
pier Of the bridge and crushed
.he water crossed Thatcher street
after o'clock, and in an hour threatened
to destroy the frame houses on ClaymontI
street. The members Of the lndepend-
ence Fire Company got boats and went
from house to house and carried the Oc-
cupants to safety A cOlOred man on the
roof Of one of the houses begged the fire
men to take him off and when they row.
ed away to procure a rope for him to
slide down, he fell on his knees and be-
gan to pray. They returned in a short
time
Another man was gotten out Of house
in Sixteenth street by the firemen cutting
through the wall with axes. They found
him standing on a table in water up to
his waist Men ON horseback also did
good work in the way of taking people
from the houses to higher land.
The only house on Sixteenth street that
shows the effects Of the high water is a
brick one The foundations were washed
i from under the front wall and part Of it
fell. The house is unsafe and will have
to be torn down.
The crib of Eleventh street bridge was
| damaged considerably, one side of the
centre being carried away. Rivermen
say that if the current had been much
stronger Eleventh street bridge would
have been carried away. The water be-
gan to fall at o'clock and this morning
was but slightly above its usual height.
Kirkwood PARK was badly washed and
looked this morning as though a scow
had dumped aload of mud on it.
South Of Market street bridge little OF
no damage was done The causeway was
flooded and badly washed. The river
overhowed the lowlands opposite the
Harlan and Hollingsworth Company
yards, but did no further damage. The
people living In the houses along the
causeway could reach them only in
boats.
Railroad Bridge Washed
The Philadelphia and Reading railroad
bridge over the Allegheny creek neai
Reading, was washed away last night
and passengers are now taken only tC
Gibraltar, the station on this side of tn,
creek
There was no train through from
Reading, this morning the train usually
. made up in that city coming from Birds
. boro.
3 The Baltimore and Ohio Station, a
Twenty-fourth and Chestnut streets
J Philadelphia, was knee deep in water a
midnight and the food was still rising
) In the food of 1894 the station was undeI
} four feet of water, but that was at higl
tide.
r No trains were run after o'clock. A
z that hour when the last, a mail train
! drew out the water was over the retain
! ing wall and encroaching rapidly upoI
the platform. A little later it had GOV
, cred the tracks, and made the movemen
/. of trains impossible. Southbound travel
ers were transferred to Sixtieth Stree
: Station, which was made the terminus
{ until the flood was over.
Shortly after o'clock last night thl
, water, which had entirely submerged thl
platform and also covered Twenty
street, oegan pouring into the station
Trunks and other baggage, benches
/ cigar cases and other things mOvabl
l We're taken to the upper floors. The ris,
. of the water was about six inches al
{ hour, and at 1890 o'clock it was nearl!
r a foot deep in the station, and half a
r deep again on the platform. The cellar
, of dwellings on Twenty-fourth stree
{ were all flooded
1 On the west side of the Schuylkill rive
e the water reached Thirtieth street a
I many points before 10 o'clock. The Penn
I sylvania freight yards were flooded, ant
! it was found necessary to remove tn
. cattle from the sheds above the bridge
For an hour before the removal begal
there was n din Of squealing pigs an'
hleating calves, the animals being terri
fed by the rising water. When the pig
D were let out at 1890 o'clock the bodie
bore the black marks Of the water. Tn
: stable of the Newton coal yard wa
y flooded, and the horses had to be takel
! ont This was done at other stables also