The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-05
piTTsTON.

Special TO the Scranton Tribune
pittston, March All danger from
further destruction by the flood is past
and the river is gradually receding.
being now about 20 feet above low
water mark, which is nine feet less
than when at it's highest point on Sun
day. The actual effects of the flood
are now being disclosed. Lehigh VAL
ley employees We're at work between
here and Wilkes-Barre all day and by
this afternoon the places where the
track had been washed away had been
filled in About 3 o'clock this after
noon q train arrived here with this
mornings Philadelphia mail The trac-
tion line is closed and will likely not be
opened for n day or two, the South
street power house at Wilkes-Barre
having suffered much damage by the
flood. In this vicinity, however, the
tracks themselves have suffered little
damage and the cars will be run just
as soon as power can be secured. There
is little or no change at the collieries
hereabout and few of them were in op-
GRAFTON today. Three railroad locomo-
tives have been pressed into service at
the Seneca coIliery of the Lehigh VAL
lev company at the Junction, and are
furnishing the steam necessary to run
the pumps and fans. The boilers at
this mine were under five feet of
water. The officials at the Stevens
colliery on the West Side at 10 o'clock
secured control of the water which has
been running into the shaft on their
property for the past sixty hours. AL
though the pumps were partially under
water they were kept in operation con-
tinually but the retrogade action of
the river water is the only thing that
saved the mine from being entirely at
the mercy of the flood. The vast vol
ulne of water which rushed into No.
IA mine of the Erie company at Port
Blanchard can best be imagined when
it is said that it took the officials nine
weeks to flood the mine a few years
ago at the time it was aflre, whereas
the place has been more completely
drowned in forty-eight hours by the
present flood Buckets are kept con-
tinually at work. At Heidelburg No.
. OF the Lehgh Valley Coal company,
the water, while still high up in the
shaft opening is gradually receding,
two large buckets being kept at work
Wkht and day. The mules which We're
Zhurriedly taken from No. shaft Sat
urday when it was rumored Iatesville
u1ln liu DlOhcll llttNV pOCii tt'iN,ii '''S'>
to the mines. There was a scarcity
of fresh meat in the city today, none OF
the beef companies have received
shipment since last week.
West Pittston borough's new town
council met and reorganized yesterday.
The following are the new borough offi-
e.ials: President, r. w. Jenkins; secre-
tary, George Benfield; treasurer, j. II.
Mulkey; street commissioner Colonel S.
a. Uruuhart: chief of police, Charles
Schoonover; borough attorney, w. |.
IIibbs.
William d. Everhart, aged 80 years.
n veteran of the Civil war. died at his
home, on Franklin street, yesterday
from the effects of Il stroke of apopleNy |
Deceased was a recent resident or
Shenandoah
Another survivor of the famous Bat
terry Nj, Pennsylvania artillery, passed
away yesterday at Wilkes-Barre
Charles Vanderburg, aged GO years.
dying after several months illness
The funeral will take place Wednes-
day, with interment in Marcy ceme- |
terry, at Duryea.
John Young, father of w. II. Young, |
hotelkeeper at the Water street bridge, |
died at his home, in Sebastopol, Satur-
day evening, after a long illness. De-
ceased was IS years of age, and was Il |
native of England. He had been resi- |
dent of this vicinity for the greater por- |
tion of his life. Among the surviving |
family is George p. Young, of Dunmore. |
The funeral took place this afternoon, |
with interment in Pittston cemetery.
Mrs. Charles Dennison, of Susque- |
hanna avenue, West Pttston, was Sc
verely scalded in very peculiar man.
ner Sunday afternoon. With several |
friends she was watching the flood near
the West Pttston cemetery, when the |
ground on which she was standing gave |
AT this point a two-nch steam
uns to the Clear Spring Coal COM
plmp station. This pipe was
foken by the dropping of the earth,
and Mrs, Dennison was in the escaping
steam. Sne was severely burned about
the lower portions of the body. Mrs.
Frank HNfsmth, in rescuing Mrs. Dem
nison her hands badly scalded.
Whf kavins Music hall last evening
iurin5 We performance of the Waite
Comedy company, George Drum, Il
young man residing at West Pttston,
slipped and fell down the stairs lead
ing from the hall He sustained a bad
cash on the head
George Rogers, of Delaware avenue,
has purchased the Fitch house. on
North street, West Side, and will oc-
cupy the sane Immediately