The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-04
WATER is SLOWLY,
BUT SURELY RECEDING
It Was Four or Five Feet Lower Last
Night Than It Was Fri
day Night.

The LackaWanna river is SLOWLY Dut
surely receding and last night was
between four and five feet lower than
it was at the height of the flood last
Friday night 1t is believed that it
will continue to recede today and that
all danger OF another rise is practically
over.
The low lying lands which skirt the
river banks from the northerly city
line to the southerly one are being slow
ly drained of water and great quantities
of drift wood and refuse of all kinds
and descriptions lie piled in great con-
fusion upon them. The people who
were driven out of their homes by the
flood are going back to them again and
are beginning to set their devastated
homes to right agin.
The railroads are still feeling the
effects of the flood, however, and will
continue to for several days. No trains
whatever were run on the Jersey Gen.
trail or ontario and Western roads yes
terday. The Jersey Central has had
serious washouts from one end of its
line to the other and 1t may be week
before trains can be run. Hundreds
of men are working between this city
and Wilkes-Barre yesterday, but the
task is a mighty one. The telegraph
line are down in many places and this
adds to the inconvenience.
The washout on the Ontario and West
ern at Mayfield and several others far
ther up along the line prevented the
opening of this road yesterday and
will probably prevent its being opened
today despite the fact that large gangs
of men are at work day and night.
All the regular trains on the Lacka-
wanna main line were running yester-
day but none were on schedule time be-
cause of the necessity Of running
slow" at certain points where the
washouts have not been completely
filled in. Trains on the Bloom
division We're run yesterday as far as
Kingston but no farther because of the
damage wrought by the rising of the
Susqueha ma.
The Della ware and Hudson was rum
ing trains on schedule yesterday from
Carbondale to Willles-Barre but the
serious washouts at Miners Mills has
not yet been completely repaired.
The department of public works had
over a hundred and fifty men at work
yesterday repairing the damage
wrought by the flood. The larger part
of these were engaged on the streets
in South Scranton which had been
torn up by the water. A number were
at work in Green Ridge piling stones
around the abutments of the Green
Ridge street bridge which has been
seriously weakened by the onrush of
the waters during the last few days.
The bridge has been ordered closed
until it can be repaired.
The Scranton postoffice was almost
swamped yesterday by the mass of
mail that came sweeping in from all
directions as the railroads opened up
and began to get trains through. In
some directions it is still very difficult
to send mail. The roads skirting the
Susquehanna river are in such shape
that trains cannot be sent over them
and the Lehigh Valley road is practical
ly unable to get trains through. Sun
day and yesterday mail intended for
Pittsburg and the west was sent by
way of New York
City Engineer Joseph Phillips learned
late yesterday afternoon that the Della
ware and Hudson bridge over the
Roaring Brook, near South Washing
ton avenue and the city bridge cross
ing near the same point, We're in
dangerous condition.
He hastened to the scene and found
that both the abutments under the
city bridge had been badly undermined.
He ordered the bridge closed at once.
pending repairs. He found that one of
the abutments under the railroad
bridge had also been undermined and
he ordered the railroad company to
stop running cars on the north-b bound
track, which is over the weak part of
the structure. The order was COM
piled with and all trains We're sent
over the bridge on the south-bound
track.