Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1902-03-06
DANVILLE'S GREATFLOOD
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move. Sunday morning the entire
tract was under water, which had
risen in the first story higher than the
cooking stove. Perry Meyer and John
Weir visited the house in Il boat and
found the old couple nearly perished
with cold and hunger, the fires having
been all eXtinguished and the food
rendered unfit to eat by the flood. They
We're kindly cared for Sunday at the
home of John Mccall, West Mahoning
street.
The Etter family on the river road
We're obliged to abandon their home on
Saturday night.
The d. l.. & w. station during the
whole Of Sunday was inaccessible, the
water early i'll the day rising above the
platform and flooding the office The
residents on ,. :. & ". Avenue as
usual came in for a bitter experience
No one could approach nor leave the
houses without wading knee deep
As the water continued to rise last
night the flood crept ont over Lower
Mulberry street as far as the residence
Of Samuel Bloch The houses on the
South side of Lower Mulberry street as
we'll as on D. L. q w Avenue Jared
badly enough, and it required but a
Slight rise at 10 o'clock to bring the
flood up to the first story. All along
Mill street up to nearly midnight the
merchants were busy removing all goods
that were stored in proximity to the
floor. Tables and stands were i'm
provised and upon these and on the
higher shelves the wares were piled
promiscuously Thus it will be seen,
if the water reached the limit of 80
it will not find our farsighted merchants
altogether unprepared.
Traffic on all our railroads has been
suspended since Saturday. The last
train which passed through Danville
was on the p & r. railway Saturday
night a belated accommodation train
from Tamaqua to West Milton, which
passed through here at 8:05 o'clock No
less than five trains are stranded at
South Danville. In the number are No.
-, w. H. Shaffer conductor and Thorn
as Attig, engineer, due here at 1915 p.
m. and train No /, Robert Kline, CON
duCtOr, and George Rose, engineer due
here at 4:31 y. III. Both trains arrived
at the station on Saturday at an hour
long over due The track below Kipps
Run is submerged, while the entire
stretch of road between Little Roaring
Creek and Catawissa is under deep wat
er. The trainmen say it will be Tues
day at furthe,t before they will be able
TO get away from South Danville. The
crews. combined, number some thirty
men and their presence makes things
pretty lively about the station On the
p. 81 r railway traffic may be resumed
between Rupert and West Milton to-
day, but this of course, ismcertain.
On Saturday the river was full of
floating ice Sunday little ice was to
be seen but in its stead the usual variety
Of interesting objects was in evidence
gathered up by flood. Among the lot
was the tank belonging to a coal oil car,
a small house or barn, foot boats by the
half dozen and big sign board be
longing to a merchant tailoring estab-
lishment at '103 Main Street. Who
the lucky, or in this case the unlucky
merchant was who was being SO widely
advertised or in what town he is lOcat
ed could not be ascertained as the sign
was swept along by the current. The
water was strewn with railroad ties and
the contents Of lumber yards Frank
and George Ross, along with other ex-
perienced men of the river put in a big
day Sunday. They caught great
deal Of good lumber besides a large pile
of railroad ties which came down the
river intact.
Shortly after 10 o'clock at night the
water reached the height of 81 feet and
9 inches. At this point the flood began
to enter the warehouse of the Stove
Works, in the rear Of which IS stored
many thousand dollars worth of stove
plate. which would be ruined by con
tact with the water General Manager
with ny Cool,
the whole of Sunday at the plant sent
ont call for employees and put as many
as responded to work removing the
plate In the foundry during the day
platforms We're constructed and upon
them the sand used in moulding was
carefully piled that it might be out of
reach of the water which it was feared
would flood the floor before morning.