The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1902-03-06
DAMAGE BY
THE STORM.

| Wilmington today feels the effect:
of the storm of Yesterday as pole:
cracked off like pipe stems and hun
dreds of dangerous wires came tumb
ling down.
| Several poles at different points
went down during the dayin addition
to the one over Eleventh street bridge
f.. At Fifth and Church pole fell
against the morocco factory of the
W. B. Clerk Company, and in addi-
tion to putting the wires out of SER
vice broke window. An electric
light pole on Thirteenth street be-
tween Broome and Rodney also wen t
| down, and about the same time Il
pole at Ninth and King streets.
In all parts Of the city large poles
bearing wires crcakcd and swayed
yesterday and last night. Along
West Fourth street many poles that
had been split during the recent
storm inclined at charp angle under
their icy burden. and threatened to
fall at any minute. At Fourth and
Jefferson streets one large pole is in
danger of topping Oyer, er,andon Fourth
west of Rodney, several poles fell to
the street, bearing wires with them.
One of tile Delaware 4 Atlantic
telephone poles fell against the cor
nice of a house on Fourth street be-
tween Clayton and Dupont, and the
live wires set fire to the wood work Of
the cornicc.
Charles liallman. a line man of the
Wilmington City Railway company,
ayerted serious fire by cutting the
telephone wires, which were charged
by falling across electric wires.
Everything in South Wilmington
was crippled last night, as Il pole on
Christiana avenue tore down electric
light cables and telephone and tcIc-
graph wires. That part of the city
had no electric lights, and the po-
lice reporting system was also disabled
there.
On Elliott avenue near Market
street a large and towering pole was
gradually failing last night under the
load of ice and slect
The police and fire alarm system is
crippled and in case OF fire the same
precaution taken Il week ago should
be taken by the ci'izans.
Dover. Del, March ). An other
violent rain storm same upon this
section Of Delaware today. flooding
fields, streets and roads, to say Moth
ing of the housckccpcrs' cellars. The
public roads, 80 softcned by the sud
den evacuation Of frost and violent
rains Of last week, are now well nigh
impossible SO soft as quick,and,
rough and full of very dangerous
holes.
The most serious financial damage
from the storm is that at the hand
some new Silver Lake bridge. a fine
steel structure erected last autumn
by the Levy Court Of this county.T The
violent rush of waters has 50 washed
the foundations of the bridge that
the southwest corner has settled
about eighteen inches, and almost
ruined the structure.
The water has also broken through
the canScway and has caused Il severe
washout there. The Levy Court has
men at work repairing the damage.
and by special vote the clerk Of the
court to day notified the American
Bridge Company, constructors Of the
bridge, to send to Dover their special
representative, l.. &. Brumbaugh, in
nrInr fhnI fhn ct y Iilf ~ p,irhf l,n |
saved and rightcd.
The condition Of the roads has
caused the farmers to rise up in their
might in a petition to the Levy Court
and this was presented to day by VIM.
Pleiger A. N. Brown and A. W.
Of F'rllilland Grange. They
contended that the court already cx-
pended money to give the county Il
thorough and improved public road
system.and recommended deepplough
ing in March. then large road scrap
crS, followed by rollers, the centre Of
the road to be raised eighteen inches
higher than the sides.
The clay slbsod, brought up by
deep ploughing, would pack the road
bed into hard and well rounded
Much money is worse than wasted,
they contended, by trying every year
to do this work without ploughs. sub
stituting road scrapers, or by doing
light ploughing and leaving the work
unfinished.
Attorney George l.. Townsend Sr.
of MiddletOwn, who has an Office in
this city stated this morning that the
storm Of Monday night did not reach
There was some rain
here. but no snow or slect. The
storm reached no farther down the
uad than kirkwood.
TO Tunnel The Delawar.
The consluc lou OF II tunne: under tho
Delaware River. from Phi!adelpha to
iuinden. Is tho object OF the Pbiladel phia
' Camden Tunnel Company, which was
Incorporated iu Camden yesterday, with 7
N all horizei capstnl Ut 81, ,0OO,OO Tho
Api,nl is divided into 1000 shares of the
'alue Of $1,000 each. and the incoi porators
md their holdings are: Captain Emmor
} French, Camden, three shares: Joseph
!. Bailey, WINNING on, Del. three
hares: Mayne {. p. Parker and Dauiel
:. Hal!ahan, both Of Philadelphia. three
hares and one share. respectively.
Captain French. tue Camden incorporl
or said yesterday that the company was
,acked by Chicag, capitalists. nnd was
independent OF any other corp
ration.
Father Flynn to Lecture
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