The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1902-03-06

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coin Boody, on Sunday and there was
very little of the village that was not
under water. 1t was feared that the
bridges would be carried away by the
awful force. To prevent the possibility
of the bridges being raised from their
mooring, heavily loaded freight trains
were allowed to stand on them all
day Sunday. The tension was great
Sunday evening. Night came on with
the water rising rapidly, and many
homes we're in emminent danger of
being swept away. In the four hour
interim, between tour ard eight o'clock
Monday morning, the town was re.
lieved from its terrible anxiety, BY a
six inch fall, and it is needless to say
the residents breathed sigh of relief.
NEARLY as FEET HIGH AT DANvILLE.
The flood at Danville was the high
est in thirty seven years, the water
being within two feet of the mark of
the unprecedented food of '6s. Mill
street was entirely submerged and
merchants were obliged to remove all
their goods to the second floor. The
last train to reach the town was on
the P. & R. Saturday night. AT South
Danvllle no less than five trains were
stranded. The entire stretch of rail
road between Roaringcreek and
Catawlssa was under deep water for
two whole days.
AT EsPy.
No serious damage was caused at
Espy, but the main thoroughfare was
transformed into a good sized stream.
William Schweppenheser, who resides
a short distance above the village,
endured the greatest hardship. He
and his family were bloodhound and
had to be rescued in boats. Many
cellars were flooded.
CATAwIsSA SUFFERS.
The high water at Catawssa was a
close rival to that of '65. The paper
mill was flooded and the loss will be
heavy. No less than seven families
fled from their homes. The water
was up to the floor of the bridge. To
add to The great discomfort, the fires
under the boilers at the Electric
Light plant were extinguished leaving
the town in darkness. A breach,
nearly seventeen feet long was washed
in the road between the bridge and
the d. l.. & w. Railroad. Work
was suspended on Monday at the car
shops and the novelty works.
AT BERWICK.
Probably the worst damage done
at Berwick was to one of the dams of
the Berwick Water Company. Near
ly twenty feet of the embankment
was tom away. Nescopeck and the
entire low lands on the opposite side
of the river was under food siege.
Hundreds of cellars were filled with
water. At the home of Mrs. Emma
Butt, who resides on farm near
Nescopeck the water reached the
unprecedented depth of fourteen feet.
The family fortunately had their mis-
givings and had deserted the house
on Friday, boat having furnished
means Of escape. John Hartman,
neighbor, fled from his home by way
of boat.
BEYOND THE COUNTY.
Jean Huffman, of Plymouth, eleven
years old, while returning home from
Willow street school, Monday after.
noon, was swept into Browns creek
by the water at the corner OF Church
and Emo streets. He clung to the
bridge at Main street, but before help
arrived he was carried by the rushing
waters into the Susquehanna river,
disappearing under the grinding ice.
Ice gorges which formed IN the
Loyalsock creek, in the neighborhood
of Montoursville, tore out several log
landings that were ready for break.
ing, and million and half feet of
the Emery Lumber Conpany's logs
were carried away with the ice.
Sunbury was partially submerged,
and Selinsgrove was shut off from the
outside world entirely. The railroad
bridge at Selinsgrove Junction was
carried away.
The food of 1902, although not as
great as that of 1865 or 1850, in the
height Of the water in the Susque.
hanna river, or in the area OF the
flooded district in Harrisburg, claims
the record for damage to property
along its course.
A complete shutdown of all the
iron and steel industries OF that city
and Steelton was the result of the
flood, and thousands OF men are idle
in consequence. AT the Pennsylvania
Steel Works, at Steelton, there are
over 5000 idle men The Harrisburg
Rolling Mills are shut down and the
Central Iron Wnrkc are lik ewiee