Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-16
Meet Death in
Worst Storm in Years
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washouts blocked many lines anc
jeopardized telegraph communication.
Two people were killed at Spartan
burg, Va. At Farmville, Va, a small
cyclone blew down three houses.
In Headland, Ala, five were killed
In a cyclone and at least a dozen men
were injured. several seriously. Scores
of buildings were blown down..
The farmers of Georgia will lose mil
lions of dollars because of the storm,
according to estimates compiled at At
lanta. In that city alone the damage
is placed at 5000. 600. The Chatta-
hoochee river has reached ~ feet !
inches near Atlanta. while at Column
bus 1t Is up to 38 feet.
The Vailsburg section of Newark is
flooded. Bloomfield Is inundated.
Thousands of dollars damage has been
done in the nearby towns.
The upper Passaic river has over
spread its banks and made a lax
twelve miles long, from half a mile to
a mile wide and from six to twelve feet
deep. The ~inundation is the worst
since the food of 1898. when 5000, 600
damage was done IN Paterson and the
smaller towns nearby.
Near Singac the river flows between
two big hills. There is not sufficient
outlet for the water that thirty brooks.
swollen with melting snow n the
rain OF the last few days. pour into the
Passaic. The Erie railroad last night
ent out a gang of men from Caldwell
to protect its tracks.
At the local weather bureau, Prin-
cipal Wiener. of the Central High
School, said that the rainfall was phe-
nomena1. Three inches fell duging the
storm yesterday. On Tuesday the rain
fan was 2.15 inches. and before that
there was an inch and'a half of snow.
Between $3.50 p. m. and 4:30 p. m,
yesterday .7S of an inch fell, which
surpassed the record of previous
storms of the week.
Colder and clear weather is promised
for tomorrow. with brisk winds. Since
the storm broke at 6 O'Clock last night
the wind has been generally from the
northwest, at twelve miles an hour.
Trolley Traffic Tied Up.
For the second time within three
the trolley service in Essex and
counties was seriously
handicapped last night by terrific rain
Numerous cars were derailed,
tracks undermined by the water and
bridges placed in jeopardy.
The chief trouble resulted from the
sand. gravel and other debris washed
on the tracks and then covered by the
rain, which in some instances was.two
feet deep over the tracks.
S%outhbound traffic on the Broad line
was held up from ) to 5:35 o'clock last
niotk ..-lzK l1-oIzJ -
Centre street and Washington avenue,
Nutley, caused by sand lodging in the
tracks. On the Paterson line at the
Glendale loop a delay of an hour was
experienced, due to covered tracks and
a crippled car, the cables Of which
We're made useless by being soaked
with water.
East-bound traffic on the Broad line
was blocked at the Elmwood avenue
loop in 1rvington.. Here the sand on
tracks. hidden under water, caused a
delay from 4:37 to 5:32, by sending a
a off the tracks. It was necessary
to operate the cars on this line from
the Eighteenth street "Y" and Forty
third street loop. The latter loop was
disabled a short time later and cars
had to be switched at the Hilton car
house.
Traffic was abandoned on the Orange
line at Park terrace, West Orange,
when the tracks were under Is inches
OF water. The delay lasted from 4:20
to $50 last evening.
-Four inches of dirt on the east
bound rails of the South Orange ave-
nue. line at Sanford avenue derailed
car No. 1850, causing an hours delay.
West-bound traffic on this line was
tied up thirty-five minutes when car
No. Liza vas jumped off the track
Norwood street
Tracks were undermined In Maple
wood, at Parker avenue and Valley
street. causing a holdup OF two hours,
from Abs to 6:S5. At this point the
road is unpaved and when the unsup-
ported tracks shunted off the car ii
themselves to undertake it, recognized
the advantage of having these mat