Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-03-13

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line, Central division, pass, are unde
water. Service was discontinued durinl
the night and the water is reported
rising.
Washouts and flooded cellars are re
ported in many of the outlying towns
The rain-storm was reminiscent O.
the famous blizzard of 1888. This time
however. it was only rain.
Altogether over two inches of rair
fell. The forecast, as given at the loca
weather bureau, is cloudy and colder
tonight, Thursday fair, with brisi
northwesterly winds.
THE storm was one of those regular
downpours that come at this season.
said Principal Wiener, of the Contra,
High School. 'It was at its worst dur
ing the first hour after midnight. JUS
then IS of an inch came down, mostly
in the first part of the hour. 1t was
very violent while it lasted"
At 3 a.. m. the temperature was 81
degrees. 1t was the same at 7 o'clock
but at moor it had risen to "A. The
snow yesterday was 1.25 inches, the
rain was LOS and LOS inches of rain
fell today.
RIaCI1CdIlN every GiOiCs AhS s
city was tied up at some time or other
and schedules were entirely abandoned
while the cars crawled slowly through
the tremendous downpour. Tracks
were under water in many parts OF
the suburbs and surrounding towns
At some places the mud n water
stood a foot and a half over the tracks.
SO many derailments occurred h a
the typewritten report of them covers
two pages.
Tracks buried and switches clogged
by the deposit of the muddy torrents
racing down the hillsides aused in
the early hours of today the worst
blockade that the Newark-Patersofi
trolley line has known since the CHRIST
mas blizzard of 1910.
BY 2 o'clock this morning there was
a string of eight cars off the rails be-
tween Nutley and Passaic, counting a
wrecker which went to the rescue and
vindicated it's title by wrecking itself
at Dalawanna. Passengers who left
the -Four Corners anywhere between
10 o'clock and midnight reached Pater-
son at 3:45. The journey involved sew
eral instruments of the "car ahead"
DIOpOSlllpll, ALI
rubber-booted carried giggling women,
pick-a-back or side-saddle, through
rushing water thigh deep. There was
no charge for this service. The mod
ern st. C~hristophers decided that it
would be a shame to TAKE the money.
One stray. dripping Paterson car.
with a very tired crew. pulled into the
carbarn after 3 o'clock this morning,
eight hours late. 1t was due shortly
after 8 O'Clock last night.
The Orange line was tied up from
1850 to 1:45, when car 1859 vas derailed
at Earl street, West Orange, by sand
and dirt washed over the track.
The Plank road line was held up for
twenty minutes at lao, when a car
was derailed at the carhouse loop, at
Twentieth street.
A crippled car on the south-bound
Bergen tracks delayed the line from
HAS to 1915. North-bound, another
car held up the line from 11:1s to 11:4O.
The Turnpike line, west-bound, had
trouble at $3.50. when a delay of half an
hour was caused by a crippled car in
Jersey City.
Cars Are DeraiIed.
IllCIt hGiG IhO QSA dAiiliCiIo vi lilN
eastbound South Orange line. Car 1894
jumped the track at Sanford street and
held up the line from 1920 to 1:50; car
1855 from 10:0S to 1926, at Valley
street and Millburn avenue, Maple
wood. Water was reported along the
line continually from Twelfth street to
Electric Park and In Valley street.
The Springfield line was held up from
2:10 to 2:30, when eastbound car 229s
was derailed at Tucson street, Maple
wood. Another delay of thirty min
utes was caused at 12:47 by car No.
2262, which vas derailed at Forty-third
street.
Paving in Maplewood was reported
TO be in bad shape and much damaged
by the water.
On the South Orange line a single
track was kept open from Main street
to the car house from 10 p. m. to 1:27
this morning, because of the flooded
condition of the streets.
On the Crosstown line a half hours
tie-up occurred between 9 and 10 p. M,
when a car was derailed at Bay ave-
nue.. A car due to pull in at mid
night reached the car house at 5 a.. m.
The track was reported under one and
a half feet of mud and water in places.
oub Even Worse Outside Essex.
Outside the Essex division even more
difficulty was experienced in keeping
the traffic moving.
On the Central division, Raritan line
the bridge over the Raritan river, un-
der terrific pressure from the rising
flood, was so much under water thai
the cars could not run. The water was
over tho tracks. Service was discon-
tinued. The flood was reported rising
early today.
The Main line was tied up after 8