New-York tribune., 1920-03-06
6O-Mile Gale
Sweeps City
With Sleet
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pected strata Of garbage and ashes. it
dealt more severely with Richmond.
The northeast wind piled in an ex-
traordinarily high tide that caused the
long suffering seaside bungalows to
suffer once more. Hundreds of them
between South and Midland beaches
were flooded. Part of the Midland
Beach boardwalk was carried away, and
the scenic railway there collapsed.
Colder weather is coming, the Wash
lngton Weather Bureau predicted last
night, but fixed no definite time for it's
arrival. In the mean time general
storm warnings have been issued along
the entire Atlantic coast.
Schuylkill Valley Flooded
READING, Pa, March 5.-Floods
long feared in the Schuylkill Valley
from points thirty miles to the north
and south as far as Coatesville and the
Perkiomen, broke loose tonight and
the city is without trolley service. Pas
senger train service is curtailed and
the river threatens to put the giant
Edison electric plant in West Reading.
which supplies towns as far west as
Lebanon and others as far east and
south of Reading, out of commission.
The trolley shut-do are due to lack
of current.
The river continues to rise and if
the flood grows worse the city will
have no lighting or power tomorrow
Railroad men report floods all along
their runs and ice coming down the
river in great masses is battering down
some of the weaker bridges. To-day's
heavy rain and snow tonight caused
the river to rise rapidly and regular
blizzard set in with wind Of high We
locity.
The breaking of two ice gorges in
the Schuylkill River, above Reading, one
at Hamburg and the other at Port
Clinton, tonight caused all industries
using public electric power, including
"The Reading News-Times," to prepare
to close.
Houses in the lower part of the city
along the river bank were flooded at
nightfall, Members Of the Reading Boat
Club and others were called out to
man the small boats to rescue men.
women and children penned in their
homes by the water.
LANCASTER, Pa, March 5.-Bridges
and houses have been swept away, the
Lincoln Highway at many points is
under water and trolley service be-
tween this city and surrounding towns
has practically been suspended as the
result of scores of small streams
throughout this section overhowing
their banks.
At Martic Forge the tracks OF the
Conestoga Traction Company have been
swept away, while two houses at the
same place are gone. At Lititz many
manufacturing plants have suspended
operations because boiler rooms are
under water.
Nine feet of water is going over the
dam at the city water works, eighteen
inches higher than any previous record.
Faced with the possibility that the
filtering plant will break down has
caused the issuing of a bulletin that
the people Of the city must conserve
water
At Leaman Place the oil develop
ments are under water. Passengers on
the last car from Columbia to reach
this city were forced to stand on the
seats while the trolley crossed swollen
streams.
SCRANTON, Pa, March 5.-After an
inch and three-ouarters of rain had
fallen here to-day, and people living in
the lowlands. prepared for flood, the
temperature dropped. The rain turned
to snow about o'clock in the after
noon and since that hour a blizzard has
been raging. Five inches of. snow has
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