Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-08-02 | Page 2 | Veritable Deluge in Pennsylvania

If VERITABLE DELUGE ! IN PEWNSYLVANIA k : Severn and One-half Inches of i Rain Fall at Strpudsburg M and Delaware Gap. ' PROPERTY LOSS HEAVY :5 Miles of Railroad Track Vt Washed Out and Many t Bridges Destroyed. I STROUUSBURG. Pa.. Auc. J. i '. , fetroudsbure and the .Delaware Gup ,"' were the center of a storm today that j , is said to have been unprecedented in 1 ( this Mction of the state. jScven and f 'l one-half inches of rain foil between jt 12:30 and 3 o'clock, doinu damage cs- ? timatcd at more than $100,000. Xo , ! lives have boon reported lost. Ih Maueh Chunk,-Pen Argyl. Portland , and Bangor were ninonc tho other towns to Miffer severely. Hotels at j, tho Delaware water sap, crowded with r : summer visitors, were badly damaged, jr. water mains were broken and the re- 1.1 sort is in darkness tonight through tho J ' crippling of the electric light plant. I The railroads were tho heaviest Jos- crs. Miles of track were washed out ( y on the Delaware, Lackawanna & West- l't4 cm, tho Pennsylvania and tho New ,l V York, Susoquchana & Western. At , Mawch Chunk the tracks of the Pcnn- I r sylvnnin were carried away for a dis- y tance of 200 feet and a eully more than J l fiftv feet deep was cut through the I) roadbed. Seven l)ridgcs were washed t away. All trains on the Pennsylvania , ( " railroad were annulled north of Bclvi-doro Bclvi-doro and it is not expected that scrv- ,1 M ice can be resumed before tomorrow . . nfternoon. " ' ,f Wire communication with Mnuch ('hunk, where the storm is believed to have been the worst, is completely par- , nlyzed and a report that the Lacka- i v wanna tunnel there had caved in could a, not. be confirmed. At the point of the gap, near Dola- ,i ware water gap, thousands of tonsof i the mountain sjdc slid away, carrying with it J00 vards of concreto embank- f 1 mcnt. which supported tho roadway and , ' buryinc the Lackawanna tracks and j n , part of a freight train that was pasa- ing under thirty foot of earth. . j During tho progress of tho storm it I ' was so dark that persons could not sco 100 feet.