Show f t G b GS t r AT T flOODS I Ilife PENNSYLVANIA 5 g life e over the Collapses Seven I Man Many JUST LEAVING THEIR WORK I I 1111 or at Stelle Bute J all M It 1 l to Prep I Hint rend Hat 1 hw tit j Ill Luc I Irrl I rs art from friar rm W Wi II r I 1 DM Dc jt l M water ii j i i IK h collapse coll of ot a H HI new eW r i I e tit r construction over ar h II of r the i in Ii v ill Ik eight tulle north III i d In the loath death ot of otI t l f I the h ht Injury of or nearly a ag r I two 10 perhaps fatally I g r V a at I work on the th traveler r t tt pan n of or the structure h n If I 1 Th They y were re all U thrown I i u nu u river TIll I f HI 11 i OK r DEAD F AD ADt D Di i i t W tv v r I t ve 0 r K Grove v Ions In Grove drove drovet vrr t I r rr Ir 1 i an i r i nit addres unknown i 1 ir i I SJ liltED r RED i NW w York lurk back brok n i Idly lial hurt or Ray Hay Sherwood spine In Inu In Injured u fed ed and kull kun punctured probably fa tar tarP Mi P log leg 1 broken Toward Howard leg leI fractured Luther Eckerd E ker er dislocated Cecil shoulder dislocated Newton Newlon n general na Merry Harry O e lr right leg If broken John central contusions Jon John Fisher nil arm irm l broken William Weiking general cuti cula Jacob Johnson tract iraci in d lg K 1 CAUSED BY Rl The collapse of Sit the bridge wa was caused by the lh rapid rapt rise rille In III the Ih river The Tho water wa water water ter row roes ro during doting tin the day dy at 1 the rule rate of ot almost one une n font foot an MI hour Mill god and carried down don the Ih stream hy by It the thu Hood flood truck the Ih false fl work nt et the lit rid bridge I and 08 the thO tOl pe A AI large tree tre IM trunk attack the th till full work k jest t he be heto for forr to the Ihl bridge tall fell 11 The occurred Jum J at wt night g tall full when hen tho men were ra preparing to abandon their work ork orkA A As a result the lid Ih Work of rescuing those who weir elt thrown Into Inlo the tM water and caught raught In the th mass mam of twisted Iron and steel 1111 was waa ully retarded Th The sea found nd span of ot the was wan w being b erected and end It w we q ills that fell tell with the bridge traveler The ThO bodes bod of ot four tour of or those killed were w r found floating on the surface 11 of ot the th w water ter entangled 1 In to Inthe Inthe the bent nod t IId girders and Iron Ironwork Ironwork ironwork work but the tho have not ben been Non f fund unit und Many Man of ot the Ih men were pr In III the hI rapid water and a mile or morn more down the river before they were e ind ud udOn On One of ot the thO mo most mOlt t remarkable emam escapee w wee that of nt William Sebel who win wn 11 caught In the th Iron work and held a R prisoner for foi an hour with hU hi mouth and nd chin above water before being res ra rescued cued cu t Th Tb bridge was 11 being built by the stale tate to replace the one carried away a i In a freshet In 1903 The county au nu refused to rebuild build and It Il was waa as l I only oly by the passage of ot the Ih a bill In the legislature of ot 1104 that the slats alai was waa authorised to put up the structure Hupt Supt Lawton in charge harp of the th construction and who was 11 on en the th bridge when It foil fell 11 says say that he ha hanot hu bee not been able to 10 uncertain the cause rau of ot the collapse from the tha washing out of the false faille work Nork by b the tile high highwater highwater water allOr LOBS LOB FROM FLOODS Philadelphia Dec 16 Loss of ot life Ufa and great t damage dam to property la is I reported re reo repotted potted ported from central centra and eastern tem points point In tn the state stag by flood caused cau 4 by the theAs heavy As vy VJ rain of the past put few days The Ih Delaware and l river are rising rapidly and small emall stream about the tile coal regions re Ill region gion gions have hav overflowed their banka bank flooding mines mine causing and doing great damage dama e to property Since noon today fishy the Ih river at lIk barr In Is reported to 10 have ha risen a toot tool un an hour and the sit att It nation In lit alarming Silk lIk mill nd end ether manufacturing were rot compelled to 10 shut hut down town and nd trill traffic tra fit fic Is le interrupted At Al Hudson a mining town a n short hort distance away way the starts over ner an aft abandoned mine minI of ot the th I and anA Pinebrook colliery ry to cave v In nod water Ir ru rushed hed Into Inlo the lh working in torrent The settling o n nurr t along the line of the Delaware Hudson Hun and New Jersey Central railroad and nd tOO men mn were ware put Ut at al work rk i hanging h the th course ou of the lime tr In order dr to protect the I h nod 1 n ent It the Ih flooding of ot mine In I n Th The water In la reported high In th Ih tho nobles mines at al a and anC at the illy lit town to was waa partly pertly flooded by b the Ihl breaking o oK of K mall reservoir The Th truck of nf th the t Lehigh Valley Traction ri company I ny were weN washed away In rill places place The Lackawanna is Ie overflowed o oItt nt Itt Scranton and hn h hn been beef wrought In the the te vally valley fi from m t In to OM 0 td Forge For on n the I h Erie and the Ih Delaware A R Hu Hudsn lAnn railroads north of were wen alt 01 because all of f r washouts At Max MayI tit the tile rivet river has hall broken U its 1111 banks bank and 1 Is la cutting utU a anew an anew new n channel through h the Bo Se I great wee was 11 the danger cia of r flooding that the Glenwood ml minu no censed operations o In the th city of or Scranton two n new v bridges were damaged clam A Id was waa washed away at Blakeley with a loco locomotive loe motive moth on It and a dam at Chinchilla gave way I creek In Columbia count overflowed Its Iti bank and II 11 bridges brI belonging to 0 the 01 Pennsylvania Lumber ler ac company pony at al City Cie were re washed away a together with willi ser ev eral seal hundred feet tt of lumber lumbar The works work of ot the Union Tanning com Om company company pany pan are flooded stud and nd the th town lown of ot Ben un Benton Benton ton Inn la is In danger Itt of f being washed away awa awaIn aw awIn In the lower antl anthracite radle regions 11 Inos la Ia i cut oft off from doom surrounding towns by b the tb flood and ana at half helf a adon down don collieries suspended operation The Little Lehigh at al Allentown overflowed over overflowed 0 flowed It Its II bank tanks and a number ot of mill milia milland and tind factories were wre closed down |