Devastation on the Delaware by Mary Shafer

Author:Mary Shafer [Shafer, Mary A]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Disaster, Weather, Regional History
Publisher: Mary Shafer
Published: 2015-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

32 homes are wrecked in the South Side Flats, and the Petersburg section near Richter Avenue is hard hit. Roaring Brook has also carved up homes on Mattes Avenue in South Scranton. The overwhelming force of rushing water has destroyed bridges on Cedar Avenue, Ash and Elm streets.

At ten p.m., Mayor James Hanlon declares a state of emergency for the city. He closes down nearly every business not engaged in flood relief work. Restaurants that are still functional remain open to feed those without utilities. Mayor Hanlon imposes a nine p.m. curfew to discourage looting, and deploys National Guardsmen just to make sure no further harm will come to already devastated areas of his city.

An hour earlier, an Air Force helicopter from Middletown’s Olmstead Air Force Base airlifts four members of the Hungerbuhler family still stranded in their home on the Southside Flats near Washington and Birch. Scranton Times photographer John Greskovic Jr. catches the dramatic rescue on film. Wire services pick it up, and newspaper readers across the country will get a glimpse of Scranton’s plight on their front pages the next day. It is but one of too many tragic stories that will come out of the eastern seaboard in the next several weeks.

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