. The railway library . southernterminal of the Zanesville division, was under water. By Wednesday morning, March 26, the battle to bring order outof chaos was on in deadly earnest. The plan of campaign was first duty of the railroad company was to extend relief to itsmarooned passengers and to the stricken cities. Then, it must openup to traffic its main lines, and afterward the branch lines. On this Wednesday, not only was the Pennsylvania Railroad west The Ohio Floods of igij 241 were washouts and the other two water over the tracks. Bay Junc-tion sent the news: Water over tracks
. The railway library . southernterminal of the Zanesville division, was under water. By Wednesday morning, March 26, the battle to bring order outof chaos was on in deadly earnest. The plan of campaign was first duty of the railroad company was to extend relief to itsmarooned passengers and to the stricken cities. Then, it must openup to traffic its main lines, and afterward the branch lines. On this Wednesday, not only was the Pennsylvania Railroad west The Ohio Floods of igij 241 were washouts and the other two water over the tracks. Bay Junc-tion sent the news: Water over tracks. Cannot get into or out ofSandusky. And Delaware wound up with: No wires south ofToledo. Before the flood subsided Delaware was to gain the high-waterrecord. Here the 1913 flood exceeded in depth of water anythingpreviously recorded in that city by ft., thus surpassing Zanes-villes fifteen feet by seven-tenths of a foot. It was at Delaware thata Big Four bridge was washed out; and so terrific was the force of the. Fig. 4—Pennsylvania Bridge over Muskingum River, Zanesville, Ohio. current that a 60-ft. steel girder was carried down stream more thantwo hundred yards, and when the waters subsided it was found on ahillside on high ground, well removed from the bed of the stream. Aman was on this bridge when it went out. He was swept into thebranches of a tree and managed not only to hang onto them, but toclimb a little higher out of the water. There he remained for fortyhours, and was eventually rescued after many unsuccessful attemptshad been made to get to him. Strange to say, as has been already remarked, the Zanesvilledivision reported that it was all right. Its turn was quickly coming. 242 The Railway Library The waters that tore out the bridge between Perrysville and Lucas —the Mohican River — was on its way to join the Muskingum andestablish a new flood record in the city of Zanesville, fifteen feet inexcess of anything Zanesville had hitherto experienced. The fa
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