. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . hus reducingsuffering to a minimum. Nevertheless,the loss, which runs up to the millionmark, will never be fully made up. As the water receded, hundreds ofmen were seen at work repairing damagedstreets, walks, houses, bridges, removingrubbish and doing every thing possiblein the way of reconstruction. The greatest individual losers arepeople of the poorer classes that livedin the flood belt. Their homes, in mostinstances representing their lifetimeearnings, were laid in ruins. It is not to be overlooked that theB. & O. R. R. also figured heavily in the
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . hus reducingsuffering to a minimum. Nevertheless,the loss, which runs up to the millionmark, will never be fully made up. As the water receded, hundreds ofmen were seen at work repairing damagedstreets, walks, houses, bridges, removingrubbish and doing every thing possiblein the way of reconstruction. The greatest individual losers arepeople of the poorer classes that livedin the flood belt. Their homes, in mostinstances representing their lifetimeearnings, were laid in ruins. It is not to be overlooked that theB. & O. R. R. also figured heavily in thedestructive effects. The WestboundMain was entirely submerged and theEastbound covered at various placesbetween Massillon and Canal result need not be described. AtWarwick the tracks were badly , with the ceaseless efforts ofTrainmaster J. B. White and Super-visor J. R. Kane, the tracks were speedilyreconstructed and traffic put in motion. Between Columbia Y and the Mas-sillon Brick Companys plant, the tracks. EXGIXE AT MASSILLOX, OHIO were submerged to a depth of five andsix feet, although not badly the only sad feature there, wasthe drowning out of Operator JamesMahood and his five-mile hike to a placeof safety. Going on down the line, we find bridge40, just west of Beach City, very badlywashed out. The pump house andboiler at Beach City were carried away,but speedily replaced by H. D. Wester-man and his gang. Between BeachCity and Strasburg, bridges 38 and 39were completely washed away. Thesebeing large two-span steel structures,the loss is very heavy, as it was necessaryto build wooden trestles until the steelcan be replaced. Between Canal Fulton and B. , the telegraph and telephone lineswere completely covered by water, andover three miles of the line washedaway, putting all wires out of businessfor the greater part of a week. Afterconditions permitted, the lines wererepaired with all possible speed byLineman R. E. Everett, ass
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