. Electric railway journal . on the entire system. MAINTAINING POWER SUPPLY AT MARION, IND. An interesting account of the flood is given in a letter tothe American Gas & Electric Company from O. , of the Marion Light & Heating Company, whichfurnishes power to the Marion,Bluffton & Eastern Trac-tion Company. An abstract of the letter follows, the plantreferred to being shown in one of the illustrations as itappeared after the flood had fallen 22 in.: Tuesday morning at 1 130 the water was 22 in. highover our turbine room floor. All of the boiler room wasunder water and it got up withi
. Electric railway journal . on the entire system. MAINTAINING POWER SUPPLY AT MARION, IND. An interesting account of the flood is given in a letter tothe American Gas & Electric Company from O. , of the Marion Light & Heating Company, whichfurnishes power to the Marion,Bluffton & Eastern Trac-tion Company. An abstract of the letter follows, the plantreferred to being shown in one of the illustrations as itappeared after the flood had fallen 22 in.: Tuesday morning at 1 130 the water was 22 in. highover our turbine room floor. All of the boiler room wasunder water and it got up within 1 in. of the grates. Wehad to bank our fires and close down everything with theexception of the spare circuit, keeping on just enoughpower to give us lights so as to operate the pumps thatwere pumping the water out of the pit in the turbine base-ment. By operating three of the pumps in the basement wewere able to hold our own for a time. We built coffer-dams around the openings leading into the boiler room and. Flood Disaster—Power Station of Marion Light & Heating Company After Water Had Receded Two Feet Between Louisville and Indianapolis the Indianapolis,Columbus & Southern Traction Company, operating be-tween Seymour and Indianapolis, suffered the most dam-age, its system being put entirely out of commission forseveral days. Operation between Indianapolis and Frank-lin was commenced on March 31. The Indianapolis &Louisville Traction Company was compelled to cease opera-tion completely for forty-eight hours and subsequentlymaintained a regular schedule between Louisville and Sey-mour, although its service between Seymour and Colum-bus was badly interfered with because of the torn-uptracks. The Louisville & Southern Indiana Traction Company andthe Louisville & Northern Railway & Lighting Company,connecting Louisville with New Albany and Jeffersonville,Ind., and thence connecting with Sellersburg and pointsfarther north, suffered but little from storm violence andf
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