Wyoming County PA News Articles
Floods and Fire
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
March 30 1846
More Of The Flood
On the Tunkhannock creek, the damage sustained is greater than ever was before known - estimated by some at twenty-five to thirty thousand dollars. - As high up as we have heard from (about twenty-five miles), not a bridge is left standing, and with but few exceptions every mill has been materially injured by the flood. The Tunkhannock bridge at the lower end of the borough was washed from the piers and now lays about 40 rods below, lodged against some sycamores, a complete wreck.
The cases of individual suffering by the loss of lumber on the Tunkhannock creek, is particularly severe - 20, 30, 40, and even as high as a 100,000 feet of lumber, the fruit of a hard winter's toil, has been in a moment snatched from the hand of honest industry, and in most cases these men depended upon the expected receipts from their lumber to relive them from embarrassments under which they have been laboring for years, and with a fair prospect of success. They are now by this calamity left in a worse condition than they were before. We have heard of no human lives being lost, but such was the rapidity of the rising flood, that many cattle were swept away and drowned before they could be rescued. The damage done in Wyoming county will be severely felt, not only by individuals, but collectively the county must be roundly taxed to repair the damage, &c., and the blow received will put us back full two years in the march of improvement - Wyoming Patriot.
Titusville Morning Herald (Titusville, Pennsylvania)
November 22 1870
Since the terrible conflagration in Tunkhannock, which destroyed nearly the whole town, the borough authorities have given orders that none but brick buildings shall be erected in the place of those burned.
Fire at Nicholson (1904)
Bedford Gazette, Bedford, Pennsylvania, March 4, 1904
Twenty-five buildings were destroyed by fire at Nicholson, a village near Tunkhannock on Friday. The loss is estimated at $50,000 with about $20,000 insurance.
Fire at Tunkhannock (1925)
New Castle News (New Castle, Pennsylvania, March 9, 1925
Towanda, Pa., March 9 – Fire today did approximately $15,000 damage at Tunkhannock and drove two families from their homes. The Kellogg clothing store was completely destroyed with the Rogers barber shop in the same building. The old pastime theatre recently a Boy Scout meeting place went next and the Kutz harness shop followed with most of two families in apartments overhead.