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Updated: May 11, 2025
The water went over the lowlands on the west side and Wilkes-Barre was cut off from many of its suburban towns, all traffic being stopped. The towns of Edwardsville, Kingston, Westmoor and West Nanticoke were partly under water. Five hundred families were driven from their homes and forced to seek safety. The water rose so rapidly that it was necessary to rescue women and children in rowboats.
"I have come all the way from San Francisco to congratulate Trueman on his election." "I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. Mr. Trueman is at his home in Wilkes-Barre." "Well, I shall telegraph him my congratulations. I want to be the first man in the United States to send him an authoritative message confirming his election.
Had the millions of the Purdy fortune been distributed to the people by a per capita allotment, each man and woman of Wilkes-Barre might have been made independently rich. But this would defeat the ends which Ethel and Harvey wish to attain. They desire to see every citizen prosper according to his or her personal effort.
Wilkes-Barre was the center of the strike; and the man in Wilkes-Barre who helped me most was Father Curran; I grew to know and trust and believe in him, and throughout my term in office, and afterward, he was not only my stanch friend, but one of the men by whose advice and counsel I profited most in matters affecting the welfare of the miners and their families.
They feel that an avenging hand has been raised against the man who has caused them so many days of suffering. "The devil has a new recruit," says a brawny miner. "Hell is too good for a man like Purdy," another declares. In all of Wilkes-Barre not a man or a woman except those who live under the Coal King's roof has a word of pity to express.
From the top of the mountain, Trueman catches a glimpse of the torches and miners' lamps. The miners are moving toward the town. Trueman is familiar with every inch of ground about Wilkes-Barre. He has played on the mountain as a boy. He now recollects a by-path which will bring him to the town in advance of the miners who are on the wagon road.
W.C. GILDERSLEEVE, Esq., a native of Georgia, an elder of the Presbyterian Church at Wilkes-barre, Pa. says: "The corn is ground in a handmill by the slave after his task is done generally there is but one mill on the plantation, and as but one can grind at a time, the mill is going sometimes very late at night."
The propinquity of Woodward and the other small towns to Wilkes-Barre saved them from suffering the effects of a close-down. The Magnates did not desire to have the scenes of distress brought too near their own homes. So Hazleton and the outlying districts were selected to be sacrificed to the arbitrary coal famine.
It is not until Trenton is reached that Trueman hears the news of the deaths of still other prominent men. He buys a paper and returns to his seat. This extra contains the details of the threatened uprising in Wilkes-Barre, and the statement that the Committee of Forty has converted itself into a Syndicate of Annihilation.
And nobody, outside the Department of Defense, knew how much radar and counter-rocket and fighter protection the place had, but the air-defense zone extended from Boston to Philadelphia and as far inland as Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The Long Island Nuclear Power Plant, Melroy thought, had all the invulnerability of Achilles and no more.
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