What was the condition of things at South Fork?
A. The bridge was gone. A locomotive standing at the station was on the siding having been washed south. A locomotive standing just west of the station was partially off the track. The bridge at South Fork station was gone. The entire floor system of the bridge was lying up the north branch about half a mile. Q. What was the depth of the water there, do you judge, when you saw it? A. Oh, the water was down when we got there. I don’t suppose it was over two feet above the ordinary pitch, at three o’clock on Saturday afternoon. It might have been three feet but not over that. We then cleared the Summerhill branch, and got it completed to the coal tipple west of South Fork on Sunday night. At this point, there was a freight train wrecked, the cars all being swept over on the north side against the bank of the woods along the old Portage Railroad, with the car trucks etc. lying on the track. A short piece of track was left and scattered along there. This was the only piece of track left be
