The Ice Gorge On Penns Creek At Selinsgrove, March 1904

The Ice Gorge At Isle Of Que Mills, March 1924

Looking North From East Mill StreetThis Mill building was built in 1865, replacing an earlier structure.  It was demolished in 1928.

The worst of the Ice Flood in 1904 occurred on the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, between Bloomsburg and Danville.  Ice boulders there remained through July of 1904.  Other towns, such as Selinsgrove, also dealt with ice,  flooding, and destroyed bridges  in 1904, just not quite as severely, or dramatically.  

See the dramatic Ice boulders in Danville in 1904 here: 

 https://susquehannavalley.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-1904-ice-flood-in-bloomsburg.html

The ice was reported to be two feet thick in spots along Penns Creek at Selinsgrove

On Sunday March 6th, heavy rains began to fall.  By Monday night, March 7th, the water was moving the heavy blocks of ice, slamming them with great force into bridges and property along the way.

One span of the red bridge was swept away and landed against the piers of the railroad bridge.

The bridge at Monroe Mills was greatly damaged, with the arches all cut off.

Maruers bridge that spanned the creek two miles north of Kratzerville was carried away by the ice, parts of it were left laying in fields north of Selinsgrove.

The New Berlin bridge was also swept away.

The Ice Gorge at the Red Bridge over Penns Creek, March 1904

As the ice passed through, it tore away the east span of the bridge.

The Ice Gorge at the Red Bridge over Penns Creek, March 1904

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The ice was moving on Penns Creek on Monday March 7th, but no ice was reported moving on the river at Selinsgrove, according to the Harrisburg newspaper.    The Sunbury paper reported that the ice from Danville came through the Northumberland area on Wednesday night, March 9th.

"A number of people from up the West Branch were visitors in town [Northumberland] on Thursday [March 17] to witness the coming of the immense ice gorge on the North Branch river, but the worst of the damage was done on Wednesday night when it was impossible to see."

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