New-York tribune., 1868-07-27
THE STORM OF FRIDAY NIGHT

IN THIS CITY-DESTRUCTION OF PtOf-
EFTY IN BROOKLYN AND ELSEWHERE
SmF the memorable storm and Hood oil NO
yemb er this vicinity has net been visited by one 80
sey' re and damaging its effects that of Friday mght
az Saturday morning last Its advance was W
telegraph, also the immense damage anu lo'e
of life occasiOned by Baltimore but no preparations
were made for H. probably for the that an iures
sion prevailed that It's fury would be spent before
ing this latit+de, In heres that IL woulu pass Iai
But these hopes ta1aclous anu, tho 80 hsra
directly i'm us course the fun effects of we're ielt
nor So Inlnh I'm NewYork however as In Brooklyn inc
iac in he yciny suffered to great extent and Is
rs yet impossible even TO make an "PplOAi
on sten island the villages along the waters edge
suffered to great extent Fences wagons CsS were %
ali mgnner Of articles which were lying loose WIZ
washed out into the bay and carried OH Dy Ino an
Fields Of waving gram that stood growg btifi Rar
vest were utterly destroyed. Cellars were hIo m Tsn a
water and debris, and picture OF perfect oeSo"o" nv
In Brooklyn the amount of damage is very great In
the Fifteenth Sixteenth, Seventeenth ana ElghcgI I
Words cellars were flooded and gardens desroycu Al "
number people were Obliged 10 lt9 5 ~
was broken or lost In Wyckofst near Bond, IN Batlc
ST. Webster place, SiXthst. and Flitlaye anu many &
other places well up in town, the cellars We're W. ~
water and steam engines Will have TO DC enpoyeu ~
rid them of their surperuOus moisture Bnt u was III
the Eighth Ward where the greatest damage was 9one
The streets this ward are either newly Er'uSen S Ian, anu
lled or are IN progress OF SS seWST Whe in short
time became completely choked up nNey scene tIe
d
o'clock The rain down in sheets. more resembling
the bursting OF water spout than ram st0il lo
geant duty.at the FOry-eghth Preclhct foiee o1J %
turned ont every the force, and for the tcI
energies were directed toward keeping the sewers ana
wasoways opeD People poured fourth from their houses
in every direction bearing lanterns, ana rushhR lnC
ally about of the widest confusion ensued. hY
ers of water were pouring into the cellars, carrying
with them carloads of sand, gravel and mud
one buTy Teuton rushed frantcay TO thG POlce saon
and i'm accents of terror exclaimed, "Mem GOtt ser
n mr. TGr him 1 ~ o if and sell 1t for lager answered
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washed down into Thrdaye. in such quantities that te
cars were imbedded and cond not move AOOTe LII a,p
same time the sidewalk on Third-aye, between Iehlh
and Eleventh sts, was washed away ana caIlcu hout
the Easements of the houses out into the bay Inc IOo
of Twenty-rst and Twenty from IhlrdaVe
down, followed, and the large sewer Whcl had sV
From Fiftiayenue TO the bay, and from Tenthst. 10
Twenty ty-seYenthst the damage that mas Deeh uone VII
not fail short of $4,000 While the storm raging win
its greatest fury loud noise heard above the roar OI
the elements and 10 was aRerwafd discovered lat ABOUT
coo feet of the splendid iron fence that surrounds Green
wood Cemetery mad been carried away by avalanche OF
sod gravel and mud, that had slipped from the beauIul
grassy slope inside the cemetery THIS fence was
imported from England many years ago. Wlcn hateilai
of that kind was cheap. The portion wah9eu
away is either badly broken, or bent like the wires OF
bird-cage. The of mud slid out upon the fftNe
Railroad track filling the street At the lower archWay
entrance, near the supertehdents mousse nolntr lIuo
has taken place. shooting the mass OF eall ncH across
Lakeave TO Oser Lake leaving the fence IN snc pre-
caTOus position that poles nave Deen called ho rtus
tiOn 10 keep il from falling down the embankment.
slide of several hundred feet occurred Whh 100 yards
Of and ltle TO inc let OF tnc cemetery gaze as oo
enters and still another short distance beyond sew
eral instances where NautSwerc IN course or cree
ton the grassy slope either side has slid down until
either found ITS level the avenues was prccipatcd
into Of the lakes The lakes themselves were over
flowing with turbd water notwithstanding the fact that
every and waseway was pouring form It's stream
OF the yellow element Aldermen Daniels OF the Eighth
Ward and Bergen of the Tenth on the ground from
before daylight in the morning during tie entire day. ana,
having obtained permission from the Mayor were busy
in repairing the damage done AT present IL is Impossible
To ascertain the amount OF damage done IN GREENWOOD
but 1t ls vauOusly estimated at from $1,000 10 10000
York the effects Of the storm were less felt than
other places probably OWING to the particular fOfna
tiOn of the island lot Of -four and sugar lying on one
and mOlassrs of and at several places the Trdayo.
line Of cars between Yorkyle and Harlem the road was
submerged