Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-05-18
A DELUGE AT BUNEOS AYRES.


The Greatest storm ofModern Times
Streets Inundated-Plazas Turned
into Eakes-Cafes Under WATERPROOF
pie Drowned In the Streets-an Awful
Scene.
Prom the Buenos Ayres Standard, March IL
On Wednesday, the 9th of March, one of
the most fearful storms ever experienced
in the River Plate burst over Buenos Ayres.
The afternoon was rainy, and weatherwise
people saw regular temporal setting in
from the southeast. Mr.. Louis Mclean
and others refused to allow their boats to
leave the mole with passengers; neverthe-
less, some had the temerity to venture, and
we learn that boat which left about %.
m. for the Vile del Salte, with lady and
two gentlemen, was capsized and the pas
sengeTs were drowned. IEEs
At the same time Captain Peel made
great efforts to procure the steam launch
Baby, to go aboard the Tycho Brahe,
which was to sail the same evening for
Liverpool, but the risk of going out twelve
miles deferred everybody from the attempt.
A passenger who had left for the Tycho
Brahe some hours before, and was unable
to reach her, turned back, and met the
boat, capsized, in which the lady and gen.
tlemen were lost. Mr.. M'Lean had de-
spatched boat with some sheep at s a. NJ,
which reached the Tycho Brahe safely, and
then seeing the storm coming on sailed for
| the Tigre instead of trying to return to
port. AS the evening closed in the storm
| increased, the rain began to fall in torrents
about o'clock, and many of the streets
were flooded with two or three feet of
water; this became deluge after four
hours of
THE MOST INCFSSANT OOWNPOUR,
and some people lost their lives in car
riages, trying to cross the Tercero At the
corner of Sulpacha and Cordoba coach
was carried away; the coachman escaped,
but the passengers and horses were drown
| ed. At Gale Libertad and Cuyo another
coach was carried down by the current, and
the driver and his horses drowned. At
Gale Defensa the current washed away a
child, and some other casualties of this
kind are reported in the south end. Some
of our friends resident at Cinco Esquinas
had to make detour by the Gale Riyada-
via to get home, the Recoleta omnibus
having broken down at $50, and the streets
become dangerous to cross. The once
Sellembre omnibus coming into town at 8
o'clock, found rapid stream at the corne,
of Piedad and Uruguay; the driver plung.
ed in, the bus was carried down 100 yards
and thrown on its side, two of the horses
| being drowned, and the passengers (eight
in number) forced to get out through the
windows and scramble or swim to the side
walk. Three corpses were picked up yes.
terday in Gale Uruguay, but they were
probably either horsemen or foot passen
gers brought down by the current. The
Northern Tramway had three horses drown
ed. In Gale Paraguay a coach upset; the
coachman was drowned, but some ladies
| inside were saved. The rainfall was
THE MOST DREADFUL EVER KNOWN.
The algibes were soon filed, and Their
the water flooded all the lower rooms O.
the houses. in some places to the height o.
three feet. We hear of floors having giveI
way in many houses, and in one case the oc
cupants of room narrowly escaped falling
into an old well or water-closet under the
floor. The houses near the brewery il
| Gale Bolivar were under water to the heigh
of three feet, and in those streets adjacent
to the Tercero the inhabitants were al
but drowned. The Plaza Parque was nav
igable lake, and the Cafe del Parvuc was
inundated. About 10 o'clock the rain sub
| tremendous force, coming in gusts an6
causing some of the highest houses tt
shake. At IL P. NJ. it was like hurricane,
and continued with more or less force till
in the morning. The captain of bark Da
mon says it was the most fearful gale he
ever experienced; it blew so hard that he
could not stand on deck, and the water
washed clean over his ship; his anchors
could not prevent him from dragging abou
120 fathoms. Her Majestys ship Cracker
rode it outwell, having foreseen the storm
by the fall of the glass from 90 80 to 80. s.
when the storm began; four ships drove
past her, but did no harm. The whale
boats were carried about in every direction
one was seen to go down with two mer
aboard, and of the seventy-two lost
or aground it is believed many of them haG
one or two men aboard.
CoRPSES PICKED UP.
The scene which presented itself yester-
day at daybreak is beyond description nine
corpses were picked up on the beach, three
at the foot of Gale San Martin, and others
are reported, but need confirmation.
THE SHIPPING.
The shipping disasters reported at Max
wells Commercial Rooms ara as follows:
| Italian gunboat Principessa Margarity, for.
merly the Osorio, ashore at the gas-house
steamer Emilia, with hay for the army
ashore at Pobre D1ablo, with stern smash
ed in. Str. Cavour, sunk, crew escaped to 6
| lighter. Two schooners and polaere, one
| of them a German vessel painted green
near the gas-house. Three pilot boats, the
/ Henry, No 2S2, and No. 314, ashore a
same place. Schooner Catalina uniniured
ditto. A pilot boat smashed up under the
mole; another sunk. Sixteen whaleboats
in front of Lorenzo Tueres's quinta, anG
fifteen between the foot of Gale Charcas
and Tucuman. Several whaleboats sunk
Dutch schooner Maria Haydorn lost bow
spirit. Portuguese bark ditto. German
schooner ditto. Whaleboat Domingo sunk
Se7erul lighters lost masts and rigging.