The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-08-19
LOCAL MATTERS. .

The HEAVY RAIN YESTERDAY MoRN1sa AND
SoME OF IT'S EFFECTS Seldom in the history
of the city, or In the memory Of its oldest in
habitant, has so much rain fallen In the same
space of time as. flooded the streets of Rich.
mond on Tuesday night. Commencing
q out O'Clock, it seemed as II the flood.
gates of heaven had been removed, and the
god Of the waters given supreme control.
The streets yesterday morning, where there
was no obstru ton to the hoW OF water
which was precipitated upon them, pre-
sented an appearance which must have de-
lighted the eyes Of the Board OF Health, they
were so clean aud free from all deleteIious MAJ
ter. Where. however, the flow Of water was
checked, whether by choked cuIYerts (aud so
great was the quantity of rubbish and so
rapidly did it reach their mouths that many
| OF them could not carry it off and were
tiiledl or reaching point where the fall was
but slight, the water left the heavier mate
rial with which 1t was laden, the deposit was
immense. Considerable damage was caused
IN various portions of the city where work
had been recently done. The curious one
sided cutters recently laid on Broad street
east of TWenty-seventh failed to carry of
The volume of water, and breaking over the
outer edge showed their incapacity and
demonstrated the truth that q few
more such showers will sweep the
cutters off entirely. The opening in the
stack In the. filling on Broad street where it
crosses Bloody Run gully was not suffi-
cient to carry off the w-ter which accumu-
lated there from either direction, and break
ing over the cutters it swept much of the
newly made earth down into the stream, and
possibly into the river, there to be dredged
out again. On Twenty.ifth street, where 8
| new culyert is being constructed, much dam.
age was done. Ordinarily, when it rains q
| large quantity of water finds its way down
| this street ffom Church Hill. On Tuesday
| night it forced its way into the filing over
Lhe line of the new culyert, carrying
much of the Garth past Main street
into Cary and into the yard of the York
| River del0s, taking along everything in its
way. A square block of granite weighing
about one hundred pounds was moved some
distance down the gutter and left in Main
street. The deposit left in Main street at
| this point, and Immediately over the tracks
of the city railway, was from len to fifteen
inches in depth. Until its removal every car
which passed was thrown from the track.
Every street leading into Main street from
| Church Hill left its deposit at the point oi
intersection, and hands and carts were kept
busy some time yesterday in removing It.
Elsewhere in the city the damage by the
water was considerable. Messrs. Booth & Co.
upholsterers, Main street near Ninth. suf
fered good deli from the rain.storm. Theil
cellar. and indeed the store, was injured mol
little; In the former there was heavy de-
post of mud.
| On Brook avenue near st. Francis de Sales
Institute the new brick sidewalk was com
plctely washed out.
Operations were suspended at the new re
seryoir yesterday on account of the rain, bu
the work will doubtless be resumed to-day