Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-12-25
HEAVY RAINFALL.
The FIood-Gates Open Above the city
Sunday Night.
Considerable Damage Here and i'm the
SURROUNDING Country.

The rain Sunday night was the subject
OF general comment yesterday. Many de-
elared it to be the hardest they had ever
seen, but as this is said of almost every
heavy rain, the statement must be taken
With d llttle ealt. That it was an excep-
tionally hard shower-alm0st food III
iact-there can be no doubt. Saturday
! was one OF the dreariccSSt DAYS OF the year,
and rain fell at intervals all nignt ard all
dsy SHnaaf. IN tie afternoon the show
/. ers were more FREQUENT dna harder. and
after dark the water came down III sluiGes,
accompanied by thunder and lightning
| ard occasional blasts of wind. A number
OF persons Who Nste ctlieef to lie out on
the streets at about 10 o'clock, fo6ght =
regular battle with the rain, and more
than one narrator relates a very wet and
! disaHreeable experience in spite of UNI
! brellas and gvurcoats. Within very
| short time the cutters were oserfiowing,
! and NIFTY ~ the slieys running like so
many creeks Il tFas dien6l prospect
J for those who were lucky enough % he
s. able to remain within doors and
ysathh the course of affairs through
the windows. All th5 streams in this
vicinity were swollen out OF banks, the
bayous running over and the damage in
consequence considerable though not great
good was done t,,!!at cctils have been ac-
complished by the sanitary force IN . yssr.
The stone streets and alleys were abso-
lutely clean, as if they had been secured.
A twenty-one-inch sewer, which passes
ttndet the site, OF the new Milburn Iron
| Works, Fort fickerfne, atid c61nects with
culvert at Fifth street, and which
sewer was to drain some thirty acres in the
vicinity, became flooded and rose foot or
so over the locality. One of the large
| piers was undermined, but the damage
was not serious, and will amount perhaps
| to as much as $500. and it will be set right
again in q few days;
| Tie brick wall, and iiiasoifrf atthg foot
of Trezevant street was undermined and
wrecked. The Kansas CITY railway has
| been at heavy expense in erecting works
| OF protection at this point, but the whole
| of it was demolished by the storm. and
heavy outlay will be necessary to put it in
| order again.
The bridge three and one-haf miles
| east of this rity, on the Poplar street Bou-
| leyard, over Cypress creek, was washed
away, and travellers this morning coming
toward the city were compelled to go all
| the way TO Upion avenue before they
could cross.
Wolf4iver was booming yesterday morn
| ing. Sunday evening it was lower than
! it has been for some time, and during the
| night it rose fourseen feet under the long
bridge at Raleigh. The bottom, on this
side, was covered with water to a depth OF
aDout two feet The creek between the
Semetery and Raleigh was running like a
mill-tail. The water had overfowed the
| lowlands on either side several feet and
covered the tops OF the narrow levees. A
number of small bridges ON all the roads
| leading into the city were swept away, and
travel on this account was greatly OBJ
structed. Fences also suffered consider.
ably, especially to the south and southeast
of the city. At the hospital several panels
were washed up.