The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-02-24
LOCAL INNINGS.
something o. Interest About the I'm
nreeedente dly Heavy Rains.
|uou.es in the Flats Flooded, and Deni.
zens Forced 10 Flee.
-, Grim Ghost Story with a Ven
geance.
Same other Locals Of Much Interest.
A heavy Flood

In the words OF the weather-bore, "the
fountains of the heavens opened up yester-
dsv and there was great falling of the
wsters.r A HERALD reporter made 1t his
bnsjness to look up the Oldest inhabitant,
and after poking stick OF tatfy at him as
| n how long he had lived, how well.pre.
served he was, and winding up with the re.
mark that he VAS considered tip-top au-
,hority on the weather, the old gent threw
S;mseIf wide open, and went in
unlimited, but having some regard for the
truth and the cost OF setting type, his re-
marks are boiled down into the statement
that for the time it poured that the likes Of
,he waterfall was never seen before in the
history of Dallas. This is the sum and
snhstance of a two hours interview. Turn
inc mn his pants, the reporter snaked an
nmhrella and proceeded to sift for flood
items, but 1t might be well to preface the
aood by stating that a hard rain fell
Yesterday morning about q O'Clock for
nearly an hour, whenit ceased, and another
and still harder tell about l p. m, lasting
about the same time, which Hooded parts
of the city. The cutters and the streets in
the business parts OF the city were within a
few minutes converted into running
streams, Or and ipv.ds IN t %Rany ssePP places
The police tore away, in places, the planks
| into the large sewer, which was filled to its
utmost capacity. The flats at the northern
terminus OF College street were inundated
and the houses were flooded, and the same
was the case in the flats northeast of the
Texas Central railroad and the San Jacinto
street railway. There was perfect lake
formed around the Times office, at the cor.
ner OF Main and Sycamore streets, and the
small boy had high time killing rats as
they swan for their lives. They must have
killed at least one hundred of them. The
most serious part of the food was
northeast of Elm and Pearl streets.
1t was mere that the greatest body of water
had gathered, and it swept through the
Oats in torrents. Clark's planning mill, sew
eral houses on the north of Pacific avenue,
and the Ph@nix planning mill, and a num-
Der of houses on the south side of the
avenue were inundated from tour to five feet
and in some places the water was from
six to seven feet deep. So copious was the
rainfall and so sudden the rise that several
had to go to the second story of the build
ings for safety. The vicinity in the neigh.
borhood of the Tabernacle church, on
Elm street, near Sycamore street, suffered
from inundation, and the cellars of the
printing house of Jones Bros, on south
Main, Just east of Sycamore street, were
filled with water to the depth of some two
feet. The water receded, however, as
rapidly as it had risen, and
a few hundred dollars will cover
all dmages. The rain appear to have been
general throughout north Texas. The
Trinity river is on a big boom and rising
rapidly. The sidewalks were filled with
people watching the rush of the water.
Some property-owners threaten to sue the
Pcity for damages, and the renters are on a
strike.
Shortly after the rain, the clouds par
tally cleared away, and the sun shone out.