Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-06-03

down stream, but having lots of it's fresh pant
scraped off. The clubs blue, white and REQ
pennant was still flying from the flagstaff. The
canoes were all removed Saturday. One
thousand dollars will probably cover damage
done to the coal-tar depot and wharf Of E. b
| Warren. Lots Of barrels-some full, SOME
empty-wers washed away.
The Gas companys loss is quite extensive,
The brick structure near the waters edge, in
which the hosting engine was, lost more than
half of its walls, and, had it not be en- for the
protection afforded by the more staunchly built
dollhouse Just above, would probably have
been completely swept away.
The Washington ammonia and chemical COM
pany have suffered but little. There was three
Feet Of water in the works; but little damage
was done the stock. The water did not put out
the fires in the engine-room. but it had muddied
everything within its Shiny reach to a very con-
pet grape vines in the yard looked like pond
| lily leaves yesterday. A big carp disported him-
self in the engine-room.
SINKING OF wHART LOADED WITH FUEL.
J. Maury Dove suffered very severely. Sat
urday he thought he would escape with but
little loss Sunday the entire property was
under water. The upper or G street wharf
went down in the morning with rush and a
roar taking with it lots of coal and wood. The
big derricks followed and two full coal barges
left at $50 a. m. Ten thousand dollars would
hardly recoup Mr.. Dove.
THE ANALosrAN BoAr-HoUsE SWEPT OFF,
Between Cumberland's and Cranford,s works
there is big gap in the landscape. It is caused
by the absence Of the Analostan club boat
house. The boat-house went Saturday night,
taking with 1t a magnificent equipment of boats
and boating material, splendid furniture and
pianos, and large quantity Of valuable cloth
ing. The structure preserved its unity to a
considerable extent until it collided with the
Long bridge; then there was a crash of glass
and timber and the boat-house and contents
were gone beyond recovery. All the boats and
fittings could have been removed Saturday,
but in accordance with instructions from the
officers, no attempt was made to save anything.
Sunday afternoon Jesse J. Parks, Of Balti-
more. was resting on the foundations where
the boat-house stood. Jesse is pungy, loaded
down with wood; Jesse drifted there Sunday
morning.
Most Of the small buildings were flooded up
to their roofs. Littlefeld 4 Affords Office was
full of water on the lower floor. The two pro-
prletors were, however, leading a sort Of q
Robinson Crusoe existence in the second story
occasionally communicating with terra frma
through the medium OF messenger and boat.
BRIDGE AFLoAT.
Among the many things which Hoated down
the river we're the carcasses of three COWS, nu-
merous dogs and cats, and whole bridge The
latter was about 60 feet long, and seemed to be
long trip, Its cohesion was splintered of the
Long bridge.
AN ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.
The crowds along the river front seemed to
be, as a rule, good natured, but there were ex-
ceptions and consequent arrests. Several bat
ties were fought as to the ownership Of saved
firewood which really belonged to some one
else. One nervous specimen of mankind was
SO wrought up by the swirl of the muddy va
tiers that he tried to commit suicide by throw
ing himself into the stream. Officer Ghermon
who has demonstrated his ability as baseball
catcher, caught the crank and threw him to
third-the third precinct station.
THE MONUMENT ELEVATOR STOPPED
The water from the river percolated through
the soil OF the monument grounds, and Sat-
urday morning the engiHe-room at the base
OF the shaft was partly filed with the tide
This necessitated a stoppage of the engines
and the visitors were compelled to walk up the
shaft
FAMILIES CAMPING OUT.
The few families whose homes were on
Easby's Point have either been living on the
second floors Of their moist residences or else
forsook them altogether. All the furniture
downstairs will be damaged SO far as muddy
water can damage it. Farther down the bank
a number Of shanties are occupied, when there
is no food by colored people The unfortu-
mates have camped out ever since Saturday
evening.
A RELIEF PARTY
Saturdays increased food caught four men,
bers Of the Canoe club association on Analostan
island and Saturday evening found them with
out food. Early yesterday morning they nailed
distress signal to the flag pole on their boat
house, and during the morning Messrs Otis B.
Goodall, VIM. s. Dudley and J. A. Oliver all
n1an nhara 1a1 20 H.
hungry. light boat and quantity of pro-
visions were loaded on a wagon and taken over
the Aqueduct bridge into Virginia A start was
made from point just north of the entrance
to the national cemetery at Arlington and after
a pull of twenty five minutes the rescuing party
reached the island. Their welcome was a
hearty one. They remained on the island all
night. The distressed men were Commodore
Lake I. Darlington, T. E. Oertel and J. r.
Church.
THE LONG BRIDGE.
The Long bridge yesterday afternoon was an
interesting sight, and thousands Of people
crowded along the banks Of the river. All
night Saturday the bridge watchers paced rest
lessly up and down the north end of the bridge,
expecting every moment to see the bridge give
way. Directions were given to load the bridge
with all the cars available, and about 1880 D.
m, long train Of loaded freight cars backed
on 1t. The old causeway was completely SUBJ
merged, and the fence which divided the drive
way from the railroad tracks was swept away.
During the night q canal boat struck the
draw on the Virginia side completely disabling
it. good many Of the canal boats which had
been swept down against the bridge during the
day had been pushed away from the bridge.
The schooner Fannie, belonging to the Widow
Miller, which broke her moorings SATURDAY.,
lay short distance from the draw until day
light yesterday morning, when she came down
and truck the bridge with terrific force Her
crew OF fve men were rescued by Capt. Tay-
lor. Of the tug Hanson Keys, and Capt Davis.
Two more long-boats, the Purdy and the
George and Martha, came down yesterday
morning laden with lumber, and now lie there
com paratively disabled.
BETWEEN LONG BRIDGE AND 7rH STREET.
Very few Of the owners of wharf property,
between the Long bridge and 7th street slept
Saturday night. Many of them thought the
water would subside during the evening, but
instead of that it gained steadily and when
morning came it had pushed over the wharves
and In several places extended clear across
Water street. The street was appropriately
named yesterday, and the thousands Of curious
fully along the upper side Of the
street. looked with wonder upon the scenes
presented. As large proportion Of the
property on the wharves was coal, lumber and
other material Of that character, which could
not be moved to place of safety, all that the
owners OF property could do was done to take
the ordinary precautions and hope for the best
This they did. There was large force of men
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