Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-10-24
THE STORM.
Its Effects in Several of the
Streets.
HIGH WATER IN THE RIVER.
The Grand-Avenue Branch Of the
Cable Road Forced to Stop
for Q Few Hours.

O'CLOCK Oh 1uobuoy AA6ho, OoAUAnuON
almost without cessation until yesterday
afternoon between and o'clock, when
it stopped and the clouds disappeared.
During these hours 1.87 inches fell, max
ing total of 6.15 inches for the storm,
and 7.56 inches for the season. In the
earlier part Of the night the rain was
light, but it became very heavy about 4
O'Clock in the morning-so heavy as to
waken many Of the people. 1t then sub
sided to a light rain, which continued
until about half-past O'Clock, and from
that time until 2 O'Clock it grew heavier,
until at the last hour named the water
came down at very lively rate, and the
streets presented the appearance Of
rivers. On the hills most of the streets
were badly torn up by the torrents,
which poured down regardless in
most instances of the cutters which have
been constructed for their convenience.
The Temple-street stream was especially
vigorous, and it emerged at the junction
of Spring and Main with enough force to
carry the water across Main street to the
curb in front of the Lanfranco block.
At one time q medium sized dog at.
tempted to ford the stream near the emu
of the Temple-street cable line. The
force of the water took him from his feet,
and despite his yelps carried him across
Main street and landed him on the
cobble stones.
At First street the water came into
Spring street 30 fast as to block up the
manhole, and for half an hour there was
q good-sized pond in front of the cloth
ing store on the northwest corner of the
two streets. Second street was torn up
from Grand avenue to Fort street, and be-
tween Fort and Spring the thoroughfare
had the appearance of q river. The
water poured out of the slots in the
cable trenches, and at Spring street it
came out carrying an immense quantity
Of sand. At the crossing of the two
cable lines at the junction of Fort and
Second, the water poured into the
trenches at q tremendous rate, and the
stream that flowed down Fort street was
fully ten feet wide, and in places
IA inches deep. Quite q number OF the
cobble-stonee in the cutters on Second
street were torn out and carried to the
foot of the hill, and after the rain had
stopped the cutters were found to have
been worn down about foot.
A rushing torrent of water came
down Franklin street, emptying itself
into lake Of no inconsiderable proper
tions on Spring street, and pedestrianism
was q work of some difficulty along that
side of the street for some time during
the early part of the afternoon. A. dog,
which was evidently weak from starva-
ton, attempted to cross this street
shortly after l O'Clock, but the force oi
the water was such as to carry the
animal off it's feet, and after being rolled
over and over several times, it was
drowned in the sight of quite numbe,
of pedestrians.
=. The water poured down Flower street
and Grand avenue in such volume at
Sixth that the streets ran full from curb
to curb, and several chickens were car
ried down the stream from some per-
sons yard. <Alameda street had the ap-
pearance of afever during the most of the
day, and the country below was flooded
so that school children could not go
home to their lunches. Below Ninth
street, on Main, the water covered the
streets and backed up into some of the
yards. Especially was this so in the
vicinity of Pine and California streete.
The streets east of Main were al } COW
drnd with water, and it was almost impossi-
BILE for the residents to leave their houses.
!. At one time it was feared that the river
Neuld rise sufficiently to break through
th8Aevee, but the cessation of the storm
relieved the minds of the City Engineer
and these living near the river. Between
the Downey-avenue viaduct and the
Kuhrts-street bridge q number of men
were kept busy bracing the levee with
bags filed with sand, and the water rose
to such height that it took out some of
the sand filling behind the facing. This
is one of the weak spots to which the
City Engineer has called attention sew
ersl times.
The instances of streets torn up, given
above, could be continued throughout
long list, but in no case, 80 far as re-
ported, did the damage extend beyond
that caused to the street itself, except in
the case of the cable road, the particu.
lars of the stoppage of which will be
found in another article. The Street Su-
perintendent's employees we're kept very
busy all day long in digging trenches
and conducting the water away from the
dangerous places, and Col. Morford
states that he has work ahead for all his
men for five weeks.
THE CABLE.