The evening world., 1889-07-31
2 O'CLOCK.
WATERS HAVOC.
Serious Floods Caused by the Heavy
DOWnpOuT Of Rain.
Rivers Overflow and Dams Are Swept
Away In New jersey.
Negroes in Elizabeth Believed That
Another Deluge Had Come,
A Reservoirs Gates Thrown Open
to Prevent Disaster.
Negroes in Elizabeth Believed That
Another Deluge Had Come.
A Reservoirs Gates Thrown Open
to Prevent Disaster.
Orange Valley Suffers, Perhaps, tho
Most Severely.
Considerable Destruction bv Rain All Along
the Hudson River.

The terrible fall of rnin has deluged New
jersey the most severely. The fullest force
Of the pouring food was along Eastern
Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
All along the Hudson the torrent was pro-
fuse and in the towns and hamlets through
these sections, and especially in the lower
lying villages Of New Jersey and through the
Orange Mountain section of the State, it
looked as II everything would be swept away.
Dams and bridges were washed away or
obliterated. Plainield was one of the
heaviest sufferers aud the inmates Of the ele-
CANT residen ces here and the farmers thought
ominously of Jobnstown, and the wild havoc
the water made in the fated Conemaugh
Valley.
though barns and outbuildings were in
many instances swep. away.
DAMS GIVE WAY.
Co~ddlington's Dam on Stony Brook yielded
to the enormous pressure of water, and in its
destruction the Green Valley Mills were ex-
posed to imminent peril. All the cellars and
first floors of stores In Somerset street are
flooded.
Tiers Dam gave way, and Green Brook.
swollen to an angry torrent. poured into the
street. More than three square miles Of the
own are submerged.
+ FLOOD AT FANwooD.
At Fanwood and Motherhood the water is
three feet high in the streets. aud people
have had TO beiake themselves to the upper
floors OF their dwellings.
The Raritan and Railway rivers are fear
fully swollen. Al Newark the ferocity of the
rain was greater than ever occurred III that
town. Pipes were burst, streets were
flooded. aud there were washouts III pro-
fusion on the railroads.
Great fears are entertained about the
Orange Water Reservoir dam, which was not
considered safe. Eppley Park has been
nearly ruined. 1t was laid out at an expense
of $4O, 600 not long ago.
IN THE MOUNTAIN PASSES.
The water roared through the mountain
passes. the 5 .reains being fed by the water
that had burst through he dams. 1t tore
down, carrying huge boulders and debris
with II.
II. o. Bowers was swept away while trying
to cross the swollen liver III II boat. Tn ee
or four persons were thought to be lost. but
no definite details are yet known Of any loss
of life. All the roads through the Orange
Mountains are badly washed away.
SEVERE RAINFALL.
The rainfall has been severe all along the
Atlantic seaboard Atlantic City being almost
the only place TO get on easily.
Block Island also escaped. The rain there
WAS only two-hundredths of an inch. The
am poured down westerly from the coast to
the lake region.
NO STORM CENTRE.
There is no storm centre, as the rains,
heavy as they nave been. were really local
rains. There Was a high barometer with the
rain. which IL unusual. The highest
barometer on the coast was at Hate as:
so "A. At La Crosse, Wis, it was 30.22, Here
it is 80. Oh.
INCHES OF WATER.
The rainfall was 8. 30 at Bal imore, 2. 40 at
Washington; Philadelphia, 2. "a Portland.
Me-. rs; Horthteld. Vt "a. Here III New
York it was two inches:
The rain is largely due to the high
region, with a low barometer between them.
To-pAY's PREDICTIONS.
The temperature IN New York City this
morning is "a. Boston, "a; Philadelphia and
Washington, 70; Chicago, IS; and the highest
of all. "a, ut Key West. The lowest was so, ut
La Crosse, Wis.
Sergeant Dunn gives as indications for the
next twenty-four hours. for New YORK. City
and vicinity commencing from 10 4, n, to-
day continued showers. II may clear to-
morrow.
THREE-INCH RAINFALL IN NEW JERSEY.
The rainfall in New Jersey was fully three
inches. Tue annual average for rain is
something less than sixty inches. the eX-
cess so far this year is 6. 80, and Tor this
month alone II is 8. %.
III August, 1915, the rainfall WAS 10. ~. In
September. 1882, 1t was IA 80. and during tine
twen y-four hours from Sept. % to Sept. "a
of that year there were 6,2i, the heaviest rain
on record for the time.
This months total in rain is s.55. II has
been q cool month on the average, May and