Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-06-30

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the boiler fire. One engine was stopped.
a man who was on piece work STOPPED
long enough 10 remove his shoes and
stockings and roll up the bottom of his
phntaloons, after which he resumed
work. At the car shops at the foot
OF Third and Fourth streets, the
water was from six to eight inches deep
and in order to continue work the car
builders had TO hastily erect trestes upon
which to stand. The painters had to stop
| work 1T o'clock. BY that time the roofs
OF the shops were leaking badly and there
was considerable moisture and had the
| painters not ceased work their painting
would have been spoiled. In the storeroom
men had to wade through water reaching
above the tops Of their shoes. No serious
damage was sustained.
Shipyards and wharves along the Chris
| tiana were submerged, but no great danl-
age resulted. The sewer building, at The
foot Of King street, was filled with water,
| and this morning men were engaged in
baling it out. Joseph l.. Carpenter Jr., u
| member of the Board OF Directors of the
street and Sewer department, stated that
IL was not damaged. AT the shipyard of
| the Puscy u Jones Company the office
| was surrounded by water and water ex-
tended half way up the machine shop.
The blacksmith shop was flooded and
work had to stop. At the Gompany's lum-
| Front street in the immediate vicinity
the water was a foot deep and the gates Of
the yard had to be closed to prevent lum-
Der Heating out. The sewer building at
the foot OF Lombard street was inundated
but not damaged Along Church street from
Front 10 Fourth and OH Third and Fourth
streets from the railroad to the Christiana
there was one vast sheet of water almost
foot deep. Tho works of the Diamond
state Iron Company had to shut down
about half an hour on account of water
getting i'll some machinery. The prop
erty of Wilmington Steamboat Com
pany, at Fourth street wharf. was
inundated but not damaged. The
Mccullough Iron Company did not suffer
loss and was not put To any inconvenience.
The shipyard of the jackson & Sharp
Company was partially under water, but
no damage resulted. The Christiana was
at high tide and i'll consequence the water
drained Off the land slowly.
In the cellars of the morocco factory of
the John Il. Baker Company the water,
which backed up from Il sewer, reached
tended nearly to the boiler fire. When
the water began to rise two men
climbed up Oh dry places and
when the water continued to ascend
they had to get in a tub and
float to the stairway. Tile watts were flooded
and will have to bc renovated Work had
to be suspended about an hour. Consider
able material was damaged but, it is
thought, none Of the stock was damaged.
A barrel OF material which ilouted around
cellar cannot now be found. An estimate
of the loss cannot be given at present.
The storm in the Ninth ward was not so
severe us previous storms have been. The
streets were badly washed and branches of
trees blown off, but no serious DAMAGE is
tal init
| little harm.
| The machinery in the Arlington mills on
| Nandever avenue below Market street was
shut down by the water entering the fly
wheel. The workmen were permitted to
so home. The earth on Market street
from Eleventh To Sixteenth was cleared
and the streets made bare.
Street Commissioner Francis McCloslSey
reported matters on Tuesday not near us
bad as was expected. The worst is the
| washing away of the sewer AT Fifth street,
| between Madison and Monroe. One OF the
| inlets at Oak street and Maryland avenue
| Just finished, is leveled to the bottom.
| The wooden bridge Oh Beach, between
| Van Buren, and Harrison streets, is washed
away. The other damage is mostly along
Lancaster avenue and Pleasant street, he
tween Adams and Monroe where the eel
| lars were flooded and the water flowing in
and out last night. The wind from the
southeast aided the high tide, which. at
the time, was flowing over the docks
| Taking into consideration all these points,
he expressed the opinion that the city
sewerage system stood the test us we'll us
could be expected.
ENGINEER NATIONS REPORT.
Chief Engineer of Sewers r. Chalkley
Hatton was seen on Tuesday. He reported
as follows;
81 have been all around this morning
and see, relatively speaking, very little
damage to city property. That at Shipley
Run comprises the largest. Repairs there
can be made ut an expenditure of about
| $1,000.
Elsewhere public work is not damaged
to any extent. The manhole at Oak street
and Maryland avenue, ust built, is washed
out. The cost will fall on the contractors,
Acock & Siddall, vino had not quite
| finished their work. II will not exceed
| 500. The department was fortunate in
| having all the sewer trenches open and
well protected by sheathng.
"brandywine interceptor is intact and
also the other mains as far MS known.
| Considerable expenditure will have to be
nude by the department i'll cleaning away
street silt from the apertures and within
old sewers. That is our biggest loss, out
side Of the Shipley run incident, and $500
| will cover it,
''Shipley run sewer broke at q point Just
below Fifth between Madison and Monroe
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