Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-06-28
A DYKE CUT
And Several of ChicagO's Su-
burbs Are Inundated.
Soufth Chicago, Pullman and
Adjacent Towns.

Cutting of the Embankment-AnE pi-
demic OF Some Disease Feared.
CHICAGO, June 28.-S Several square
miles Of territory adjacent to the village
Of Dauphin Park, suburb of this city,
were buried beneath a food Sunday
night, and thousand or more houses
between State street and Lake Michigan
were at the mercy of the waves, which
strong northwest wind forced through
the Easements and first floors.
The great body Of water which had
been collecting in the lake region had
broken all barriers, and Sunday after
noon burst the last barrier at Eighty
seventh street, rushing down with ter
rife force upon Grand Crossing, whose
citizens were panic-stricken by the sight
Of q sea of rising water, generally invad-
Ing every home, driving householders
either from their dwellings or to the
second stories.
Every basement is flooded, and the
foundations of numbers of buildings are
weakened.
The immediate cause of the flood is
the breaking of the Eighty-seventh
street bank, due to an accumulation OF
water during the recent storm.
At Fordhain and Dauphin Park the
suffering was only less in the degree
that there were fewer to suffer, and
Less number to experience the terror OF
q possible death before morning in
waters which were rising ut the rate OF
one inch an hour. Every effort was being
made by those overtaken by the flood to
escape with their families. 1t was only
by means of improvised RATS that move
Ment from one point to another was posi-
bic. Up to Sunday night no loss CT HE
had been reported, but rescue parties
had started to help those whose pei1lous
condition gave rise to Il fear for their
safety.
The condition of affairs at Grand
Crossing and Dauphin Park Monday
morning was as bad as Sunday night
People had become accustomed to the
food, however, and were making TIE
best of the situation. In South Chicago,
Pullman and adjacent towns business is
transacted in second stories. Rats,
large dry goods boxes and other i'm
proyised craft were also muse and ON the
whole the inhabitants were doing as well
as could be expected.
The Situation.
A resume of the situation in the flood
ed district Is rs follows: Drevel avenue,
from Burnside to Seventy-fifth street, is
under water
In the same condition are Dobson
avenue, Ellis avenue, Shell avenue and
Storm avenue from Ninety fifth to Seven
ty-fourth streets.
Cottage Grove avenue, from Ninety.
fifth TO Seventy fifth streets, is undeI
water, and no electric cars have been
running along there since Saturday
morning. Sand, dirt and straw have
been used to elevate the road bed, but Il
no advantage 30 far
Seventy sixth street from the Illinois
Central tracks to Cottage Grove avenue
Ia under water.
Seventy-ffth street, the main street OF
the place, Is overtlowed nearly rs badly
Woodlawn avenue from Eghty-thirC
street to Seyentieth street is impossible
The gas works and electric light work.
are menaced by the flood and work i
gdng on under protest
Delivery wagons have been abandoned
and goods are carried by boat in thu
flooded district
The estimated rise of the water since
the dam gave way is twelve to eighteel
inches The water IL within seVera
inches of the main floors of several bust
ness houses on Seventy-hfth street, an.
In several places watch was kept al
Sunday night to remove goods III cas-
the water continued to rise. The lunl
Der yards are under water and timber
are floating in the street.
At the Central hotel six feet of waite
has forced the moving of goods acros
The street.
This is all west of the Illinois Centra
track, the embankment of which acte
o. dyke and kept the east side from II
undation TO great extent.
Was the EN- bankment Cut?
g. The rwater, came from a large sui
merged territory in the region OF Mu
lake. The Chicago authorities wei
asked for aid.
There are rumors that the HOOD VIZ
caused by the anbankment being Gu
ns the result of rivalry between re,
estate men. The water is ut a standstll
and II is not likely that any deaths wi
occur from drowning. There is no on
let, however, for the water, so that
4, viii only disappear by soaking throue
the earth and evaporation. As cons
0uence an outbreak of typhoid or son
other disease is feared.
n bON
There were rumors Sunday night tn
the Eighty street dyke, Il
breaking of which flooded the suburb;
towns, Grand Crossing and Dauph
Park had been cut. These rumors ha'
been confirmed by one witness and I
examination of the side lines tifty-to
torrent.
The son of J. b. Richmond, who liv
near the dyke, saw four men late Satu
day night cutting the dyke with plc
and shovels. He asked them what tn
were doing, and for an answer receiV
q command to "Get out, in hurry,
The boy thoroughly frightened II
home, but told no one the occurren
until his father returned from home Ia
at night He Immediately notlh
Street Commissioner kentZler, w
/ early Sunday morning with toi
worknen and squad Ipolice trC
Grand Crossing station, s,drted ont
repair the dyke and arrest the men W
were seen cutting 1t.
subsiding.
The waters in Dauphin Park ut nc
Monday were subsiding and by night
Il was expected the village would
comparatively out of water. The Ora
Crossing people were nearly as bad
a. ever, but the flood there also snow
signs Of receding and there was univer
Joy In consequence. Half the populat
Iof the two villages was mt home Mono
and men, women and children w
lwading around barefoot trying 10
household goods into safety or paddl
around In boats in search of asslstail
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