St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-28
STORM PARTICULARS.
Further Information as to What
the Rain Did.

the Rain Did.
Minneapolis never had such storm.
The rain of Tuesday night was the
Nearly seven inches of water fell be-
tween 4 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and
= o'clock yesterday morning. That is a
remarkable fall. when you come to
think of it. That means that more rain
fell i'll fifteen hours than fell during the
whole month of June. and people CON-
planned because that was rainy month.
The damage done i'll Minneapolis
cannot be estimated. Every man who
had basement had water in it. Some
heavy damages. The Gillete-HerZog
company experienced a loss of $1,000
from the flooding of the shops. Nearly
all of the betting in the shops was
ruined. Other business houses lost in
the same way. The Minneapolis School
Furniture factory, on Eighth street and
Eighth avenue southeast. was also
flooded. In the cellar of Rugg, Fuller
IL Co.'S store, on First avenue,
lay two feet of water yesterday
morning. and the store of the
McCusick-COpelin company across the
street was in the same predicament.
The most Interesting freak of the storm
was two-stOry frame block at Thirty
second and Washington avenue north.
1t was undermined 10y the rain and split
in two from top to bottom, one-half col
lapsing totally. No one was hurt. The
sewers were reported broken in several
places. among them Ninth avenue south
and Sixth street, First avenue south and
Fifteenth street, and Lake street and
Nicollet avenue. The latter break
flooded the basement of the Filteau
block. The railway crossing OH Cen
trail avenue was under foot of rum
ming water yesterday morning. The
street-car track was undermined and
dropped foot, and the lumber piles in
the n. z. Clarke lumber yard collapsed.
BasSett's creek is higher than it has
been since tine great flood of 1866. Fru-
ems dam, at GlenwOOd, was washed out,
and the embankment near the Cedar
Lake road was damaged considerably.
Three barber shops on Central avenue,
between Fourth and Sixth streets. were
flooded. The cellar of the new Y. M.
&. \. building was an extensive and
imprOmDtu natatOrum. A piece of
sidewalk on Fifth avenue south. be
tween Twenty-seventh and Twenty
eighth streets, was completed Tuesday.
Yesterday morning it had float
ed into the middle of the street.
There was five feet of water in the
cellar Of Moody's drug store at Twenty
fifth and Central avenues northeast.
The pavements on Twentieth avenue
north and on Crystal Lake avenue and
the street railway tracks In the same
vicinity were badly washed out, and
some of the paving blocks were washed
by the storm clear down to Eighth ave-
nue. north, near Russell. A mile of the
new Plymouth avenue pavement is
gone. The bridge across Keegan's lake
OH Sixth avenue north is submerged.
The sidewalk, paving, curb, ETC., for 100
feet on First street north. near BaSSett'S
creek. was washed out and carried into
the river.
At 8 O'Clock yesterday morning cou-
pie of coiored families living near the
junction. IN the vicinity of Fillmore and
Pierce streets northeast, were aroused
by the water encroaching upon the mat
tresses of their beds. They were greatly
alarmed, for the water was three feet
deep in their rooms and still rising. A
man named John Duffy, who lives in
the vicinity, was also aroused by the
flood, and, in his night clothes, made
his way through water waist deep to the
houses of the cOlored people. He car
red the women and children of both
families out of the houses to compare
lively dry spot, and then cared for them
in his own home.
The basement of the st. James hotel
was flooded. A sand slide ten feet deep
blockaded the St. Louis trains at Ken
wood. A picnic par t. OF between 300
and 400 was tied up at Minnetonka over
night. The Milwaukee roads "Flying
Dutchman" was delayed several hours
l, nfx t,nr Sr
nal building and the Laramee block
adjoining were both flooded. The
restaurant in the basement of the
Pence opera house was flooded and
pumped out by the fire department
The basement of the Hennepin County
Barrel company was flooded by water
ami considerable damage done to stock.
One of tine foundation walls Of the new
Mcmillan block Oh First avenue north,
near Washington, was undermined by
the ram and collapsed. The millinery
store of Nj. E. Wallace on Nicollet av-
enue received a drenching. The pat
tern room was flooded with six
inches OF water. Carson Bros liv-
cry stable. at 102 First street north.
was flooded, and the horses which were
in the basement were nearly drowned
before they coulu be released. Ole Pc
terson's horses. at Third street and
Twentieth avenue north, had a much
similar experience. The Great Northern
short line was entirely disabled. From
Como avenue almost to Third street in
st. Paul three of the four tracks were
buried under blanket of sand, and
was necessary to run all the trains on
the remaining track with all the con-
venience of the single track clerk
water road of the Georgia coal mines.
The dry goods store of Hale. Thomas Il
Co. was badly flooded, causing a loss of
several thousand dollars. at midnight
word was sent to Mr.. Thomas by the