St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-17
1T MADE A RECORD
Wednesdays Storm Left It's
Imprint on the City and
Vicinity.
The Insurance Commissioners
Conclude Their Play
Convention.
Police Officers, Under the Re-
form, Must Not Lunch
at Bars. i
The Griffin Murder Case Ends
in a Plea Of Man.
slaughter.

The impression prevails, even among
the oldest settlers, that the rain storm
of Wednesday night was the most Sc
we're that this city has ever experienced.
The volume of water that fell in a very
few moments was something almost APP
palling. The streets ran like raging
rivers, and the damage must have been
considerable in the aggregate, though.
happily, there is no single instance Of a
serious character.
In this connection. il should be related
that when st. Paul was first laid out the
most sanguine ideas of the optimists
never apprehended anything like the
magnitude to which the city has
finally grown. Consequently the
older sewage system is entirely in
adequate to the demands made
upon it in Instances Of this kind. The
storm water was but poorly carried off
Wednesday night, and this fact ac
counts for quite percentage of the
total losses suffered from The cloud
burst. The engineers department is
doing all it can from year to year to in
crease the capacities of such sewers as
are too small to perform the functions
required, and good many have been
reconstructed. AS the city widens out
the drainage increases accordingly.
All of the railroads suffered more or
less from the food. The washouts on
the Kansas City, however, were the
most serious. They were SO bad, in
deed. that no trains were sent out dur
ing the day. Everything will be NOV
Ing today, however, as usual. There
are little waShoutS, even in the city
limits, and every railway company had
crews of men repairing the damage.
Swede hollow took a prodigious bath.
Modest Phalen creek. usually a dry
rayine at this time of the year. was so
swollen that the banks were flooded.
The entire hollow presented frightful
scene during the fierceneSS of the storm.
The wafer came rushing into the little
novels, driving the inmates to higher
ground and out into the drenching and
almost suffocating rain. Three OF the
wretched shanties that border the creek
inst north of the East Seventh street
fill were undermined and they t0ppled
'oyer. The inmates had scarcely time to
escape TO places of safety. No one was
Huft' anu Inc -oSScS SuiloItu tHeIc III
polnI OF dollars and cents cut
very small figure. The shantieS
were righted yesterday for the
water that has flooded the hollow
soon subsidized, and in the afternoon yes
terday the only traces OF the exciting
scenes and incidents of the night before
was seen in the muddy condition of the
patches of ground that does humble
service as streets, and an occasional
washout along the embankmentS that
protects the dwellers III the hollow from
land slides.
The electric ears were suspended in
the western portion OF the city for some
time after the storm, but the loss suf-
fered by the company amount to COM
paratively little. Those who went
home after the rain on the in
terurban cars were amazed at finding
the sidewalks nearly all presenting
a condition that reSembled pOntoon
bridges. This was especially true
OF University avenue out near the
street car barns at Dale street. The
Eighth ward was badly flooded because
it is but poorly equipped with sewers,
and some Of the easements and cellars
were flooded. The streets were badly
washed out, and the city will find con-
siderable to do in the near future to get
luClil OdCh ulO ldil
traffic.
The old Tenth street sewer that sue
cumbed to a similar storm of last year,
bat which was less severe. however,
was again burst by the tremendous
weight of water that came pouring into
it during the rain.
The city engineers office report about
$1,000 damage from the storm. All of
the dirt streets were badly washed out,
especially in West ST. Paul and Oh
Arlington hills. At Decatur and North
streets part of the street was washed
over the bank on the Duluth tracks.
The catcll-basinS at tine foot of steep
hills were filled with dirt, gravel and
stones. No sewers were injured except
on Tenth and Fort streets, where the
top arch of the sewer was forced off by
the water. The street at this point was
torn up for considerable distance, and
it was thought the work being done to
enlarge the sewer was all destroyed.
W. j. Preston, who has the contract for
enlarging the sewer, reports that aside
from dirt which was washed in. no DAM
age was done. The street railway COM
pany has been running on single track
temporarily put down at the corner of
Tenth and Fort streets, and this was
washed out. There was a delay in
t rayel on the ROndo and Lafayette line
oW ing to the WaShout.