Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-24
WILD STORM OF WIND AND RAIN.
Trees and WIres Blown Down and StIeet
 Torn Up All Over the City.

Torn Up All Over the City.
 The storm which passed over the city during the early morning hours did an incalculable amount of damage. Trees were blown down and branches broken of, and electric and telegraph wires were broken in almost every quarter of the city. The rainfall, which was very heavy, measuring 8. g inches, also caused a great amount of damage.
 A house connection was being made on North Main street, near the foot of Hill street, and the ditch, which was left open, was filled and washed under the street railway, so that cars could not pass that point until about II o'clock. On North Willow street, above Hill side avenue, a sewer was being built and about one hundred feet of it was open. The water worked down to the newly made sewer and into the trench in which new water main was laid but lately, and the street between North Willow and Chestnut avenue has been rendered impossible.
 In w. J. Schlegers yard two large limbs were blown down, destroying a fine tree. Two pear trees at the corner of | Spencer avenue, heavily laden with fruit, were snapped off. Another pear | tree on Welton street was destroyed. At I553 North Main, the old J. B. Mullings place, a large tree was blown over | against the house, breaking a large cor ner of the roof. The old Stocking place on Prospect street had large tree blown against it also, damaging the roof. Trees were blown down in front of the Merri- | man house, on the north side of the green, and several places on Prospect street and Hillside avenue suffered more or less.
 At the corner of North Willow and West Main streets, in front of the Mitchell residence, large tree was torn up from the roots, falling across North Willow and blocking the street, tearing down the wires. The wire was pulled out of box g, sounding the fire alarm. Two large limbs were broken off tree on South Willow street, near Grand.
 An old forest oak in front of Mayor
 Webster's house had about twenty feet of the top broken of. On Leavenworth street, near the corner of Harrison ave
 the street, tearing down the wires and
 breaking off an electric light pole. The train due in Waterbury at 10:10
 on the Naugatuck division, was struck
 by a falling tree above Torrington and
 the guard railings of the car steps were
 badly bent. Above WatervIlle another fallen tree was encountered.
 A big washout was made on Washing
 ton avenue near South Leonard street | hc IS pEdCttCdllN liSSdblG duN the street department should place some safeguards and lights there this even lag. South Riverside street is covered
 with water and pedestrians have had t.
 make quite round to get from SouIf
 Brooklyn on to Bank street.
 The S:S2 train from Bridgeport did no
 reach Waterbury until 9:45, and no mai ' had been received from New York ul
 to 8 o'clock. Trains on the New Eng r..1,N N.N lt,t Washouts are reported on the main lines of the Consolidated road between s New York and Bridgeport. At Harlem
 serious washout caused a delay of ar
 hour. At Mount Nernons the track wert = washed away and a freight trair wrecked. The extent of the damag, , cannot be learned, as communication b,
 wire is cut off. Another washout oc cured at the Derby junction. Railroad 3 men report that the damage by the
 storm is the worst experienced in years. The storm played hobs with the tele phone service, communication beint : cut off from all the surrounding towns
 and there being many loca
 crosses" An extra force of mel
 was set at work, and this afternoon thu
 local circuit was almost in shape again Two men were sent south to examine the lines and make repairs, but it Is no known when communication will be re stored with outside places. It is tht
 worst storm which the Southern New , England company has ever had to con
 tend.
 First Selectman Pinney reports tha
 the town roads were but slightly dam aged by the storm.
 It was almost impossible to carry raised umbrella when the storm was a
 its height early this morning. I'm , wind blew with great force and seemed , to come from all quarters at once. T,
 make matters worse there are many low sawnings on South Main and Banl : streets, making it difficult to carry al : umbrella, even when the conditions ar ! more favorable than they were to-day II Another thing that is noticeable on wet day was called to the attention of
 DEMOCRAT reporter this morning; tha
 is, the amount of waste paper and de , cayed fruit seen in the streets. Man,
 dealers throw refuse in the gutter , whenever there is a rain storm, making ! an eyesore and inviting the spread o J IiaaaSa uarDoa