The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-24
Providence Was as "Wet as a Drowned
Rat' for Many Hours.
BOTTOM OF TIE CLOUDS FELL OUT
The Wind Blew ut the Rate OF Twenty
four Miles an Hour, Playing Havoc
with Telegraph and Electric Car
Wires, and Doing Other Damage.

Providence was "as wet as drowned
rat" last night. In fact it was wet all
day yesterday. The clouds began TO leak
early yesterday morning. aud they con-
tinued to leak all day, all night, and un-
til late this forenoon.
LeakS That's no name for 1t; at times
1t seemed as IL the bottom of the clouds
had fallen ont.
From z o'clock yesterday morning TO z
o'clock this morning. the rainfall
amounted to 2 42-100 inches. The heaviest
fall during any one hour was 30-100 of an
inch, between 1890 and 1880 last night.
A spitefui Wind.
And the wind Did it blow It did. It
was a southeast wind. and between 8 and
0 o'clock last evening u was skipping
through Providence at the rate of "a
miles an hour 1t was under full sail,
aud seemed 10 know where it was going.
Providence was too damp for IL, and IL
was In hurry to reach drier climate.
1t was spiteful wind. Nothing seemed
to afford it greater delight than to turn
umbrellas wrong side out, drive the rain
down the backs ofin offensive pedestrians,
slam blinds ana doors off their hinges,
and strip the trees of their already scant
foliage. And how IL did make the tele-
graph and electric car wires sway and
huml
Did You Walk?
The electric cars had hard time of 1t.
The electric power gave out several timss
yesterday and last night aud many people
stood ankle deep in water half an hour at
stretch waiting for the electrics to come
along and pick them up and then many
~ 3 ha- had f. IL fah
suspended ON alLIh lines People who
had appointments had their choice of
three things: "Buy hack" foot it, or fail
to keep the appointments.
1t was a great storm, a disagreeable
storm. And we are glad the sun Is sbin-
ing again!
The Roadway sinks
The storm had bad effect on the work
recently done by tho contractors on the
sewers and telephone conduits on
South Main street, from Crawford
to Power street. The pavements
have sunken from three to twelve inches.
At the corner of Ward street the earth is
settled sufficient Co allow the
curb stone to topple over.
Gangs in the employ of tho
Union Railroad company and the con-
tractors are at work upon the street.
They expect to repair the damage with
out any very great amount Of incon-
venience to the public.
A Boulder on the Track.
Freight train 1876 on the central divi-
sion of the New York and New England
railroad, known as the cannon Bali"
express, met with an accident this
morning which might have been
disastrous in its result. The train
left Willimantic. Conn.,, at 1880 O'clock
in charge of Conductor Jolles, Mogul
engine III, in charge of Engineer Roth,
drawing the train. When few
miles from Plainfeld the train was
slowed down. preparatory to cooling hot
box on one of the heavily loaded cars.
Before it was brought to standstilI it
crashed into large boulder weighing
nearly ton which had become loosened
by the heavy rain and had fallen directly
between the rails. Had the
train been running at it's
usual speed the cars would have
been wrecked and lives endangered IL not
sacrificed. AS it was the pilot aud breast
beam were crushed in. but otherwise
there was no damage.