The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-04
JERSEY CITY FLOODED.
Much Damage on the Hill
and Many Cellars Filled
With Rain.
FARMERS SERIOUS LOSS.
Latter Day Deluge In the West
Rivers and Lakes Overflow
Their Banks.

Spring seems to have no consideration
for anything except to discover all the
despicable means that it can to make
people miserable. In Jersey City people
looked. this morning, as if they had been
on an investigation to some subter-
ranean or aquatic region, as they
truGged along, frantically grasp
ing umbrellas and bundles.
When they got to a big puddle, circus
is not in compa rison to the indescribable
way that that exasperating umbrella and
those pesky bundles make them perform
all sorts of antics.
The streets moved in streams of muddy
water. In some places crossing could
not be effected. so deep was the water.
RAILROAD BANK CoLLAPSES.
The earth embankment Of The Central
Railroad cut at Forest end Ocean aven-
ues, caved in this morning. completely
covering the tracks for a distance OF 20O
yards. A large force of men was put to
work to remove the construction. IraVel
was delayed about one hour.
DAMAGE ON THE HILL.
On the Hill there has been considerable
damage done by the heavy rainfall and
fierce wind. In many places trees have
been uprooted and thrown to the ground,
blocking the passageway on the side
walks and streets. Several trees have
been destroyed in this manner at Fair
mount and Cornelison avenues, Harmon
street, Communipaw avenue, Central
avenue, Central avenue, Monticello ave-
nue. and Communipaw avenue near the
West Side.
Flower gardens have to suffer. too.
Some of these have become inundated
RI r I,or Of r ha y,Io
Some of the enterprising farmers in the
furthermost borders of the city have had
the seeds which they had sown three aud
Two weeks ago, we'll soaked, and these
have rotbed away, incurring heavy loss
TO some of them. A few who have straw
berry patches, say that that fruit Will be
ate this year on account or the neaVT
rain and late approaching spring.
FLOODS IN HoBoKEN.
In Hoboken, near the Hundred Steps,
where the West Shore Railway passes,
the place looks desolate, and the lots.
which are extremely low, are completely
inundated. There are about three dozen
twn-story frame houses around there,
and these are standing in the water.
A NEWS reporter called at one house
this morning, and managed to get from
the sidewalk TO the entrance OF the house
by q raft. which was floating in che
water The water was muddy, and about
two feet deep. The reporter propelled
the navigating plank to the back stoop OF
the house and. stepped of to the fourth
step, which was about three inches above
the water.
Wban inside the house the reporter
took in his SURROUNDINGS In the kitchen
was a small goat. chewing away at a
clothes wringer, and things were all
topsy.turvy in the room. The lady of
the house." Mrs. Dugan, showed the
scribe a bedroom with the chairs and
tables piled upon the bed. The floor was
richly carpeted with rain water.
FLOODED CELLARS.
The cellar was filled TO the brim with
water. and left no room for the tubs and
boxes TO float in. At another house the
people were all barefoot. as water had
got possession of the entire first floor.
The man was constructing a raf1, so
that he could get out to che
street, but when the reporter told
him that he might have q ride on the
reporter's raft, the man lost no time in
doing so, and when once landed upon
terra firma, he went off TO get something
for his hungry family to eat. From Mar
shall TO Jackson streets this same con-
dition prevails, and cannot be remedied
until the rain ceases, and the water s0aks
into the ground.
Newark avenue from City Hall to Hen
derson street on the north side was flood
that side. The receiving basins at thai
point are slightly defective,
At Seventeenth and Grove streets, the
street is impossible for pedestrians. The
water is fully three inches high. The car
tracks are covered. and the horses seem
to take delight in giving shower bath
to the drivers.