The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-06-21
ON SECOND STREET.
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ings on each side of the landing.
The water has gone down off Nor
rison along Front, leaving the st,
Charles Hotel free of access. When this
building, which includes on the ground
floor, bar, billiard room, dining room,
and office, was opened up, the havoc
wrought was discovered to be far worse
than had been imagined. 1t is needless
to &c into a detailed description, eX-
cept to say that, including two fine bill
lard tables, all the furniture and fit
tings are completely ruined, and can
probably be made more useful as fire.
wood thar anything else. The sights
that present themselves in these places
after the water has left them, give one
something Of an idea Of what will be
discovered when all the submerged
Front and First street business houses
can be examined.
A representative Of a well known COM
mercial agency told me today that many
old established merchants of this city
had barely w%eathered the late financial
storm when all Portland's banks went
under, and that this flood would with
out a doubt drive them to the wall.
lie continued: where a few years ago.
a months loss of business would have
matteled very little to these men, just
now, coming after the greatest financial
depression Of a generation, it will be
more than sufficient to crowd them into
commercial eXtremities."
The intricate machinery underneath
First street was examined today and
found to be considerably damaged by
the water Notwithstanding the precau-
tons that had been taken to save it.
Shanahan Bros store, though as farI
up as the corner of Salmon and First
streets, has felt the effects of the flood.
The cellars of the building were COM
pletely flooded out, and a good deal of
lower quality goods destroyed. The boysI
are working hard to get things clear,
and are taking their medicine like true
Irishmen. Mr.. Shanahan said to mel
this morning: "Mr. Scott sits up in his
tower and thinks that he can see all
the damage just as well from there as
anywhere else. Nobody will ever know
the destruction that has been caused inl
this end of the city, in the cellars. II
have not seen an Oregonian reporter in
this part of the town since the flood
started. You will notice they carefully
avoid giving names, in their descrip-
tons of the flood. They generalize. 1t is
the safest way-for them"
Chloride of lime and a dozen other
disinfectants are now being used freely
in some portions of the city, but in the
north end the accumulated filth has OBJ
tanned full possession. Here the stencil
daily becomes more abominable, and I'M
less immediate measures are taken the
hot sun of a few more days will breed
fevers of the worst character. SO pene,
trating and nauseating is the stencil in
this locality that all day long business
men have avoided the district, though
called there on matters Of Importance.
They preferred to lose the business
rather than risk a sick headache, and
probably something worse.
W. 1. Crawford has inaugurated a
Gearhart Park boom here already, and
indications point to an unprecedented
mount of travel to Seaside this year.
Nearly all the citizens Of means intend
to take a long vacation from the me-
tropolis in the hottest weather Of the
summer, and thereby to some extent
avoid the sickness that all seem to think
will follow close on the substance of
the flood.
Can traffic is improving as the water
goes down, and though in some places
the electric cars have to splash through
miniature lakes, such little inconveni-
ences are put up with cheerfully by the
public for the sake of having means of
rapid transit placed once more at their
disposal.
The well known slot drawer gambling
machines that were driven out of As
toria a few weeks ago, seem to have
found a secure abiding place in Port
land. They car be seen in operation in
half the cigar stores and saloons of the
city.
AS the water falls from Second to
First, along Washington, 1t leaves the
car tracks in a very bad condition. The
rails are several inches above the bal
ance of the roadway, and separated
from it by large gaps three or four
times the size Of the railing itself.
No services are being held in Trinity
church, away back on Sixth street. The
water, after demolishing the garden and
all the fences surrounding this edifice,
the cellars, and in one or two
places lifted the floors. Five hundred
dollars will not repair the damage done
to this church's property. ,
Nearly all the pleasure boats have DIS
appeared from the flooded district. One
lone niger on First street, with a fiat !
bottomed tub, was appealing today to
the passers by to rave one row up the
'Ryalter," just for luck. de las
chance, ladies, till yer little children's
hair gets gray with ole age" How the
gentleman knew that they
wouldn't have the same chance next
June he didn't say. Maybe he goes it
blind, and trusts to the Oregonian to
pull him through.
There seems no reasonable doubt that
che immediate result of the flood will be
the falling down Of rents. and the va