The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-21

partment were in tears of trouble all day.
Complaint upon com plant filed In to them
from early dawn till night regardless of
the rest which in the ordinary course of
time should come to-day. In some dis
trcts the meager 3x5 sewer system proved
its hopeless inethciency. From extreme to
extreme of the city. in all quarters, on
main and side thOroughfares, on Market
street and on Moss. on Brannan and on
Vallejo, break after break and flood after
flood occurred. Within the day over
~twenty individual cases were reported.
Some of them were seriously large, some
caused mere depressiOns in the pavement.
On the corner of Market and Taylor the
car tracks of the Turk-street line were
sunk nearly a foot; on Market and Fourth
the same slight injury resulted 10 tue
tracks Of the North Beach anu MiSSioD
line.
The larger damages are reported ABOVE.
The Corporation Yard gives the following
as the list of sma ller ones:
Twelfth street, between Folsom and Howard:
Fair Oaks street, between Twenty-tOurth ana
Twenty-iftb.
Gardner street, near Bryant.
Bush street, between Hyde and Larkln.
Pine street near Montgomery.
Moss street, between Howard aud Folsom
Jessie street, between Mint avenue ana SlAtn
street.
Van Ness avenue, between Broadway and
Nallrj street.
Suffer street, between Dupont and Kearny.
sew nth street, between Bryant and harrison
Columbia street. between Howard and Folsom.
Grammar and Eighth str cts.
Ficksburg and IweDty-secOnd streets.
Bryant and Fifth streets.
Folsom street, between Seventh and Eighth.
Ellis street, between Jones and LeaVenworth.
Hayes and Buchanan streets.
Ellis street, between Van Ness avenue and
Franklin street.
Stockton street, between Ellis and OFarrell.
Stockton and Union streets
Pine street, between Hyde and Larkin.
Lapidge and Eighteenth streets.
LeaveHworth and Vallejo streets.
In the Western Addition the damage
was light The cable-car lines got what
little trouble they had early last week,
and the dOwnpOur has been so steady ever
since that vigilance alone was the price
OF con tinuous service. The California,
Suffer and Cliff House and Ferries re-
ported no Interruptions of any sort on
their east and west-Or crosstown-lines.
and the Preside road did not lose a trip.
At California and Walnut street. Just
west of the depot, the Cliff House track Is
undermined, making it dangerous to run
cars. so the trains yesterday used the
terminus on California street and did not
go into the yard. Much of the steamcar
road between the depot and the Cliff
House has become soft" necessitating
the operation of trains with great care,
but schedule time was made yesterday.
The new extension of the Sacramento
ably. A great deal of sand has been
washed into the trench on Lake street for
distance of six blocks from First to Sixth
ave nues At the latter point the pit for a
turn has filled up entirely. The company
expected TO have the extension ready for
service on the opening day eff the Midwin-
ter Fair. but the bad weather which re-
tarded construction and entailed additional
labor precludeS the possibility of the eX-
tension being ready for traffic on the 9th.
There was a great deal OF annoyance in
the Western Addition, 0ccasioned by leaky
roofs. Singular to relate, this was not due
so much to the down pour as TO the wind.
The rain for the past thirty-six hours was
not perpendicular when IL touched the
earth, but nearer horizontal. 1t was car
ried by the wind under caves, against BAY
windows and into the many dips, spurs and
angles which mark modern residence arch
lecture. These are not protected in the
thorough manner that contractors are sup
posed TO apply to roofs, and IS a conse-
quence the rain, driven all day by the
wind, found many cracks aud narrow
spaces between weatherboards, creating
leaks not in the ceilings, but in the walls.
While no individual damage 10 considera-
BILE the aggregate is large.
Last night the Haight-street sewer, be-
tween DevisaderO and Scott streets, caved
in. The stone curbing over it for space
of four feet square fell In about o'clock
leaving a hole two and half feet deep
1t was over this portion of the street that
the sand and water from the Park Hill slide
rushed. In its mad career it tore away the
cement around the weak spot and caused
the cave in.
The Fell-street sewer, for fear of the
breaking of which much anxiety was felt,
was apparently all right at midnight. II e
sand and water that came down Haight
street from the slide was all day long being
emptied into it. and If it did not break
fear was expressed that it would become
clOgged no, and thus cut off the only means
of getting rid of the water that runs down
from Park Hill.