The San Francisco call., 1896-01-18

of water on the floor, ana the walters
waded about the premises with thelr
trousers rolled up. 1000 1900, -. a..
,sa of mais on the Threshold. At 1903,
tho palace shoestore, five inches OF water
covered the floor and the clerks were Kept
| hnsv removing the stock from the water.
Nevtdoor is S. Shirek's furnishlng-go
store. Into this mans premises the water
rushed in q flood.
| Siderable damage was Gone TO the goods
on and near the floor When at It's helght
tho water was more than ankle deep all
over the store. Opposite the store on the
| street the water was eighteen lhches III
depth. - 1914 Nor
lrat street the premises were flooded, as
was Schoenfeld's s shirt store at 1916 Market
street. Dunn Bros saloon at 1918 caugnt
the water from the front and rear
In Dave Wise's music store next uoor
| the experience was the same as the others;
| The water ceased TO back after IL had
reached Levin Bros. grocery store at 1924
Market street but 1t did raise high enough
in the store to set the egg boxes, hams,
etc. to floating about.
Opposite tn is store is n low place In the
street where the flood found chance 10
escape down Seventh street. For time
came within an inch of flooding two
grocery-stores on the corner OF MISSION
street.
For hours last evening the clerks in the
stores mentioned were at work baretooted
sweeping the water and mud out of their
stores The damage amounted TO many
hundred dollars before the waters sub
sided and the sewers were able to perform
their functions.
About o'clock out in the Mission IN
many places the streets were Hooded,
cellars filed with water and mud. sewers
blocked up and car lines stopped. On
Folsom street. between Fourteenth and
Sixteenth the water for a time was elgh-
teen inches deep; the sewer seemed 10
have been stopped and the streets were
entirely impossible. AT seventeenth anu
Howard and Fourteenth and Howard the
water was in places four or five inches deep
and at Fourteenth and Valencia there was
six inches of water.
The Folsom street sewer a Fifteenth and
Folsom caved in and caused heavy back
ing up of water in the neigh hborhood, where
considerable damage was done 10 cellars.
In many of the stores water came In on
the floors.
The Castro-street cars were stopped at
Twenty-fourth street, the Twenty-second
street branch of the Mission-street line,
the Ingleside cars and the electric-cars on
the San Francisco and San Mateo line all
ceased running for a time. These stop
pages were caused by water and sand COW
ering the tracks.
The sewer at the corner of Turk and
Webster streets was broken in, and about
7 clock Dave Newman, a teamster for l..
Elkins, passing by, was asked to stop and
help pull horse out of the hole.
At the corner of Fillmore and Geary
the streets were flooded, many lower floors
were inundated.
A Haight- street car, during the storm,
was suddenly stopped by some obstruction
on the track and a passenger named
George Moschky was thrown against the
window and had his head badly cut He
was taken to the Receiving Hospital for
treatment.
The Market-street Railway Company
suffered considerable annoyance by the
rush of waters and sand from the hillsides
IN several places along It's lines. The prin-
clpal annoyance was in the engine-house
OF the McAIlister-street branch, on Fell
and Lott streets. The house Is situated
upon a block of low, fiat ground at the
foot of several hills that arise to the north
and west. When the principal downpour
took place the sewer near the engine house
1alled to carry off the surface water. The
/ flood burst into the engine-room and en-
tered the pit in which are the large wheels
over which the cable turns. The pit was
/ soon filled and, of course, the machinery
/ had to be shut down. 1t took nearly an
| hour to turn the stream out of the engine
house, pump the water out of the pit and
start the machinery in operation again.
No damage was done.