The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-11

tho danger. Track walkers had sirosdy given
graphed along the line to hold all trains they
were all freight trains at that hour at Ninety
As the day grew older those who stood whore
tho break occurred could SEQ. looking south,
ward. thauthe water had covered roadoed and
sidewalk. a. far as Forty second street, where
II separeted to the east and west. owing 70 the
All IN Madison avenue at that point; IT, A0 %n
moning worshippers to early mass.
From east and west and north and south
people came. answering the call OF the bells:
nearby bridges over the New York Central
Forty.second street, Seeing tho water, appar-
emily coming from nowhere and stopping no,
whore, just rushing on wherever Y could md
an outlet. many were ready to believe that q
second deluge had come.
Once. the water bad been turned Off it took
make the streets p~assable, II one did not mind
wading In about a foot OF mud in spots. Men
With broad backs and strong arms turned ned
crossings wore worst and ferriod over hundreds
Of women who had been waiting to pass for two
means Of transportation was. the prevailing
price. and many a cent was diverted from tho
church eoIleeti On to the pockets OF shs fSrrymsn.
able to permit policemen to make a tour of
the houses to learn whether anybody in base
was that servants in some of the houses who
sleep in the Easements had been drowned. g,
ee Hos9 % o Was d bo"se ID S Sns s6S basement Sysnnsl ao a1S
to Forty. ninth street and south TO Forty.second
street contained more or less water. The houses
In tho cross streets on the east side of the
avenue, between these points. were in q similar
condition and some of the cross streets west Of
"" The S'e cellar r" Of 'e William iHln0' Alexander lnsS eder'V Smiths
house. at the northwest corner of Madison ave
nuo and Forty:eighth street, had about eight
enough for the supply and tho overflow filed
the basement. When the servants got down
stairs about 8 o'clock they found the furniture
in the basement dining room floating about look
J. Hooker Hamersley's house is at Ala Mad
isOn avenue, one door above Forty-eighth street.
In the basement was some valuable bric.a.brac
and a grand piano. The piano was said to have
broken. Seyt to Mr.. Hamersloy lives John
slaypack. The slaybacks. like the Ham.
ersleys' arc out of town; Tho man in
boiler and furnace had been surrounded by
water and all the vegetables and wines in
who lives at AS Madison avenue, At the north.
cast corner of Forty-eighth street, said that the
f Ts'S Ssi in his esl NJ. R 9ssFly 5of IS very the dea ilG0 SS of
when he was asked by II reporter II he had sus.
tanned damage he heard the question quickly
and said that II anybody thought mud and
water did the inside OF q house any good they'd
better take a look at his cellar.
The knickerbocker Athletic Club. at Forty
fifth street and Madison avenue and the Rail.
road branch of the Young Mems Christian As.
ISOLATION opposite on the northeast corner sus;
tanned the heaviest damage. as the flood chokcd
up all the sewers in the vicinity. The sewage,
as well as the water from the broken pipe,
found an outlet in the Easements of both the
Y. NJ. G. A. building and the athletic club. Ten
feet Of water and two feet of mud lodge In the
basement OF the former building; In the base
mcnt are the bowling alleys and the gymnasium,
the latter having been just reitted. The water
and sewage ruined. nearly everything in the
gymnasium. flooded the furnace and put out
In the basement of the athletic club. besides
1 1as ooT IN MSj slle we're en zoo S Biaysiss. Ey Is SieysIe
was fioated in its rack, and when the water
went down the Precipita.e Of tlth from the
club. Roland 3. Molineaux. tried at one OF the
engine houses to have an engine sent around to
Rino company refused, on the ground that the
filthy condition OF the water would bcfoui tho
engine. The loss to the knickerbocker Club; in
-. OoO. The loss to individual members will. it
is thought; amount to as much more.
extent were the following. j.. p. Pettus. AIS
Madison avenues; the Woodbridge school. All
East Forty.eighth street: Marcus ii. Talbot. 25
East Forty eighth street; John W. Auchincloss,
26 East Forty.eighth street; Mrs. Marie Le
Frederick, Butterteld:, q East iForty.eiehth
street: Charles g. Childs, es East Forty.
fs%iS ist1hs' Street, Sf;'I Mrs. william ffa1l"'E f. Bun ias.
a East Forty.ninth street; Dr. Grant, 2% East
Forty.ninth street; Miss IN Martin T1ih go GO Eas. Forty.
htAiNh tANSt ~ ~. 80 -. IfN,
ninth street: Mrs. Holme, 80 East Forty-ninth
street: Adolph Strauss. so East Forty-ninth
street: Mrs. Hicks. 81 East Forty-ninth street;
the Misses Pennington, 81 East Forty-ninth
street; Mrs. Norton. 81 East Forty-ninth street.
All these persons were damaged in amounts
varying from 500 to 81 900. II was found yes.
terday afternoon that a few cellars as far east
as Third avenue were flooded.
Not until 2 o'clock was the order issued to
send trains down into the New York Central
yards. These did not run at the regular rate OF
speed, and not until well into the afternoon were
trains run on schedule time from the Grand
Central Station. 1t was said last night that the
damage to railroad property would be fully
81 900.
No official estimate could be obtained Of the
damage to property In the Adams Express Com
pany's yards and sheds. 1t Is thought that 1t
will DO large, as a large amount of property in
the sheds. which were flooded. could be seriously
damaged by water.
50 far as could be learned from men employed
on the work. Mr.. Crimmins being out OF town
yesterday, the charge of powder used in break
ing up the stone was not an unusually heavy
one.