The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-25

machinery, but this was only ono of scores of
factory cellars which were flooded, and the
cellars and Easements o, evenings which wcro
A freight train on tho Pennsylvania Railroad
got of the truck while running sill deep on
hours. The Paterson and Newark branch Of tho
Erie Railroad was closed by landslides and
washouts, so that CONNECTIONS could not be made
by Newarkers with Western trains leaving
The total rainfall was 6.02 inches in eight
a:s5 and snP b: ssh50 A. sF?MS. .' the sT gauge Sl 81 showing isn Gess SET
inches in that hour.
The local meteorological think that this breaks
any record ever made In the Atlantic States,
and. IL the hour record has over been surpassed.
they are sure that the five-minute record never
has.
PATERSON, y. j., Aug. 24.-While going along
Main street this morning after, the food an ice
,ynRossi sank in ,nt ,hs sh So earth Z, the n ? feo,h IL vas as
pull the wagon out; and a trolley car vas
brought into play. The wagon was fastened to
dragged the wagon nearly a block. Part of the
stonework Of the old foundations Of the deserted
the walls are in danger of falling, Thousands
OF English sparrows were knocked out Of the
maple trees on Main avenue, The birds were
picked up to be used for food by women and
children from the east side.
PAssAIC. y. J.. Aug. 2i.-It, will cost the city
streets by to.day's storm, while contractors who
had work under way on the same streets VIII
lose half as much. The Erie Railroads roadbed
"oo o,h' W" 49, io'e 49,
nue.. and enough broken stone to macadamize a
mile Of road was piled upon the grounds OF the
Passaic Home and Orphan Asylum. The $3.50
east. bound Erie train ran into a pile OF cobblc
stones at the foot of Paulison avenue and was
derailed. The train was going slow at the time.
THE STORM IN NEW YORK.
the heaviest local damage from the storm
was done in the district bounded by Ninth ave-
nue., Twcnty-second street, Eleventh avenue.
and Twenty. fourth street. The Twenty-third
street trunk sewer became choked up, and the
cellars and Easements in the vicinity were
flooded. Tho Sawycr-Mann Electric Company,
at $40 to J3i West Twenty.third street, was
damaged about $1,000. The fires under the
boilers of the Brighton Mills. manufacturers OF
rubber bicycle tires, in Twenty-third street,
were put out, so that the mills had to shut down
at half.past ) o'clocA in the morning. The
Lyle Manufacturing Company, at Twenty-Five
street and Eleventh avenue, was also com
PEELED to shut down. At the corner OF Tenth
avenue and Twenty-third street the Adclphi
saloon was two feet under water. and business
had 10 be suspended for three hours, the dam
age done amounting to 81 800. Several pri.
vate residences in the neighbOrhood suffered
serious damage from flooded cellars.
In Harlem the rain flooded the cellar Of the
building at 1lSth street and Third avenue, oc.
cupied by Glatz ~ Co., stacking two barrels of
lime. The Fire Department was called out tc
cxtinguish the fire.
Notwithstanding all the damage in the vicini
" OF New York. Local Forecaster Dunn said
that the rain was not worthy of especial men
ton. He said that only ! l3- 100 inches fell
and that was not unusual.