Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-10

troes and vegetation. Some yards Of
beautiful flowers were badly wrecked.
II undreds of birds were also killed by
the hail.
CHICKEN COoPs CARRIED AWAY.
Several chicken coops and dog boxes
wero f1oated away from their fastenings
in the vicinity Of West End Park. and
some chlcRen5 are reported TO have
been drowned. The storm was par
tlcularly severe in that part of the
city. The wind wrecked several trees
and damaged some dwellings,, and, on
account of the hills, the streets were
badly washed and much mud, sand and
debris was carried to the sewer at
Beech street.
WRECK PREVENTED.
AT some of tho railroad crossings
nlanks and boards were foated across
the tracks and it was with great din-
Guilty that trains proceeded for u short
time. During the height OF the storm
q plank was carried under the tender
of a locomotive which was drawing a
passenger train near Market street
crossing, but the engineer was notified
| and stopped the train and the plank
was Withdrawn. 1t had become caught
under tho tender and would probably
have deralled it had the discovery not
been made in time.
DAMAGE ALONG THE wuARvEs.
The tides were high on account of
tho wind and as many of the wharves
were already flooded by the volume of
water pouring from the city streets
much damage was done along the
Christians and Brandywine. Many
boards, boxes and pIanlSs were carried
overheard while several weak structures
were wrecked. Some of the shipyards
also sustained damage. Some scaffold-
ing at the yards of the Harlan IL Hol-
| lingsworth Co. was blown down. Water
was deep in the vicinity of the r., W.
" u. railroad station and 1t was with
difficulty that people reached tho wait
ing rooms at times.
Truckers on Fast Fourth and King
streets sustained loss. having some of
thor produce carried away. Much
damage was done at Eighth and Morrow
streets, where there are sewer inlels.
BURNED BY \ LIVE WIRE.
Several electric wires wore blown
down in different parts of the city and
the police were kept busy warning
people to keep away from them. AT
about Z O'Clock Elwood Sharp, aged II
years, of Elm and Harrison streets
stepped on live wire which had fallen
at Linden and Harrison streets. His
i face and hands were badly burned and
he was thrown down and had his head
badly cut. He was unconscious for n
short time. He was attended by DIR.
Corkran. City Lineman Hyland had
busy time. Some of the fire and
| police wires were damaged, hut the
service was not materially impaired.
After the storm abated Mr.. Hyland
began to make repairs. The crossing OF
wires caused the fire alarm to strike
several times.
The smoke stack at the Christiana
pottery in South Wilmington was blown
off. A portion of the Virginia creeper
was torn from the walls of Old Swedes
Church. The tree which was blown
down at Fourteenth and Market streets
fell against Judge Gray's residence, but
did not do much damage. A manhole
was forced from the sewer opening al
Sixth and Orange streets. Fire engines
were pressed into service in several
places to pump water from cellars.
Water did much damage to mills along
the Brandywine. A branch of William
Il. Franks grocery store at No. 70t
West Eighth street was flooded anc
after the water had disappeared the
floor was covered with mud. Richard
Patzowsky's lawn, at Delaware avenue
and jefferson street, presented sorry
sight after the storm. Houses or
Monroe street, below Fourth, were
flooded. In one place the torrent rushed
in On people at supper and overturned
the table. A tree fell against the rea
of the Hotel Wilmington. The plant o
the Ford Morocco Co., at Silverbrook
of the Liberty Fire Co., in South Will
loss in the city will reach several thou
sand dollars. Very few of the sufferers
who have been seen were able to esti
mate their losses. Some rain fell during
tho night, but there was very littl,
wind and the thunder and lightning
were not near enough to do any damage
HEAVY RAINFALL.
, Charles III. Ten Weeges of the cit,
surveyors Office, who keeps record o
|, the rain fall, says that during the frs
storm yesterday / lilo inches, fell AMI
during the second the fall was l ~ 100
This is unusually heavy and would indi
cate that the rain was u record breaker
RAGING STORM ON THE RESERVOIR.
One of the interesting sights durinl
the storm was Cool Spring reservoir
The basins were filled to within foo
of the coping, and across the broa,
!, expanse of water the wind blew witt
furry, due east to west. Tho water wa
swept into leaping waves, and the sur
face was a tangled mass of white caps
! ! Against the coping on tho west sid
the waves dashed fiercely, hurting tn
, water out upon the bicycle path m,
casting spray clear to the top of tn
: high Franklin street wall. Altogether
the reservoir had the appearance of
miniature ocean in the throes of
7 violent storm.
4 DAMAGE AT BRANDYwINE SPRINGS PARE
t Brandywine Springs Park sustaine
, much damage from both storms. 1t
\ estimated that there we're 5, 900 peopl
! on the grounds when the first storr
broke over the park. Excursionist
0 were there from Salem, N. D., an
, other places, and, being children
{ day, hundreds of children were ther
t with their parents from this city an
other places. While there was yer
a little hail during the first storm in tn
!, city, such was not the case at tn
park. Much hail fell and many of tn
b stones were large, and as result
4 several thousand electric lights wet
= broken. Most of the people went
4 the restaurant and other buildings whe
d the rain began to fall and there wei
|, very few accidents, SO far as the peopI
n were concerned. One small girl ha
i her head cut by hail stone and W,
: dazed. She was given immediate a
!, tention and soon recovered, althoug