Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1901-09-03
A RAGING FLOOD
Does 100000 Damage,
Sunday, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Twelve Square Miles Flooded and
People imprisoned in Houses
MANY NairbrcaGth Escapes .Rescues by Fire
men. Police and Lie Savers.

Clc:c.2nl. Chic. Sept. AT dawn,
this MOI ming, Cleveland awoke TO look
upon devastation caused by raging
flood The great volume of raging va
Ter vented its anger over miles of the
eastern portion ot the city and did
damage approximately 81 .O00ooo.
4 terrific rain commenced shortly az
fer . o'clock. turned into a perfect
cloud burst between and ana then
continued with great force until near
~ 10 O'Clock. That no lives were iost
is nothing short of miracle stores
of thrilling escapes are told. The surg
ing waters spread over an area IN the
east and nearly eight miles long ana Il
mile and a half wide.
Houses were undermined as if built
of straw and almost incredible damage
done to streets and property. Culverts,
trestles and bridges We're torn down.
Hundreds of residents were imprlS
oned in their homes until saved from
their perilous positions; but the local
boats proved Inadequate and 1t was
soon found necessary to call on the life
saving crew from the river. a distance
of seven miles The life boats We're
loaded on wagons and hurried to the
scene.
The torrents surged with awful force
for hours in Deering street and over a
dozen families We're penned up with
water five and six feet deep surround
ing their homes. AT this point the life
saving crew. assisted by squads of fire
men and policemen succeeded IN land
ing the terror stricken people in places
of safety.
Shortly before noon the torrent I'M
dermined scores of graves in st.
Joseph's cemetery and the bodies We're
soon being tossed about in the water.
The great flood boiled over the banks
of Doan brook along the boulevard ana
great jagged holes are torn in the
beautiful driveway.
Gordon and Wade parks on the south
side are damaged TO an amount esti-
mated at 100000.
Through Glensville the loss is esti-
mated ct 100000. The Street Rail-
ways vii suffer loss placed at $4,000.
A rema,ka be feature of the storm is
that UP to 9 O'Clock this morning. hard
ly drop OF rain fell west of Wilson
avenue. Residents along East Pros
pect street near Lincoln avenue. on
Lincoln avenue and Glen Park place.
We're aroused between and o'clock in
the morning by the sound of the boom
ing waters The water continued to
rise steadily until it was eight feet
deep.
BY 6 O'Clock. the residents along Lin
coin avenue commenced to remove
furniture and valua bles to the second
story as the rushing torrent reached
he level OF front porcheS and, in a
'mber of houses swept into the first
IS.
lie waters rushed back from Lin
II avenue. until the big space just
st of the avenue and between East
respect street and Euclid was one
5reat mass of angry water from foui
o ten feet deep. Huge pieces of lum
Der were tWirled around like corks anc
banged into many homes, threatening
them with destruction.
The residents along the north side o
East Prospect street from I.inColI
avenue to within u few feet of Billing!
avenue were pennCd in their homes lik,
stranded islanders. The water cam
up to the porch steps and within a few
feet of the porches it was from four t,
five feet deep.
The families of Mrs. Y. T.. Newtol
and f. A. Warren on Willamette court
tons mother. Mrs Caroline Hamm
aged Sc years. is in serious condition
as a result of the fright and exposure