The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1901-09-04
CLEVELAND FLOODED.
Property In East End Of Town
Greatly Damaged.

Los. Estimated at ~, ,OOO, 900 -Cloudburst
Inundated Entire Residence Section, I'm
dermincd Streets, Houses, bridges, Gull
yerts. washed Bodies From Graves and
Tore Things Up Generally.
CLEVELAND. o., Sept. with the
breaking Of dawn yesterday morning the
citizens Of Cleveland awoke To look upon
n scene Of unparalleled devastation and
destruction caused by raging Hood
While the entire city was more or less
affected, the great volume OF raging wa
ter vented its anger over the miles OF the
eastern portion and caused an amount
of damage approximated at $l,OOO,OOO.
| The appalling overflow was caused by
| terrific rain that commenced to fall short
| ly after . o'clock, turned into perfect
cloudhurst between the hours Of and D,
and then continued with great force un-
| iii nearly Z o'clock. The storm, accord
| ing 10 the weather officials. was the
heaviest that ever swept over Clevelahu
since the establishment Of the govern
mcnt bureau in this city over 40 years
ago.
That no lives were lost is nothing short
of a miracle, MS the stories OF thrll'ine
escapes from the water On several Oh 'he
principal resident streets OF the clty are
told. The surging waters spread over
mn area in the east end nearly eight miles
long and n mile and a half wide
Great volumes Of water poured over
from Doan and Gidings Brooks down
Quincy street. swamped Vienna street
rushed Ike n millrace down Lincoln Ave
nue. 10 Euclid Avenue and then on 10
Glen Park Place, where houses were
undermined as though built oil straw
and almost incredible damage done 10
streets nnd property.
Over large share Of the exclusive
residence territory the water varied IN
depth from one to six feet. Culverts,
trcstles and bridges were torn down and
for hours nothing seemed capable OF
stemminr the tide.
Hundreds Of residents who were I'M
prisoncd In their homes like stranded Is
iandcrs were almost panic stricken. Dan
ger sirrals were flashed about the city
ms specdily ms the disabled telephone
system would allow and the work OF res
cue commenced. Rowboats piled back
and forth. assisting whole families from
pcrilous positions. hut these proved pitt
fully Inadequate aud ii was soon found
necessary to go to the extreme Of calling
on the life saving crew gfrom the river,
distance of seven miles. The lifeboats
were quickly loaded on wagons and hur'
ried TO the scene of destruction.
The torrent surged with awful force
for hours in Decring street from Fair
mount TO the Boulevard aud over Il
dozen families were penned in like rats
In trap with water five and six feet
deep surrounding their homes. At this
point the lifcsaving crew worked vali-
antly and assisted by squads Of fremen
and policemen. finally succeeded In land
ing the terror stricken people in places
Of safety. The fear was greatly en-
hanced by the momentnry expectation
that the great Shaker Heights dam
would break loosce and work terrible de-
struction.
Shortly before noon the torrent under
mined score OF graves In st. Joseph's
Cemetery at the corner of East Madison
and Woodland and the bodies were soon
being tossed about in the water. Fully
n dozen corpscs were washed into the
cutters and have not been recovered up
10 now.
Gordon and Brookside parks on the
cast side and Brookside park on the
south side were damaged to an amount
figured Mt 100000. Through Glensvilla
| A los N-tta tfN-a
The loss in the village is estimated at
100000. y
The street railways will suffer an inn
sense loss The train service on all roads
was blocked from two to six hours. The
mailservice from the east was completely
tied up from 10 o'clock in the morning
until & o'clock last night, when a train
got through on the Lake Shore.
; The vast amount of damage falls upon
, the householders within the flooded dis
trict. The water reached a depth Of one
I foot or the first floors of scores Of east
end homes, boiling up from the sewers
and pouring from the streets, carrying
everything that came in its path along
with Il.
7 A remarkable feature of the storm
? which ceused such terrible destruction
is that up to & o'clock yesterday morn
ing hardly drop Of rain fell west OF
Wilson Avenue while during the morn
ing hours the east end was being fairly
swamped in perfect deluge Of rain.
The damage to houses and contents
!. cannot be estimated for. days but will
l aggregate probably half a million. The
| Jty will lose heavily on damage to
Q streets, culverts, bridges and pavements
over the district covered by the water.