The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-12
A TREMENDOUS RAINFALL
STREETS AND CELLARS FLOODED
 AND MUCH DAMAGE DONE.
Thousands of Dollars of Damage in the City-Serious Washouts and Overfiows on the Railroad
on the Railroad

| TeSlOIS TOuTQdDOuC neT5 was SOlle
 thing fierce" It seemed as if it fell a
 times in sheets. Many cellars wer<
 flooded and the water in the New York
 New Haven and Hartford Railroad cu
 was at one time a foot deep over the | tracks. The weather office showed that
 in seven hours 3.O3 inches of rain fel
 and that from to 3:30 yesterday morn ing, when the cloudburst came, that 1% inches of rain fell. The total rain fall from 3 in the morning until the
 rain stopped was 315 inches. These figures have never been equalled in the
 thirty years that the weather bureau
 has been in operation in this city. The
 tide was high at the time of the storm and the result was that every sewer in
 the city was filled with tide water so
 that floods were caused in every sec 1 tion.
 Many oe the store cellars in the cen tral part of the city was flooded.
 At the city hall the sewer pipe burst
 under the front hall, and when Janitor Schappa arrived at o'clock yesterday
 morning he found three feet of water III the CSllaT. lHe udllldSe liLeIe ID liS -
 ured at $300
 <! In Spruce street about every cellar l was flooded, and people were put to great inconvenience. At Nos 29 and l 31 Spruce street there came near being | loss of life from the food As it was Mrs Thomas Konniski had to climb out
 of window from her bed. Yesterday
 morning at il o'clock the water had fallen some three feet but it still sub merged the bed and many other house. hold articles. The stovepipe could be
 seen, but not the stove Mrs. Anna Fish of 29 Spruce street, a widow, who has three rooms in the basement, was awakened by the floating of her bed.
 She arose with the water up to her
 waist without attempting to get cloth
 ing and with great difficulty made her way to the street. She lost her pet cat,
 which was drowned in the flood.
 A large piano box containing quan- tity of coal was floated across the yard distance of forty feet Superinten- dent Worthington inspected the sewer in Spruce street and saw at o'clock that 1t was in perfect condition.
 All the cellars on the north side of Orange street. between Crown and Chapel streets, were flooded and more or less damage caused
 Water covered the floor of the base ment of the New Haven Window Shade company to depath of fifteen inches and the cellar stock was badly damaged This stock consists of rolls of mattings, linoleum and oil cloths. yLa .ol1e ytry11 end and the material soiled The loss will be considerable.
 Slight damage was caused to the stock in the cellar of Speh's restaurant, and at the new Benton & Armstrong paper box factory. MT. Spehs damage was about $100.
 The residents of the crowded section of Oak street also suffered severely by the flood They keep an endless variety of stuff in their cellars All kinds of household goods perished and large number of chickens were drowned. Some of the Russians living in Oak street kept chickens in the cellars, and the fowl were found drowned yester- day morning.
 The damage in the lower end of
 
 and Commerce streets was very heavy. | Almost every cellar in that locality | was flooded and the aggregate loss will l be very large. The Hotel Garde suf- | fered heavy damage by the flood.
 The cellar was flooded and the goods | in it damaged or entirely destroyed. | The cellar is over six feet high, but the | water poured in until it was level with the ceiling. The fine motor used to run the elevator was destroyed and a ! large stock of liquors and other mer- ,handise were 50 badly damaged as to | be useless.
 Mr. Garde said that his damage prob ably reached $1,000. At 1 o'clock in the afternoon pumps were still at work getting the water out of the cellar. It vas evening before the cellar was thoroughly pumped out.
 The cellar of the E. S. Wheeler com ,any, dealers in tin plate, etc., at 256 Water street, was also flooded. The keeps large part of ite stock n the cellar, and some of the goods such as tinplated ware, etc., will be badly damaged by water. Pumps were Jet at work early in the morning, and lid not finish until late in the after loon. At one time during the height f the storm West Water street in that ,iclnity was impossible owing to the ushing torrent of water. Railroad nen say they never saw the like in this ity before.
 The damage sustained by the Wheel r company will reach several hundred ollars, although it may be more. The rm was inconvenienced greatly, being nabe to get at the goods owing to the 1ater in the cellar.
 The Davenport hotel at the corner of 'ourt and Orange streets was damaged Q a considerable degree. The stock oom wherein the groceries are kept ras flooded and the water rose to a eight of four feet, ruining flour, bis uits and other perishable goods. When ne tide went out, however, the water ,, owed out through the sewers, but the amaze had been done. The building occupied by Mark Ryder n West Water street was among the ( ,ructures flooded The water at noon as up to the beams, and it was impos- : ble to get anything out of the cellar. he cellars Tn the house in that section ; : Water street also suffered severely \ 'om the flood,
 The Evening Leaders paper stock .. ,om was flooded, and a carload of pa ar valued at several hundred dollars I