Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-11
ANNUAL FRESHET
A Trifle Late But Just as Wet
 As Ever.
MANY STREETS WASHED OUT
The Brooklyn District Badly Flooded Little Brook Overfowed It's BankS-Water Flowed Into the Cellars of Churches and Schools Highland Division Train Delayed.

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 Cellars of Churches and Schools Highland Division Train Delayed.
 The rain storm of last night and this | morning dehged everything and did considerable damage on some of the | city streets and also on the town roads, 1 Little Brook ill the vicinity of Bron- l son street, oVerfowcd it's banks and | water rushed through the rear of some 1 Of the lots and cr:lwled into one or | two of the front yards. William street | is washed and considerable slllsh and mud swept onto East Main street ill | that ncighborhood. A few of the other 1 streets about the city are 1ullied more or less. but considering the severity of. the storm fewer streets are washed and the damage lighter than was at 1 first supposed with the possible cX- 1 ception of in the Brooklyn district where there is always sure to be | trouble during heavy rains Until the place is provided with proper outlets | for surface water.
 | Draycr street is washed to Green street as far as Riverside street. This morning about thirty feet of hc big re- l Taining wall at the corner of John and 1 Green streets, belonging to the River l side Cemetery association. gave way | and came down with q crash that was l heard all over the place. A few min i uteS before the collapse Henry Re@nal caretakcr of the cemetery, and an | other man were on the wall. but left | there just in time to safe themselves l from :l horrible death. The noise made | by the falling boulderS is said to re l Semble the roar of Il cannon and many l tiockeu around to see what had hap pened. Joseph Begnal foreman of | the sewer department. was on the
 
 1 like the others, he is thanking God that he did not loiter there long. If | he had it is safe to state that by this l time there would be I vacancy in the office of foreman of that department. There is q hollow spot back of the wall | on the cemetery side which filled up l with surface water. and although one | would think that the masonry has re- | SiStance enough to withstand almost any kind of pressure, still it was not | equal to the occaSiOn and finally yield | ed to superior force and rolled into | the street, some of the stones that came down being so heavy that one of them would make q good load for | q horse.
 Bank street above the brewery. is in it's usual dcplorabe condition. The water from the high ground at the head of the street rolled down in tor l rents. DurrOWod the street as far as 1 Porter street and carried stones, mud and dirt of every description as far as Washington avenue. The street was 1 impossible for a time at the Highland division, blocking the trolley service and forcing Thomas Kelly'S customers to go elsewhere to make their pur chasos. The cellar was flooded, but l just how much damage was done there it would be impossible to tell at pres ent. This is 2 condition that cannot be relieved by the proposed storm wa ter drainage system. so that Mir Kelly must look to the railroad peo- pie or some one else for redress. This is q serious setback to his property and whoever is responsible for it | should be made to meet the cost of preventing a repetition of the condl- tions that obtained there this morning. l Tine presence of some water in the cellar of the Bank street school gave Janitor Tiernan lots of extra work, but he was equal to the emergency, and was hustling like a beaver about the premises all day.
 | The cellars in q few houses on John street were flooded and the residents are up in arms.
 The mighty Naugatuck' is on a rampage and presented a picturesque view as it rushed and roared under the Bank street bridge and tumbled | dam in the rear of the Benedict x Bu,nham Co.
 l About o'clock there was consider able excitement on Bank street. A Lithuanian woman raised her hands | in the air and shouted and foafed with all her might and pointed fran l tically to the rushing stream that l coursed down the street in the direc- ton of the Highland division bridge, and then ran after some floating ob- | feet with all the speed she could com mand Others jointed i'll the chase, but no one except the woman. knew what was the matter until some time later when q pocketbook foated into l the sea of water under the bridge and was whirled out of sight through the manhole. It contained a five-dOllar bill. and naturally the woman felt her loss keenly. She dropped the pocket book from her hand while endeaEOring to cross the street to reach one of the stores. | There was lots of mud about EX- | change place for time, but SUperln- tendent Kelley and his men were on hand early and soon had the cross ings in good condition so that pedeS- trianS about the center were put to no inconvenience
 | On the town roads there were wash outs on the Prospect road near 1ayne's and the Waterville and WatertoWn roads and other places suffered some.
 The trolley service was knocked 1 askew for a few hours and in conSe- uuence a large number of people who are accustomed to ride to their work had to foot it this morning and were I soaked when they reached the places where they are employed A bl@ crowd hung around the corner Of South Main and Washington street waiting for the car that reached the center at 8 o'clock. but it did not show up on schedule time and aiaer w;.it of some time they started off afOot and in addition to being late got a grand duclling-
 Wolcott street. in the vicinity of the Sacred Heart church, was in q bad condition during the storm. Water flowed i'll torrents down the embank- lment in the rear of the parochial res idelce of the Sacred Heart church and onto the sidewalk and street. \ large