The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-11
CLEVELAND, O., INVADED BY A
BIG AND DESTRUCT Give FLOOD
A CIoudburst Causes Freshet in the Streets
and Million Dollars Worth Of
Damage is Done.

Through Chenille the overflow was
very destructive. Many houses are
swamped. culverts torn out and several
streets turned into quagmires. The loss
in the village is also estimated at $10O-
900.
E BUILDINGS SWEPT ABOUT.
Residents along East Prospect. street,
near Lincoln avenue, on Lincoln avenue
and Glen Park place. were aroused be-
tween 4 and O'clock in the morning by
= the sound of the; booming waters. The
! water continued to rise steadily until it
was eight feet deep. BY o'clock the
residents along Lincoln avenue COM
menced to move furniture and valuables
, to the second story, as the rushing tor
rent reached the level of the front
/; porches. and in a number of houses
swept Into the first floors. The waters
rushed back from Lincoln avenue until
the big space just east of the avenue
was one great mass of angry water from
four to ten feet in depth. Barns and
huges pieces of lumber were swirled
about like light corks and banged into
many L4ncoln-avenue houses.
The families Of Mrs. " E, Newton and
F. A. Warren of Willamette court had a
serious experience with the flood. For
three hours the women signaled for help
from their house, which Is situated in a
little valley. and was at the mercy OF
the waters. The barn sheds were swept
from their foundations. and this added
to the terror of the two women. who
We're alone in the house AS the water
reached q Jdepth of six feet and COM
menced TO pour into the first floor, the
women became almost frantic. No boats
were at hand. and as weding was out of
the question. neighbors called to the
To
were until other means of rescuing them
could be secured. A rude craft was has
tily put together and the families res
cued.
PROPERTY LOSS VERY HEAVY. r.
The street railways will suffer heavy
loss. extending in varying degrees over
every portion of the city. The Big Con-
solidated will have to rebuild tracks over
different parts of the inundated East
End district, and the loss Is placed at
10000 The Superior street trestle of the
Little Consolidated is practically ruined
and this. with other serious damage on
the lines OF the company extending over
on the west side, will run their loss away
into the thousands II
The train service on all the roads was
oiocked from two to six hours by the
storm and flood. Every road entering
the city was handicapped by sand and
art, which was swept over the tracks.
Several washouts occurred, the worst
being on the Lake Shore near Gordon
Park, where the trestle was rendered al
most worthless. The damage to the
cannot be even estimated until
the large force of track handlers sent
out on emergency calls can be heard
from. The mail service from the East
was eompfeteiy tied up from 10 O'Clock
IN the morning until O'Clock tonight
when train got through on the Lake
Shore. Il
But the vast amount of damage will |
tall upon the householders In the flooded |
districts. The water reached the depth |
d one foot on the first floors of scores |
u East End houses, boiling up from the |
sewers and pouring in from the streets |
The damage to houses and their effects |
cannot be estimated accurately, per- |
naps, for days, but 1t will reach close |
TO the half million mark. The city will
also lose heavily On damage to streets. |
,ulverts, bridges and pavements over |
The dist let covered by the water.
FLOODS IN MARYLAND.
CUMBERLAND. Md, September IA |
series of heavy transforms last night and |
today caused much damage to farm |
and roads in this section. Traf- |
ic has been impeded on the West Vfr- |
siTiia Railroad by big washout near |
Rawlins and on the Baltimore and Ohio |
Railroad by heavy landslide near Mag
lolia