Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-02
FLOOD At CLEVELAND.
Unprecedented Rain. Accompan.
led by Cloudbdrst, Does
Enormous Damage.
The Loss Estimated at Over a.
Million Dollars..Aristocratic
Homes Ruined.
Euclid Avenue. Finest in the
City, Suffers From the
Storm.

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ing and continued to 10 o'clock in the
forenoon caused flood which wrought
havoc all over the city. Houses We're
wrecked, flooded and keeled over. Many
persons We're in peril, and only heroic
work prevented heavy loss of life. The
fall of rain was the heaviest in the city's
history. The finest and most aristocrat-
ic residence part of the city was devas-
tated. Trains were delayed by wash
out, and street car traffic on many lines
is at a standstill.
The river is raging torrent The
property loss is estimated at s1,000,000.
The rain commenced to fall shortly
after 2 o'clock, turned into a perfect
cloud burst between the hours of 3 and
o. and then continued with great force
until nearly 10 O'clock The storm, ac-
cording to the weather officials, was the
heaviest that ever swept over Cleve
land since the establishment OF the gov
eminent bureau in this city over forty
years ago.
That no lives were lost is nothing
short of miracle, as the stories of
thrilling escapes from the water on sew
eral principal residence streets of the
city are told.
The waters spread over an area in the
east end nearly eight miles long and a
mile and half wide. This extended
from Woodland Hills avenue to West
Cleveland and back to East Madison
avenue.
Great volumes of water poured over
from Doan and Giddings Brooks down
Quincy street, swamped Vienna street,
rushed over Cedar avenue, back over
on East Prospect street, rushed like a
mill race down Lincoln avenue to Eu-
cid avenue, and then on to Glen Park
place. where houses were undermined
as tho built of straw, and immense
damage done to streets and property.
Over large share of this exclusive
residence territory the water rushed
with terrific force, varying in depth
from one to six feet. Culverts, trestles,
ard bridges We're torn down, and for
hours nothing seemed capable of STEM
ming the tide of destruction.
Hundreds of residents who were i'm
prisoned in their beautiful homes like
stranded islanders were almost panic
stricken, expecting to be called upon to
wade out into the waters at almost ev-
cry minute.
Danger signals We're flashed about the
city as speedily as the disabled tele-
phone system would allow and the work
OF rescue commenced. Rowboats piled
back and forth assisting whole families
from perilous positions. but these proved
Inadequate, and ii was soon found nee
essary to call on the life saving crew
from the river. a distance of seven
miles, The lifeboats were quickly load.
ed on wagons and hurried to the scene.
The torrent surged with force for
hours in Deering street, from Paramount
to the boulevard, and over dozen fam
lilies were penned in like rats in a trap,
with water five and six feet deep sur
rounding their homes. At this point the
life saving crew, assisted by squads of
| firemen mad policemen, finally succeeded
| in landing the people in places of safety.
The fear was greatly enhanced by the
momentary expectation that the great
Shaker Heights dam would break loose.
| Shortly before noon the torrent sue
| ceeded in undermining score Of graves
in the ST Joseph cemetery al the corner
of East Madison street and Woodland,
\ anu Clle DOuleS. MGlS gum .toS1So o1Ooe
in the waters.
| Fully dozen of the corpses were
washed into cutters and had not been
recovered late last night.
The flood boiled over the banks OF
Dean Brook all along the boulevard and
! caused damage that it will take months
to repair Great Jagged holes are TORI
in the beautiful driveway. and the look
Il
1 Gordon and Wade parks on the easi
side, and Brookside park on the south
| side. where the water also did great
damage as it leaped over the banks Of
Big Creek. are damaged to an amount
figured at 100000.
Thru Chenille the overflow was ter
ribly destructive. Many houses arr
Il swamped, culverts torn out and severa
streets turned into seething quagmres
The loss in the village is also estimated
at 100000.
The street railways will suffer an i'm
mense loss, extending in varying degree
over every portion of the city. The BIZ
Consolidated will have to build thei
tracks over different parts of the inun
; dated east end district, and the loss i
placed at $4,000.
The superior street treStle OIL tne LII
tie Consolidated is practically ruined
and this, with other serious damage il
the lines of the company extending wa;
over in the west side will run their los
way into the thousands.
The train service on all roads wa
blocked from two to six hours by the eff
: feet of the storm and flood. Every roa
entering the city was handicapped b
, sand and dirt which was swept over tn
tracks. Several washouts occurred, tn
Q worst being on the Lake Shore. nea
n Gordon park, where the trestIe was but
: feted about by the force of the waite
until rendered almost wreck.
Resuming Normal Conditions.
Cleveland, Sept. 2-Notwithstandin
. the great property damage by yester
days rainfall, not single loss {
life has been reported and it is be
lieved none has occurred. Aside fro1
the most seriously affected portion
of the city there is no evidence of tn
havoc that has been wrought and stree
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