The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-11

| CLEVELAND. o., September 1-Witf
the breaking of dawn this morning tht
citizens of Cleveland awoke to look out
upon a scene of devastation and destruc
ton caused by a raging flood. While the
entire city was more or less affected, the
great volume of raging water vented it.
anger over miles Of the eastern portion
Of the city and caused an amount o1
damage estimated at 100000. The over.
flow was caused by heavy rain thai
comIpenced to fall shortly after 2 O. clock
| turning into a perfect eloudburst be.
| tween the hours of and o'clock, anG
| then continued with great force unit
| nearly 10 O'clock. The storm, according
to the weather officials, was the heavies,
that has swept over Cleveland since the
establishment of the Government bureau
in this city, over forty years ago There
was no loss of life.
The waters spread over an area In the
eastern part of the city nearly eight
miles long, and a mile and a half wide
This extended from Woodlands Hills ave-
nue. to East Cleveland, and back to East
Madison avenue. Great volumes of wa
ter poured over from Doane and Gfddings
brooks down Quincy street, swamped
Vienna street, rushed over; Cedar avenue
backed over on East Prospect street,
rushed like a mill race down Lincoln
avenue to Euclid avenue and then on
to Glen Park place, where houses were
undermined as though built of straw and
large damage done to streets and prop
erty. Over large share of this exclu-
sive residence territory the water rushed
with terrific force, varying in depth
from one to six feet. Culverts, trestles
and bridges were torn down and for
hours nothing seemed capable of stem
ming the tide.
IMPRISONED IN THEIR HOMES.
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 swirling waters at al
most any minute. Danger signals were
flashed about the city as speedily as the
disabled telephone system would allow,
and the work of rescue commenced. Row
boats piled back and forth, assisting
whole families from perilous positions,
but these boats proved inadequate and
1t was soon found necessary to go to
the extraordinary precaution of calling
on the life saving crew from the river,
a distance OF seven miles. The life-boats
We're quickly hurried on wagons and car
ried to the scene of destruction
the torrent surged with great force
or hours in Deering street. from Fair
mount to the boulevard, and over a
dozen families were penned in, with wa
ter five and six feet deep surrounding
their homes. At this point the life-say-
ing crew worked valiantly and assisted
by squads of firemen and policemen, fin
ally succeeded in landing the terror
stricken people in places of safety. The
fear was greatly enhanced by the mo-
mentary expectation that the great
Shaker Heights dam would break loose
CoRPSES WASHED FROM GRAVES.
Shortly before noon the torrent under
mined score of graves in the ST. Jo-
seph Cemetery, at the corner of East
Madison and Woodland, and the bodies
were soon being tossed about in the
waters. Fully a dozen of the corpses
were washed into cutters and had not
ben recovered late tonight.
The flood broke over the banks of
Ooane brook all along the boulevard and
caused damage that 1t will take months
20 repair Great jagged holes are torn
n the beautiful driveway. Gordon and
w ade parks on the east side, and Brook
side Park, on the south side where the
water also did great damage as it leap
ID over the banks of Big creek, sustain
I'd S100, 900 damage