The Hawaiian gazette., 1901-09-13


the breaking Of dawn this morning the
citzcns Of Cleveland awoke to look out
upon "a scene Of devastation and destruc-
ton caused by a raging flood. While tho
entire city was more or less affected, the
great volume OF raging water vented its
anger over miles Of the eastern portion
Of the city and caused an amount of
damag" estimated at 100000. The over
flow was caused by "a heavy rain that
commenced to fall shortly after o'clock
turning into "A perfect clOudJCrst be
tween ne huprs OF and o. clock, ana
then continued with great force until
nearly 10 o'clock The storm, accordine
to the weather officials, was the heaviest
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 mile and IA 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 Giddings
brooks down quincy street, swamped
Vienna street, rushed over Cedar avenue,
backed over ON East Prospect street,
rushed like u mill race down Lincoln
avenue to Euclid avenue and then on
to Glen Park place, where houses We're
undermined as though built of straw and
large damage done to streets and prop
erty. over ii large share of this exclu-
sivc residence territory the water rushed
? .Itl Ia, ant
from one to six feet. Cuverts, 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
prisOucd 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 ana forth, assisting
whole families from pcrilous positions
but these boats proved inadequate anc
1t was soon found necessary 90 go tt
the extraordinary precaution of callnl
on the life saving crew from the river
II distance OF seven miles. The life-boat
We're quickly hurried on wagons and car
ricd to the scene Of destruction.
The torrent surEed with great fore
or hours in Deerng street, from Fair
, mount to the boulevard. and over
dozen families were penned in, with Wa
! ter five ana six feet deep surrounding
, their homes At this point the life-sav
ing crew worked valiantly, and asslste
. by squads of iiremen and policemen, fin
|, ally succeeded in landing the terror
.striCken people In places OF safety. TIL
d fear was greatly enhanced by the me
o mentary expectation that the grea
Shaker Heights dam would break loos'
5, CORPSES WASHED FROM GRAVE:
Shortly before noon tn. torrent undel
. mined "A score of graves In the St. j,
" scph Cemetery, at the corner of Ea:
Madison and Woodland, and ,.C bodit
were soon being tossed about In I'll
, waters. Fully "A dozen of the corpse
~ were washed into cutters and had NJ
;. ben recovered late tonight.
;, The flood broke over the banks
Doune brook all along the boulevard an
caused damage that It VIII take month
to repair, Great Jagged holes are tor
IN the beautiful driveway. Gordon an
Wade parks, on the east side. and Brool
=. side Park, on the south side, where tn
water also did great damage as 1t leaI
y ed over the banks of Big creek, sustain
n ed 100000 damage.