The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-09-02
A TERRIFIC FLOOD.
City of Cleveland Visited by Remark
able Disaster.
NO LIVES REPORTED LOST.
Over a Million Dollars Damage Said
TO Have Been Done, Though.
WATER WAS EIGHT FEET DEEP
In Some Portions Of the Flooded District
of The City.
BODIES WASHED FROM A CEMETERY
Corpses Were Strewn Along the Streets
and Lodued IN Gutters-Cloudburst
Caused the Flood.
ODIES WASHED FROM A CEMETERY

Cleveland Ohio. September with the
brenking Of dawn this morning the eth
zens of Cleveland awokc to look upon a
scene Of unparalleled devastation caused
10y raging flood While the 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 damage approx
MATED at 100000.
An appalling overflow was caused by a
terrible rain that commenced to fan short
ly after O'Clock and which turned into
perfect cloudhurst between the hours ~
and and then continued with great
force until nearly 20 o'clock The storm.
according to the weather officials. was the
heaviest that ever swept over Cleveland
since the establishment 81 the government
bureau in this city. over forty wears ago.
That no lives were lost Is something short
OF q miracle as the stories OF thrilling %
capos from the water on several Of the
principal residence streets Of the city axe
told
The smglng waters spread over an area
IN the west end nearly clght ml'es long
and a mile and a half wide. from Wood
land HIS avenue TO East Cleveland an
hnck TO East Madison avenues Great
volumes Of water poured over from Doan
and Giddings brooks down Quincy street
swampcd Vienna street rushed over Cedar
hack over on East Prospect street ran Ike
a mill race down Lincoln avenue Euclid
avenue aud then on 10 Glen PARK Place.
where houses were undermined as though
built Of straw and almost lnciIenlable
damage done 10 streets AMI property
over larle share Of this exclusive rest
deuce terriiufy "a water fffsiied VITA tes-
rite force varying IN depth from one "a
six feet CulYerts, trCstles aud bbdges
were torn down and for hours nothing
destruction. Hundreds OF residents VINO
were imprisoned in their beautiful homes
Ike stranded islanders Were almost panic
stricken expecting To be called upon 70
wade ont into the swirling waters at al
most any minute. Danger signals were
flashed about the city as fast as the dis.
Bbied telephone system would allow ana
the work of rescue commenced. Row boats
piled back ana forth, assisting whole fan.
He's from perilous positions, but these
soon found necessary 10 90 to jhe extra
ordinary prccautlou Of calling oat the life
saving crew, which was at the river, seven
The HE boats were quickly loaded on
wagons and hurried TO the scene OF de
struction
The torrent surged with awful force for
hours in Dcering street from Farmount
10 boulevard and over dozen fapi,lle-
were pcuucu IN Ike rats IN q trap Win
water five and six feet deep surrounding
their homes. Al this point the life saving
crew worked valiantly aud assisted by
SQUADS Of hremen and policemen finally
succeeded In landing the terror stricken
people in places OF safety The fear was
greatly enhanced by the momentary OK
dam would break loose and bech forth
terrible destruction.
shortly before noon the torrents nm
earthed scores Of graves in the st
JnEenh tho of East
Madison and Woodland streets and the
bodies were soon being tossed about in the
Fully dozen Of the corpses were
washed into the cutters and had not been
recovered late tonight.
In Glenyille the overflow was terribly
destructive. Many houses have been
swamped, culyerts torn out and streets
turned into quagmres.
The loss in the village Is estimated at
about 100000
The street railways will suffer an i'm
meuse damage The Big Consolidated will
have 20 rebuild their tracks over the differ
ent parts Of the inundated East End dis
tricts aud the loss II placSd at $4,000.
The superior street trestle Nof the Little
Consolidated Is practically ruined aud this
with other serious damage in the lines OF
the company viii run their loss ntos the
thousands.
The damage to the railways. which will
also be great, can not be even estimated
until the large force " track hands. sent
out on emergency calls. can be heard from.
i The mail service from the East was com
petely tied from ! O'Clock In the morning
until O'Clock tonight. when train got
through on the Lake Shore. But the VAST
amount Of damage fails upon the house
holders within the flooded area The great
sea Of water reached a depth OF one foot
on scores Of the East End homes, boiling
M from the sewers and pouring in on the
streets. carrying everything that came in
It's path along with ".
A remarkable feature Of the storm which
caused such terrific destruction Is that IN
until Q o'clock thls morning hardly drop
! Of rain fell west ar Wilson avenue. while
during the morning hours the East End
was being fairly swamped In a perfect
! delugc Of rain.
Another remarkabe thing IS that no
| thunder aud lightning accompanied the
record breaking doVnfnN While thousands
/ az citizens In the most aristocratic section
I OF the city were aroused seeing thousands
! upon thousands Of dollars worth Of their
/ other and greater portion 0f the city was
wrapped In slumher. totally ohliyi0us 70
| the danger surrounding their fellow elf.
/ sens.
Residents along Prospect street were
aroused between and o'clock 10 the
/ morning by the sounds " the booming
water. The water continued 10 stead "
/ rise until Il was eight feet deep. BY o
\ O'Clock the residents along Lincoln avenue
/ commenced 10 move furniture and valnns
/ torrent reached the level OF front norches
1 and In number or houses swept Into
| floors. Barns and huge pieees OF lum-
and banged into many Lincoln avenue
/ homes threatening their destruction.
| The families NJ Mrs v Y, Newton anil y.
/ A Warren an Wlllemette Court had n
| terrible exnerienee with the food
Mrs. Newton's mother Mrs Caroline
| Hamm. aged SO years, ig IN serious, con
posure. For three hours the. women s'e-
| nailed for help from their home whice
sits down in 4 little valley. which placed
y ~ ths eososgte me- S Ners swept