The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-07
STORM S RUIN.
Trees Broken, Cellars Flood
ed, Merchandise and
Furniture De-
stroyed.
STREETS TURNED into PONDS
Choked Sewers Made Cross
ings Into Waterways
and Delayed Pc
destrains.
DAMAGE WILL REACH THE THOUSANDS
Goods Stored Below Street
Level Had a Most Detri-
mental Bath.
DAMAGE WILL REACH THE THOUSANDS

The heavy downpour of rain last night
and this morning choked nearly all the
sewers in the city and complaints OF
overfown cellars have poured into the
Chief Engineers office from every Sec
tien of the city, but especially from resi-
dents in the vicinity of Crescent, Harri-
son and Monticello avenues.
The Board of Street and Water Com
missioners asked for appropriations for
the reconstruction of several sewers, in
cluding the Harrison avenue sewer, which
would greatly relieve the section most
complained of, but the Financiers could
not see their way to insert the appropri-
ations asked for in the coming fiscal
years budget.
A repetition of the trouble experienced
iast year on Jackson avenue by the
flooding of sewers occurred last night dur
ing the severe storm which struck this
city. Cellars were flooded by the score
and thousands of dollars of damage re-
suited to house owners and merchants
along Jackson avenue.
Residents on the Heights cannot re-
member when SO much water was seen
on any thoroughfare. At one time four
feet of water was visible. The car line
was blocked for two hours. One car
which ran through a small lake at Forest
street was rendered useless for the time
when the motors burned out.
From Bramhall avenue to Virginia ave-
nue. foot passengers were unable to go
about without wading through foot or
more of rich yellow water AT some
points the water was two and three feet
deep. Sidewalks were inundated and peo-
pie were unable to get to their
homes until the water ran off.
Those who were in a hurry divested
themselves of their shoes and Stockings
and waded home through the muddy wa
ter Women, too, were by no means back
ward in wadfng about in their bare feet
Dozens of persons found this the only
way TO get home.
Others used RATS and planks to cross.
In some places the water was close up to
the gates and doors of dwellings on Jack
son avenue.
The brick row which is located on Fair
mount avenue, between Bergen and Mon
ticello avenues was flooded last night.
The Easements of these dwellings are five
feet beneath the street level. A sewer
basin at Monticello and Fairmount ave-
into the easements of twelve houses.
There was five feet of water in every
basement this morning. Furniture was
ruined and other household goods rem
dered useless. The damage is estimated
at over 5000.
Henry Drupmel, a grocer at BramhaIl
and Jackson avenues. lost 500 worth of
groceries which were stored in the base
ment
Henry Luhrmann, a grocer on the cor
ner opposite, estimates his loss at $780,
John Steber, a baker, lost all his stock
for todays trade. His basement was
flooded and he could not use his ovens
to bake.
The worst point on the Heights was at
Forrest street. The water ran up that
thoroughfare for two hundred feet and
the walks were flooded. Every cellar on
Jackson avenue, from Bramhall to Vir-
ginia avenue, was flooded with from four
to seven feet of water. The damage re-
sulting therefrom is estimated in the
thousands.
Henry Klomberg, grocer at Oak street
and Jackson avenue, stored sixty crates
of tomatoes in his cellar yesterday after
noon. Every crate was ruined. Many dol
lars worm OF groceries III the celiaf were
also lost.
James Butler a grocer at Forrest street,
had seven feet of water in the basement.
Several hundred dollars worth of grocer
les were destroyed
The water percolated through the store
floor and ruined several things among
which were several barrels of sugar and
-four. Henry Skillman, hardware dealer,
lost many dollars worth of stock in the
basement Several liquor dealers and can
DIV manufacturers report losses. Henry
Freder;cks. John Bell and Henry Becker.
lost stock, ruined by water. John Cordes,
candy manufacturer, reports losses
from water
jackson avenue lies in hollow between
Bergen and Ocean avenues, ana receives
ali the fiow from the side streets. The
flow was SO great that the sewer backed
nm and flooded everything in signt- eaten
basins and manholes were cfoked with
mud stones and debris, which was main
Iv responsible for the flooding of all the
cellars.
The new sewer being built on Grand
street. is in measure responsible lot lne
backing up of the sub-sewers. This Dig
outlet is rearing completion and at pres
ent the sewer is blocked. All the SUD
sewers were stopped as a result al most
critical time.
Jackson avenue was flooded until mid
An Old and Well Tried Remedy.