The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-06-30
NEW YORK CITY ALL AWASH,
ESPECIALLY BROOKLYN BOROUGH
WHICH RAN RIVERS.

In stores ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Heroes 70 the Rescue-t)ne How're
Anost, and Police Compel TenemAnt
DwelIers to Abandon Others-Train
Service Upset-Damase o., 000. 90.
The bung was knocked out Of the sky
yesterday morning, and all the waters
above the earth came down In cataracts.
cascades and fresnets, overwhelming the
low-lying districts included In the borougha
OF Brooklyn and Queens.
In Manhattan the downpour was almost
tropical, as measured by the rain gauge
of Local Forecaster Emory, but IL was
carried of in hurry by the good sewerage
system of the rock ribbed island.
1t was different in suburban places.
1t may be that the contribution Ut the
clouds in Brooklyn and Queens was heavier
than that reokoned by the forecaster OF
this borough. which does not always catch
all the moisture roundabout. Sometimes
Central Park gets twice as much rainfall
in a day as Mr. Emory's gauge takes In.
Such are meteorological conditions In .
big city. a
Officially, according to the record Of
the lower end OF this island, the rainfall
was 2.49 inches. counting from 4:S0 A. n.
to 1853 p. M. E
There were periods between these houia
when the rush and roar 81 the waters might
be-and were-designated a. cloudburst.
For two hours at least, that Ii, between
10 o'clock in the morning and noon. There
was hardly a seconds intermiesion In the
torrent let loose from the sluice gaps sloft.
The damage may be told in amounts That
in the aggregate will approach Si,00o00d
THE DELuoE IN BRooKLYN ~
Some streets in Brooklyn descending 70
hollow places were for 4 few minutes
turned into cataracts. The grated sewer
openings, choked by hotsam, could not
carry away the food.
Manholes in Brooklyn blew on under the
pressure of the flood az II they had been
dynamited, and coffee-colo red geysers rote
Ave feet or more above the surfarcs Of the
streets. Z
Traips bound for the racetrAokS And
summer resorts were held up for hours.
lightning played FRANKS in all the boroughs.
but there was no loss Of life.
The section OF Brooklyn in Saratoga
avenue between Chaunoey and Macon
streets, about a quarter Of mile long,
was under water from two to four feet.
The big new schoolhouee at Bafnb1des
street and Saratoga avenue was surrounded
by water
SAVED THE YOUNGSTERS.
Mothers in the flooded district, fearing
that the water might rise higher, became
panic-stricken and sent out their husbands
to rescue their children Fathers waded
waist deep to the school, carrying unlbrsl-
las, rubber boots and mackint oshes, and
came back with children. some laughing
and some crying, on their shoulders.
The cellar Of Grace Church, in Cambridge
street. was flooded and there were tw>
feet OF water under the playrooms In the
basement OF the schoolhouse. Boxes and
barrels drifted away from open cellars
Of groceries, bakeries and drug stores.
Mothers, terrified by the inundation.
walked to the schoolhouse waist deep in
the swirling waters to get their children,
who were not bit disturbed, but rather
enjoyed the situation.
Mr. Wasserman, the pastor OF Grace
Church, breasted the food to rescue women
and children marooned in stores. The
rise Of the waters was 30 sudden that folks
who had gone out to get things for the
midday meal found themselves confro nting
water-covered sidewalk ten minutes
after they had made their purchases.
Women were caught in the middle Of q
block in a deluge where a moment before
they were practically dry shod. Cellars
that never had seen water were flooded In
ten minutes.
IN WILLIAMSBURG.
In Willie mshurg, in the neighborhood
re IL, n>l a,, a.
the water at enc time was five feet deep.
Cellars were flooded and many storekeepers
were forced 10 close and seek shelter on
upper foors.
The water began to rise about 90 lock
in the morning and when it was two feet
deep the cars of the Tompkins avenue
line stopped running. All the cans were
switched and sent back A the water con-
tinued to rise. the cars OF the Marcy avenus
line and those of the Nostrand avenue ana
the Iorimer street lines also went out OF
commission. Gradually the water reached
the sidewalks and then flowed into cellars
Hundreds Of pc IRONS were imprisoned in
their homes and many Of these who had
not provided themselves with food went
hungry AT noon.
A fear that there might be drowning
casualties caused Police Captain Gala CHER
Of the Clymer street station to turn out the
reserves They were reinforced by police
men from the Vernon avenue and the Stage
street stations.
HORSE DROWNED
The two-storied frame house in the rear
Of IFS Harrison avenue. occupied by Mira.
Annie Miller and her husband, was under
mined. As the foundation began 10 sink,
Miller, fearing for his wife's safnty, carried
her from the second floor on his back through
three feet Of water in the street to the home
Of relatives.
Capt, Gallagher feared that number
Of apartment houses in the same ncighhpr-
hood might collapse and made the In
mates get out. They were taken away
in furniture vans, which were backed up
against the stoops. Tho captain was
informed that there would be many damage
suits against the city, and he had cops With
long rubber boots enter each ho,lse and
get the names OF the occupants and the
nature OF the flooding.
Several horses narrowly escaped drown
ing In the Harrison avenue and Wnllabout
street section. One horse, belonging to
the wine-importing firm Of Fritz Hsndrich
4 Son OF 203 Fast Fifty seventh street,
Manhattan, was killed at Marcy and Flush
ing avenues. There was three feet Of
water at that place. II is surmised that
the horse was shocked by an electric light