Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-10-09
HEAVY RAIN FALL TURNS
THE STREETS INTO RIVERS
AND STORES ARE FLOODED.
One of the Worst Rain Storms this City Has Ever Experienced
Rain Started Yesterday Afternoon and Has ContAn
ued to Pour Almost Without Lnterruption-Water
was Level IN Smith Street This Morning and
Flowed into Stores Front Doors.

An unusually heavy rainfall is re-
corded today. 1t has poured constant
ly since early this morning and as
result many places are flooded. The
Staten Island Rapid Transit is prac-
tically out of business as far as this
end of the line is concerned. In Perth
Amboy the worst place is under the
Lehigh Valley bridges in State street.
North Amboy, this morning, was
completely shut off from the rest of
the city for wagon traffic except bv
way of Woodbridge road and hall
avenue. The water formed big lake
extending across the street and into
the neighboring yards. Trolley SER
vice north of the bridge was tied up.
The storm Perth Amboy now is ex-
periencing has come up the coast from
Bermuda. It's centre was off the
Virginia coast last night and high
northeasterly and northerly winds
prevailed from Hatteras to Nantucket.
Excessive rains fell in the middle
Atlantic coast States. The st orm has
advanced and high northerly to north
westerly winds prevail. The predlc-
tions are that the storm will diminish
this afternoon and it will clear on
and be cooler tomorrow.
Last night the Staten Island Rapid
Transit was entirely out of business.
The last train to reach Tottenvllle
was the 7.05 from New York. A
washout occurred at Richmond Valley
and all lrains were forced to stop at
Pleasant Plains. Passengers for
Tottenville ON later trains last night
left the cars at Pleasant Plains and
were taken in carriages from that
place to Tottenville. The washout
was at the same place where the dam
age was done at the last storm, only
this time is even worse.
This morning two or three trains
were able to get through from Totten-
Vile, but they ran very slowly over
the dangerous places. The heavy
rains this morning again caused de-
lays.
At 10. 80 the storm was at its worst
and the sidewalks along Smith and
State streets were flooded because the
rain CT me down so fast that it wassslm
possible for the sewer basins to carry
it off. In Jake's fruit store, at Smith
and State streets, the water was near
ly ankle deep, and it kept coming IN
as fast as one could sweep 1t out
Both the sewers at the corner OF state
and Sm1CD auu 0nllu anu A1opdl
streets, were so small and the rush OF
water came so fast that the basin
could not tahe it. The road looked
like a river. The people and horses,
who were CAT ght out IN it. soon found
that IL was ne,I4y kAee deep, being
level aero the saeer. Horses be-
came frightened and while some re-
fused to move, others started off en- a
wild gallop and the drivers could
hardly restrain them from getting
away.
The dirt embankment at the new
building of the Perth Amboy Trust
Company's building, became so wet
that it fell down on top of the new
concrete wall and 1t will take some
time to get thin gs in shape again.
Shortly before uoon the twenty inch
wall caved in.
The receiving basin at the corner
of Smith and King streets, became
clogged up yesterday afternoon and
this morning the side and cross walks
in front of the Perth Amboy Trust