The Tupelo journal., 1903-10-16
NEW YORK CITY
UNDER A FLOOD
Unprecedented Downpour Seriously
Impedes Business and Traffic.
TRAIN SERVICE is CRIPPLED
Great Part of the City Laid Under
Water-ScOres of Plants Shut
Down, Involving Loss of
Fully $1,OOO,OOO.

New York, Oct. 10-Torrential rain,
commencing early Thursday morning
and continuing with scarcely any in
PERMISSION until late Friday afternoon,
during which time the unprecedented
precipitation of 1904 inches was re-
corded at the local weather bureau,
laid New York city under a flood Fri
day, causing damage that will amount
to many hundred thousand dollars.
Friday night the rain ceased, but
coast storm is reported to be approach
ing, and threatened hurricane rem
ders it unsafe for vessels of any class
to leave port.
Along all the river front, and in
many sections of Brooklyn, cellars
were flooded and an enormous amount
of damage done A great portion of
the subway was badly flooded.
Traffic Crippled.
Suburban, steam and street car lines,
with hardly an exception, were badly
crippled by floods and washouts, and
In the early morning rush hours thou
sands of suburban residents were I'M
able to reach their Offices in this city.
Those who were fortunate enough to
cross the ferries found further prog
ress blocked by the submerged condi
ton of the waterfront streets, across
which they were ferried in trucks and
wagons.
Reports of extensive floods and seri-
Gus damage to property and Interrupt
lions of traffic came from almost all
sections of New Jersey and Long
Island. In Newark, Passaic and other
large manufacturing centers, many
factories were closed down owing tC
the flooding of engine rooms. In many
places electric light and power plants
were shut down for the same reason
A dam on the Ramapo river, at Pomp-
ton, broke, flooding the valley for ten
miles, but causing no loss of life.
Great Loss at Paterson.
Paterson, N. j., was one of the worst
sufferers, and for a time there was
grave danger of repetition of the ter
rible disaster of last February.
Last night the flood was subsiding,
and all danger is believed to be over.
A great part of the city was laid
under water, and scores of great plants,
including those of the Rogers loco
motive works and the Passaic Steel Co..
were flooded and shut down, involving
a loss estimated at fully $1,O00,000.
Only one life was reported lost
that of girl drowned by the carry
| ing away of a bridge over creek
Thousands of New Jersey commuters
slept in New York last night, being
unable to return to their homes.
All Railroads Tied UP.
Except for the actual running of
| the ferry boats the Erie railroad was
practically tied up. No trains were run
on the main line west of Passaic,
none on the Newark branch west OF
Newark, none west of Norwood on the
northern branch, none west of Airing
ton, and no trains on either the Jer-
sey & New York railroad or the New
York, Susequehanna & Western rail-
road.
| The Delaware, Lackawanna & West
ern was also badly crippled.
On the PENNSYLVANIA it was stated that
regular schedules were maintained.
The only delay to the trains on the
New York Central & Hudson River
railroad and the New York, New
Haven & Hartford railroad was during
the heaviest part of the storm, when
the water rose to height of three
feet on the tracks in the Bronx, and
the engineers were obliged to run eau
tiously. By the time the storm had
cleared, however, the local trains were
running on their regular schedules.
The express trains from Boston and
the west, however, were from fifteen
minutes to an hour late.