The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-11
NORTHERN COAST
SHAKEN BY STORM
A Few Lives Reported Lostin
the Tempest.
HURRICANE WARNINGS UP
From New York. Philadelphia, Trenton and
Other Cities Come R,pNts Of Heavy
Damage by Wind and Wave---
Three Lives LOST
(By the Associated Press.)


New York, Oct. 9.-Torrential rain,
commencing early yesterday morning and
continuing with scarcely any intermisSion
until late this afternoon, during which
time the unprecedented precipitation of
1904 inches was recorded at the local
weather bureau, laid New York city and
all the surrounding country unGer a flood
today, causing damage that viii amount
to many hundred thousands of dollars.
Tonight the rain has ceased, but coast
storm is reported to be approaching, rem
dering it unsafe for vessels of any class
to leave port.
Suburban steam and trolley lines with
hardly an exception, were crippled by
floods and washouts, and in the early
morning rush hours thousands of suburban
residents were unable to reach their offices
in this city Those who were fortunate
enough to cross the ferries found further
progress blocked by the submerged condi-
ton of the water front streets, across
which they were ferried in trucks and
wagons.
Reports of extensive floods and serious
damage to property and Interruptions OF
traffic came from almost all sections OF
New Jersey and Long Island In New
York, Passaic and other large manufac-
turing centres many factories were closed
down owing to 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
Pompton, broke, flooding the valley for
ten miles, but causing no loss of life.
Patterson was one of the worst suffer
ers and for a time this afternoon there
was grave danger of repetition of the
terrible disaster OF last February. To-
night the flood is subsidng and all danger
is believed to be over.
A great part of the city was laid under
water and scores of great plants, includ-
ing those of the Rogers Locomotive Works
and the Passaic Steel Company were food
ed and shut down, involving loss esti-
mated at fully 1000, 900.
Only one life was reported lost-that
of a girl drowned by the carrying away
of a bridge over a creek. Thousands of
New Jersey commuters slept in New York
tonight, being unable to return to their
homes.
Scranton, Pa, Oct 9.-Reports from up
and down the Wyoming Valley, coming
in tonight, are that the flood is the worst
years. No. l mine at Carbonate and
ne Glenwood at Mayfield are filling with
water.
Philadelphia, Oct. 9.-The heavy rain
storm which set in Thursday morning.
continues tonight. During the last thirty
six hours three and one-tenth inches of
rain have fallen The storm is accompa-
MED by high wind, which reached a max
imum of thirty-six miles an hour this at
ternoon. Beyond the flooding of a few
streets, caused by choked up sewers, no
damage of any consequence has been done
in this city or vicinity. The Delaware
and Schuylkill Rivers are above normal,
but somewhere near the danger point.
AT Atlantic City, N. j., four inches of
rain fell between a. IN. and p. m. today.
At the Delaware Breakwater the wind
reached a velocity of fifty miles an hour.
Hurricane warnings are up along the coast
from the Delaware capes north.
Two deaths, due to the high winds,
were reported tonight. AT York, Pa,
Walter Roger, twelve-year-old boy was,
standing on the banks of the city res
ervoir when the wind swept him into the
water and he was drowned before his
body could be recovered.
John Brown, living at Crum Lynn, a
short distance from this city, was drowned
in the same manner.
Trenton, N. j., Oct 9.-The rising of the
Assanpink Creek resulted in the flooding
of the power house of the Trenton Street
Railway. All street railway traffic had
to be suspended. The water continued to
rise until midnight, when it became so
high that the tracks of the Pennsylvania
Railroad which cross the creek at the
Clinton Street station were so inundated
that trains could not pass. Two trains
are already stalled and railroad traffic
throughout the city is entirely suspend
ed. 1t is expected that it will be several
hours before the water subsidies suff-
GENTLY to permit the running of trains.