The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-10-10
NEW YORK IS FLOODED
rwENTY-FoUR HOURS or POUR
 IN0 RAIN.
Trolley Lines and Railroads Either Crippled or Delayed Nassau Street Closed Beesuse
 of a Washout.

hours of pouring rain. New York city and the adjacent country suffered early today from severe floods. Six and twenty-four hundreths inches of rain had fallen in the twenty-four hours ending at a. m. to- day and 1t was stili raining hard. This was believed to be near record rainfall Many trolley lines and railroads were either crippled or delayed and in New York City a conduit containing seventy telegraphic wires was so flooded as to disable all the wires.
 A heavy flood in the Bronx damaged the packing houses of Schwartschild & Sulzberger, Swift 6 Co. and Nelson Nor ris & Co.,. and a portion of the freight yard of the New York Central was cov- cred by twelve feet of water. A watchman who had sought refuge on the ton of a car was rescued. From all parts of the city were received reports of flooded cellars, flooded sewers and inpas- sable gutters. Many cellars along the North River front were flooded. and in some instances there was loss of goods stored there. West street in front of the downtown ferries to Jersey City and Ho- boken was flooded and passengers were carried across 1t in drays and grocers' wagons temporarily pressed into service.
 Trolley trafic at St. George, Staten Is- land, was completely tied up by a rush of water over the tracks between Staple. ton and St. George. The water was two feet deep in South Street at the New York side of the Fulton Street, Brooklyn ferry. ,.a5t
 Passengers arriving on the ferry boats waded through the water up to their knees until the dealers in the Fulton market used large boxes to build a bridge ALx r~fA rr~A khs street for truck trafic. but section of the bridge had to be removed every few minutes to admit the passage of horse cars. s. As45
 Nassau Street between Wall and Pine Streets was closed on account of a wash out in the middle of the street. Pedes- trians waded through a foot of water. The sidewalk at the corner of the sub treasury building was undermined. Part of dam across the Ramapo river near Pompton Lake, N. J., was washed out during the heavy rain storms today. inundating the valley below. A number of houses were flooded, but there were no fatalities.
 The water was two feet deep in West Street in front of the ferry house of the Barclay Street ferry to Hoboken. For nearly an hour working girls and women waited in the ferry house marooned by the flood until the truckmen came to the rescue. Every ferry boat was met by half a dozen truckmen, and the passen. gers instead of hearing the usual "Keb keb. kerrige, kerrige," were greeted with Take yer across the street for a nickel
 Many thousands of men and wome, were unable to reach their places of bus mess today owing to washouts, and land slides on the railroads and trolley line in New Jersey. Long Island and West chester County. .'
 The Newark branch of the Erie Rail road is reported to be entirely tied up Hundreds of tons of dirt and stone ha, been washed into the cut and stalled tn trains. The hundreds of people in tn stalled trains were forced to remail where they were for many hours owin to the fact that the streams had over flowed their banks and flooded the roads making them almost impossible for we hicles. Telegraph wires also suffered Fences were blown down, barns and out buildings on the farms undermined an cattle strayed from one farm to anothe seeking shelter.
 Local Forecast Officer Emery said h believed this was a record rainfall. Tn highest previous record he could dlscove occurred September g. 1882, when 61 l AhSitSS OL aAil ACiA III tWCIIAy -IOuT 4lOuTS.
 The St. Marks District in BrooklyI suffered severely. The water was tw feet deep in Fulton Street near Tomp xins Avenue and access to the elevate stations was extremely difficult.
 Several of the surface lines were stalle and many cellars were flooded by wate which poured over the sidewalks.
 Trains on the Monteclaire branch of tn Delaware, Lackawanna and Westerl Railroad were stalled by a washout | Newark. where the tracks are being ele vated and passengers were compelled t walk around the washout to board anoth CT train for New York. .,.
 The store room in the basement O Bellevue hospital was flooded and store to the value of 5000 ruined.
 The downpour in the early morning wa so great that the rain went down tn chimneys of many East Side tenements putting out fires and flowing into rooms In several blocks the tenants of the ten ement houses placed canvas covers owe the chimneys.
 Blocks of the surface lines were fire quent during the morning on the uppe West Side.
 At Forty-second Street and Broadwa, the water flowed into the excavation O the new Times building. making A lak | damage. The subway excavation iron Forty-second Street to One Hundred am Fourth Street was flooded and in man! places the contractors sustained damag by washouts.
 The tracks of the New York Centra along the Hudson river were covered witl | water
 Pine Street from Broadway to Beave Street. one of the busiest parts of tn | financial districts, was almost under mined by the washing away of newl. constructed sewer. Parts of the sidewall and street sank perceptibly, and becaus | of a series of breaks in the steam pipe of the New York Steam Heating Com l pany the broken street surface gave ou | steam like an active volcano. l A six-inch water main in Pearl Stree burst. tore up the pavement and flooded 25-foot excavation for the Beaver build ing.