Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-10-15
new YORK CITY
UNDER A FLOOD
Unprecedented Downpour Seriously
Inpedes Business and Traffic.
TRAIN SERVICE is CRIPPLED
a Great Pnri Of the City Laid Under
Water-Scorcs of Plants Shut
Down, Involving Loss OF
Fully Si,0OO,G0O.

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 90 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 a
coast storm is reported to be approach
ing, and a 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 we're In.
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'
GU damage to property and Interrupt
tions Of traffic anne from almost al
sections of New Jersey and Ions
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 tel
miles, but causing no loss of life.
Great Loss at Paterson.
Paterson, N. j., was one of the wors
sufferers, and for a time there wa
grave danger of a 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 lait
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, involvin;
a loss estimated at fully 81, 200 900.
Only one life was reported lost
that of a girl drowned by the carry
ing away of a bridge over a creek
Thousands of New Jersey commuter
slept in New York last night, bein!
unable to return to their homes.
All Railroads Tied Up.
Except for the actual running o
the ferry boats the Erie railroad wa
practically tied up. No trains were ru1
on the main line west Of Passait
none on the Newark branch west O
Newark, none west of Norwood on tn
northern branch, none west of Airing
ION, and no trains IN either the Jer
,sey & New York railroad OF the New
York, Susequehanna & Western rail
road.
The Delaware, Lackawanna & West
,efn was also badly crippled.
On the PENNSYLVANIA it was stated tina
regular schedules were maintained.
The only delay to the trains on th
New York Central & Hudson Rive
railroad and the New York, NeN
Haven & Hartford railroad was durin
the heaviest part of the storm, whe
fhn water rose to a height of tire
feet on the tracks in the Bronx, an
the engineers were obliged to run eau
tiously. BY the time the storm ha
cleared, however, the local trains wer
running on their regular schedules
The express trains from Boston an
the west, however, were from tftee,
minutes to an hour late.