Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-09
OVER SIX INCHES FELL
MANY TROLLEY LINES AND RAIL-
ROADS CRIPPLED.
Sewers and Cellars Flooded and tbS
End is Not Yet, as It is
Still Raining.

and towns reach New York and caused
them serious delay or inconvenience in
reaching their Offices in town. In outlying
| districts many trolley and steam road lines
were under two feet of water. and there
were many wasnouts
Streets along the waterfront downtown
were so badly flooded that passengers were
conveyed across them in draws
large portion of the subway in this city
was badly flooded
In Patterson N. j.. the river district was
badly flooded and fears We're entertained
that the disastrous food of two years ago
would be repeated dam on the Ramapo
river at Pompton. n. j.. broke and flooded a
valley ten miles long. but no loss of life was
reported.
reports from various points in New York
state indicated that great deal of damage
had been caused and small rivers were at
flood height and rising. A washout at
Hastings tied up northbound traffic on the
New York Central road for time, and
the main lines of the Erie and Susquehanna
roads were blocked by washouts
Rain continued to fall heavily today
Six and 24-100 inches of rain had fallen in
the twenty-four hours ending at a m. to-
day and it was still raining hard.
A heavy flood in the Bronx dana ged the
packing houses of Schwlrtzchild and Sultz-
burger, Swift and Company and Nelson
Morris and Company. and a portion of the
freight yard of the New York Central rail-
road was covered by twelve feet of water
A ,watchman who had sought refuge on the
top of car was rescued.
Flooded Cellars and Sewers
From all parts of the city were received
reports of flooded cellars, flooded sewers
and impossible cutters.
Many cellars along the North river front
were flooded and in some instances there
was loss on goods stored there.
West street in front of the down town
ferries to Jersey City and Hoboken was
flooded and passengers were carried across
it in drays and grocers wagons Temporal
rily pressed into service.
Trolley traffic at St. George Staten Is
land, was completely tied up by a rush of
water over the tracks between Stapleton
and ST. George.
The water was two feet deep in So1.h
street at the New York side of the Fulton
street Brooklyn, ferry. Passengers arriv-
ing the ferry boats waded through the
water up to their knees until the dealers
in the Fulton market used large boxes to
build bridge across the street. The bridge
blocked the street for truck traffic and a
section of the bridge had TO be removed
every few minutes to admit the passage OF
horse cars
Washout on Nassau Street
Nassau street between Wall and Pine
streets was closed on account of a wash
out in the middle of the street. Pedestrians
waded through a foot OF water. The side
walk at the corner of the subreasury build
ing was undermined.
Part of dam across the Ramapo river
near Pompton Lake, n. j., was washed out
during the heavy rain storm today, inun-
dating the valley below. \ number of
houses were flooded but there We're no
fatalities.
The dam is at the lower end of Pompton
lake The most serious damage was the
carrying away of an iron bridge across the
river. Two canal boats, loaded with coal
were torn from their moorings and swept
away.
Many occupants of cottages along the
banks of the Ramapo river fled from their
homes. The crews of the two canal boats
are said to have escaped. Besides the iron
bridge. a wooden bridge the lake
from Oakland to the village of Pompton
Lake, was carried away The territory
covered by the flood extends about ten
miles. All the low-lying ground between
Paterson and Pompton Lake is under
water. Travel between Paterson and the
village of Butler is cut off except by boat.
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 passengers in
stead of hearing the usual cry of ''keb,
Keb, Kerrige. Kerrige." were greeted with
Take yer across the street for nickel"
Many Fail to Reach Office.
Many thousands of men and women were
unable to reach their places Of business to-
day owing to washouts and landslides on
the railroads and trolley lines in New Jer-
sey, Long Island and Westchester county
The Newark branch of the Erie railroad
was reported to be entirely tied up. Hun
dreds of tons of dirt and stone had been
washed into the cuts and stalled the trains.
The hundreds of people in the stalled trains
were forced to remain where they Were for
many hours, owing to the fact that the
streams had overfiowed their banks and
flooded the roads, making them almost i'm +
passable for vehicles. Telegraph wires also
suffered. Fences were blown down, barns
and out houses on the farms undermined !
and cattle strayed from one farm to an
other seeking shelter.
Local Forecast Officer Emery said that he
believed this was record rainfall The
highest previous record he could discover
occurred September D. 1852, when 17-lOO
inches of rain fell in tweaty-four hours.
The st. Marks district in Brooklyn suf-
fered severely. The water was two feet
deep in Fulton street. near Tompkins ave-
nue., and access to the elevated stations ex-
tremely difficult Several of the surface
lines were stalled, and many cellars were
flooded by water which poured over the
sidewalk.
The Lone Hill. L. l.. life saving station re-
ports a barge anchored half "A mile or
shore at Ditch Plain, near Montauk Point,
unable to proceed in the storm
Passengers Walk Around Washout.
Trains on the Montclair branch Of the
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western rail-
road were stalled by washout in New
ark, where the tracks are being elevated,
and passengers were compelled to walk q
block around he washout to board another
train for New York.
The store room in the basement Of Bel:e-
vue Hospital was flooded and stores to the
value of 5000 were ruined.
The downpour in the early morning Was