The San Francisco call., 1904-03-11
Cities AcrOSS the
Bay Suffer Jes
OereLy.

OAhLAND, 1U.-W I'm a WIND
storm that at some localities in Ala
media County reached a velocity of
seventy miles an hour. rain accom-
paniment being as comparatively
State last night worked a full measure
of damage along the east shores of San
! Francisco Bay and left it's mark
throughout Alameda County. Oakland,
Alameda and Berkeley were given a
! lively shaking up and reports from
down country points note heavy dam
| age by wind and rain.
| The Livermore Valley was hard hit
! and losses are serious from the gale
| that wrecked houses, barns and other
structures, including one large ware
/ house, exposing thousands OF sacks OF
grain to the driving downpour of rain
| The storm wrecked telephone and tele-
graph communication in all directions
At the Southern Pacific Companys di-
vision headquarters it was announced
that reports could not be obtained of
damage done along the railroad on that
| account. Local train and ferry service
were seriously interrupted during the
l
on irregular schedules. The Key
route ferry was caught by flooding Of
/ the tracks in the subway at the foot
| Of Yerba Buena avenue. A washout
| on the line into Berkeley caused a stop
page of traffic for several hours. On
the Southern Pacific narrow-gauge a
washout and flooded tracks along the
! Alameda marshes and the mole NIL
blocked travel. So stiff was the wind
| that train of passenger cars was
blown off the tracks this morning at
the narrow gauge pier, the train having
been made up to go to San Jose and
| Santa Cruz.
| The waves ran so high at the narrow
| gauge pier that the regular boat trips
were abandoned until 2 o'clock this
| afternoon.
On the broad-gauge mole large con-
| struction gang was kept at work to
prevent the washing out of the rip-rap
work on the mole.
| Trips were made by the ferry boats
under great difficulty. So high was the
sea that the lower decks of the Oak
| land and the Berkeley were flooded.
/ On the first trip of the Oakland the
forward lifebOat was torn from the
davits and the forward doors smashed
by a heavy roller that swept aboard
during the steamers plunging.
In Oakland harbor a lively sea was
kicked UP. Many ships and other
| craft went adrift, doing more or less
damage.
Throughout the cities trees were up
rooted, fences and signs. awnings and
! small structures were moved down.
The Street Department was flooded
with reports of cIogged sewers and
overf1owed streets. No breaks oc-
Cured that caused serious damage.
The storm played havoc with the
| telephone lines in Oakland. Manager
| Eugene J. Ellis said 2000 instruments
were put out of commission. The cable
| crossing lines over Yerba Buena ISL
and were laid low. but the cable did
not part. The company put a large
force of men at work on repairs. and
many boxes were in commission again
by nightfall.
Street car service was interfered
| with by temporary cutting off of cur
rent from the Bay Counties lines from
Yuba County.
The rainfall for the storm, up to 1
o'clock this afternoon, was 2.42 inches
making a seasonal total of 2219 inches.
as against 1875 the corresponding date
last year.
Along the water front the storm was
felt most severely. On the south side
of the broad-gauge mole the waves
washed out a long section of the fill.
superintendent w. S. Palmer sent a
large train loaded with sacked gravel
to stop breaks.
At Long wharf the schooner Alice
Cook and the French bark NoIuer were
| badly dam -ed in a collision
The Simpson Lumber Company
four-masted schooner Louis broke
from her moorings in East Oakland
basin, drifted down on the dredger
Uncle Sam, carrying away lot of
pipe line. Then the vessel smashed
into the Pacific Coast Company's coal
bunkers at Adams wharf, doing $500
damage to them.
The British ships moored i'm East
Oakland basin were tangled up by
. the gale, but no heavy damage was