The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1907-01-04
CELLARS FILLED
WITH BACK WATER
Sewers Proved Inadequate To
Unusual Demand
Railroads North and South Suffer
Washouts Which Temporarily
Hamper Trains.
COLD. WEATHER STOPS RAIN.

with the SuddennesS expected, ana
little suffering is felt All the eel
liars were full of water and those who
depended on furnace heat went cold
Ito bed. The sewer down town was
not able to carry off the rush Of water
land as fast as cellars were drained
the water ran back in, having no 9TH
er place to 60 Plumbers state that
the only dry cellar they knew of was
owned by a man who possessed a
hydraulic pump.
The heavy rain were forgotten in
1.-THE bright sunshine this morning ex-
cept in those parts where standing
water hampers work.
Today linemen for the telephone
companies were out in different parts
of the city pumping water from man
holes. The heavy rains beat into the
caps of the manholes and filled them
with water 1t interferes Win the
proper working of telephone lines,
and the 'trouble crews" are out work
ing hard today.
At the railroad shops the transfer
table and the cinder pits are full of
water. The drain pipes became clog
ged and it viii take days to drain
them at the rate the water is at pres
ent leaving.
roI,-;e oo---fad int ,oxvoraoo mon,
holes has caused little trouble so far
to the street department, but It was
necessary to clean several out, and
exen bricks we're washed into some.
One exhibition OF the force the water
fell with can be seen in the scattered
cross ties on the N, c. & ST. L. main
limo leading to the passenger depot
here. Two stacks of ties, so in each,
were washed down the side of the fiji
by the rains and scattered through
the hollows by the swift current.
st. Louis Train stopped.
Yesterday the first results of the
heavy rain Of the past two days were
felt by the Illinois Central road when
two miles of roadbed was undermined
and tracks torn up for this distance
between Grantsburg and Simpson,
thirty miles north of Brookport on the
Carbondale division, and every train
on this division was annulled yester-
day afternoon.
The train leaving here at 12:45
o'clock for st. Louis via Brookport
turned back at Grantsburg and arriv-
ed at O'Clock. Passengers were
transferred to the 6:15 o'clock Cairo
train to connect at Cairo with the st.
Louis and Chicago flyer. and the
train due at $40 o'clock from st.
Louis via Brookport, was turned back
at Simpson and sent to Cairo, where
passengers were transferred to Pa
ducah.
The Caldwell street fill settled yes
terday about a foot for fifty feet near
the center. The street department is
at work filling in the sunken part.
Washout at Boaz.
Not only on the southern Illinois
llne is the Illinois Central road suffer
ing from washouts but last night
trouble from this source developed on
the southern lines. few miles from
Paducah. Every passenger and man
ifest freight was delayed last night
between Paducah and Memphis by
washouts. One "came in" near Boaz
station between Paducah and Mayfield
and the fast train, No. 1914, due at
11:e) O'Clock arrived at 6:5O o'clock,
after detouring via East Cairo. The
fast southbound train No. 1903, due
at s:45 o'clock, detoured via East
Cairo to Fulton
This morning the washout has been
REPAIRED and the accommodation train
from Fulton was delayed but 25 min
lutes The Cairo accommodation train
was also delayed. arriving 40 min
utes late. This was due to uncertain
roadbed.
Sewer Responsible.
The cause Of water backing into
the basement Of the Jefferson school
building, Eighth and Harrison streets.
was found to be in the drain pipe
from the basement to the sanitary
and storm water sewers The drain
lpipe is lower at the basement end
than the sewers. and whenever an
Unusually bard rain comes the sani-
tary sewers FIJI and back the water
Into the basement. The drain from
1.-THE basement Is provided with SHUT
lon valve. This was shut OF, the wa