The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-26

Clerk and in the Register in Chancery. On the second floor the office of Judge A D. sayre was flooded. Caused by the immense amount of water drained down Lawrence Street, together with the water of Dexter Avenue. the mailing room of The Ad- vertiser was flooded, neoessitatiug the removal of ali paraphernalia to the business office. on the first floor. No damage was found when the water was pumped out yesterday morning. Owing to the inadequacy of the storm
 sewers to accommodate the immense amount of water drained by Court | Square and MontgoEsarY Street, the cellar of the Exchange Hotel was flooded. The barber shop and press ing room of the hotel was flooded, ne- cessitating the removal of the barber chairs and other fixtures. The water was stopped In time to prevent the flooding of the elevator shaft. The floor was filled with quantity of sand and mud. which was cleaned yester-
 day. Comparatively little damage was | done here.
 | Retaining walls on Bell Street, near | the bridge. were washed and under mined. Tn places the bricks were | washed out of the wall In sections and I carried away.
 The Gennetta Ditch. in the southern | P"ht OA tHO NAAy A1H hdHipdHI dB uSudls | This ditch drains parts of Highland Park. Cloverdale, South Perry Street | Hill. on both sides. and Court Street. | For a' long period all bridges were
 awash. and the smaller footbridees were carried away. Houses along the
 bank were undermined. and in some cases, outho ouses were carried down the | stream.
 On Hull Street the bridge used by wagons and street cars was piled high with wash. Two footbrldEes were lodged against the structure, as were | several smaller logs and pianks Chick en-eoops. etc, were also found near ] the bridge. During the storm the po- ] lice department was notified that the ditch was running wild and requested l that officers be sent to examine into | the safety of all bridges crossing the ditch. The larger bridges were found to be intact with the exception of the one on South Perry Street. Here the piers upon which the wooden bridge rested were undermined to q great ex- tent.
 On catoma Street the Iron grating
 above the storm sewer near Church Street. was washed across the street.
 Boxes. barrels. blanks and buggy tops
 were found in the gutters of all of the
 paved streets. Sand and gravel filled
 the tracks of the Traction Company
 necessitating the stoppage of the
 street cars for period of half an hour.
 The Traction Company was lucky on
 the whole. No car ran away down the
 slippery hills of Court. Hull or Mont gomery Streets. But two cars got off
 the track, and these were easily shift ed back to the rails. While gravel and
 sand filled the switches. schedules were Ifairly well kept except during the worst of the storm when both conduc- tor and motorman were driven to the inside of the car.
 During the storm the wind reached a
 height of thirty-two miles per hour. The damage done to crops was due to
 this wind. Oates suffered most. The young fields were badly blown in many 1 places. although large farmers in the
 immediate vicinity report that very little real~ydamage < was done. Of
 course. there was considerable shifting of sand along sthe edges ofsthe fields, but # iA thought that the crop was un- | injured except that done by the wind. In North Montgomery, owing to the | irregularity of the land and lack of proper facilities for drainage, large | sections of negro houses looked to be | placed in the center of . large lake. | The houses were, for the most part, placed upon large pillars. and although | LHS WdtCE WdS bCNCTdi Itt1 QSGD lUe | inh abitants lived in the rooms in a dry condition. The tracks of the Trac- | tion Company were under water for a | depth of several feet along the rail- | road property in that section of the | city4rr@
 Tn Cloverdale, the force of the wind | was sufficient to blow down a frame house which was under construction. | The house was being shingled, but the | mi nA atF ar1u ab aA ffA FuhnlA In a | ground. The property Is owned by
 Mrs. Lena Ghoolson and the damage is estimated at about $500.
 Although there was incessant light | hing during the three hours of the | storm, but one house was reported
 struck. The handsome residence of | O. D. Brewer in Cloverdale was struck
 but there was little damage done. The ofic:al figures of the weath CT | Bureau are as follows: Rainfall at
 Montgomery. .95 inches; at Wetump- i ka .SS inches: Tallassee, 8 .O7 inches
 Canton Ga. 8 60 inches: Atlanta. Ga,
 3.7O inches. The rate of the wind
 thirty-two miles per hour at its maxi
 mum. from the southwest.
 | The excessive rains have started | rapid rises in the Coosa, Tallapoosa and 1 Alabama Rivors. Whilc m dangerous
 flood is expected, moderately high
 stages may be reach ed in the lower l Coosa and Alabama, probably about PC
 to 2s feet at Montgomery.
 The storm that caused all of the rain
 and other pronounced weather condf-
 tions in this section Friday and Friday
 night, had moved of to the northward
 yesterday morning, its centre then be- | ing over Minnesota At the same time
 an area Of high barometer moving in
 from the west was giving fair weath CT
 with promise of continued fair weather ! here through Sunday and probably 1 Monday.
 J. B. stephens. who lives two miles | from the city on the old Plank Road.
 is known to be one of the most progres
 sive and up-to-date farmers of the State. He states that Fridays rain
 and hail storm was particularly hurt | ful to his crops, entailing loss any
 where from $500 to s1 1000. His vege- tables were in splendid condition. but | many of them were beaten literally to
 pieces by the hail. Some of his cotton and corn will have to be replanted. as | 1t was literally washed out of the ground. roots and all. Mir Stephens's
 experience. no doubt, Is that of all the ia rmers who lived in the range of that | phenomenal downpour of rain and hail. 1 The loss will mount up into the hun