The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-22
DULUTH STRUCK
By CLOUOBuRsT
AND INUNDATED
Two Children Swept From
Mothers Arms and Drown
in Sewer
BURSTING DAM CAUSE GREAT
INLAND OCEAN TO Be- FORMED
Fertile and 'Beltrami, Minn., Suffer
Tract Sixteen Miles Wide Flooded to
. Depth Of Two to Four Feet-Much
Damage Done.


Duluth. Minn., July 22-Following
the terrific rains of Tuesday, last
nights cloudburst caused scene Of
devastation in Duluth today. The loss
rs now computed, will reach $780,
900.
Three lives were lost during the
storm. Two children were swept from
their mothers sides on Ninth avenue
west, one body being lost in sewer
at the bottom of the hill but was later
found.
Another child was lost in Keene's
creek at West Duluth. The entire
hillside became practically one great
waterfall. Sewers, already overflow
ing, were totally inadequate to carry
off the rushing water, and the streets
and avenues were quickly turned into
torrents with water running three feet
deep. The street cars were compelled
to suspend. Citizens stripped off their
shoes and waded home. The theater
crowds came out to find the streets
miniature lakes and the men, gather
ing up their female companions, car
ried them to higher ground. Automo-
bfles and hacks were impossible. ow-
ing to the accumulation of mud in the
streets. The hotels were crowded
with those unwilling to venture forth
in the elements. Twenty or more
houses were washed away along the
small creeks in the city suburbs.
Several narrow escapes are report
ed from drowning on Superior street,
the main thoroughfares Of Duluth.
One woman was rolled over and over
until rescued unconscious by a man
who fioundered after her. Blocks of
asphalt pavement were carried away
and mud from the hill piled high on
the lower levels. Fifty society people
were marooned at the Duluth boat
club. They slept on the becushioned
seats of the club house, using "slick-
ers" for bedclothes. The rain con-
tinued all night, vivid lightning &C.
companying the storm. The revera-
tions of the mammoth thunderclaps
adding to the shrieking of the water
ing lake lighthouse sierns, the pelt.
ing rain and the torrent rushing down
tho hillside, caused pademonium.
The weather at noon had cleared.
Dams Burst
Crookston, Minn., July 22-Two
dams over the Sand Hill river bursted
this morning and the entire town and
surrounding country Is inundated un-
der water from two to four feet deep.
The cloudburst of Monday night raised
the river to it's highest point and the
water ate away the foundations of the
dams to such an extent that the enor-
nous pressure behind them broke the
structures and perfect torrent OF
water poured. into the streets of Fer
: tile without any warning, and en-
dangered the lives of many. Bel
trami, located below Fertile, is also
under water and the fields of grain
for six miles north and six miles
south Of Be1trami and the fields for
eight miles east and eight miles west
are inundated and the inhabitants are
able to row around on the gres! sea
of whirling water, since its asptn
ranges frora two 70 toEr. feet. AS u
result hundreds Of thousaGds OF ,ioi-
lars worth of grain Is totally destroy
ed and the loss is harder +o bear s!nte
the crop would have 5een tka 5sst
in twenty years and so1ne Ut It. was
ready for the reaper at the presea;
date.
Train Service Parslyzed.
The train service on the Sos. Great
Northern and Northern Fac:Sc gi.i :,e
paralyzed for several days ut ;sas;
by the calamity. The water is eating
It's way through the roadbeas OF the
roads and 1t is only question OF
hours before thu read VII! be totally
unfit for use and Few ballast vii; be
necessary to make the tracks psssa-
HE. The 500 had washout Monday
and was running it's trains from G;yn-
don to Crookston OH The Great North
ern. The Great Northern around Bel
trami, that is on the road from Crooks
ton to Barnesville. Is washed out for
several miles, and as result both
the 500 and Great Northern cannot
run their trains. Late this afternoon
however, the report that this stretch
Of track was damaged was denied in
the local Great Northern Offices, but
Crookston dispatches state that it is
and the matter is In doubt at the time
of going to press.
n. p. Trains on G. N.