The evening world., 1911-11-04
FLOOD IN SUBWAY
CUT UNDERM|NES
BROOKLYN HOMES
Dozen Families Routed Out by
Police as Water Breaks Into
Fourth Avenue Tube.
QUlCKSAND is BLAMED.
Break Comes at "Seven
Spur" Where Cut Is Deepest
Checked With Cement.
QUlCkSAND IS BLAMED.

water th1t tore us way tnrouhh n
Quicksand into the cut OF the new
Fourth venue subway at Thirty-ninth
street and Fourth avenue, BROOKLYN
shortly after midnight. caused n dozen
families to be routed from their homes
and brought the police reserves OF the
Fourth avenue station, fremen and men
from the sewer and building depart
ments.
BY 6 O'Clock the flood was practically
under control. The extent OF the dam
age Is as yet undetermined
The torrent was discovered by Police
man Daniel eastman. He heard a
sudden cracking noise and an ominous
gurgie. lie Stared into the deep open
cut. but could see nothing. The noise
Increased. He ran to the u. X. 4.
emergency stables at the southwest
corner OF Thirty-eighth street. and
reused the men.
BY the tine they emerged water was
seen to be pouring into the trench. and
fragments OF earth were dislntegrating.
eastman Immediately notified his sta
tion m Lieut.. Ayers. Sergts. Bradley.
0ehrer n Hsrrigan and a force OF re-
serves hurried to the scene. Quick calls
brought crews from the different city
departments.
Owing to tbs depth OF the cut II was
impossible to determine exactly what
Wss going on. The street Is wide. and
the cut at this point accommodates
what Is called the seven Spur. four
tracks golng to Fort Hamilton and three
20 Coney Island. Owing to the fact that
the Culver cut of the r.. X. I. Is Just
here the subway excavation Is carried
70 = depth OF ffty-hve fee, and more.
and this IL added to by an additional
excavation that carries the projected
Coney Island tracks under those leading
% Fort Hamilton.
High overhead. as II to compllcate the
situation stiil further. rise the elevated
tracks. that attain a height Of perhaps
afty-ive feet.
POLICE RoUT OUT TENANTS OF
UNDERMINED BUILDINGS.
Apprehendng Immediately that the
foundations Of the n~eighboring build.
lngs were being Threatened. the polio,
reused the Inhabitants. From Nos. 9g
and S9<. three-story frame :cnemcnts
we're hustled John Magic. wife and
feur children; John Hansen, wife and
three children: Natello Capillo. vile anC
ave children: John Thomas. wife an,
four children; John Matcello. wife AM
one child; John Cotton, wife and thre'
children. and Angelo Franco. wife ant
two children. Half OF these found shei
Ter with %neighbors. while the rest pu
1n the remainder of the night at tn,
Fourth venue police station.
Families were also routed from tn,
ewo-story frame dwellings at Nos. 90
and 1000 and from the thrce-story fran,
tsnement and grocery at No. I.0o2. Tn,
houses thought to be most serlousl,
damaged. Nos. 992-99t. are owned b.
Anna soai. No. sos Eighth street. Brook
oys.
The b. II. T. crew was forced t.
abandon their stable. The walls OF thi
Building are o: brick. but both the ives
and north walls cracked and had to b
ohored up. The workmen say that Ia
q not been for the needles or irol
girders that were thrust under II Il
connection with the subway work 1
would have caved into the open cut.
The water found It's way into III
subway tube with such force as t
burst the sheathing. The bay Is onl,
four blocks distant and the section l
said to be known for is cIieksands.
ouOWAY WORKERS cHEc,
FLOOD WITH CEMENT.
From Twenty-seyenth to loorty-thir
street the subway work IL being don
BY Contractor l.. l., Smith. Alonz
Burleigh has superintendent over a
the Smith work. and this partlcuia
psrt Of the cut Il In charge OF ASSIST
ant Superintendent Louis Walls. VIII
was among the drst to be notified tina
things had broken loose.
Walls brought his own crews an
managed to make come progress 4
Gtemm!ng the flood by throwing hun
dreds OF ba 60 OF cement into the e,
csva;ion. and backing these wit
heavy timbers.
Near the corner OF Th.rty-ninth sire,
what Is known as a stump hole asslste
the excited efforts. There Is "A pun
here which Ia used 10 INT waste wat,
out OF the cut. and Just beyond III
stump hole. toward Forty-thiri stree
the end at present OF the excavation
the cut ascends TO a higher level, /,
that the food was somewhat confne
TO the stretch between Thirty-eighi
and Fortieth streets. As It was, hun
drsds of thousands OF gallons OF wat
found their way In.
Dy Z o'clock the flow had practical
been stopped.