Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-10-02


pours of rain that ever visited this
city flooded the streets yesterday af-
ternoon, disarranged trolley sched-
ules, put electric lights and tele-
phones out of service, overfloWed re-
ceiving basins, etc. But the city and
surrounding vicinity though affect
ed, did not suffer from the storm
wave as much as New York city and
Staten Island, where the torrents of
water dealt death and destruction.
A house on the Blazing Star road
lat Roosevelt was struck by lightn-
ling. The bolt struck gas meter,
setting it ahre. BY energetic car
irying of water in buckets the flames,
which fed ON the gas, were exiting
Iuished.
Flood tides came In yesterday
morning and evening and this morn
ing further than they have for a
number of months where there are
no bulkheads, and where there are
they were nearly overtopped because
of the surging waters against them.
In some places along Front street
lthey were incapable of holding the
raging waters, which leaped over
them and flooded the land in the
vicinity The county bridge was all
but overlooked with the high water
of the Raritan river last night, after
that waterway had been fed by hun
dreds of surging tributaries which
were filled with twice their usual
volume of water by the straight
fierce downpour of the afternoon.
The rough rivers waters Tapped the
sides of the bridge, sending its spent
spray on top, but they failed to rise
to the height of the trolley tracks
The tide last night abo5 o'clock
nearly reached the littE store and
managers house at Bayard's beach,
the waters coming inshore from ten
to fifteen feet further than at ordin-
larry tides
There was a pond two or three
fleet deep formed In the vicinity Of
the three bridges" in Upper State
street after the second outburst of
the clouds between and 4 o'clock
I'm the afternoon. Cars were delayed
on either side to await the falling
of the water, which rushed into the
depression in the street and was
unable to be drained off by the over
worked waste water outlets and the
receiving basins. Trolleys were de-
ilayed for about an hour at this
point.
In the cut through which run the
Jersey Central Traction Company 8
tracks at South Amboy, near the
Pennsylvania passenger station, traf-
fic was held up about l O'Clock and
again between and o'clock, for
periods of an hour each. The tracks
had become covered with sand wash
ed on them by the surging waters
that poured from dozens of tempor-
ary streams into the depression Of
the cut. There was some trouble
at the Perth Amboy power house,
and the current was supplied spas
medically during the storm.
There were about twenty-five tele-
phones put out of commission in diff
ferent parts of the city by the dis
arranging of the wires by the fierce
onslaught of the storm, which was
particularly violent in Its downpour
at noon and again between and
O'Clock. Electric lights were put
out in a number OF houses by the
fuses of transformers being blown
out by the electric bolts that accom-
panied the storm.
In Front street between Smith
nd Fayette streets, the electric light
wires were broken down, aud the
torn made a swamp OF the road.
Roosevelt suffered from the storm,
and besides nearly a dozen tele-
phones that were put out of order,