The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-08-04
Losses By Second Storm of
Week Will Approximate
Nearly $350.000
ALL LOWER PORTION
OF CITY INUNDATED
Remainder of Main Street
Block and Big Seed Ware
house Collapse-Fire and
Street Forces Do Rescue
Work

Following close upon the heels OF
the destructive elemental disturbance
of Sunday. a storm of almost cycionic
force visited Richmond and neighbor-
ing vicinity yesterday evening. leav-
ing a trail of property damage in
Its wake that eclipsed that of its
predecessor.
Rain, which started at 2 O'Clock,
Eel steadily until 1890. increasing in
volume with the intensity OF the wind.
which at $50 had reached the proper
tons OF serious gale. The local
weather observer reported the rainfall
as the heaviest in twenty years. At
S O'Clock two and one-half inches was
recorded at the observatory on CHM
borazo Hill. and IL liz estimated that
more than an Inch more fell between
that ilour and II o'clock, while the
wind attained velocity OF over forty
miles an hour. Water descended In
sheets and unfortunate pedestrians
found umbrellas useies as protection
against the fury OF the elements. For
tunately there was no accompaniment
of lightning, which would doubtless
have added much 10 the DANA ge
wrought
The high winds drove the waters
of shockoe Creek and the aJmes River
out on Main Street and there was a
repetition OF Sundays scene OF flood
and wreckase In the section surround
Ing the Union Station. with baby
more widespread damage. The most
serious single accident wrought by
the storm was the wrecking OF the
front Of T. ". Woods big new ware
hcusA at the foot of Fourteenth
Street, the front wall being torn out
by the gale. The loss was estimated
at $4,000
The storm, Observer Evans stated
last night. was general over the South
Atlantic coast and proba bly, wrought
much destruction TO shipping. to say
nothing OF the damage done 10 grow
ing crops.
The heavy fall. which was greater
by nearly one and one-half inches
over that of Sundays storm, caused
the Shockoe Greek TO throw its waters
up on Main Street, between Fifteenth
and Eighteenth Streets. The water,
at its highest point, was estimated at
seven feet and easily three feet on
a level Stock left in the stores own
ed by merchants of lower Main Street
We're total loss, they being unwarn-
ed Of q repetition of the Hood The
water under Main Street put that
taoroughfare in more of dangerous
condition than ever before. The re-
manning portion Of the S, J. London
Furniture Company fell In with a
crash shortly sfrer = o'clock. The
sound OF the building falling could be
heard nearly a mile and drew large
NrnwHe If no
by police who guarded the wreckage
OF the buildings which were under
mined Sunday night. Parts Of the
old Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
record building. which was still stand
ing, also fell. The police and fire.Ae-
partments, fearing that the roaUbed
would fall in kept back people and
street cars. The cars going west on
Main Street were routed over the via
duct. as were the cars travelling east,
although some of them were trans
ferred at Ninth and Main Streets back
10 the car barns
Stores Again Flooded.
The stores on Seventeenth Street,
lower Franklin Street and the city
market were again Hooded, the loss
being roughly estimated by public Of
ficiais to be about $3.50, 900 in total.
Store owners who haa Just cleaned out
the damaged stock of Sunday had
replaced II with new goods. Their cell
lars being submerged in water. and
with the new water coming in. put
their goods on the shelves on the frst
floor under water. SCOTS drug store.
at the corner OF Seventeenth and
Franklin Streets, which had suffered
. loss OF $4,000 Sunday night. and
which had replaced its stock of drugs
ana automobile accessories. suffered