Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-08-05
DAMAGE BY FLOOD WILL
EXCEED FIRST ESTIMATES
Business Men in Submerged District
Find Loss Will Run Into
Thousands.
TO WIDEN sHOCKoE CREEK
Administrative Board Asks City En-
gfneer for Estimate OF Cost Of
Broadening Channel From Twenty
to Thirty Feet

| with fire-lincs stretched and police
men on guard nj buildings partiall,
demolished by the storms of Sunday
ana Tuesday afternoon and the re.
SuitinE rampage of Shockoe Crock
residents of the valley district" n,
richmond spent I'll of yesterday and
most OF the carly part Of last night
getting tho remaining water on, n,
their easements and lower floors and
IN saving what little of their property
was worth the effort Officials nj
large business concerns located in that
S'ct'oh OF tho city found that their
nrst estimates of the damage were
| very conservatives. and that It Ia prob
'c the 'otai loss Will amount 10
many thousands of dollars
The waters before tho Main S.rcet
| station and in Seventeenth. FRANKLIN
ana lfrown Streets began to rocodo
during the early hours of Yesterday
| morning and continued to find their
way 20 the river until late yesterday
atiernoon. when tho last OF tho over
flow disappeared from tho s,rce,e
sIREET CAR TRAFFIC.
RESTORED IN THE MORNING
street car traffic along Main Street
could not be resumed until ,bon, 9
O'Clock yesterday morning bec,nee Of
me waters in the street. and oycr ut
'H"t tmr the cars were son, To Full
ton through several Inches of water
JUST east of Fifteenth Street Shocl,oo
reek is now again we'll within It's
da a,,Ns ana unless there is another
uoWnpour in the next few DAYS II 10
tn"usht workmen will have sufficient
'ine TO clear the stream of tho dohris
an" SO prevent another CHOKING NJ
the outlet VI
commissioner Beck. of the Admin.
,,sun,'Ve Board. introduced in the
BOARD meeting yesterday moruine ,
motion instructing the CITY Enrinoor
~ make surveys and to estimate tbn
nthouht or property needed to he COW
"enlned TO widen the Shocloo Croo,
chhhnei from twenty to thirty foot Ia
sst''hated that the cost OF widening
~ creek from Seventh and Hosr,toi
or -, 10 tN mouth at the James R!v-
"ouid be approx matcly s5nn ono
ne work. he believes. Will no ,-ro,,
~ Facilitated by the fact that ,r,,
iouScs on tn" banks OF the crool. Vii,
nave 10 D" RACED so damaged wcrn
,neE nE the action Of the GOOD Az
"Iso introduced and had adopted
" mo''on 10 have the stonc-rjnr ,rch
under Main Street replaced Nv ~
enforced girder bridge.
FIRE,IEN TESTIFY TO
H1GROISM OF "DISGn>r,
Members OF Truck Comnapv W 4,
Mh'ch mas played an important No.
:" tue rescue Of many families W,
soohed within the flooded distric, ~,
sunday and Tuesday afternoons wbo
Witnessed the heroic work OF w
lawson. Jr of that comnnpy ava
,,llhShat Jones, colored, in saving thn
iiNes or several negro women ana cb,i.
'reh on sunday afternoon when ,bo-
were caught In their Brown Stree.
mouse and barely escaped drowninr
Yesterday gave out the fOllowinr
statement: "ihs
We. the undersigned. witrceeo5 -
rescue by W. y. Dawson. Jr.. OF Trnnl,
CoIhp"nN NO. >, Richmond Fire ne
partment. OF two colorcd women u,ho
we're caught In their house I'm 1,ir
tcenth street. near where tho shorLn,
oreck crosses. by the sudden rIsa ~,
water which was occasioned nv tba
storm OF August l.. In our oninion
theY could only have survived So
lew minutes longer. as tho water h., a
risen TO depth over their heads y,bnn
lawson, who had responded with ~.
company. reached the shed roof 49,
swimming the much-swollcn and va
icht!S-rushing stream. After roach
ing the shed he met with other oh-
stacles in the way of getting them n
SAFETY, and had to resort 10 cuttinr
through the weatherboards with M
axe nc had drawn to him by mcana
of a ropo.