Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1917-06-12
AUTO Drivers IN
peril WHEN CITY
IS STORM swept
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top of his car. where he remained
until the water subsidized, when the
machine was towed back to the garage
by employees Of the Street and Sewer
Department.
A fatality on the hillside at Public
School No. "a, was averted through
the timely arrival Of tho police. who.
answering a call with a patrol wagon.
found au intoxicated youth, PROSTATE
and helpless, lying on the hillside
where the water was rushing over
him and threatening to drown him.
The youth was almost out of reach.
but by holding on to the shrubbery.
Sergeant Bailey was enabled to grasn
the young mans hand and pull him
10 safety.
Damage to property was IN most
instances the result of tho over-food-
ing of sewers by the torrent, which
amounted almost to a cloudhurst. one
and one-Quarter inches Of rain falling
between $50 and $50 p. m. All cell
lars in Scott street. between Seven
teenth and Eighteenth streets, vera
vailed in LanQai6er and Maryland
avenues, as well as in other points IN
the city.
The fires under the boilers OF
Freihofer's bakery. a. Pennsylvania
avenue and Lincoln street, were
quenched by the rising water and Il
became necessary to summon tho
Union Fire Company TO pump out the
basement
Railroad rramc was held up at
some points and street traffic was
severely interferred with by cave
ms, while numerous washouts are
reported at rural points. The Bran
DIVINE was greatly swollen, but no
extensive damage is reported from
along the stream. The lowlands, how
ever, south of the Christiana river
were inundated.
Several boats. tied at the wharf
near River Front bridge we're forced
to push away by the water from the
park land, which poured over the
wharf in torrents.
Mill Creek Overaows.
The Newport road In the vicinity Of
Mil Creek was under water several feet
deep following the storm. Mill Creel
was turned into raging river foi
awhile and flowed into the road. The
water in the highway was up TO the ilool
Of automobiles passing through it.
The storm played havoc with the
Wilmington and Philadelphia Trac-
ton Company lines but did practi-
cally no damage either at Brandy
wine Springs Park or Shellpot Park
At the former park the culvert which
runs under the Newport and Gap
turnpike at the upper side of the park
became clogged. the water rising
over the road and entering the little
stream that runs through the park
filling It to overlooking. No damage
was done TO the park property, Off
Gals OF the traction company said
this morning. but the road was
washed out in several places. The
same officials said that q similar con-
dition previled at Shellpot Park, the
road being badly washed but no dam
age done the park proper.
The storm caused five cars 20 leavl
the tracks. two at Nineteenth street anl
Rising sun lane, and one each at Seven
teenth and Union streets, Front an'
Walnut streets. and on the Edge Moo
line. On the Rising sun line a bank wa
washed down onto the tracks, causing
much delay in traffic. On Greenhill ave
nue.. in front Of the Wilmington
Leather Company's plant, the track wal
filled with mud and sand, causing mucl
delay.
Renorts from Chester show that there
was no trouble to the traction line
4 there and officials of the company arr
inclined TO the belief that the storm wa
largely local, at least so far as then
properties were affected
According to Registrar Frank Toner
the total rainfall for the past week hai
been 3.7s inches. Government statistics
Mace a rainfall of one inch every
twentv-four hours as unusually high.
-, Harry L. Maier. assistant city engl-
neer announced today that the water
under the Baltimore and Ohio bridge
I'm which the automobiles had become
stalled rose TO a height Of eight feet
nnd that tho volume Of water amount
ell 10 1913 500 cubic feet at its highest
level
After the storm had passed. said
Mr. Maier. the water receded IN less
than three-Quarters of an hour. show
ing that the ten inlets carried on the
water 1t the rate of six cubic feet
per recond each. which Is three cubic
feet per second each beyond Their
normal capacity.
All damage done in the city was
practically confined 10 that portion
west of Franklin street where rain
fell az an average Of over four inches
per hour. Only one complaint was
entered from the section east OF
Franklin street. Mr.. Maier said that
the amount of damage caused was
trivial. compared with the intensity
of the storm,
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