The Alaska daily empire., 1918-11-07
Loq Breaks Salt Water Main of AIaSka-Juneau Resulting in a Mud
 Slide to Beach.
SLIDES BEEN REPORTED
Flood of Rain Again Raises Gold Greek and Causes Slides in Silver
 Bow Basin.

At two o'clock this morning, slide of mud and gravel came tear ing down the hillside North of the Alaska-Juneau mill, resulting in ap- proximately 5000 damage to busi- ness houses along the waterfront near the City Dock.
 Superintendent Richards, of the AL aska Juneau, stated this morning that the slide was caused by large Juneau track, plungingj over the snowsheds of the track and taking out about 20 feet of the main 24-
 inch salt water pipe line. In his opinion it was fortunate that the
 log struck the water main, even though it caused slide, for had it not hit some obstruction, the big timber would no doubt have gone on down to the beach and probably re-
 suited in completely smashing some of the buildings or killed someone.
 The water from the pipe line soon
 caused the loose dirt and gravel to form a slide which greatly damaged the furnishings and stock of the Man
 haitian Hotel, the McMillan Grocery and the cleaning and pressing es- tablishment of Solomon, the tailor, just opposite the City Dock.
 The Manhattan Hotel is apparent ly the greatest sufferer from the wa
 ter and mud. Every room in the house was filled with mud and wa .er while the stock of cigars and to-
 baccos were practically ruined from
 the deluge of water running in from
 the upper floors. The loss to the Manhattan is estimated to be be-
 tween $2,000 and $3,000.
 All the merchandise consisting of flour. potatoes and goods stored on
 he lower floors of the McMillan Bros store were practically ruined but the goods on the shelves sustained | no damage. Mir. McMillan stated l this morning that only for their con crete bulkheads in the rear of the store where most of their goods were stored, the loss would have been | much greater.
 | sustained the most damage, in fact being the only building which was damaged, the other loss being only | 10 the furnishings. The main floor of l he tailor shop was broken in from | he weight of mud and water and will 1 have to undergo extensive repairs. Workmen were busy this morning clearing out the damaged rooms and goods and the city street cleaning | department had the debris from the street we'll in hand by ten o'clock The rooms of the Manhattan Hotel
 those of the Gastineau Hotel and | Wills store during the recent slide | in that vicinity.
 Slide Near Ebner
 Yesterday during the severe rain storm. two more slides occurred in
 Gold Creek Basin, near the Ebner
 mine. One of the slides occurred in the exact location of the former, sloughing off the earths surface a | few weeks ago when so much damage
 was done by the rising Gold Creek | Superintendent Oswell had started to rebuild the blacksmith shop which
 was taken out by the first slide, the frame work just being completed. During the hard rain he told the | workmen to go home as it was too | bad for anyone to be out. Within
 an hour after the workmen had gone, | thousands of tons of dirt and rock
 came down the hill and again com
 pletely covered the spot where the blacksmith shop stood.
 The other slide on the Persever-
 ance road is further up from the Ebner buildings above the Ebner pipe line which was taken out dur ing the first flood.
 Gold Creek in Flood
 More reports of Gold Creek being
 very high and flooding the lower
 sections of the Casey-Shattuck Addi-
 tion, came in yesterday and for a
 time many residents in that section
 feared repetition of the first dis aster.