The New York herald., 1922-07-02
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one or the surprising tnlnBS ABOUT
the heavy downpour was it's duration.
In this respect the storm was unique.
Another surprising fact was that 1t
came instanter the close of the wettest
June the city has ever known; a month
OF humidity and rain. The weather
men say that the storm marks the
end of the wet era and that 1t VIII
be followed by weather more In Keep
ing with the time OF year
Most serious Of all the consequences
of the stcim was the delay in all lines
of traffic. Pennsylvania Station and
Grand Central Terminal were almost
impossible of approach during the worst
moments Of the storm. Stations of the
b. r. r. were flooded both with water
and with perspiring passengers, who
darted this way and that in an effort
to make soma progress toward some
particular railroad station. The Eas,
Side line CT the I. r. It. was unaffected
/ by the heavy downpour and this fortu-
natly handled a lot of traffic which
was diverted by means of the shuttle
at Times Square. To the usual milling
and rushing of persons al Times Square
and Grand Central was added the thou
sands of vacation seekers. matinee dew
otees and those seeking shelter from the
torrents above ground
Brooklyn Is Heavy Sufferer.
Brooklyn suffered Severely from the
storm and the traffic there was tied up
for considerable time. The Fourth
avenue line of the Il. r. r. suffered
the most from the effects of the storm
and trains We're held up between the
bridge and Coney Island and points
throughout F'latbush, while the angry
and overheated and soaked commuters
stood patiently on the open stations of
the roads, or TANNED close onto the
underground platforms of the subway.
At the Long Island Railroad station
more than 10000 persons attempted to
seek shelter and board trains taking
them out on Long Island for the hol
days. Reserves from the Bergen street
station were called to preserve some
sort of order and. avert any serious ac-
cidents. Sightseeing buses, WHICH make
station at Atlantic and Fourth ave-
nues reaped a harvest and took hun
dreds of passengers from the flooded
subway to nearby points where they
could either reach their homes or take
surface lines.
At the Union street station of the
Fourth avenue subway in Brooklyn the
most serious tieup occurred when the
| water backed up from the incline lead
ing to the station and stalled a train.
The water rose to the height of two
| feet at one point and it was impossible
to run trains through that line. Traf-
| fic on that line was stopped soon after
noon when the Saturday rush was at
its height and was not resumed for two
| hours.
Transit strikes. when all sorts of vehi-
| cles were pressed into service to haul
Brooklynites to New York, were recalled
when every sort of motor truck and
horse drawn vehicle started to take pas
| sengers who had been turned out If the
| subway by the floods. The tieup in the
| Sea Beach and West End lines caused
| hundreds OF persons living in Borough
Park and other outlying districts to find
other means of reaching their homes.
Attempts to pump the water from the
| Fourth avenue line with the company's
pump car were futile, and 1t was neces-
sary to suspend service until the water
had subsided. Brighton line trains were
also tied up for more than an hour and
many trains were switched back to
Franklin avenue and Fulton street from
! the Prospect Park station. At almost
a dozen places along the Brighton cut
water and sewers overfowed and in
undated the track. Traffic was. re-
sumed at 6 rs in the evening.
Deep Water I'm Brownsville.
Six blocks of the Brownsville sec
ton of Brooklyn were under about
| three feet Of water for a while. The
districts most inundated embraced sec
tions of Pitkn, Blake Saratoga and
Centre avenues and Barrett and Doug
las streets
The water was highest at the inter-
section of Douglas street and Centre
avenue, where II touched the bottom
of show windows and flooded some
stores. Customers caught in the storm
in the store of David Teitebaum. drug
gist. of 120 Centre avenue, were
forced to stand on chairs. To get rid
OF the water clerks bored holes through
the floor, with the result that goods in
the cellar were damaged TO the extent
of $1,000. it was estimated.
Abe, Rosenthal. who has a clothing
shop in Centre avenue, found himself
being foated away on bed where he
had taken refuge. and at the shoe store
of +. +. Booteric in the same avenue
young women who became frightened
climbed on counters.
Children in the districts where the
water was low found it great sport
Some went in bathing. others sailed
small craft and others just played In
ii.
Manhattan Storm Center.
In Manhattan the central point in the
disturbance was apparently CarminC
anu NdTlCk streets. Inc water lneTe
turned back at the overflowing sewers
was two feet deep on the pavement
Patrolman Charles Gilroy, sloushns
! through the flood. saw II pourns
through the subway grating like I
waterfall.
At 1890 the first warnings were sen
into Interborough headquarters of tn
danger from the water and the della,
, being caused by the inundations of th
third rails, producing a short circuit
At :0S the power In the Fifty-seventl
street plant was shut off, stallinl
trains between Times Square and Hous
ton street. AS the power went off 8,
did the fans and lights, and the in
convenience of darkness was added &
the discomfort of heat and suspende,
motion.
, AS soon as II became necessary I,
stop through operation OF the Seventh
|, avenue subway. southbound trains
; locals and expresses alike. were shuntet
! to the Pennsylvania station. wher
there is crossover switch, and from
there returned northbound. In thi,
way service. although delayed an,
inadequate. was somehow maintaine,
: north on Seventh avenue and Broadwa,
, and through the Lcnox avenue brancl
/ 10 the Bronx. Northbound trains wer
stopped at Chambers street.
As the flood rose in the subway I
reached a height six inches over tn
: running rails and trickled over tn
power rail. At one point, near Carmn
street, where the express tracks are o.
a lower level than the local, the dept
of water reached three feet. and wit
that the automatic pumps started. 500
"a ftcr the gtlsDansion of service en1er