New Britain herald., 1925-07-23

that the cellar, which was used for storage purposes, was flooded and a quantity of raw material and mer- chandise damaged,
 Boy Swimming In Pools The water was so deep at the cor. ner of Dwight street and Dwight | court that boys donned bathing suits and went swimming. At one time the water there was said to be more than four feet deep. Water flowed across the floor of the store owned by Raftaele Napoltan at 5S Dwight street and filled the cellar, spelling a quantity of cement stored there
 for the purpose of building a floor
 in the garage. Lumber and other
 materials fioatcd around and piled
 up in a chaotic state.
 Water overnowed the catch basin
 in front of the home Of George Kop-
 lowitz at 5a Dwight street, and filled
 the cellar 10 a depth of about two
 feet. Damage to paints stored there
 Is estimated at about $iOO.
 S--STORM .... ....
 According to boys in the neigh
 horhood who were playing in the
 rain and seemed 10 enjoy thorough
 wctting, water flowed across the
 shop of Carlson &; Torrell at dS
 Dwight street in waves like large
 stream in a windstorm. There is no
 cellar under the shop and beyond a
 saturated floor and minor washouts
 in the ground underneath there was
 no particular damage.
 In the store of Carlo Fcrre at 3S
 and 40 Dwight street the water rose
 so high that it was necessary to
 move merchandise to save 1t. In the
 yard in the rear of the store water
 was two feet deep. Clcats nailed
 over the door sills failed to block | the inflow. Chapman street and Laurel street were badly washed out. , In the taxi parking space in front of the railroad station the water was , so deep taXis were marooncd and . unable to proceed.
 e Trucks sent out by the Citizens - Coal Co. ran intQ the flood on r Dwight court and became stranded wheel deep in mud and water. After f the waters subsided the trucks were c lowed out.
 r There is a large holc On South
 Main street in front of the state - Trade school. At the home Of Jo- $ scph Sheppard, former steward of f the old New Britain club. at 69 : Trinity street, the cellar vas filled s with water from an overflowine
 catchbasin. The water filled the eel e lar to a depth Of eight feet and hac n begun to flow across the kitchen l. floor. Members of the family were r. preparing 10 move out when the e rain slowed up,
 c 20 Chickens Drown IS So deep was the water at thf e home of Alexander RosenzWeig, a
 62 Roberts street. immediately in the tt rear Of the Sheppard home, tha e Rosenzweig waded almost shoulde ;e deep, clad in bathing suit, to hl
 chicken GOODS, where he found ~ le CnlCkenS uTO"llSu' l hc hoh'' '" r. Peter Hansen at 55ha Trinity stree o also had cellar full of water ts Damage to Stores to On Main street water ran into ,e number of cellars. In the Fair stor ,e there was five inches of water in tn
 cellar. Due to the fact that mer
 chandise Is on shelves, the bottom IT, shelf being at least five inches oi lg the floor, the damage was slight ts Water worked Its way into tn CT show windows of the Walk-oVe IS shoe store and damaged a number al pairs of shoes.
 en Tn the Besse-L Leland store wate re flowed into the furnace-room to y. dent of about foot The damag es was negligible, as no merchandise ne stored there.
 lie Flood In West End to West Main street between Llncol
 and South Burritt streets was turhe "a. into a lake by water which ho"e at over the curbs and sidewalks on J. the lawns of the houses on bot
 sides or tlle StlStl' HH "NeS''O a. was stranded in the middle Of tn ne pool and had to be pushed ou
 Trolley service on the West Maj he Plainville and Meriden lines was tic TX I'D for almost two hours, while aut' '" mobile traffic was rerouted do" ~ Lincoln street.
 ne The back yards between 1linco ae % and Forest streets were flooded to -n M depth of several inches. LightnlT W " struck at 63 Lincoln street but d
 no damage. Several automobll ., stuck in the mud on Lincoln stre ,ha extension and were pulled out. , . The Connecticut company suffer Inc some inconvenience. The automat ar. signal system between this city al hi Plainville was put out of commi iry sion and at place on the PlainVi er- and Berlin lines it was necessary m. transfer passengers because cars a ray iitneys were unable 10 run throu
 the water. The Chestnut street II
 it was interfered with temporari ffi- also. The Pennington avenue a of Hartford lines were tied up. yer Water flooded the cellar of