The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1904, Page 4

FRIDAY CHUR Missiojzr’ District‘ Damaged by Storm. Wind Plays Queer and Costiy Pranks. in that section son in the inade- | { | | some queer and| t 1 sewer system. ,As usual | of Sixteenth and Folsom | ed the most, and for sev-| that vicinity the streets of millra(-es.: f ded, living rooms con- | re duck ponds, andi stood in several inches of | preparing the morning y was in his glory | kes situated through- fforde: amanship to the appearance mprovised rafts. all & nts the wind and rain were most severe about 6 o'clock yes- | ter v ing and the greatest dam- | | age ¢ at that hour. 18| A port me of the steeples of | £t P s C h, at the corner of Va « h streets, snapped off like twig ashed into a neigh- boring | jally missing a . Mateo division of the roads sand washed on the force of laborers at work Union Coursing | and fell across the | an interruption site t PP uproot causing some time. use sch: and suffered slight the advertising contrac- use the board fences as a f publicity will suffer consid- | p, e loss, as many hundred feet of | s in prominent locations are down | Se skylights on the City and « tal were brgken and forty : the Protrero avenue ution s wrecked. rs throughout the the great strain many places the | i the streets, cau in veously awith the de- steeple of St. Paul's oot smokestack on the situated on Fol- | xteenth and Sev- h a crash, but fortu- | t damage any of the ad- dings. The management of | ry places the loss at $400. s were placed in com- there was no interruption ta ery the City Street Improve- at Division and Seven also came in for con- | A water tank of elevated 100 feet on | yard, was covered cupola. The wind raised d deposited it on the roof The structure is a two- building, the upper floor w the storage of hay and the ble st ng used grain and in the lower floor 150 head | horses are cared for. With a ter- rible crash the roof was crushed in and the side of the building fell into the the Folsom Shotwell streets from Fourteenth to Eighteenth streets were impassable rivers and the residents in the vicinity suffered considerable dam- age the corner of Sixteenth and yvard, leaving the loft exposed to elements. i and Folsom streets C. Rassmussen con- ducts a saloon and resides in the rear with his family. The water and mud flooded his establishment and home and yes ay afternoon he was busily engaged in cleaning the parlor car- pet with a hose. Rassmussen is bit- ter against the authorities for what he terms their negligence In not clean- ing the sewers. Passengers were unable to alight from the cars in this section and had to ride for many blocks beyond their destination. When the flood was at its height Patrolman W. P. Dalton at- tracted considerable attention by car- rving two elderly ladies across Fol- som street. The basement of the grocery store conducted by Herman Kleen at Six- teenth and Folsom streets was flood- ed to a depth of ten feet and at one time the water threatened to under- mine the supports of the building. On the west line of Folsom street near Seventeenth are four dwelling houses about two feet below the offi- cial grade. The water poured into the buildings and the families upon awakening were confronted with six inches of muddy water in every room. The loss to the tenants. will be con- siderable. They blame the owners, whom they declare are responsible for not raising the buildings. In the back yards the water was more than two feet deep. Captain Anderson of the Seven- teenth Street Police Station says that the storm is the worst in his recollec- tion. 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It is 80 sure to help. that Nervine is #0ld under a guarantee to refund yo moncy it nrst ‘bottle does not benent. A him an oppor-| | | ing the { only CH STEEPLE RAZED AND BIG BUILDING TWISTED | | | | \ Trains Are Delayed on All Lines by Storm. The storm while in its fury during the early morning hours wrought havoc along the various of railroads throughout the State and for a num- ber ¢f hours there was almost an ab- solute cessation of operatiops. To make lines | the predicament of the transportation companies more aggravating, their tele- graph lines were blown down and the only means of getting information as to the exact amount of damage and providing necessary means for repair- ing the sustained was de- stroyed. For injuries several hours during the morn- Southern Pacific Company’s telegraphic communication was between its uptown offices and those at Third and Townsend streets and the Oakland mole. The local officials of the Santa Fe Company were meanwhile experiencing similar obstacles. Final- ly, in the afternoon, after much hard work on the part of repairers the com- panies began to get reports that promptly suggested to them that it | will be several days before the operat- | ing systems order. From every quarter came news of washouts, landslides and caves that de- layed trains leaving and due in this city. It was reported by Chief Clerk Montgomery of Manager Agler’s offices that while the Southern Pacific Com- will .be again in proper pany had much to contend with in the | way of storm accidents, none of them were of a very serious nature and would be repaired as fast as they could be reported and men sent to the scene. All trains were late, but the company was endeavoring to move them as fast as possible. Even the company’s service between this city and Oakland and Alameda was badly demoralized and could only be operated irregularly until late in the afternoon. At 6 o'clock in the morn- ing it was found that it would be im- possible to run trains over thé Ala- meda line owing to the fact that a temporary building had blown down and obstructed the roadway. Through traffic over this line from San Jose and Santa Cruz was finally effected by way of Alameda Point. On the California Northwestern Rail- way system landslides were reported along every branch of the road and! these, with the rising waters, delayed traffic. The train from Santa Rosa, due at Tiburon at 8:45, did not reach the latter point until 1:45, and then the Dbelated passengers suffered further delay owing to the fire aboard the steamer Dona- hue, which necessitated her putting back. A report was issued from the, company’s office last evening, however, that the blockades had been raised and that the entire road would be in good shape for business this morning. Landslides were also numerous along the North Shore road, but they were trivial in character and the majority of the company’s trains ran on pretty good time, The roughness of the bay, however, prompted the company to tie up its boats during the early part of the day, which was regarded by many as a wise move. PR PR T G A was beached at Fifth avenue South and L street. In running ashore it struck the piling supporting a structure in which were housed thirty-five hogs owned by J. Lapierre. The porkers were precipitated on the scow, washed over- board and drowned. ¥ A portion of the fence of the Haight Primary School was blown down. The roofs of the Bernal and Hawthorne schools were damaged by the wind. The basements of the Noe Valley and the Sherman schools were flooded. fence around the Everett School was wrecked. A large willow tree was up- rooted at Twenty-second and Mission streets. The sidewalk in front of Cos- bie’s harness shop, at 2024 Folsom ‘street, was washed away. A fence op- | posite Woodward’s Pavilion and 200 feet of fence on Market street, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth, also toppled oV Electric poles at Twenty-ninth, Twenty-first and Twenty-fifth and Cas- tro streets are down. Seventy-five feet of fence on Mission street near Twenty- second, thirty feet of awning at 3331 Mission street and an awning at 8 Twenty-ninth street gave way before the wind. & ———ee————— The belle of anclent India ‘w.ore her hair tied by a jeweled band two or three inches back of her head and then braid- ed into an enormous ball two-thirds the size of her head. The < T=ONwW AL whHake T i G ] ’iwig o o \ \ H | ALONG THE WATERFRONT VICINITY YESTERDAY MOR. | | b | | | | | | The southeaster which broke over the harbor Wednesday night and ripped {and roared in fierce blasts of anger | until late yesterday morning made | playthings of big ships, wrecks of | with flotsam that collected and piled | would have overtopped Mount Tamal- | pais. A number of small vessels foundered, | some were driven ashore. With these exceptions the damage, although gen- | eral, was not particularly serious. Few v els that were in the harbor, either at anchor or moored alongside the wharves, but show some bruises. In some cases plates will have to be re- placed. Ship carpenters and riggers will be busy for many days and the Harbor Commission repair department has ahead of it a huge task of patch- ing. ¢ From Meiggs wharf to Hunters Point the storm’s track could be traced by broken wharves and damaged vessels Bits of scow schooners and barges, rail- dotted the waters of the harbor and industrious beachcombers reaped a rich harvest of firewood. A summary of the damage done to shipping reads like a report from Port Arthur after a Japanese business call. The navy training schooner Ernest was torn from her anchorage off Yerba Buena and driven high and dry on the beach. She was damaged considerably and will cost Uncle Sam a pretty pen- ny, considering her diminutive propor- tions, to put into shipshape again. The ship Eclipse, at Greenwich street wharf, carried away her moorings and drifted on the bark Edward May, car- rying away the latter's martingale and cathead. The Eclipse had her wheel- house carried away and sustained other damage. The steamer Berkeley, leaving Oak- land at 6 a. m., had her coal gangway doors stove in, but temporary repairs were made and the boat continued on her trips. The steamer Oakland, while making her trip from this side of the bay, had one of her life boats lift- ed out of its davits by high seas, which carried it away, and the force of the wind blew in her two main sliding doors and broke several windows on her storm side. The steamer Transit also had her share of trouble, for a schooner drifted down into the out part of her berth and pinned the big carrier firmly into her dock. On the Key route the yellow paint- ed boats persisted in voyaging across the bay and they had a merry time in Stations. Eureka Red Bluff . Sacramento Fresno . Independence . San Luis Obispo Los Angeles ... bor Waters Wit | wharves and loaded the outgoing tide | road ties and scraps of crushed boats | e e T . RECORD OF RAINFALL AT DARIOUS POINTS IN CALIFORNIA San Diego .....: A NING. accomplishing their heavy seas buffeted them about like gas balls their regular courses. The steamer South Coast did con- siderable damage to Mission street wharf. The scow schooner J. J. Stof- fen at the Second street slip had her bows and stern on the port side badly stove in gnd sails and rigging blown away. X One of Gray Brothers’ rock barges capsized on Mission Flats and a barge with donkey engine on board, belong- ing to Eschen & Minor, was crushed | between the ships Drumcraig and Loch Trool, and sank. | The British ship Madagascar parted | her lines and drifted across Filbert- street wharf. The barge Santa Rita | wrecked her pilot house against the Fremont-street bulkhead and sank alongside the wharf. The ship Oliyebank, at the Risdon Iron Works, tore out her chocks and carried away her moorings. She was | badly damaged by being jammed | against the piles. The revenue cutter Thetis, also at the Risdon, was badly | chafed, and the new army steamer General Mifflin was very roughly han- dled, sustaining damage estimated at | more than $5000. The tug Frolic, at Schultz’s wavs, near Hunters Point, carried away he: moorings and drifted ashore, a total wreck. The barkentine Coronado broke away from Pacific-street wharf and rammed a hole in the Broadway shed. The Coronado damaged one bow plate and lost her bob stay. ’ The Sixteenth-street drydock was damaged and the following vessels dragged anchors and sustained more or less injury: Bark Hesper, schooner Glendale, steamer Mandalay. steamers Corona and Asuncion, steamer Shasta, British ship Marathon, steamer Navar- ro, ship Alex Gibson, schooners Par- kersburg and Catalina, bark Hecla, steamer Westport and schooner John Lambert. RAGING WIND RAZES BUILDINGS IN THE WESTERN ADDITION In the Western Addition, where the houses were unprotected from the flerce winds that blew in from the ocean, great damage was done, and in several instances residences that were not yet completed were torn to the ground. . On California street, west of Central avenue, three houses of cheap fram- work were tumbled into huge lumber piles, while several others were twisted and sent them far out of | APSHOT PHOTOGRAPHS OF THREE VESSELS WHICH WERE DRIVEN ASHORE AT DIFFERENT POINTS ND IN THE BAY DURING THE FIERCE GALE THAT RAGED IN THIS Southeaster Makes Playthings of Big Ships and Strews Har- h All Sorts of Wreckage. necessary to have them torn down com- pletely. The artistic hall in the Japanese tea gardens, recently the Olympic Club's athletic grounds, is no more, and al] that remains of the once quaint archi- tecture is a mass of logs and boards. ‘While the buildings along the beach in the vicinity of the Cliff House did not suffer material damage many fences were torn down and the tele- phone wires and poles rendered useless. No lives were lost in the western part of the city, where the force of the wind was the greatest,"as fortunately the bu“lngs destroyed were unoccu- pied. k. AR et CR.‘IU\" WAREHOUSE AT LIVERMORE IS TOTALLY DESTROYED LIVERMORE, March 10.—One of the worst storms that Livermore Valley has ever experienced broke at 1 o'clock this morning. At times the wind.blew at the rate of seventy miles an hour. In all directions buildings have been blown down. Wires are down every- where. Anspacher Bros.' grain warehouse No. 3 collapsed at 7 o'clock this morn- ing and 10,000 sacks of barley were ex- posed to the drenching rain. Most of the grain will be a total loss. A large crew of men was put at work to move the barley, but little progress was made owing to the storm. The loss will be $15,000 at least. i Peter McKearny's barn on K street was destroyed this morning. The barns on the May ranch were blown down and several horses were killed. The wind was highest at daylight. Thea it eased off and a torrent of rain ‘fell for several hours, during which John Callaghan’s residence was unroofed. Roads into the hills are all blockaded. Communicagjon is cut off. A S Downpour at Bakersfield. BAKERSFIELD, March 10.—After a terrific wind and sand storm, rain again commenced falling at 3 p. m. and continued for three hours. To- night it is cloudy and another down- pour is expected, f et o Rainfall in San Luis Obispo. SAN LU1S OBISPO, March 10.—The rainfall during last night and to-day amounted to 1% inches. No damage was done by the storm. and rainfall in last twenty-four hours: ) | ! . The following are the seasonal rainfalls to date, as compared with those of same date last season, ' Last 24 Hours. This Season. Last Season. Missing. Missing .. 43.84 ; o e ..3.10 24.66 19.214 el 11.02 12.38 T ..1.29 11.50 12.84 [N s 446 ° 6.33 Missing Missing. 1.82 Missing Missing. 1243 L SR R 3.58 9.97 1.93 9.72 | | Cities Across the Bay Suffer Se- verely. OAKLAND, March 10.—With a wind- storm that at some localities in Ala- meda County reached a velocity of | seventy miles an hour, rain accom- paniment being as comparatively heavy, the gale that broke over the State last night worked a full measure of damage along the east shores of San Francisco Bay and left its mark throughout Alameda County. Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley were given a lively shaking up and reports from down country points note heavy dam- age by wind and rain. The Livermore Valley was hard hit and losses are serious from the gale that wrecked houses, barns and other structures, including one large ware- house, exposing thousands of sacks of grain to the driving downpour of rain. The storm wrecked telephone and tele- graph communication in all directiona. | At the Southern Pacific Company’s di- tasks, for the |and wrenched so badly that it will be | vision headquarters it was announced that reports could not be obtained of damage done along the railroad on that account. Local train and ferry service were seriously interrupted during the morning. Trains and boats were run on irregular schedules. The “Key" route ferry was caught by flooding of the trfcks in the ‘subway at the foot of Yerba Buena avenue. A washout on the line into Berkeley caused a stop- page of traffic for several hours. On the Southern Pacific narrow-gauge a washout and flooded tracks along the Alameda marshes and the mole fill blocked travel. So stiff was the wind that a train of passenger cars was blown off the tracks this morning at the narrow-gauge pier, the train having been made up to go to San Jose and Santa Cruz. The waves ran so high at the narrow- gauge pier that the regular boat trips were abandoned until 2 o'clock this afternoon. On the broad-gauge mole a large con- struction gang was kept at work to prevent the washing out of the rip-rap work on the mole. ; Trips were made by the ferry boats under great difficulty. So high was the sea that the lower decks of the Oak- land and the Berkeley were flooded. On the first trip of the Oakland the forward lifeboat was torn from the davits and the ferward doors smashed by a heavy roller that swept aboard during the steamer’s plunging. In Oakland harbor a lively sea was kicked up. Many ships and other craft went adrift, doing more or less damage. Throughout the cities trees were up- rooted, fences and signs, awnings and small structures were mowed down. The Street Department was flooded with reports of clogged sewers and overflowed streets. No breaks oc- curred that caused serious damage. The storm played havoe with the telephone lines in Oakland. Manager Eugene J. Ellis said 2000 instruments were put out of commission. The cable crossing lines over Yerba Buena Isl- and were laid low, but the cable did not part.” The company put a large force of men at work on repaifs, and many boxes were in commission again by nightfall. Street car service was interfered with by a temporary cutting off of cur- rent from the Bay Cqunties lines from Yuba County. The rainfall for the storm, up to 1 o'clock this afternoon, was 2.42 inches, making a seasonal total of 22.19 inches, as against 17.95 the corresponding date last year. Along the water front the storm was felt most severely. On the south side of the broad-gauge mole the waves washed out a long section of the fill. Superintendent W. S. Palmer sent a lnrge train loaded with sacked gravel o stop breaks. 4 At Long wharf the schooner Alice Cook and the French bark Noluer were badly dam: ~ed in a collision. The Simpson Lumber Company's four-masted schooner Louis broke from her moorings in East . Oakland basin, drifted down on the dredger Uncle Sam, carrying away a lot of pipe line. Then the vessel smashed into the Pacific Coast Company’s coal bunkers at Adams wharf, doing $500 damage to them. . The Pritish ships moored in FEast Oakland basin were tangled up by -+ | the gale, but no heavy damage was Gale Completely Demolishes Houses. Richmond Suffers Heavy Loss by Storm. The Richmond district encountered the fierce gale in all its fury. The en- tire district suffered more less from the storm and wreckage is ever. | where scattered along the streets, in ! back yards and vacant lots. A three- story flat in course of construction on Lake street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues, was completely domnllshgd. The flats are the property of W. H. Hendrickson and were being con- structed at a cost of about $3000. Only the foundation and the frame work had been completed and conse- quently the gale had full headway when it struck the frail structure. It fell with a crash some time before 6 o'clock in the morning and timbers and bricks lay piled up in a tangled mass on the site. No one was near the structure at the time it was de- molished. The Police Department was at once notified. An inspector from the Board of Public Works visited the place soon after it collapsed and pronounced it a total loss. The structure was being built by M. J. Savage and was com- menced several weeks ago. The total loss will probably reach $2000. A three-story flat buildidg in course ¢f construction at Fourth avenue and D street by F. Nelson, 684 Second ave- nue, was badly demolished and w be a total loss. The two-story flat also the property of Nelson, which are being constructed near his residence on Second avenue, were also badly wrecked. Nelson's loss is not great. Chimneys were blown down all over the district and windgws were broken all along the route of the storm. In fact, the entire Richmond district pre- sented a pitiful appearance after the gale. Wreckage lies everywhere in the streets and vacant lots. or P done. The schooner Levi Burgess went adrift in the harbor and did not hold until the middle of the channel was reached. The schooner Himalaya went adrift. The British ships Drumeraig and Lochpool were damaged. The coal hulks Oriole and Carben broke adrift from their moorings and were swept on to the flats at the foot of Grove street. The roof of the Pacific Shade Com- pany's building, Adeline, near Third, was ripped over. The fences around Governor George C. Pardee’s residence at Eleventh and Castro streets were blown down. Temescal Creek overflowed and smashed a big bulkhead at Fifty- third street and Park avenue. Large plate glass windows in the Lace House, Twelifth and Washington streets, were smashed. Heavy metal signs on the roof of the Albany Ho- tel were laid low. The overflow of storm waters on Telegraph avenue, San Pablo avenue, Fourth avenue and in the Twanty-third avenue district was very heavy. The front of Austin’s furniture store, Twenty-third street and San Pablo avenue, was blown down. M. Willlams, night repairer in the Southern Pacific Company’s electrical department, rescued a man from drowning at Oakland pier at 2 o'clock this morning. Willlams and a switch- man heard cries for help. They found the man clinging to piles and strug- gling to save himself. He was drag- ged to the top of the dock with ropes. The rescued man said his name was Treat, but gave the railroad men no further Information about himself. D e BERKELEY FLOODED. Storm Waters Riot and Cause Cone siderable Losses to Shopkeepers. BERKELEY, March 10.—Overbur- dened gutters, flooded cellars, uprooted trees and delayed travel I all direc- tions marked the effects of the storm in Berkeley. 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