The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 11, 1904, Page 5

THE MARCH 1 1904. Sahlein Buzldmg Is Twisted by Blast, Large Structure, May Fall at Any Time. ——— !. { | Main Sireet Is midst of preparing for th protec oA in the SEAMAN SHOUTS FOR AID. s and f merchandise, usalito, the deluge lost NEW ADV“'BTISHENT& SOPT. GLOSSY HAIR. It Can Ozly Be Had Where There Is No Dandraff. m who wants soft was W rad: g fam Williamson, a ! board the lumber schooner Emi had a thrilling experience while m raged at its height and nar- escaped being drowned. Wil- man on board the "a" and was awakened by the wind san d on deck, and seeing that the boat was in a bad way and labl 1o be capsized made for a small boat.! He discovered that all the boats had been carried away in the squall. For three hours he shouted at the top of his voice, but the noise of the wind was |=o great that he could not be heard.| At last Captains Boyer and White, in rharge of two small scows, heard his | cries and rescued the unfortunate sea- | man. | BRITISH SHIPS COLLIDE. | The British ship Newgate lost her| | anchor 1n the storm and drifted down | ! upon the British ship Silberhorn, at an- | chor a short distance away. The Silbe: horn was badly damaged by the coln-' sion. Hers fore topgallant and royal | masts were carried away and her fore topsail was also lost. Her rigging was | almost entirely - demolished and she now lies at anchor in an almost helpless | condition. The Newgate also suffered | much from the collision, her rigging be- | ing badly tangled up. Both ships lost a large portion of their lumber cargoes. > LnPt!:, scln:- The British ships Buteshire, Gunford, | our new paten = = - i "< ! frgpmall s - R, | Chfl]mif)r‘d, Saint Mirren and Kensing- | ~ m"m“_:"m ton are ail ashore on the flats and are o investigate this. | all in a helpless condition. They were r new (copyrighted) pro- | ongaged in unloading cargoes of coal o = '::;:","_‘_‘:;4 and wood in port, and all lost heavily | Our physicians are experienced | by the storm. : rictly reliable specialists. Fees Smith’s boathouse at old Sausalito is | Treatment given ou 10 days’ 'a complete wreck. The big float was washed away by the swell and several bhoats and launches were either broken to pieces on the rocks or carried out into the stream by the flood and the fierce gale. The loss to the boathouse | is very heavy, though the exact amount | is not yet known. Dan Eustace’s wharf was also ‘uhed CASTOR 1A For Infants and Children. Bears the Signature of v IGORATOR is & pai- ural restorer of lost it is the ONLY means | ed - Perfect I)Iua.‘\lulazb-) s &xd spproval. HEALTH APPLIANCE CO., 6 O’Farreli Street. S. F. ' Weak Men and Women S USE DAMIANA BITTERS. THE en can Remedy; gives h‘lltl and sirengih 1o sexaal ergans, 325 Market. J’hlps Collzde in Jausa[tto Harbor and! by Flood. { in several places. Washed Away rges and d. A Danish his two in the storm, and lost 1 drifi English sh id to have been ba ion 1~1 the 4 have been and flower gardens entirely e of the San velously esc: Club hough many valuab her dashed to rocks or carried away arcely a whart hole water front that has pie or damaged to some extent by unt ‘“amalpais the velocity of | the wind reached 106 miies. No dam- age occurred on the Scenic Railway. At Corte Madera three two-story in course of comstruction and | completed, owned by Wiiliam n of San Francisco, down and will have to be entirely re- | Traffic on both the North Shore and | the California Northwestern was at a standstill for many hours. No trains have gone north or arrived from Caza- | dero on the narrow gauge, owing to | washouts above San Anselmo, while on the California Northwestern the up country trains did not leave Tiburon, and the San Francisco bound passen- gers cannot pass Petaluma owing to landslides in Sonoma County. San Rafael commuters who attempt- | ed to go to San Francisco before 10| o'clock this morning were stalled on this side of the bay. The North ‘Shore ferry-boats were operated after 9 o'clock and ran on time the balance ! of the day. The ferry-boat Tiburon | in crossing had her rudder damaged and put back to San Francisco. 'l'he] Donahue was sent out to take her| place, but was delayed an hour by fire | being discovered on her lower deck. | The prompt action of the officers and | crew made the damage very slight and | she was not laid up for repairs. At Lime Point and Fort Baker there was considerabie damage, especially at the former place. The quartermaster’s road running from the wharf to the | Lime Point lighthouse was washed | away for a long distance. The seawall | just completed by the Government was | undermined by a back wash and broken Hundreds of acres of land betweeni Ross station and Larkspur are inun- ! dated. The rainfall for San Rafael and vicin- ity is 2.48 inches, while at Sausalito it | was 4.75 inches since Wednesday at 5| ». m. —_————— Large numbers of ready-made cot- | tages are being shipped to the Amazon from New York small | were blown | : | torn branch from branch before i lands in this section, especially north | | SHIPS BATTLING AGAINST THE GALE IN THE BAY AT i SAUSALITO f Records Tell the Story of torm’s Fury attained yesterday was forty- | eight miles an hour. The rain | | at 8 o'clock in the morning fell at the rate of one-fiftieth of an | inch a minute for three minutes. The barometer reading was 29.23 inches when the wind was the heaviest. The normal pres- | sure gives a barometric reading { of thirty inches. The reading of February 22, 1861, 29.10 inches, which is the record for | San Francisco. The barometer | reading at Galveston at the time of the disaster was 28.48 inches. A wind velocity of sixty miles an hour was reported from Sacra- mento before the wires broke | down. McAdie expects that ' there was a record gale at Point Reyes, but no report was re- | ceived from there last night be- 1 cause the wires were down. i The um wind velocity i | was Yuba, Feather, American and Sacramento rivers wore rising | at last accounts. | break in the storm yesterday | afterncon. but the forecaster | predicts that we shall experi- | ence more high winds to-day, | | although probably not so severe as those of yesterday. More rain may also be expected. | There was a | Gale Plays Havoc. Continned From Page 1. Column 7. big fence, fifteen feet high and thirty feet long, back of the quarters of Cap-| tain Cornish, was blown down with| a great crash and demolished. The graceful acacia tree that for years has adorned the post hospital grounds was it finally succumbed and was thrownl across the stone walk. The calla hedge which surrounds the beautiful grounds of Major Stephenson and is not only B REBLE Y. S BuL. Stwn. e bf the chief adornments to the post, was al-| most blown to pieces. It was in full bloom, and the white blossoms were scattered over the lawn like snow. Men were out all the afternoon clearing away the debris, and by nightfall things were ship-shape again.. i All proncunced it the worst storm that has visited the Presidio in years. Sl HIGH TIDE AT VALLEJO. Water From the Bay Backs Up and Floods the Lowlands. VALLEJO, March 10.—The heavy wind, accompanied by torrents of rain, this morning shook up this town m a lively fashion, and. backing the water in from the bay, flooded the low of town. The high tide washed over | wharves, and the heavy wind didl considerable damage. All over town | trees, shrubbery and fences suffered and several small bridges were wash- ed away. The amount of damage done, taken as a whole, has been consider- able. went | The wind forced a tree across the creek | iowed the West Berkeley was under water. Lum- | | North Berkeley. | that net |and loss | tiously across +* Entire Length and Breadth of Alameda County. + Continned From Page 4, Column leveled, roofs uplifted, windmills top- — pled over, cellars deluged, windows | o'clock local train from San Francisco | Shattered. signs and aw; i 3 = g and steam and electrical i was held back fo ve minutes, over- | oo 5 flowed tracks having prevented ItS| A% tn. Alameda mole the wind ng through on time. In attempting crashed in a passenger shed and to get up the slope into North Berkeley | toppled that over amng anding " The train had the engine silpped so much on the track essary to back down to There a freight en-| hooked at the rear end and | hPIped the regn'a- engine to get up the | hill. i passenger coaches on an exposed track. been made up for t row gauge run to obstruction interfered with the mow ment of tra Ferryboats could t Strawberry Creek tore through its]|dock at the slip and it was not until banks, carrying everything before it ;lhis afternoon at 3:30 o'clock tk the local trains r route. The passengers from San Francisco who boarded the 9 o'clock train this morning on the narrow-gauge roa: Great bowlders, bridges and lumber all | speeding down the raging stream. umed running on that at the Telegraph avenue entrance, and part of the bridge that was torn away | was carried to the bay. Students living on the south side of the city were com- ferry slip at Alameda Point. Trains on Storm Leaves Its Mark Throughout the; for Santa Cruz were landed at the old | Southern Part of the State Gets Drenching. :J'torm a Blessing . in the Thirsty | JSection. LOS ANGELES, March 10.—Just at the time when it would do 3 good and when, worth several t the most as imes the same quantity eariier, all Sov rn California r a drenching this evening, the ranging from 2% Inches in the Sa Barbara district to 1% inches through Orange County peatlands and east- ward through the grain districts of Riverside and San Bernardino counties. It was by far the heaviest rain of the season, and, although some damage was done to transportation lines, that was more than offset by the good which will accrue to the ram TS throughout this end of the State In Los Angeles and vicinity the rain began falling at 3 o'clock this after- noon and continued until nearly m night, during which time 170 inches fell, most of it during three hours. For the first time within more than a year the streets were flooded, street car traf- fppled and many cellars coming as !hfl ‘Pa v loss he aged to the extent power plant was da nes were put out of b ess in many places by washouts and flooding of Yra(‘(' but no employes or passenger: In the cat- tle raising district of north the city, e fell, and re an abundancs of feed t where six weeks ago cattle were dying for want of feed. in that section Ec! hu Mountain, on a sh of Mount Lowe, reports 3.20 inches, and the rangers’ camps along the San Ga- briel range report an average of more In the higher ranges ¢t snow ty icts cipitation Bernardi rain was perhaps more | in any other section of the & the grain had peen sow The first caused it to apother rain real t six to grow abo ground. The present | a wonderful growth is and whi is probably o question to expect much of crop there promises to apce of hay in all the rw | scaking. Fullerton reports 1 ches 1 Anaheim 1.69, Santa Ana 1.5 46, Tustin 1.80 and so throughout county, the average being over an inch Another rain w pelled to go into the university grounds| the th side line running to the Oak ire an abundant er through another entrance. { land mole were off their schedule most | sri and will make possible at | The creek rflowed its banks in two | of the day, because of the irregular| y.ir 5 crop of grain places. At Oxford street, just where the | time made by the boats | = stream emerges from the university water in the tidal canal between BOAT SUNK AT STOCKTON. grounds, the water suddenly clt Park street and Fruitvale avenue over- | over a that had accumu vno“ed the banks, the rise being brought Oil Steamer Alton, Listed by Wind, lated at that point and rushed across|about by the combined action of the| Cots Dasss: the street. It required a gang of men | wind, the tide and t reat volume of —FOCETON~ Mareh to clear away the debris so the water | water coming in from Sausal Creek. STOCKTON, Mare! could run freely. For a time the post- A large lamp was wrenched from the | here this morning brought office bullding was threatened with in-| undation. | street Farther down creek, between | 125-foot electric light mast on Webster d Railroad avenue and pre ted through the roof of the resi the Milvia and Grove streets, the force of | the water tore open a culvert recently | blown down on Central avenue, near buiit By the Shattuck estate and over- | Lafayette street, damaging the com-| ry of F. W. Van Sicklen. A rush of waters covered Grove street it was ripped from the roof of pth of one foot and prevented pass- e Adelphian Club Hall, in the Tucker . | block, and another from the roof of the land on either side. The|s serva a ing to and from the City Hall for eral hours | Hall. An immense sign on the Pa- Tl B Rerkeley the waters tore | cific Hotel was torn loose and, in fall- s = f ing. dem of I H. away the bridge that crossed the creek | at rth street. That section being lower than any of the ather parts of town received the full benefit of the the result being that half of | Mait was a mixup of t and fire-alarm wires, and a force of| men was kept constantly employed dur- ing the day in making repairs to bells and to boxes that had been burned out Fou overflow, dence of J. G. Lubben. A windmill was | :nnne\ d leveled a lot of trees The only serious re. inch of and shrubbe ult was the sinking of the little steam- Alton in Stockton harbor. The boat s used for carrying oil to the island pumping stations. and last night was heavily loaded and tled to the south )'\han Early is morning she was | listed by the w ind and finally weat | under, but her crew got ashore safeiy | The steamer is in sixteen feet of water but will be raised. The prettiest park in Stockton, Fre- mont, is almost ruined, the trees having ‘been upmnl-d Other parks suffered (‘ommm-dm Page 11, coh-nl. and boxes and things movable floated everywhere on the tide. ber ADVERTISEMENTS. The gutters were overtaxed in many places that the streams of water extended the full width of the streets s0 making of them swift-flowing i The most damaging of these streams came down Shattuck avenue from| £l 1t deposited most o itz waters at University avenue and| hborhood much to the chagriu | of storekeepers. Basements were filled up and ground floors sub- merged. Eight inches of water covered the Southern Pacific’'s tracks at the foot| of University avenue for three hours| this morning and trains were sent cau- the submerged rails. Men were on hand trying to drain th2 water into the bay. | Among the individual sufferers who sustained considerable loss are D. E. | Vergue of West Berkeley, whose Immc[ was surrounded by six feet of water when daylight broke this morning. The | water kept rising even then until it came in at the doors and made a hasty flight to the upper story necessary. The flood visited the first floor of Mrs. Philip Twist's home on Fourth street and also Joseph Irwin’s, a few doors | away. Operations were entirely sus- pended at the El Dorado Oil Works because eight inches of water filled the plant. The water subsided quickly when thc rain ceased this afternoon. thus free- ing many places for the ordinary traf- fic. In some localities, however, the flood has left its mark and it will be several days before the tide of activ- ities may be resumed. —_—— ALAMEDA GETS A BLOW. Train Service Is Badly Interfered ‘With—Tidal Canal Overflows. ALAMEDA, March 10.—Wind and rain played havoc throughout this city | last night and this morning. While | the aggregate damage done is con- siderable, in no particular instance i3 it heavy. Trees were stripped, fences | for $8.25. Until six o’clock to-night, only $8. ‘We have prepared for another rainy day by offering a value that will bring people to our store regardless of the weather. A fifteen- Two woods to choose from —mahoganized birch or birdseyve ma- ple. Positively for to-day, Friday, only. 25 dollar boudoir desk