The evening world. Newspaper, October 9, 1903, Page 3

WHOL FLODDED AND L055 GREAT Factories Forced to Close with Engine- Rooms Flooded—Central Park Men agerie Animals in Danger and Belle- vue Hospital Stores Ruined—Traffic by Trolley Suspended. Central Park suffered more than from any storm in years. Branches of trees were broken, sewers were stopped up, gullies formed in side hills and great wasucuts were made in the paths and roadw: In come places holes , five and eix feet square were formed by whirlpoo:s, wh:le the sod was torn away. ‘The menagerie was flooded from three to four fect deep. When the keep- ers arrived they found the deer wading about in their enclosure unable to reach solid ground. The camels, which are on higher ground, were shivering in the storm, but would not go under the shelter. In the eagle cage one of the bald eagles was found drowned on the floor, ; while the others, drenched and forlorn, were clinging to the perches. Appar- ently the drowned bird had fallen mto the water and was unable to use its wings or regain the limbs of the tree from whic: it had been washed. Head Keeper Snyder, with Keepers Holmes, Tyson and Shannon, under) the direction of Supt. Sinith, put on hip boots, which were utterly useless on account of the depth of the water, and: with picks and eledge-hammers went through the menagerie hunting sewer covers. In some places they waded up to their armpits. They broke in the gratings over the sewer Grops, The water began to flow off, and in a few hours the level in the menagerie was lowered several feet. COULDN'T GET TO COTTAGE. When Miss O'Connor, the matron In the cottag>, near the arsenal, arriv an attempt to take her to the cottage in a park cart was made, but the driver was unable to ford the waters. Miss O'Connor was taken to the police sta- tion to await there the recession of the flood. ‘The transverse road through the park at Sixty-sixth street was aban- doned. The water in the low places was so deep that trucks could not get through. The storeroom in the basement of the main building at Bellevue Hosp!- tal was flooded with about three feet of water. Stores, it is estimated, to the value of $5,000 were absolutely ruined and the attendants were helpless to stop the onrush. Clothing, eggs, butter in large quantities, chickens and fruit were in the storeroom, and all of these are supposed to be damaged. The hospital grounds looked like A and the attendants and ambulances moved ground with great difficul: ) The East Twenty-Second street police station suffered severely. About four feet of water was in the basement. Cellars all along First avenue suffered. The downpour in the early morning was so great that the rain went down the chimneys of many tenements, putting out fires and flowing into rooms. HAD TO COVER CHIMNEYS. In Twenty-sixth street, between First and Second avenues, the tenants placed canvas covers over the chimneys. At No. 320 East Twenty-sixth street the janitor sald that most of the tenants had furniture damaged by water rushing through the chimneys. is Im the mineral water factory of Carl H. Schultz, at First avenue, be- tween Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth streets, there was three feet of water fm the boiler room. The firemen were forced to pile coal in front of the furnaces so that they could walk in front of the boflers and feed the fires. On Avenue A, in the neighborhood of Twenty-third street, a trench fhas been dug alongside of the car tracks, as electric power {!s to be in- étalled. This trench was filled to the top with water, and the horse cars had the utmost difficulty in making headway. ‘The five hundred employees of Francis Kiel & Son, dealors in hardware, were told. when they reported for duty at the factory at One Hundred and Bixty-third street and Melrose avcnue, that there would be no work for thom to-day, as the water hnd flooded the engine-room and put out the fires ‘under the boilers. It was from five to twelve feet deep. In the rear of the factory is the Pocohantas branch of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. This rung through a deep and narrow cut with recky sides. From the main Ine to Long Island Sound, where the branch ends, the tracks run through a veritable causeway, and there Is a uteep decline from the main tracks to Westcheter avenue. A MINIATURE NIAGARA. According to Mr. Kiel, shortly after midnight the water rose two feet over a brick wall six feet high that separates the yard of his factory from the cut. The night watchman summoned Mr. Kiel at once, and all the engi- neers and firemen employed In the factory were sent for. There was about two feet of water jn the engine and boiler rooms when the cteam pumps in the building were started. The pumps, however, made but Httle headway against the flood of water that was pouring over the wall in a minlaure Niagara. At 6 A. M. the water, reached the furnace fires and the pumps stopped working. Tho water rose etendily until the firemen and enginers were forced to vacate the basement. Mr. Kiel said he would have to employ a force of men ail night bailfng the water out of the basement, so as to be able to start the engines wo:king to-morrow. All along the railroad cut similar conditions were found. Perhaps the heaviest loser was the firm of G. N. Reinhardt & Co., at One Hundred and Sixty-second street and Brook avenue. The firm deals in grain, salt and hay and their loss is estimated to be at least $5,000. PROVISIONS A TOTAL LOSS. From the railroad cut tracks run into the factory in the basement, where grain is unloaded from the freight cars. When the water flowed into the basement it ruined 8,000 bales of hay, three carloads of salt and hundreds of bags of grain and feed. In the yard were two cars full of oats. The water ruined the entire contents of the cars. On the tracks, about a quarter of a mile away from the factory, were four freight cars filled with feed and grain, which were flooded. The contents of the cars were valued at $600 each, all of which will be a total loas, At Westchester avenue and the railroad cut are the branch meat stor- age houses of Swift & Co., Armour & Co, and Conron Brothers, all of which will suffer thousands of dollars of damage, Under the railroad bridge at Park avenue and Pelham avenue and also at One Hundred and Sixty-ninth street and Park avenue, the water spouted up between the express train tracks of the New York, New Haven and Hart- ford Railroad, Two geysers wero caused by sewers bursting and the streams of water between the tracks rose for about three feet in a continuous stream. As soon as the breake occurred all signals were set against the ex- press trains and they were shunted to the local tracks, The express tracks were covered with nearly a foot of water, and it {s thought that the roadbed will be found to have been damaged cerlor Traffic by trolley was almost suspended throughout the night on ac- count of the burning out of fuses. In many outlying districts tho trolley! tracks are under two feet of water, Freshets and floods retarded, and in| somo instances suspended altogether the running of commuters’ trains from neighboring points and thousands were unable to get into work this morning. The roads terminating at Jersey City, Hoboken and Weehawken ha to resort to all manner of devices to get their trnins in across the Hackensack Meadows. Tracks and even trestles had been washod away. ‘The trains were brought in in whatever way possib!e, and nearly all running schedules wero abandoned. : F The New York Central, New York, New Haven and Hartford aad the t jon both sides of the street tn jgan flying off, and ‘higher ground. E WORLD: FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 9, 1903. ee New York and Harlem through trains alized. nd local service were utterly demor- CARRIED “PICK-A-BACK.”’ Roustabouts started in early carrying commuters on their backs from the ferries across to dry ground. Truckmen were reaping a harvest taking loads of passengers from the ferrier up as far as Washington street, harging 10 cents each. The Fulton street crosstown cars were loaded to the guards, and at times the water flooded the floors. Several persons narrowly escaped feet high, by two feet six inches thick injury by the collapse of a wall, twelve and one hundred feet Jong, that forms one side of the yard of the Consolidated Gas Company, at Fifty-ninth street between Tenth and West End avenues, Several persons were walking on the north side of the street opposite the wall when it collapsed, and a rush of water flowed out of the yard. Bricks flew in every direction, and for a few minutes the street was filled with four feet of water. Pedestrians who happened to be standing in the way of the water made a concerted rush for the stoops of the houses in the block and all escaped injury, although many were drenched. It was discovered that the yard had formed a veritable tank for the water from the rains and from several cesspool that had backed up. The water had risen to a height of about Three large gas tanks are in the yard damaged. The remainder of the wall surrou: t ten feet before the wall gave way. |, but it is not thought that they were nding the yard was found to be in a dangerous condition and the Building Department was notified. A police- man was sent from the West Forty-seventh street station to keep pedes- trians off that side of the street. WATER-FRONT + STREETS LIKE ROARING RIVERS, ‘The water front along the East and North Rivers has been tled up by the flvods, Vessels can neither be loaded nor unloaded until the waters subside. Ferry-houses, warehouses, stores and hotels were flooded, and thousands of dollars of damage was done. Traffic was stopped and all business around the wator gront had to be abandoned, At one time the water in the bay reached the level of the Battery sea wall and the floods backing up caused many of the sewers to burst, No cars were running on West-st and the thousands of commuters com- ing from the Jersey side had to wade in water to thelr hips almost as far gs Washington street, 4 Truckmen were reaping a harvest car- rying passengers from the Barclay street ferries to Washington street at 10 cents each. All the cellars along West street were flooded and the damage to goods stored in them will reach hundreds of thou- sands of dollars. ‘The great volume of water poured into the bay backed up the tdes until the river rose to the level of the ferry-house| floors. A Roaring Stream. West street resembled a roaring mountain stream and the water backed, up the cross streets for at least two blocks. Absolutely nothing could be done to stem the floods, and owners of warehouses and wholesale stores In that portion of the city had to stand help- lesely by while the water poured into thelr places of business, ruining their stocks, Even after the floods have subsided it will take some time deforo business can be resumed, the streets are filled with boxgs, crates and debris picked up on plers and in front of wholesale rant almost without warning. A minute before the street 10) feet below was In- undated. Then a sewer in Fulton street gave way and almost instantly water Fan apparently up hill and came upon the diners 80 suddenly that they wet their feet up to their ankles in escaping. Leather District Suffers, Through the leather district, the logs, it was said, would be very large. No One coud estimate it. The sewer in Ferry street was one of the first to five way to the great water pressure. Vater in a streain three or four feet in cireumferance was thrown many feet in the alr and descending Was washed against the sides of the houses. ‘The sewer leading to South and Front streets became stopped up and there was no outlet for the great fall of water for two blocks around. The water all flowed to the “Swamp” and backed up higher und higher, Wagons were as best they could, but the water rose high on the horses’ and was above the beds of the vehicles. All em- ployees of the big leather houses were ‘ordered from the buildings and stood about In the driving rain on the side- walks walting for the flood to subside. The big printing estabiishments in Jncob street were closed when the water rushed in, filled the cellars and put the fires out in the furnaces. All hands were ordered out of the buildings ‘and told to go home. The Bukding Department Inspectors were on hand, but it was Impossible for them to ‘make inspections other than the most superficia!. Tae cellars pelng filled with water, the real condi- tion of the foundations ‘of the bulldings cannot be determined until after they have been pumped out, which will prob- abiy take a week or more. ‘To Kuard against thieves who were ex- pected to take advantage of the Te- serted stores and markets along South street, the reserves from the Old Slip police’ station were guarding every street lending to the river front. Ballt Pontoon Bridge. Passengers from Brooklyn on the Wall street and Fulton street ferries found It impossible to cross’South streot because of the river ¢hat extended from the ferry-house to the floors of the bulldings on the further side of the street. The market mon released the passengers by houses and deposited in heaps by the rushing waters. Perishable goods already unloaded from steamers and lying on the piers are ruined, Along South street, through Fulton Market and the “Swamp" the water was three feet deep and the bursting sewers showed that the water would rise still higher and that the hundreds and thousands of doliars of damage already done would be probably doubled. At every inch rise there comes a cry from merchants on Interaecting strevts that water is flowing into their cella: All Cellars Flooded, There {s not a cellar frum South street to the south side of Front street teat jw not filled witn water. Ja the “Swamp wisricl, wacre are Jocaed all of vag big. Wholesale leacher nouses in| New york, (he damage is untold. In Ferry street there is a dip extending from Chit to Jucob stree.. In the houses re Was three feet of water at 10 o'clock to-diy dnd the water was, rising a0 rapldiy that Its advance higher and higher on the houses could be detected with the eye. rhe conditions in Gouth street began with the bursting of che sewers, Over- charged with water. the sower taps be- then water burst in great’ streams several feet in As each tap was loosened ard the water spouted conditions became worse. Grad the flsh and meat stands caine inundated, and then cellars flied with a nose like that of a wat ‘Then the floors loons were over- flowed. The h are almost all old in this section and there came a suspi- cion that the water would weaken tac foundations and cause the buildings to topple and powslbly fall. Many of the houses wero deserted. Where foods Were not perishable they Were wlowed to remain in the houses. Where they would suffer from water trucks were alloped through the street rivers and Joaded. ‘Then the goods wero carted .o Tn spite of these preca’ tions no goods excazed a drenching, Free the water front to Pearl s:reot there was from two to three feet of ein Fulton street. In Sweet's rea- aurant there were a number of diners hen the water came upon the restau. \ forth alr. stringing a line of tall boxes across the atreet and holding them down with heavy Planks, | The passengers would | thei mount ¢his frall bridge, against which the water was washing ha: constantly, and walked to the Hor ground on one of the intersecting street ‘The bridge made it impossible for wagons to pass, but drivers used Front Street. While the street cars were run- ning it became necessary every time a car appronohed to raise the bridge. A man would spring Into the water, which extended far above his knees, and raise the box. The car would then run on 4nd the ‘box would be set back In place. Whenever a car came along and the bridge Wan raised It caused a block of Passengers in the ferry-houses. After he water got too high for the cara to run the passengers got from the ferries without delay ———.—. TWO SCHOONERS ASHORE ON VIRGINIA COAST. NORFOLK, Va., Oct. 9—Two three- master schooners are reported blown ashore off Ocean View, In the lower Chesapeake. A sixty-mile gale is raging along the Virginta-North | Carolina (<} Henry to Kitty Hawk of very rough weather ha Ing in from the seaboard. has been blow since 3 morning and fears are ent the shipping. In Norfolk the highest velocity reached is thirty miles, but the heavy blow out- ide has backed an unusually high tide into the Inner harbor and all the water- front ptreets tn the commercial district are under water. Telegraphic communt- cation Is seriously damaged ———_.- THREE INCHES OF RAIN FELL UP THE STATE, BALLSTON, N. Y., Oot, 9.—Thres and A half Inches of rain fell here during the eighteen hours ending at ¥ A Mf to-day. ‘The storm was general through- out TALOl County. All the sti in ‘this vielnity are ‘at flood heights, wind ‘clock this tained for Nostra ek Poo GAS bound Trains on ‘arly every train on the New York ntral and Hudson River Railroad, the Harlem division and the New York, New Hayen and Hartford Railroad was from twenty minutes to an hour and a half late in reaching the Grand Central Sta- ton. All northbound traffic on the Central was stopped by submerged tra Hastings, The Empire State Express was among the trains held up. ‘The tracks at several points are cov- ered with water. ‘The New York, New Haven and Hart- ford reported serious difficulties through Westchester County. In the ‘Tremont section the long cut was flooded to a depth of from one to three feet. On some trains the passengers were com- pelled tokeep thelr feet off the floors of the cars, which were under water, ‘Tracks Two Feet Under Water, Supt. Smith, of the Passenger Service of the New York Central, said: ‘There ar> from one to two fcet of water on the tracks In the curve about Spuyten Duyvil, and several engines have had thelr fires put out in going around there. The bridge at Ossining 1s under water, and much fear for trains is felt there, but the Empire State Ex- press went over it safely, and I guess the others can if they take It slowly. I do not remember of having seen the Hudson so high before, “A sewer broke In the cut at risanin and flooded the ‘tracks jtwo and thres feet of water. Every engine had Its fire put out, and all trains wero stalled i the cut unul wo could sen} engives with high fire- boxes to pull them out.” Many Passengers in Per: Frightened but thankful crowds poured from the’ ¢rains at the Grand Central station after the perilous trip through the Bronx cut and the tunnel, One woman with two children who stepped from a New York and Harlem train got down on her knees and gave thanks for {her deliverance. At 10 o'clock there were eloven ex- press trains containing 5,000 passengers stalled by the water in the cut be- tween Melrose and Claremont. The fire in the engines had been extingulehed and they were dead. Water from three to five feet in height raged through the cut where the trains were stailel and carried a raft of ties and track refuse, Mor- with ks at!’ QUBMERGED TRACKS DELAY TRAFFIC ON THE RAILROADS Empire State Express and All North- New York Central Held Up—West Shore Tracks Dam-| aged—Jersey Roads Suffer. ‘There was én ting the stallel pass 8 off the cars. and switshing engines with prote. fire-boxes were sent out from the Ce no posal’ y of the Grand Central station. Newark Meadows Like a Sen, wark meadows are CoV ter and traffic by the Newark wa jof the Cent! Rallroad’ is sus 1 on the Pennsylvania Ratlroad impeded between Eliaabet and Newark and other points on the division Much damage was done to the Wet Shore tracks at Haverstraw and othe points. Water in the cut east of Orange urg covers the from elgnt to ten feet. a standstill. All trains are at at the cut west of Stony Point. the West Shore trains ‘had to ran from tracks, A New York, Ontarlo and train te off the track at Orwog bout ten fect of water, A W in is talled with water ¢ of car sea urK 1 of excitement, may break any moment. Northern Washouts on the Ravlroad of New Jersey sto : c cen arle bi ack neh to Hoboken in a Ba He und ye City. uffern was also tled up. Way. In were of business, W. road was reported from Amphere, on the Morrie and Easex Division, Aj trains on this division are stal a force of workmen with a wi car hax been rushed to the pl On the main line several washouts are reported, and all are from a half to two’ hours late. of the streets hay in them. The 8 ferries are ules whenever they make their Few persons are arriving, and rey ry amps and lakes and Hips all points on the D., L. and W. system, HUSBAND FOUND HER DEAD. Mrs. Jennie McPeake, | twenty: years old, of No. 149 West One, dun in dredth street, was found dead h home to-day by her husband, James Mc- Peuke. At first it was thought that the woman had been poisoned. After po- Nee investigation the cause of death was Pronounced alcoholisin, FLOOD CUT OFF STATEN ISLAND TROLLEY SERVICE, ‘The storm played havoc with the trol- ley lines on Staten Island. All cars were stopped for hours between St. George and Port Richmond and St. George and Richmond, and persons residing in those parts and who work in the city had to tramp all the way to the ferries this morning in water that in most plac along the roads was up to their knees, One car was flooded off the track be- tween St, George and Port Richmond at Treetz's corner and stopped all trafic on the down line. Another car was blocked by the flood a couple of hours later on the up Ine, and no passengers were carried elther way for several hours, ‘The Staten Island Rapid Transit Com- pany had a washout at Richmond Vajley that completely blocked traffic for ix hours, The sewer on Jewett avenue In Port Richmond was washed out and the slde- walk below Post avenue was washed away for two blocks. ‘The residents of Bay reet, Tompkins- ville, had to bulid “bridges from tho stoops of their” houses to the trolley cars this morning and nearly all the cellars were flooded The waterworks at Port, Richmond were ‘affected by the floods and. the water supply was shut off for several hours this morning: Carried Dinners on Raft. Charles Schnell, proprietor of a del catessen shop and restaurant in Staph ton, 8. 1. abandoned his delivery waza and bulit himself a raft, He had r celved orders by telephone for dinners for gieve! tes, whose kitchens wehe shoulder-deop in water and, whose this morning there was five water percolating through tho whose foundations rest in the The kitchens of the majority famillex who lve in these api houses are or. the first fic Water to the de ¢ four atout rooms stairs At noon th different fam larder was W Nothing to It but At first he end hungry, familles in his but after nearly drowning and spoiling a half built himself a raft and polled y windows of rs, squalls on the voyage and a pi feet alley The his dell ts dogen” dinners: horse bu cessfully sidents. lthat Richmond Count and of those places. ———— ‘BOY BLOWN INTO RESERVOIR AND DROWNED. fal to The Pa,, Oct urred at Two little reservoir to view fawn wind storm swept across Uh ‘ed up one of the lads and h ning World.) ay York wo! a the boys t v. vt nll led stoves were consequently out of com- mission. him into the basin of water, He tank ‘These eleven families live in the Sish,|Jmmediately, and his body has nov Gickman and Burea fats on Irving} been recovered, Pinco, Stapleton. Irving Place forma] The boy was Walter Royer, twelve the valley tw two hills, and by ¥ o'clock, yeurs old. wing able ai aetna met tral yards to drag the stalled trains to tracks to a depth of Several hundred tons of mud and stone blocked the west and east bound tracks Some of Newburg to Jersey City over the Erle Shore bottom Works of that place !s in @ great state as \t Is feared its dam rvice be- The woken by daylight the heights} off from the other portion of the city and six trolley lines were out At4 o'clock a washout onthe D., 1. % “dand King smaller trains All the sewers are flooded and some e feet of water unning on irregular sched- 1s of damage continue to be received from six r of! houses} f the ment: mself He encountered | $$$ f CFRTIONS (lf pity ,|WEST STREET NAVIGABLE AT MANY POINTS—A BROOKLYN HIGH SCHOOL HEART OF A L uy A Pine street from Broadway to Beaver street, one of the busiest parts of the financial district, was almost under- mined early to-day through the wash- ing away of a newly constructed sewer. Parts of the sidewalk and street ad- joining prominent buildings were sink- and because of a series ing perceptibly of breaks in the steam pipes of the New Y Steam Heating Company the broken street surface gave out stean ke an ive volcano, For several weeks Contractor Gavin has been building a sewer fifteen feet under the surface of Pine street. He had great trouble on account of the pipes of the Steam Heating Comps which leaked badly. These were belng repaired, which left openings In the street surface. When the rain flooded down last night the water washed through the openings, poured Into the loosened earth beneath In the sewer excavation and washed along down to the sewer outlet. The result was an immediate sinking of the street and sidewalks about the Sub-Treasury Building. Pollceman Me- Nulty noticed that the street had cked and caved in, and that the sidewalk In front of the building had sunk all of six inches, The Western and Hanover National Bank buildings, 1 adjoining corners seemed to be out VOLCANO IN PINE STREET FOLLOWS PERILOUS CAVE en of the way of the cave-im through depression ran all along the route the sewer, Harricades the Spot. The policeman secured planks blocked off the weakened street sunt This proved a cause of great ann as the morning wore on,.and dlod were frequent over all the district. /. few blocks away, at Beaver and P streets, another flood and washout caused by the bursting of 4 six. water main opposite No. 133 Pearl at The water gushed out with such fo that ted up the Belgian block p ment; then it tore its way under surface of Ol LO a Lwenty-f foot excavation in the triangular at Pearl and Beaver streets for the pen-story Beaver Buliding. ‘The Mb ated water poured into the excavat like a miniature Niagara. Tool drilling machines and much that had been set were bg Os ‘ it the flood, which rose until to overflow into the street, a week at least to pump the out. Part of the water flooded the mi boring gutters and cellars. The eating house of A. Dwyer, on the street side of the excavation, was” pletely washed out. Flood Makes Water Main Buraty Ey The rain was r esponsibie for” bursting of another water main tH” excavation in front of No. 501 Bl avenue. When the i2-inch pipe | it sent a stream of water !nt> 4) that turned Bleventh avenue and Forty-firat street into torrent FORMER MEDICAL Says: “I Have Often West Haverstraw lo. are turnin one Supine west In p of the mail trains, which cannot get out of Wee- H P. H hawken, Broadway Bridge at Haverstraw x In My ractice. washed away, The Rockland Print a DR. JAMES rorier, M. D.. f of ‘Referes U BLAND WILLIAMSON, York- ARK. 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