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}) t s AAT QOWNFAL FLOOOS: SHEETS AMD CELLIRS Sewers Burst and Water Badly bam ages Goods in Warehouses—-Trains|j and Trolley Cars Stalled and Many); Suburban Towns Partiaily Inundated|: ‘The heaviest rain storm of the year and the one which advances the total fall of rain for the first twenty: days of August to the enormous Gmount of 6.86 inches swamped all of New York and vicinity to-day. Swamped is the word for it. Everything that was not on a mountain ‘wea under water, And this great amount of rain was reinforced by an east wind which backed the water up in the bay until the miles of water- Gront of the city was awash, cellars flooded, buildings inundated and streets fenee deep. Many thousands of dollars’ worth of goods stored in cellars €n4 on first floors were ruined. ALL RAILROAD TRAINS DELAYED. All railroads were impeded, trains ranning slowly in fear of washouts. Ta several instances, notably on the New York, New Haven and Hartford and the Long Island Railroads, the engines were :nade useless by the water @etting into the fire boxes under the boilers and extinguishing the fires, ‘These trains were stalled for several hours, ‘The Hackensack Meadows became a vast lake in which the Passa! lost its identity. Newark, Elisabothport and other cities adjacent rofl ark Bay were partially inundated. The rain commenced falling before midnight, but assumed almost the pro- ‘portions of @ general cloudburst be- the ¢foot tween 5 and 6 o'clock this morning. het work of Cd “ae Suis ad vel a4 an electrical con eas the precipitation of this storm at § ‘dock the officiets found that 2.8 hed ¢allen, thus breaking all rec. for the year, Bast Wind Backs Water Up. eeat-northeast wind set in last and that always means plenty high water along the Atlantic coast, and particularly in New York Bay, the there was a crash and seventy- of the street went down Into the hole” Fifteen feet below the surface were on and although Imps were manned the water gaat, ie brick sewer was led away for a surance oF piety feet. The water ‘ace being diverted In flooded the basements win The ing of the t: maine Caused the ly of water as wall an ft to. be di M Hodson and Bast rivers, Long Island | $ scontinued. In all the found and Newark Hay. The wind baling ot ‘arenes, : Decks the water up until sometimes ft/had from the pipes, and the Sustnent elips over the tops of the pliers. lack OF gan git embarrassed That la what it did to-day. Then, with | section are ‘lighted engines, In that the heavy rain, the amount of damage Loge was great. Cellars along South and/¥.:,' ‘West streets were flooded to the ground floo®, and in eome instances went above | 83 W. that. Most of the goods stored in the cellars of warehouses were ruined. ' Forty-ffth strest, vom 7! and Pade Fella on Central Tracks. feet of @ brick r feat high, ‘at ‘tne’ tear ot Buttiabl ips vag the New York entral ; rT ver Rallroad tracks, be- oo reat trex and Bitty -eev. whi acoumulated behind it” yt, | OVET Upon the track next it nd covers, the rails. several feet deep wie tet The wall ¢ bf laid on the top of Siicoted by high, whi fue 5 the acckdent, fi, officals. & gang care, who er the fall. DOCTOR ROBBED BY # i eee is aftt But ‘The Bergen up furnished room in the house at No, 37 nile father, (00 S8Y3 Employers’ Association. It le belleved ) th 4 would not let go of him wi Cant. Roo has not told half he pods oe COW Third avenue to-day, Nae omicere asked questions. After they |kmows, | that he carried an offer of compromise p nye ” Pinas was & Vise woves ee en had travelled around through the ad-| | Plane a sereriee pteset: i | tm the shape of @ proposition on the no pistol was a. tbe Fem. 6 t streets in the hope that the boy| “I'm not through,” sal . ROO-' part of the employers to recognise oar. © mae = Nesta the door waa looked on the outside, | Wenn! Ten a iiding they went | e¥, (0-day, l'm not snroUen with tut unions included in the Bullding Trades whe car tracks ta Rochester Connectiout The women roomed in the honge with | MT ie oe Angelo Constantine, | things to be explained, and if Mannino Alliance as separate unions, but to car Physiolan Duped by ber husband, Carmelo, a barber. Bhe ar] 1." 6 the boy, in One Hundred and | will not explain them, maybe his part- ignore the Alliance as a body. oe ads bons fived in New York three days ago to Righth street, to give the Jad a chance fan Bast wil sigrecei? ‘ He hasn't| May Sulit on Alliance, work shovelling sand and | tw rest. Then they interided going over | been around for three or tour days, and On this point the negotiations may district again, as the officers as/my men have been unable to find him‘ fail: The leaders of the strikers and an See Ge at his home In Borough Park. lberhed ent works have enueeaen ‘orty-sixth street boy were convinced that it | *", t Ingmen e) wy las “One thing Is certain, | f have been ai along that the Bullding Trades Al- Brooklyn, was somewhere in that vicinity that) faked by these people. 1 think before * 1 fullding pee bo; held @ captive. long, howev i will surprise them | llance should be recognised by the em- this | the boy was ; with an which will take thel*! nloyers, If they should decide to 60 Police Hard at Work. Breathe AWAY. rao and Archipolt, un-|tiue the Aight many of the unfous will £73 gz wolng south One of the two in the garb of a clergyman other represented himself to be a ness man interested in the purcha: some Litchfield County real estate. ‘The supponed clergyman gave the ime of C. Woodruff, of Ridgefield, and the clergyman changed to gévernment bonds, and showed a number of ap- Paremtly genuine government bonds of pater. Flood Heaches Car Floors. ¢ Bronx much damage waa done. Int bh which the New Haven | which Ral rad vasase from the Harlem River ppeh echery en 4 fount Vernon was filled with water] Th® Opportunity for investment to nih that in pinase Kt reseed, the tempted Dr. Hartwell and he agreed to} coaches 5 or rtalies in this fone cut, the vey, ‘ne bonds If the supposed! eleray- ‘water putting out the fires in the muters coming into the von Milford and get the money, either teota ted ta the swelter- | confid .) The lence man offered to take hi @ in his own carriage and ret: iS tia sci aus "aes es bal urna | On the way back from the bank with 000 in his pocket, the seco: In his mail Dr, oetved a letter from the two men tating him he was an TSPPERE OF SALG sergean' were wi Foor Food, with “him. th ee ” ”, é rd time of it. winnett, Walton, ut, Gerry and Bartlett streets uoning avenie were under water, hy (4 Aves, and unable hel irge into the river, to the inundation. Marcy, Tomp- venues avenue maar Tickets and Bank Book, a on ined te wi rory em, SP in the street weet Carried Away. if one hundred feet ings Nos. 19, 2, 3 the ‘entire the Mood Him, Mystified. distance of the bul Frankfort \ street, was carried away b ter, The big four-foot sewer for « Park Row, two water mais and several gas pipes smashed surface of the street dropped nt. At the pom < we cayein the rain was pouring in. lors Ba ravaree, inthe Imm ter ravages in imme. te <neighboorhood when a gang of tunely on the spot were |; horing up the al a crumbling } 4) He NEaey truck rumbled by (Bpectal to The Evening World.) RAHWAY Price, thirty-five years old, is mys- teriously disappeared from his home in Milton” & suburb of this city, He and| d purchased tcke' and were to sail to-day, hile his wife wi working in the " ., ea ma ‘and bank book in nis pockets and Mrs. Price ls to WOMAN Mystery in Harlem Killing, and Husband of Victim, Although of Crime, Is Held. A mystery that is pussiing Coroner O'Gorman and the police of the Tre- mont Btation ie the murder of Mrs. Caroline Atusso, « beautiful young Ital- fan woman, who was found dead in a 3° Alarmed woman rau out of the house intending Weatchester instead to notify relatives of Atuaso that ene feared i) harvened to the @. After the fearful fizzle of the Brook |) in gw had not panned with Beet MA to the Bronx |iyn police yesterday in arresting three ri Pokes the Peléce. th her, stopping In the Tremont Police sbeclutely innocent Italians on Us| opye y want them punished and T picion that they had harbored the stole | hope the police will get them,” he sratien a Re alts, Atuszo the room. Aj ehects were there found of ‘the revolver or the key of the man would wait until he could go to| Sie Husband Took Cash, Steamship | "s Wife. Who Was to Go with) tention While the story could not be offictally verified it was said that it came from n authoritative source, N. J. Aug. 9.-Georse| DR, BELLAMY IMPROVING. | from his pouy i Cortlandt Park on ried by Hospital to-day to be getting ¥ WORLD:_ SATURDAY SENT TO BERMUDA TO’ PERSUADE BOER PRISONERS “70 TAKE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE TO GREAT BRITAIN, BF PDELSDPG LG SEED DIGG FODHRESE 4. OF PFET 24 9H 69OG444-049 9 O4- G4 F9SOD OEE OHNE ¢ _ . —_ A> Preloriue 'U. S. ATTORNEY IS THREATENED. (Continued from First Page.) a ra , ‘kf : j . * e i eo 3 MAY END STRIKE HOTOEAD KO WEP EAR the police of the East One Hundred and Fourth street station warned Detectives Carrac and Archipoll that they w making a bad break; that there was nothing to show that this trio knew anything of the boy, and that they ought not to be dragged to Brooklyn like common felons when it was obvious that they knew ngthing of the boy, But the Brooklyn men would not be convinced, They took the weeping Italians to Brooklyn, where the in- evitable happened; the boy could not identify them and they had to be turn- ed loose, Capt, Rooney expressed great regret to-day at the arrest of the three, but sald it was one of those unfortunate things that would happen when a case required the spreading of tha police drag net. Capt. Reenes le Angry. it. Rooney to-day Is about the it police official in the city. He seve that young Manaino nas tol 4 ixteen different stories, as nearly as up to Fortleth street when Cucosza shouted that they had passed the place, and the party alighted and went back to Thirty-ninth street. There they say is the house to which Cucosga said he had taken the boy and where s number of arrests were inade. But the boy could not recognise the place. He was taken through It and then up to One Hundred and Sixth atreet, cusses Question of Fighti with Employers. ‘The queation of Aghting to a finish i with the Butlqing Tra Recognized the Station, After the boy had falled to Identity the One Hundred and Sixth street house he waa taken to the Third avenue ¢le- vated road station at One Hundred and Bixth street, where he sald he head taken a train for, hia, a 't he fully tecognined ab ithe { Mich the fat map had Gary oth wf when, te was liberated, and the thes detent ives tried to get him to retrace his steps to the Dullding where he liad beef kept. But for a bright hoy of his age he Gisplayed @ remarkable lapse of mem- ory. Fils father ‘held his hand all the taken at this meeting depends further action of the employers and unions. ters, whieh, although identified with Building Trades Alliance, was be can figure it, and that he has well coached in the art of concealing certain things, | Th If J. Mannino, the father of the boy, desert the Alliance and go to work lice mean to find it out and beni terest if there is the slightest evidence on which to hold anybody tigate, Capt. Rooney, of the Amity street nta- Bhe knocked, but received | jon, Brooklyn, holds that the elder iy Mannino is compounding a felony by at the turn of affairs the | protecting the men who stole his son, | R, Dut In the mean time Mannino protests vigorously that he gave up no money and that the return of the boy was purely voluntary on the part of those who had kept him so long. harbore ey will have the co-sparesee of Act- Captain Hull Hindred and Fo atreat station, a! it of his men, but the latter do allow another such action as t yesterday if they can help \te Before ¥ to-day careful not to Jaremapt te 2 iid It be determined to carry ruasie, i seimer the most mtial leader the ulin, nounced de? the feoring wi Tens jeations wei The "Ave unions thts : She go to the nolice station, into ed her mind and went Mannino, woen seen to-day, sald that he was so overjoyed at the return of his boy that he hadn't given much thouglit to punishing the men who took carry on the fight alone ven Sonn all the hap Ir, Nason's owner something barber and hin efforts . the was forced was found 4 boy, there is lttle of no Iikellhood of | said. ‘The police seem to think thet by re were no sien In lene arrest of thoso who allowed their |1 ought to go out aud arrest the mea 1 chink it is thelr duty. I have told them all I know.” Y.ung Mannino was at home to-day, looking as cool, and unperturted, as i nothing ever ned to though noworter asked him it hi rugs! rently the woman had lle asleep. All of Atusgo’s but no trace coald be home to be made a prison for the youngster, If the boy was kept in a room, on Bast One Hundred and Sixto street the Itallans who kept him have had plenty of warning in the arrests ot of the Bullding T jon. Mr. Daly specifies one ya that lest winter Frank Davis, a tle laying contractor, the job of Ia about 60,000 immediately Instituted ad not been seen 1 day, Late this Na and st ten days than It was yester. | feet of tle in Francesco and Clementina Bella of the. aS o: rreetecnipeh In asad started for | et poarder, Alfredo Horn, and have day He Tented’ 1, answer any more | Mi y one in. the houne were as policeman who was on Atusso ‘and informed nis wite was 4 to be astounded, He th bead peacefully aa undoubtedly taken care to effectually questions. I hope, you will all go away ‘and let_me alone, hetr tracks. eg xe b pie tor Arrests, ‘The Maoning Soni eas ithe of their 5 The B&oklyn police are being se-) Nene "Bal zntore wannino, fhe” is ont verely criticised to-day for their action | on ball for his connection with the case, erated Matt oe) couable Htatlans, {wena rine of, the gucats | The poilce aay § Joy and expos reurned. He had Hient reputations | that #alvatos he tm when he returned. He had Th: — ba that fio wok him over from Manhat- and ella and Horn are about a8 hard: tan, They have the testimony of Aa- working « pair of Ttallans as It would | loon: Keepar Mequeld on this putnt, dal. be posstbie to nd in this city, As| VMOU! oid the hoy’ father sayy soon as they were placed under arrest he doesn't doubt It In the least, —— ay Mi i ‘ de allied of his trad alles Empl The union agreement could not assoc 1 id the emplo: the General hat ‘ r. bitration Boa much as Mr. Davis was of the association Jurisdiction. Coni y was for picton. Coroner im the mystery. fan't @ vial Mr. Davis ona aap TO Ra LOW UP BUILDING.|\:" : nal a jundred and Twenty-sixth street sta- READY TO RESIGN? TO BLO ) BUILDING. \iiui foto sty hs a dng asec of Cm] Alle Pra, ad he house was y damaged, rt Hall meetin, invt.| A Hall, at No, 200 Fifth avenue, to- - PASSAIC, N. J, Avg. %—Frank) Minh ii ure fr St. dish of Grape-Nets and: Wall Street Hears Vice-President] ii cicg ine owner of the building im] "Tt was said tat business foe8 of Cos- LJ mployers:| day saw the body of an aged woman A f s Pere Marquette Is Dissatiatied, 4 Sly Diob sek ieened: tello exploded the bomb. lying on Ue pevetees in @ narrow area Twe slices of hard hich a barber # rf eee in front of the heuse. It was reported in Wall street to-day | ™ s tlon over. | ! he body and found the Ce tna "Von Present and Ganeral Maw; |4rmamile two wont 2 SS, | eOUVIGT RECTOR DEPORTED. | "tin" ike stn he thstnc™| Seman dnd wend tel 0a ieee ANd) ayer Newman Erb. of the Pere Mar-|ietter to-day signed “Black Hand Sv 1+ |chosen to take part in the conference. quette Railwa bag, stgniges ne ine et In which the writer sald th — patvornen for the, Buildin Trndes She bef e very Summers, seventy tion, it] clety,”” In wh " employe: jent o in sald, “ty ‘gue to his Giaestivfaction unless the barber were compelled C. dB. Mart Sent Baek tel pidite, of the Assoc tion, against La Tait tareity for twel That's all, and you feel with the C. H. @ D. deal vacate at once the structure would be England. whom an {injunction maint the had either fallen or ju ” r Inekcoug of the vers was ob in Brooklyn two days ago, Lawyer Frank Acer, counsel for the lavers, to aeree to ‘an adigurnment day The case Is set down on Tuer?ny. The emplove postoonement until Friday. Mr. Acer re that he Ine for one fr He refused to and the request of the emnlavers probably be carried Inte court A blown up, The letter was postmarked Passaic, but waa dated from New York. ‘The letter haw been turned over to the police, who have asked the police to amgist them in runt the author of It, The author! to have & good clew that points to the sender an a New Tork man. Mr. Hughes’ building ts at No, 98) (' m fine. Maln avenue. Early on Aug. 5 last a sent (0 the shlp Hart jynamite bomb was exploded under the | told the Immigration authorities that door leading to the barver-snop ' of | N¢ Would be Back here in the he would get his prison record Frank Costello, which i¢ on the ground oor of the building, @ three-story tene- Rev. Charlee J. Burleigh Hart, the ministerial “ticket-of-leave man,” who hus been held at ilies Island on the charge that be is Megally In the eoun- try, having served a panal sentence in Rngland and finally having come im violation of hia parolo on that wan ir. J. Russell Bellamy, the Squadron surgeon who was Injured by @ fall is running under the phys a hats wane Voy WORLD WANTS ull was not etured, trom concussion bard lund wiped out as soon as he ‘Will recover, BEL DDERGG 1-5-9924 94-904 LOEDDEDD DED DOOD DOEDEID POG ID 695-001 DEO 194 PEI H1PEEOED BY COMPHIN Building Trades Alliance Dis- to a Finish or Reconciliation Association was discussed at great length by the Butlding Trades Alliance at a meeting held at Brevoort Hall this afternoon. Upon the action William Nason, of the Rellance Labor Club, an organisation of marble cut- looked out, made an exhaustive report to the meeting of a conference he had on looking to & settlement of the current difficulties with the Bullding Trades secured the return of his boy yesterday | 9 \e ired| Monday morning pending the arrange- which the crime was (ny secretly negotiating with the kidnap- * Hag sy oe wordy rook for Che ment of a working agreement. The .|five most important untons have a hard to the fi James Daly. néxt to Phillp Wein- tha it would refuse all offers of Soonromies and ™ hae ry, they th do wisimpe' ly. Of goures they tor bs Dy a hrough whic! ner nm Ld juare @ new Hotel Brean, le layers, by virtue of an th the unton of empl for Mr, Davie white he lation. He ii to repudiate his ir Das BLACK HAND THREATENS rte a BE a in case of ‘ to-day. aK ined ented for armument not ask- inting anv. ournment WORK WONDERS, BOER PATRIOTS. RAE NE UP ; : sixteen Former Prisoners in the >| Bermudas Will Arrive Here 2| To-Morrow After Three Years’ Exile Due to Stubbornness. Famous Surgeon and Son of Former Justice of the, preme Court Collapses. i Too Arduous Duties. is ‘ : | LAST OF 84 WHO WOULD 2| NOT FORSWEAR COUNTRY > 3 i * 4 Went to Pike County, Pas Unconquered Remnant of 6,000 Months Ago to Reou Captured by British and Con- fined on Hamilton Island— Brought by Sympathizers. Dr. Witlam Rice Pryor, son of former Justice Romer A; of the Supreme Court, and most eminent surgeons of Gynecology In the Uni Mates, tay ing in Bt. Vincent's eo tee General breaking down of rate brought about by overwork - constant care of his patients, Dr. Pryor became thoroughly ” out about two months ago and Bloominggrove, Pike County, Pi recuperation. The night thag¢ came {ll he performed three with the temperature im the Sixteen Boer prisonera—the last of that vast army of 6,00 patriots who were held captives of war on Hamilton Island, in the Bermuda group, until the close of the Boer war, will arrive In New York to-morrow on the steam- ship Quebec. And they come with all the pride of & patriot who has refused to make the oath of allegiance to his oppressor and conqueror. But these sixteen are not conquered, nor wi they ever be They were captured by a superior force but only deata can conquer them, At the close of the Boer war Eng- Wand offered to send back to South Africa all of the 6,(00 prisoners in the Bermudas if they would take the oath of allegiance to King Edward VI In: the Gret few days aj bat eighty- four of the prisoners went through the formality,.of taking the oath of al- legiance, each presumably making a strong mental reservation which satie- fied hie own conscience and h he 414 not have to mention to the British officers, Won't Take Oath of Allegiance. With the eighty-four Great Britain could do nothing. They would not t the oath of allegiance. Major Pretorius, after whose father Pretoria, the cap- ital of Bouth Africa, was named, and ble beaut 1 wite, who iss social ‘lead re: to Bermuda by the miriots who Nad returned to their homes for the pur- pose of inducing the eighty-four to take the oath of allegiance and return to thelr sorrowing wiv id ers and mothers The Major and his wife were sent because of their well-known popularity lnc cccituers , and i the belief re i Induce the patriots to jut t of veh ety: four stood “ when seen regarding dition this morning at Wert Sixty-ninth street. had no hopes for his son's The wife of the dgetor is Pryor said that the only breaking down was his tention to his life work, Me formed as many as five ute day. Although he had ing or deo an Patriots Are Liberated. matter at what time in ft ney kee; e eighty-four prisoners for lite, maak it them being young. husky fello jed by thelr ‘t was decided Prison pens were ty-four walked out. came wo y ol the who the tty years, \¢ Ren oe tee money could even to land, const the ui everythii ing fined down to the bottom sixteen were left on the island who did not have a penal Bg Be tt! at anything they coul nd dening, laboring of all kinds, But Ber. muda an essentially English place, ani were In a position to , id not sympathise with the So the sixteen have been hard qe it _In Bermuda. 4 01 of Philadel! ‘ho: of each winter i Bermuda, they ‘townd @ friend. ef if not fi ago he called the ean pomseniee ©, tne Stave the were ever to wave the island be through the charity in r be at the a lotel we Then they will be the 27a of St. ‘Bensrmernonge It decided vet just what h they could out a living. But it is believ they will be sent to the colony Boers in Me government there a trac ene ir ‘ugees are it is believed the six- the last orisoners of the Boer war, will desire to @o there, L. SHRED WOMAN MET DAT BY FALL Thought to Have Lost Her Bal- ance While Closing Fourth: Strength and Story Window of Fifth Avenue ? Residence to Shut Out Rain. Care Try it a bit, say for there's a gain in cost as Ar- Patrolman Farley, of the East One window on the fourth Hour. Furley calied an ambulance Hariem that death had been al- Mvast instantaneous Mr. Hall, ls @ real estate dealer Mra. Summers had shown sign: increasing age during the last few aad he had taken her to the ntry with his family for several iw ] She ee or sight and ap- | peared to be in the best of soi | A window In front on the fourth foo: Health Is worth every was found open. a? Mr. Healt said he | lelleved she hai joe it to fort and this way is easy. keep out the rain and had lost her bal- ‘and fallen out. He said she had ” | no reaso> to commit suicide, “There's a reason.’ Same for lunch. te: ‘Then have a good meat and ble dinner. 4 Such meals will put one body and brain. TRY IT tile ta- ta wit