Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-14 | Page 5 | Jacksonville Flooded; Regular Cloudburst

JACKSOITVTLLE FLOODED; i REGULAR CLOUDBURST. I JACKSONVILLE, Fla., May 14. The rain assumed proportions of a cloudburst cloud-burst yesterday and when the citizens prepared to leave for their places of business many of them found their homes completely surrounded by water. wa-ter. Many .were driven from their residences res-idences and forced to go to upper stories sto-ries by the water. One square mile of the town was under un-der water, . Fully half a mile' of Bay street, the principal thoroughfare ot the city, was under water, and much damage dam-age was done to stocks of goods. The water was two feet deep in the waiting-room of the union station and every ev-ery railroad track entering the town was under water. The railroads suffered losses probably amounting to 3100,000. Many bridges in the country were washed away. The total loss will probably not be less than : 1400,000. j