| Show RAI RAINS S DESCENDED S f A AND O fL FLOODS CAME CAMf Yesterdays Downpour Was tas in the Nature of a Cloudburst and Did Much Damage Danl WAS GOOD FOR DROPS CROPS HOWEVER Deluge J Hooded Flooded B and Havoc Generally l Cars Cirs Affected There Thero Wits was lIa something of n a rainstorm yesterday and before It 1 was wag over con can biD damage hall hail been done Tho downpour beuan 4 und and by h tJ ii 1 his t mottling ug ft 5 of ot o f un nil Inch I of ot rain hall had fallen IllIcIt thoroughly tho the The Tue first precipitation along tho the north foothIlls WaS In III tIle the nu IU ture hIre of ot n it cloudburst for tor shortly tile the water Caine rushing down dOln tho tue streets In iii miniature lure Tills made of South Temple n a chain of ot small lakes and south of ot there First und altO Second South Hauth but especially South Houth street were wele ere doodad Tho Aim water ater I raino down through Kugle Eagle lute lIuto In ill II u and nut all nil over ovet South HOllih sheet con coti down domI State Street The inter Inel sections of ot Second South and Second and altO Third Lant I streets were trans transformed formed Into lagoons anti and eventually much damage wits done dumie there thoro FLOODED Contractor 1 P J Is raisIng time tho Second South t Krado Hlad Sec Second s c ond 1111 Third East Kast his ills precautions possible trouble train from water tater ap nil appear pear to have boon been against such Much n a down pout as ns af lie afternoon ri The Impromptu I pt U dam ni on the tho soUth side sub of oC the tho roadway nave gave out and lot let a Hood of at over oer tIle the adja adjacent adjacent cent proportion ProPerties TIle The basement of ot tho the Floral company was speedily with wih tour four feet teet of oC dirty water r which the thu tires lre and amid damn dam damaged aged the apparatus over oer 50 woith worth The Tue green Breen were Iro only olly saved trum froni serIous damage by h tho thin ac activity at of ot Air Mr M r Huddart In iii building dykes d to turn the flood HP lie II has hUl registered a 1 large and healthy vow DIV of at the city for Cor raising tIle the grade crude or ot tile the street and auth the tho contractor for tOI not nol taking tom fot of ut property of oC abutters Site Tho ho basement of ot Airs Greens Circuits rest resi residence dence cast enst Second South Hauth was its 01 cd ed with wih live ItO feet tet of at water and the time premises j of at J 1 V Ivele were also alan Hooded flooded Tho Tue grounds of ot the Ke lie Ie organized church wore were covered with wih water anti and mud lud und and property generally along tho tile south side of oC the tho street wan damaged greatly to tho the wrath of ot tho thin owners thereof The Tho recent city cUy en engineer Alneer came In hi for tor u II good share of ot emphatic criticism and alid Incidentally the thu contractor The rho tire ro department was called upon early earl In the tho evening by h thin the of ot streets for tor relief and time tho Hooded basements WON pumped out Gm F FOR l On CAIti CAH Tho rho street t car cr service got Into troll Iron bio Ide bright und naIl early especially tho the South First and Ind Third street strool lines hues Tile The he rising nJ of oC the water from from time tho bench covered the Ohio rails rais with wih gravel graveland and debris so BO that thia cars were easily el I I de ile detailed i tailed mailed h ho tho used 1811 every precaution and amid the lied Hell OI was lna kept on the tho Jump Four Third street cars and two South Temple street cars clra were hunched nt at the 12 Ii street Junction with ono one OlO South Temple Templo car cor partly dumped Into 1101 the tho mud A A derailed at nt D U First street treet car cor wan Wil aa street blocking wen weil est bound travel t ov for room Bomo tIme despite tho the frantic efforts of the tho car men len to got get the tile car IlIr back on oil 01 the tho track A big Third ThIril street car plunged Into the tho mud near K street enforcing an abandonment of at tim tha track truck for tor the Iho time Ann And on omi other lines cars curs were In more lucre lore or less anti and It 1 was Ivas ni almost Impossible to liep switches free from Crom mud and gravel The carmen did ld the best hest under the Iho stances and an as n a n general thing thine took tim tho situation good The Tho bench streets of ot tho the city were ere flat Bad Badly nolo flatly ly Iy washed stashed |
