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largest structures to be swept away. J
The Jarecki and Lot ell wood workingJ
plants, two of the largest manufacto- .1
ties in the city were covered with 183
feet of water. Early this morning gasJ
mains all oven the city were cut of! and‘
street car and electric lighting seruce‘
was paralyzed1
Danger from falling high tensiou‘J
electric wires became apparent, until
the authorities threw a heavy guard‘
‘Jof polite and Voluutceis alouud tilt
flooded section. Many poles, weighted
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» 1.1 The “9135 Club of St. l’auls Parish, VVith wires and undermined by 1...:
’plsu an outing and shore dinne1 at
Roton Point park tomorroweV1e1J1i11g.
011 Friday evening of this w,eek at
”i p'clock,\l1iss Martha Gray, daughter
‘ of Mr. and Mrs. (harles ii Gray V\1ll
bride’s home on Elizabeth strett i‘on-
gratulations are being exttnded the
popular young (ouple
Members at the Equal Sumner
League, in Fairlield county have b1 e11
notified of a meeting and lllli‘ neon on
which tomor'row VVill bt held at (‘-o1n
110 Beach \\ estport. The luncheon
Jwill be at i o clbck, the meeting to l‘-ol
JJlow.
The Hill lionoVan case will reopen
tomorrow morning at 11 o ”clock in the
law office of Attorney Homers t.‘um
J mings, in Stamford Mr. Hill 5 coun-
’ Bel. Attorney Milton Fessenden, JoI
Stamford. and Judge William Heuuey,
of Hartford will prese their side of
the interesting case.
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meet at the State Agricultural Coilege
at Storrs next Tuesday to appoint del~
agate; J attend various fairs in the
state an observe the methods of their
management, accmding to the require:
ments of the statute enacted by the
last General Assembly.
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I “ .de house furnishings of the A. J. Cola
“as Company, opened with a rush
Saturday and continues. Their im-
_ intense stock doveriug four entire
9-" “floors offer you particular attractive
bargains for brightening up the house
or, furnishing the new home, See adv,
SALOON KEEPER SANDBAGGED.’
NEW HAVEN Aug. 4.-~The police
were infurmed today by Edward Visel,
J ,a sa10011-kgeper. that. lie was sand
' “:bagged and robbed late last night as
he was passing throushta suburban
11171121 which is just over the Hamden
The hlghwaymen got some
u‘ti‘
town line
lodged with the police fJbi a considers
1: period. '
Miss Mary Lincoln also reported to-
' day that she was held up in the Whit
nsy avenue section and robbed of $15
and her gold watch and chain. T
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The annual August sale of furnitureJ
‘fo Visel‘s money and his watch, but:
Jmissed $200 which he carried. Acom- J
Jplaint of sandbagging has not been.
flood, dropped into the streets.
J The charitable societies, the armorv,
hotels and hastily orgauJJzed shelter;
clubs gaVe refuge to hundreds VNJJho
saVed but their own lives and a it VV
meagle belongings. 111 [hr night dan '
be matried to “alter lioman, at he gtr of broken eieetlit VV ms and the _:;~___~m
tweuty- iiVe mile current of the flood
'mndt work of rescue extremely peril
Jous, and details of the, drowning of 11
jquarter of a hundred. thought lost 111,
the flood were meagre. The body of
.lohn Higgins washed up at Sixth and
J'Geiman streets was the only one re
('01 ered at daV'ilght. The life saVing
crews from the Lake Erie shore trout
and lllt numbers of the naval militia
have already started the scotch for
others known to have been swept
away,
'i he narioVV escape of l‘lre L‘hlet?
McMahon, with four firemen, in a sac
cesstul attempt to rescue three women,
led to the teport of their death, but'
they jumped to safety from second
story windows as the house was
washed away from under them . J;
Only three serious accidents had1 me loss of culvmts a
nd part of one lork has bee
The ate board of a 1icultu1'e will it n to‘ a water soaked When the
It g been reported at the heap 1118 p bridge tlnough which a freight train heavy 1am began
an early hour this morning two
would be rescuers were attack by ll-oat
Jing debris and their. legs were broken.
iwhile a third was nearly drowned
when the Fourteenth street bridge was
sw ept away,
J The Washing out of the main line 01‘
ithe New York Central and Pennsylva-
nia railroads stalled a dozen or more
passenger trains here, with no pros
Jpect of their departure for a couple of
. 1
l The rush of water down State street
flooded nearly every store on the thor-
oughfare and floating Wreckage added1
to the damage by smashing hundreds,
t
of display windows. l
rain continued Only the wide mouth
of the creek at the lukerhore prevent-
ed a much more serious devastation.
Piles of debris on the streets intersect
fng the path of the flood were heaped
up fifteen feet high in some cases and
Edith washed into homes along the
course of the stream caused perhaps
the greatest damage
'A. dozen of the largest 9181115 1“ the
city will be closed down for ten days
or two weeks until the machinery in
the first floors can be cleared away.
The story of Fireman .Sherry and
‘Bates stood Jout among the scores of
heroic acts. Taking a girl from her
home on the creek bank, they started
. down the telephone pole which had en ‘
abled them to reach her, when the
:‘house fell against the pale and allJT'
three were swept into the swift cur-
rent. A bloclt farther down, the trio}.
were pulled from ”‘9 stream by ”‘9 a" sought by coast guards, who rescued; trict.
Jthe other four members of the crew rection of Mayor W J. Stern. and the
,‘Along the northern coast of New Jer-‘ Jfour members of the City Council.
forts of other firemen.
Ali Traffic Interrupted.
Bl l‘lV‘.1,\.LO N Y., Aug. 4.-'l‘rafllc be-‘
time the cloudburst let go over Erie
porary single tracks.
‘Washouts, nn-J
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‘of the gale. a small schooner ,the‘M. V.
last night until 8 oclock this warm town to the tutthest spot of the Jersey
Brooklyn 'the streets lay under water!
from two to three feet deep.
Javenue, Brooklyn, was impassible for
itwo and one half miles. The thOrough l
J'fareJJiad been torn up for sewers and
fthe storm caught it at the worst'stage.
The excavation was filled by the flood,
in- some places sifooefideep. '
where there is a large tent colony,
there came reports of wholesale level-
ing of tents and a general tie-up in
“transit faculties.
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pretedented in depth and extent and
crashed it was said, were the worst
features of the problem facing ‘the
operating officials. All four tracks of
the Lake Shore and those of the Nick.
91 Plate had been swept away be.
tween Erie and Mooreheads, the first.
stationeast. The washout on ‘the
Lake Shore‘cdvered about six miles ofl‘
trackage. ‘ §J
Trains that had passed through Buf
falo wastvbound Were recalled early to-
.1111 and sent over the Micht an CenoJ
trai Railroad's Canadian line to De-i
trait
New York Flooded.
NEW YORK, Aug. 4.-JStreets iJnJ
Throughout the night the torrent othJew Ymk city and its suburbs were turned id the task of recovering the.
turned into yellow rivers, surface and
eleVated tramc was badly crippled.l
wires were blown into a tangled net-
work .trees uprooted and hundreds of
cellars "flooded in a torrential down-
pour that broke over the metropolitan!
aeolian this morning to the accompani-J
ment of a sixty-mile gale.
Nearly three inches of rain fell in
four hours atgsandy Hook, where a
southeaster‘ lashed the ocean into
fury. Vessels Vilere held up at the
harbor entrance, and during the height
artfhaae. from Cherverie, N. S., to
Norfolk, with plaster, surrendered to
the elements off Scotland Lightship,
and found the bottom. Her captain
Tattle, and E. Martin, a Swe-‘
PotatOe‘s 15
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was 2.72 inches. Shortly after nine a.
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but more than thirty hours New
about u a at. today
“ithin four hours thereafter the rain-
fall totalled one and one half inches
in the city. At Sandy Hook. the total
111., the. storm tapered off, the heavy
rainfall ceased and it: its stead there
came ’a steady d‘tfizl‘e.
Coroner I). S. m'iiléy'sliorlly"belore
noon today estimated that fifty per
sons perished in last night's flood.
Mayor Stern at ‘10 o'clock said the
number pi‘Jbbnbly vmuld not exceel 25.
but after a bumy’of the debris 11111
«seeming over afibsfl‘bf missing, Boro-
Iner Hahlay ra’fsed'the‘ estimate to fifty.
Wth the" coming of daybreak. Eris
bodies of Victims 'of last night's cloud-
burst and flood, and (ourteen had been
placed in the temporary morgue. Th‘b
flood caused by the overflow of Mill
Creek, following the bursting of the
Glenwood dam swept through a sec-
tion of the city a block in. width and
a mile innit, ktiif'g at least twenty-
ilve persons and using property loss
of $3,000,001). .T .identlfled dead are:
Emma 'Osllorne 44.
John Donovan. city fireman.
Sweeney Anderson, 60.
John Higgins. 40 a printer.
James Higgins. Jr., 17.
Mrs. Johnfliggins and infant.
Mrs. Cora Anderson Main. 28.
The entire police and fire forces of
the city-1 worked throughout. the night
dish sailor, were drowned Captain
Tuttle‘s body, lashed to the boat.
adrift somewhere off the coast, wasJ
Jsey. the gale did damage dlmcuit to
tween téh east and west over both the estimate.’ Seabrlgfit swept by the tends :from Twenty- sixth street and
Lake Slime and the Nickel Plate rail-i ocean three times within Eighteen French street. in the uptown business
roads was completely tied up from the months, was battered again. Alonglhe section, to Tenth and State streets,a
line of railroad, which runs from the
ing when officials of both roads report- [shore at SandV- Book, the rollers leap-Jr, company of the Pennsylvania Na-
ed that communication had been re~ted the bulkhead and flooded
. established with the west over lem'ltracks, effectually tying up traffic
the'
In a dozen parts of New York and
Jamaica
.~ From Coney Island and Sea Gate
No fatalities were
Jon the ruins, recovering fourteen bod-
1’193 from an area that included approx-
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August 1st.
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Open Monday evenings from 6 to 8
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J«reported from any section of theme-
‘tropolitan district, with the excéption
of the sinking of the‘M. v. 3. Chase.
‘" Fifteen trolley lines in Brooklyn and”
as many more in Manhattan, it was
estimated were stalled by the flood. In
Newark, N. J., a street caved in above
aJ broken sewer.
J Two hundred yachts. or thereabouts,
which started yesterday in the New
York Yaéht club‘s cruise from New
London, Conn" tugged .at their anchors
in heavy, tumbling seats at Newport, R.
1., today fearful to co‘litlnue the cruise
A forty-mile J‘ngle‘ was sweeping the
water front there, 1311111 it looked as if
imately one-half of the devastated dis-
The men w‘orlted under the di-
The district swept by the flood ex-
distance ofJabout a mile.
Mayor Stern has made a request for
tlonal Guard to patrol the ruined sec-
tion of the City.
Damage in Connecticut. J_
NEW. HAVEN, Aug.4 .-—The present»
rainstorm, which is sweeping Connecti-
cut bids fair to make for a deficiency
of moisture in this seetion’tluring“ July,
as shown by local weather bureau re-
ports for the month. ElseWhere in
New England there was plenty of rain
in July, but New Haven” had only. 3.90
inches, Which fell on fourteen days in
all. The present stormprobabllell
yield as much precipitation for-11 the
weather bureau records as the month
pf July corded. The downpour this
morning was heavy, in'many places
'my acquaintances have tried it.
J til the massed battalions of wot-1y are‘
" ‘l’iow do you know? I’ve never, seen
1 was said that soms‘damage had beent
done to her cargo. caused by the heavy‘
rolling of' the steamer, but. officials of
the has denied this. ' ‘
Three ocean-going tags with Laws
and two large sailing vesels were jnasal,
storm bound in the harbor here.
LAUGHTER A GOOD 1'0le
I lane a grand reniIdy which lwish
to recommend to all suffering human:
it-y.
I have tried it myself. A number (I
All;
speak highly of the benefits 1eceived.l
indies helped others, why not you? I
It; is——JLaughtei.
Not smiling, not mere good liunitn',JP
but laughter, the kind that. explodes,
shakes you, and goes an exploding
and shaking like a void fire gun, tin-J
shot to pieces. 1 r
' To laugh is probably the best medi-
cine ever discovered. 0.119. hearty.
laugh is bettei than a wagon load of:
roots and herbs better than seveni
druv stores full of dope.
“There is 1101,” ms the “London
:Health.’J’ “the remotest ('01'1'1e1 or lit~
Ills inlet of the minute blood Vessels
of the body that does not feel some
anelet from the great couVulsionJ
produced by the hearty shaking of’
the central man. The blood moves:
rapidly. and probably its chemical.i
else-,trical or vital condition, is dis-I
tinctlv modified" J
in other words, one good laugh is‘
equal to a dose of salts, two cocktails,
,a bro omo- seltzer, and a spoonful of;
quinine. E
if you have got into such .1 condi l
tion that nothing can make you haVe
a fit of mirtha regular whoopeefl
more’s the pity.
This is rather an oppressive world;l
there are so many burdens and per ‘
piexities that any one is liable to be
t‘rushed. Laughter is natures defence
against the world burden. By laugh-
ter a man shakes off his pack, for a
few minutes at least, and capers like
a louse colt in the pasture. When he
returns and is saddled again he. is re-
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7 it doesn't make much difference
what you laugh in. Children] lhu'gh
at nothing at all. and are happier
than we. I J
Goldsmith; says of a nanny kroup
God of tllé abesu 11inch makers
the good story; not the pleasant little
quip, but the “regular scream." the
kind that makes you hold your sides,
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rock to and fro, and yell. .
Pass it along. Save up two or
three. and when you meet a friend.
hand them to 111111. Who can tell how
much health and sanity are created by
the good stories that are continually
going the rounds
Don‘t be afraid to laugh: Don't get
out of practice. Laugh. and be hu-
man.
sling, or set out to be a professional
humorist. but rather that you should
and being able to tell a "good 0110'
upon occasion.
God bless the. laughersh Their roar
goes up from all the earth. the brave
protest of the life force within us
against the gloom and scarecrow of
this fearsome world.«-Dr.
.Not that you should be ever glg-
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_ sPOOR MEMORY, mossD.
-Mayor Mitchel of New York—de-
spite his activllies~hnds time to‘
dash off an occasional anecdote, ac-
cording to Lippincott's.
He was apologizing to an acquaint-
ance the other day for his lapses of
memory in the face of all manner of
to his recollection. ,
1
Honor, "I believe the majority of
them know me about as well as a col-
ored girl‘ I've heard of knew a friend
callers that try to bring themselvesJJ g ‘ 7
”Though truth to tell " went on hisJ
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of Mrs Mitchel‘s.
“The friend had visited her Souths
ern home, Which she had left as a
bride nine years before, and fancy her
astonishment when. the new black
laundress came to get her linen, ‘to
see thé‘vmman shake her head sadly,
then say: ‘Oh, how you is broke. Yo'
sh‘ii' has lost dat girl look, ma 'Jam
””Why,’ said my JJnetJtled friend,
you before that I can remember.’
f'.“Wot don't yo' ’member me,
being driven in sheets by a stiff north-
. east gale Except to growing crops thaJ
material damage does not appear to be
breat.
Along the 'Sound coast there are no
reports of distress, shipping having
been kept in harbors for seVepal days
previously by the'hJeayy fogs.
Steamer Naufiituok Put Back. ‘
anonronntam swans: leav~
lug her piers on fuchédnle time at a
dot ck this mornJlnB. on her outward
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