FROM TODAY'S PRINT EDITIONS
Eighty-eight years ago this evening it began raining in Baltimore. Twelve hours later, 5.18 inches had fallen, erasing the two-foot shortage left at Loch Raven Reservoir by a late summer drought. But an overflowing Jones Falls flooded the Folly Theater cellar, soaking performers’ trunks, The Sun reported. Sewers backed up into basements. Rain gushed through a hole in the roof at Hecht Bros. store on So. Broadway. And a cave-in on E. Biddle flooded a cellar filled with broom straw.
The overnight rain set a 12-hour record for the city. The midnight-to-midnight total of 4.38 inches for Oct. 10 remains a record for the date, and for any date in October.
(SUN PHOTO: by Chris Detrick, Jones Falls flood, July 2004.)