Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1865-07-01

Duluoue and vicinity was vis1eed ~
.v,r, storm Of wind and rain ON the night
- fuee,ey, -. The Times Of Thprday
thu n{rrd SHINE q the p~siculf q
damage do1>: ~
The rain'l Ell furiGusly, and in vast guam
titiesr In tAlf an hour fo6as wOfe ruenAng
down every street leading from the BUNS
s.wers were overlooked aud streets were
rivers.
In several localities cellars were flooded
~ ~. dcnth of from two to five feet. On
Fifteenth street, from Main 70 White SITS,
~ damage is very extensive. The street
!. gr,l;rd and torn ~ if dozen plows had
zone through its surface in every direction
IL the corner Of Main and 18th streets the
water stood at the depth of five feet in the
gardens at daylight.
At the corner of Iowa and 18th streets is
a row Of eight tencments, all occupied,
called Jones block. The basement Of each
tenement was used as kitchen and store
room. Into every one Of these cellar apart
ments the floods poured until five feet Of
water was in each, and all the furniture in
them was afoat. Several of the families
had their 1ouf and other provisions des-
troyed. The damage to the building and
household articles In this row will amount
to at least 81 600 At the corners of the
streets here. the gutter, pavements and
crosswalks were torn up and carried away
At the other end of the city, at the gas
| works and vicinity, there was also runous
flood work The waters flowed down the
Dodge street sewers from the hills on
either side, in such quantities that the cul-
vert at the gas works was not large enough
for their passage Then there was back
water, and at half-past three o'clock there
was four feet Of water in the works. In
the rctort room there was steam cxplo-
sion, caused by the water rushing around
"bcnchcs over the fires, which were at a
white heat. Steam generated in great
quantities, and the front covering of the
"benches," heavy brick wall, was blown
out One retort was cracked, and the fire
place doors were blown away from their
fastenings, and broken. The purifying
room was also flooded, and the apparatus
damaged not little In another room
forty dollars worth Of lime was destroyed
Across the street is the Office Of the com
Iany, which was also flooded, but no dam
age of any amount resulted just back oi
the Office is shanty in which an Irish
family lived Their rude home was flood
ell, the floor torn up and two children came
near being drowned. The family waded
through water five feet deep to IA place oi
safety. The damage to the gas works
amounts to at least 800.
THE DUBUQUE Il SIOUX CITY RAILROAD
has been greatly damaged. The streams
which it crosses have been swollen i'm
mcnscly. As far west as Dycrsvillc the
road is all right. But here Conductor
Kcllog's train for the west halted ycstcr-
day. The bridge cmhankmcnts on each
side Of Buffalo creek had weakened so that
it was considered unsafe to cross with the
train The four culvcrts between Earlville
and Delaware Center are all destroyed
Where one of them was, seventy feet of the
embankmcnt has been swept away.
West of Manchester the telegraph wires
are down, and as Conductor Cawley's train
from the west had not arrived there, there
is no telling what has happened to the road
and the country beyond that poit At Man
chester the Maquoketa is roaring torrent
which is up even with the track and road
way ofthe railroad and county bridges II
was feared yesterday that they would b,
swept away, and last evenings storm Ina.
not lcssencd the fears.
The storm extended at least hundred
miles north, for the steamer War Eagle en-
countcred it at nearly that distance, and
was Obliged to lay up for hours-as faI
west rs New Hartford 112 miles, probably
and east and south ever so far. Every
creek in this section is rushing river
Many bridges have doubtless been swept