Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-03-11

agej, and he vas obliged TO leav
in hurry by waing ont; damsge I,
building and furniture, $500.
Mr.. keaTn, damage $50.
Mrs. Fording, damage t25.
Nick Sshlabaeh get his family out. BE-
vas obliged to leave everything; damas'
$3.50. The building vas damaged to tn
sxesst sf $50. Six fest Of ice and Sidewalk
Is piled up at the front door.
John 0alvan's brick building vas dan
agsd to the extent Of 45o. He lsss svsry
thing. all being broken Or washed away.
The houses on Front s,rss. from Iowa 4
Rsck Island street are crowded with iss,
the sidewalk tipped up, and pssssct jssu
Of ics Oils the street. raising the Sidewalk
eight or ten feet.
y. II. Kirkpatrick. damage to farniture
$50.
a. Tappaa. damage 70 farniture. $50.
Jas. Curry, things oil more or less dam
aged. tl5.
FLAT IRON GQuAhs
Is PERI ct wreck, houses and ice appearing
in confused mass. The buildings are
ssta' lee; in fact, they were not worth
anything beiore-and much les now.
Capt. Dernody expects to sell ice enough
% PAL for his loss-thinks he shall like
'cs essinsss-has good stock in trade.
The losses to the poor families occupy
Ing the building Is sewers. md deserves The
attention Of the charitable. They were
suddenly turned into The strssts asd lose
everything. barely escaping with their lives.
Their losses in the aggregate amount to
several Asndred dollars. The cellar efths
Gasvorks Vas flooded and wsrk stcpVed
Tor few hours.
Lindsay 4 Phelps lumber yard il COM
pieteiy denoralizsd sd-mixsd snd 10 oonfus-
ion.
The new Touring mill Was drowned out
cod work sropped. 10
PLANNING MILL.
bernafds new plsiaing mill 10 badly
broken, : huge cake Of ice thirty feet
square and two feet thick Was jammsd
through the engine house and took out the
walls on tive sides, cords Of ice are piled
up, damaging the property The -extsnt Of
$500. the boiler Was damaged and smoke
stack entirely destroyed, The wooden
bailding broken in, and other things mixed
up.
thrsshing machine works wsfe dslugsd
soos two or three feet oil through Ne man
ufsctery, engine roeos, and oct buildings
sitting the unfinished maehinss, timber.
and traps floating about in perfect confus-
ion. The machinery, tools. and machines
were more or less damaged. Mr.. Davis
fixss the damage It about 45o0-and says
hs don't want any more Of the same sort
for that sum-f he can help it. He will
have the establishment cleaned, and in Or
oVs e8esu tV-uVAIoWs
The triangular common just west Of the
bridge is filled with ice to an average depth
Of ten fest-in good condition and ready
for market. The residence Of D. H. Hart
well, near by, came very near being over
whemed-,hat Is 10 sag within about six
inches. Mr. H.. who hes charge Of the lots,
is now prepared to supply the market q
reduced rates.
snstsissd most serious damage, which Is
will take the labor OF months and many
thousssds of dollars to repair. All day
lsng yesterday immense fields Of lee Game
down against il With almost
force Before dark several Of
the piers and one Of the abstmeats we're
most seriously threatened, and the family
the house on the draw pier had
sought safety elsewhere. In the evening
the Ice cakes came down With still greater
force, threatening to sweep everything BE-
fore it. The collision was Tremendous
striking the second pier from the Iowa side,
With sufficient power to move that huge
mass Of solid masonry about twelve to ar
teen feet down stream, cracking and crumb-
ling it severely. The noise Of the eoncus-
sion was heard al over town; the super
structure was forced from its bed and shov-
Cd about six feet on that pie1-slightly tip
ping down stream, and drawing the bot
ton chords so as to disconneet the track q
tbs vest and Of tho draw. Ths innense
timbsss, 50 powerfully vrosohAE together.
cracked and groapsd sndsr ths fearful pres
sure and snapped like threads. O, che
first pier, from the Iowa side, the bridge il
moved abost ten fest-ovsstssging the
masonry about four feet-the right hand
uide, a yen 70 east, bslsg abeut two
fess lower than the other. Il ~
nsmentarily expected 10 fall when Til
lsarfal collision took placs-Asd nov sssms
10 mech out or srd6fto hseEls TO main.
luip il sottezthg position. The Not sids
lbstansst 10 sopsshat 6&6 1skss
Issetksr Il u a. ugly aAiir.s 0plnisns dif-
fsr y to the time required to repair the
damage some claiming thst il esn b
done ia six weeks and Others that il win
Iaks thsss y fous nsnthA The daatgs 10
probably not less than ffiy Or sixty thou.
Dand dollars. sSAsfsEfss
Y week vii eoonsscs upss u q suss,
81 ~ hsps that the repairs VIII - soly
temporary, and that ~ sasegiss ef the
..ssnpssy ~in b speedily dhseesd % ~.
ing ths govsraosnt II sesseisg ~ new
lrsdes y b. bstlt : fsv hun1ssa rods ~
khsr down stream. t4l
A 8Aer DAvunPon3
va nors fortuaate, IT, rise IN ~ wissf
not do;sg any very serious dsmsee other
than that done to the brewery. The ies
piles On the taek we're somewhat incrtsssd.
The basement Of Ehisl1s' lfnb end dvsll-
ine wsss Hoodsd seoswhat soddsnly, but
II loss viii b tfining. ~ neaWjsk's MI