The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-02-05
THE DELUGE OF WATERS
Which Threatened This City and Sur
rounding Country Saturday Night
Overflow of POgue's Run and Fall Creek
The Danger Averted by the Cold Wave

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The Danger Averted by the Cold Wave
| The continued rains OF Friday and Saturday
| resulted in flood of about great magnitude
! as that which swept over the city along the
course OF Pogue's run last June, when ten lives
were lost and property damaged to the extent
of many thousand dollars. The rainfall began
Friday afternoon and continued, with only few
short intermssions, until early Sunday morning,
resulting in fall of sleet, which was followed
| by lower temperature and freezing. The
flow of water in Pogue's began
swelling gradually up to Saturday morn
ing about 10 O'Clock, when its proportions be-
came somewhat alarming, The heavy fall of
rain throughout Saturday afternoon and up to
midnight too much for it, and the water
| went over the banks. By o'clock In the after
noon, FOR considerable distance the ground
was covered with water on either side of the
! current Of the stream. 1t continued to rise and
spread up to l o'clock Sunday morning, when
! the water reached it's greatest height. In the
eastern part of the city, from Washington
| street up to Archer street, the water was
over the banks of Pogue's run, and
| was several inches in depth. Along
Pine street the rirst floors Of some of the houses
! were covered, and the people living in that re-
|
from the June overflow.
THE THREATENED INUNDATIoN.
The greatest losses from damage to build
ings and to furniture where the water entered
the houses. Apprehending danger however,
many took the precaution to move furniture to
the upper floors, and the damage was largely
limited to the injury to buildings by being
pretty thoroughly soaked with water About
midnight the fresheJ became very alarming, and
| 1t seemed that the whole eastern part of
! the city was in imminent danger of an inunda-
| ton. The patrol wagon was called into use
and two families were taken from houses on
East Michigan street, where the water was from
two to three feet deep in places. On North
Noble street, just above Market. German
| family of eight persons, named Bonzheim, and
the family of Patrick Kinney, six in number,
were taken out CT their flooded quarters and
| given shelter at the station-house. The outlets
| were nearly all gorged with ice, and the water
| ran off slowly until number of men began work
removing the Instructions, which was kept uD
until after the rainfall ceased. Nearly
street down to the railroad tracks
| were flooded on the first floors and the families
| were forced to remove to the upper floors. The
accounts Of damages to property, however, have
| been greatly exaggerated. Probably the greatest
loss from the effects of the overflow falls upon
W. b. Dickson IL Co., whose lumberyards along
the Bee Line tracks were flooded to the depth
| of from to three feet, and walnut lumber
| was damaged by the sand settling upon it to the
| extent of about $4,000. They have suit
pending against the city for $4,000 damages
| resulting from the June freshet, and another
covering losses sustained by the last overflow
| will be filed this week,
WHERE THE DAMAGE WAS DONE
The rOund-house OF the Wabash company was
flooded and was rendered useless for time. The
locomotives inside could not get out, and those
outside could not get in There vii! be some
damage to the machinery here, and IN all the
railroad yards along the course of the run. The
bridges and trestles along the stream were in
great danger of being washed out by the swift
current, and itwas necessary to keep loaded ears
| on them until the water subsidized. Charles
Spang, on East Washington street, had 500 bush
els OF potatoes badly Gamaeed by water coming
| asrucK OF wines and liquors badly damaged, and
they threaten to bring suit against the city.
| Helms " Harley will sustain some damage to
| machinery, and the cellar of the Cabinet Makers
| Union, filed with furniture, was flooded. Spie-
gel d Ihoms will also suffer considerable loss
from damaged veneering, and the hardware
ingtOn street. lose about $3.50 in value. The
new BrOOkside-avenue bridge was washed
i Eus % anG nearly all From the aSa
to Pennsylvania streets along the run there was
an overflow two squares in width, but no great
| amount of damage done The Eagle Ma
| chine Works and Cobb & Branhams coal yard
were flooded for over twelve hours. The
chinery and property of George W. SPOTS wheat
warehouse on South Alabama street was dam
| aged about $500 The cellar of John A. Lyons,
Nos. sc and So South Delaware street, was filled
| with water and damaged some. The merchants
| on South Pennsylvania and South
MERRIAM streets, apprehendiDg trouble
from continued rainfall, had embank-
| menus thrown up around their
cellar openings Saturday afternoon, and the
| water was kept out The precautions sufi-
Gent TO protect them from damage. Hiboen,
Pattison & Co, and Byram, Cornelius & Co.,
| each threw up an embankment half q square
long on Georgia street TO protect their cellars
Iron a rsr " hp xp1 n inf fha
and prevented a repetition of the experience of
last summer. Fire engines were employed all
day Yesterday pumping water ont of flooded eel
lars on South Pennsylvania and South Delaware
streets, and will resume work on the East side
THIS thu; morning Forming ,.; After ! o'clock the
terday afternoon the stream In POgue's run
was down to something like its natural proper
tions. A crust of ice extended over the flooded
districts and the ground was frozen dry. The
loss from damages TO buildings falls far short of
what was at first expected. Although it cannot
be approximately estimated, it will probably
aggregate several thousand dollars.
OTHER ovERFLows.
Pleasant Run and the smaller streams were
about equal to the emergency. Pleasant Run
OVERLOOKED in places, but the water did not reach
| height to do any material damage
further than filling the cellars and
cisterns of people living along its course
The State ditch was out of its banks during Sat
urday night up to O'Clock Sunday morning
III tne vicinity OF Ruckle street, nut IL went
down quite as rapidly as it rose, and had a very
modest, harmless appearance yesterday. Eagle
| creek was too small to accommodate the freshet,
and the water ran over the National road, but
the water began falling yesterday and by after
noon the stream was again within banks. White
| river has suddenly become very pretentous
stream and is spreading itself in very alarm
ing manner. Last night at O'Clock it was six
| teen feet high and still rising. The
floor of the south half of the wafer
| works was covered with three inches of water
and the low lands along the west bank and south
| of the city were completely inundated. Skiffs
| and canoes were called into for travelling
| over the flooded regions, and the people living
the low banks Of the river south OF the city be-