Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-07-15
A DRENCHING DOWN POUR.
Saturday Nights Heavy Rain
Storm.
The MIC 1t severe and Destructive OF
and In the country.

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very similar to cloud burst Saturday
night. The first down pour occurred at
$50 p. M, and from that time until
A a. IN. heavy rainfalls succeeded
each other at short intervals. 1t
is pro bable that no such heavy
rain has visited Rock Island In
years before Certainly more water fell
than has been released from the clouds in
the same period of time before. Accord
ing to governm ent weather service obser-
vations, five and one-sixth inches OF
water fell, while the Mississippi rose
seventeen inches, but since has receded
rapidly again.
The storm came up rather suddenly
and the water fell like great solid sheet.
In a short time cutters and sewers were
overlooked and streets were flooded.
Union square was pond two feet deep,
while a. many places in the slough it ap-
peared for time that people would be
obliged to move from their houses. Mo-
line ave nue. from Twenty third street east
was in a bad condition. The water rushed
along the streets like mad sea, flooding
the side walks and making them in some
places impossible. People returning
from the show found great difficulty in
getting along. while men carried their
univ oh, ha in
some places which was knee deep.
Crossings and pieces of sidewalk were
washed away and cellars generally flood
ed.
The rain was accompanied by furi-
Gus wind, which broke limbs of trees and
| for q time caused much alarm among
nervous people. who thought Rock Island
was to be visited by storm similar to
the job nstown disaster.
The city administration was severely
censured yesterday for its neglec,
in not putting wsshedout sidewalks
back into place, especially on Moline
avenue, where much difficulty, If no,
danger, was experienced in getting along.
| At Fifth avenue and Seventeenth street
the walk was washed out, and left las,
! night in an absolutely serious condition.
| At Twelfth street and Seventh avenue
| there vas a bad wsshout that should
have received attention yesterday by the
! proper authorities. 1t is one of the du
ties of the street commissioner to look
after such things, and he is freely con-
demned for not doing it.
In the country. small streams which
had been dry for a month, overlooked
their banks, and several small bridges
were washed out. Crops suffered greatly
A drive into the country yesterday found
coin and oats generally levelled, and
while farmers anticipate no trouble with
regard to corn, feeling satisfied that q
couple of days will find it raised again
all right. they are as q rule anxious abou
the oat CROP fearing that it is mostly
beaten down and badly damaged.
The rain scooped out portion of TIT
filling of the c., NJ. & st. P. track a
Port Byron and left the track suspended
in the air, but the washed out GROUND
work vas put in again yesterday. Abou
ten miles this side of Muscatine a piece
of the c., r. / & P. track was washed
out ami an engine and mail car derailed
and the train had to back down to Mus
cstine and come around by Wilton. Al
trains came that way yesterday, and thu
morning the first train came through by
Muscatine again.
There was also considerable of vast
out near Denrock on the c. B. & Q.
which delayed all incoming morning
trains until afternoon. but everything i
all right today.
During the early morning storm Sun
day lightning struck the residence of j
G. Gansert. on Fifth avenue, between
Twentieth and Twenty-first. and tore of
considerable of roofing and siding, bu
caused NO serious damage.
| Hart & Bahnsen, wholesale drug
gists, at the corner of Third avenue snt
Twentieth, are probably the heavles,
losers, the water entering the cellar
through the east wall, and destroying
chemic ais, paints and oils to the extent
of $500.
Lightning struck the barn of Fl
LANCE at Davenport, and killed hors,
and destroyed several tons Of hay.
Towards evening yesterday the tenn
perature fell fourteen degrees, and at
O'Clock last evening was thirty degrees
lower than it was at the corresponding
time the previous evening. Today the
weather is pleasant as could be wished
for.