Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-24
High Water Causing More Trouble
and Inconvenience.
STARTLING REPEATS FRi M ABOVE.
Railroads Suffer from New washouts-
the Flood in the Lower Part OF
Town the Power station
Threatened-the Outlook.

! ligh. showers continued to fall during
yesterday forenoon, and in the afternoon
another soaking rain drenched the side
walks and streets. The air was sultry
during the entire day and after some light
/ showers again last evening, another heavy
rain resembling the one of the previous
night came on and fell necessarily for
nearly two hours It also show4red off
AMI on until early this morning, and PEG
! pie who before were able to keep back
the water have now found it im~
possible. All the overflow of
water from the bluffs is draining into TIE
/ slough, and in consequence people who
yesterday still used the lower floors of the
dwellings have today moved up one story
| and are living on the second floor exclu-
sivelY, and others who had no upper floor
to move 10 have waded ashore and found
shelter with kindly disposed neighbors.
The pump at the mouth of the Fifth ave-
nue. sewer is kept going night and day,
ence in the flooded condition of the
slough. The water standing along the
south side of Fifth avenue has now made
nearly all the streets ia the lower part of
the city impossible, except Ninth and
Twelfth.
The mills and shops in the lower part
of town being shut down on account of
the water, gives the owners of homes in
the flooded districts chance to look after
their property which is being taken ad>
vantage of by them. Property along the
north side of Fifth avenue that has not
been filed in, is also beginning to show
the effects of the food, while any
locality which happens TO
be trde lower than the rest is
trs nsformed into small lake. Cellars
in different parts of the city that have
heretofore been dry are now filed with
water. Particularly is this noticeable
along Third avenue. The owners of the
Bean block at Third avenue and Twelfth
street have been particularly uEfortun~
ate. The basement which was used as q
kitchen and dining room was
completely flooded by the inundation
Wednesday night. dishes, silverware, etc.
now being at the bottom of about five to
six feet of wafer. 1t was caused by
brick being piled in the cutters, thus
turning the water toward the building
which forced portion of the foundation
out, allowing it to pour down in great
stream into the basement.
4 large hole was washed out on Elm
street near Huber's brewery and the road
along College hill is in dangerous con-
dition. Out in South Rock Island the
flood did considerable damage also, in the
way of gardens being washed out by the
water from the bluffs. Gaethje the florist
suffered perhaps the most from the over
flow, his hot houses, beds. etc, being
submerged and washed away.
The river is still on thesboom. All the
low lands of the Wapsie bottoms below
Clinton are overlooked and the Marias de
Osier low lands above Cordova are all
under water. The current of the latter is
now said to have changed and is running
back into Rock river instead of he Miss
issippi. Down the river things are in
the same condition. and the prospects
are for higher water. The rise here has
done no serious damage SO far, though
the water is now tapping along the tracks
on First avenue. The Diamod 10 ware
house is now surrounded by water and
ponds have begun to form along the foot
of East and!West Seventeenth street. In
the vest end of the city everything is in
the same condition. The R. 1. & P.
tracks back of the Stove wor ks are over
flowed and the company has a force of
men at work filling in along the weak
points in the road bed.
The tracks between Milan and Coal
Valley are in bad condition and all
trains on this end of the Peoria road hsye
been abandoned. The water is also just
COM ng over the c., B. 6 O.. and R. 1.
& P, road beds at the foot of Thirteenth
and Fourteenth streets, and is rising rap
idly, TheStove works have now suspended
WORK entirely on account of the likely.
hood Of the water coming in on the floors
at any time
Tie situation at the dixie at the west
end Of the city is now more serious than
1t any other time. While there is probably
no immediate danger yet, should the wa
Ter continue to rise every precaution will
have to be taken to Keep back the water,
IS even now it is sesping through the |
riprapped embankment
The water has risen five inches since 6 |
o'clock this morning and the indications