Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1892-06-27
We Have Abundance of
Water and to Spare.
GREATEST FLOOD ON RECORD
The New High Water Mark. Estab.
lished at 1910, this Morning.
THE WATER NOW STATIONARY.
Milan ara Vicinity Entirely Inun-
dated-First Fatality This Morn.
iug-The Danger to the City-s
BridEes-FIoOded Portions of
the City-The stage Yes.
terday and Today.

The highest water ever known was
experienced this morning, when the stage
reached IS 40. which will hereafter be
regarded as the maximum high water
mark on the Mississippi at this point.
All day yesterday the river rose steadily
and the city went TO sleep last night bur-
dened with anxiety over the gravity of
the situation all about US.
TIE INCREASING STAGE.
According to the stage at Rock Island
bridge the river rose steadily from
! O'Clock yesterday morning at the rate of
half an inch an hour until o'clock last
night. At a. m. the guage registered
| 1S so. which was within one-tenth OF an
inch of the extreme high water of 1883
At 6 O'Clock it was 10 10, and at mid
| night 10 80. There was little variation
from this although perceptible rise I'M
til o'clock this morning, when the regis
ter showed 10 35 At s it had gone up
to 10 40, and at Q it was stationary at that
point.
The water is within four inches of the
top ledge Of the draw pier, and in fact
al the piers at the Rock Island bridge are
in deeper Than they have ever been be-
fore in their history
ALL OVER THE CITY.
Yesterday morning the engines were all
& P. round houses on the river front,
they having simply been drowned out and
were taken up town, the B. Il Q, and
all the passenger coaches of that road to
the compsny's tracks east of Twentieth
street, and the R. l. s. P. to the upper
Rock Island yards This mornings out
going train on the Q was made up at the
foot of Tw entieth street. while The r l. &
P. is shut eff entirely west of Coal VAL
| ley. There is fully mile of fresh wash
! out east OF Milan, ald train service has
been indefinitely aban !oued. There are
large number of cars and coaches on the
track east of the embankment which
serves as the city's bulwsrk of defense
against tue encroaching waters, and
which have been gradually drawn back
on the conpsny's main line track to be
out of the way of the advancing water.
In the railroad yards along First ave.
rue and west of Fourteenth street, what
cars have been left at sea have been
weighted down and the brakes set to
| prevent their being carried off. There is
! scarcely house facing on First svenUe
west of Fourteenth that is approachsble,
amp residents along that street ere obliged
to use temporary bridges to get in and out.
All the streets running down to the river
north of Second avenue with the
exception of Eighteenth, are more or less
under water, and people are padding
about in skiffs.
Twentieth street from First to Third av,
enue, while the latter thoroughfare is
largely under water. as are all intersect-
ing streets from First 10 Fourth all the
way to the visduct, and the railroad
yards from the lower end of the city to
Twenty-fourth are all more or less in
undated.
The water continues to rise in the cell
lars of business houses on the north side
OF Second avenue, and in some is within
a few inches of the floor, while all are
more or les Inconvenience.
Residents along First and Second av-
enues from Twelfth to Fifteenth streets
are now suffering the greatest inconven-
fence. TIE water is almost up to the
first floor in the Warren row on Second
avenue between Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth streets, while Fourteenth street at
Second avenue is damned up in order to
keep the water from running down Four
teenth street back of that avenue. The
families of John Garvin, William Parks
and Stephen Hull on FIRST avenue have
been compelled to vscste their homes,
while those Of John Williams, Robert
Hurd, Henry Wickman and Frank Math
have been driven to the rpper stories of
their homes on account of the water.
The residence of NJ. W. Battles as we'll
as those o. Fred Hass. Capt. T j. Blu
ford and Walter Johnson on First avenue
are submerged by water, while all the
residences on Second avenue from Elevs
enth to Fifteenth have more or less
water around the rear portion. From
Ninth to Twelfth the ground being high
the water has not Inconvenience the