Omaha daily bee., 1896-04-13
WATER KEEPS COMING DOWN
Twenty-Four Hours Rain Extends to All
Parts of Nebraska.
OVER THREE INCHES IN THE COUNTRY
Somewhat Less Than that In omnhn
where Considerable Damage In
Done TO streets that Had
Been Neglected.

From 2 p. m. Saturday to p. M yester-
day morning Omaha and vicinity had 1.SS
inches OF rain.
In many parts of the state II continued
to rain all Saturday night and yesterday,
the fall being perhaps eater than at any
one time in the last three years. over
the southern part of Nebraska and the north
ern part ct Kansas the gauge measured
two inches and a half, while Dawson county
reports a fall of three inches and half.
Some points report even more precipitation
than this.
Reports received by the weather bureau
at o'clock last evening showed that the
storm was central at Dodge City, Kan,
where there had been about three inches
of rain. 1t was showing at North Platte,
there being slight cold wave in Colorado.
western Nebraska and Kansas. The rain
was general over Nebraska and Kansas.
and extended as far east as Des Moines.
The local precipitation yesterday was ex-
actly an inch, and on Saturday 1t was SO
of an inch.
The Omaha road reports that the rain
was heavy all over its Nebraska division
yesterday, and about the same statement
was given out by the Elkhorn and the Mis-
sour Pacific The Union Pacific and the
Burlington have advices that the storm did
hut CedSe ONer tHelr lines uttll last evening.
While Saturday nights generous rainfall
gladdened the heart of nearly every Ne
braskan who had thought for the next
corn crop, 1t was a source of sorrow to
those whose cellars were flooded with water
and to the city fathers, who thought of
the repairs necessary to the streets.
Numerous cellars in the low portions of
the city were flooded and many yards were
submerged beneath the water. The street
crossings were made almost impossible on
hn at,I n
paved streets of the city were quickly
drained, but the number of those that do
not get into this class is legion.
Twentieth street from Douglas north to
Cass best evidenced the intensity Of the
storm, and also the inferior work recently
done in repairing that street. The trenches
dug at the time new water mains were
placed along the street had been carelessly
filled. The result of the first hard rain
that came along was to cave in large sec
tions of the street. The worst breaks oc-
Cured between Dodge and Davenport streets
Between these streets the cave-ins were SO
large and numerous that one would doubt
that the trenches had ever been filled in
Ihe holes extend along the west side OF
the car tracks and some places reach nearly
to the curbing In a few spots the cave
ms are as deep as eight to twelve feet
NO accidents We're reported to the police
as result of this series of breaks
AT the intersection of Thirteenth and
Harney streets occurred another CAVERN
An abandoned well, which has evidently
never been completely filled up, has re-
Gently caused several breaks in the street
at this point. About the middle of last
week the street suddenly caved in without
giving due notice. The hole was filed up.
but Saturday nights rain proved too much
OF strain and down went the earth to the
bottom of the we'll During the day this
cavity was filled up by dumping several
carloads Of cnders into It,
On Twenty-fourth street above Lake there
was small hole. water main bursted
at this point some time ago and whenever
much rain falls a considerable deprassIon
and puddle of the same dimensions NAV
be observed At the corner of Twenty
fourth and Cunning streets the street was
pretty well flooded, but the paving held