The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-06-13
LAST NIGHTS STORM.
Heaviest Rain for Years Visits Denison
ON Monday Night-Railroads Washed
Out-Lightnlng Plays Franks

Heaviest Rain for Years Visits Denison
ON Monday Night-Railroads Washed
Out-Lightning Plays Franks
Three and three-tenths inches of rain
fell in Denison last night. This does
not sound very big but it is an immense
amount of water, enough to flood river
banks, wash subsoil from the hills, and
wash out hundreds of feet of railway
embankments.
Shortly after supper nearly every in
habitant of Denison was out watching
the ominous hooking clouds. The set
ting sun worked wonders of coloring in
shades Of red and blue and royal purple
and our people were divided between
admiration and apprehension. 1t soon
became apparent that there was moth
ing OF a cyclonic nature to be feared
and it was almost relief when with
out much of gale the rain began fall
ing in torrents. 1t fairly poured down
hour after hour, sometimes the storm
would stop to catch its breath and then
the rain and wind would get to bus
mess again harder than ever. The
storm lasted nearly all night. There
was but little hail, aud the wind while
strong was not such as to do any
damage. The streets and cutters were
soon flooded and the water rushed down
the hillsides in cataracts. The North
western tracks we're washed out for
some distance between Denison and
Vail and west of here some damage
was done although No. A, the Chicago
special, was not delayed more than two
hours.
AT the opera house the Mobiles dra-
matte company found few who had
braved the elements and decided not to
them. In the middle of the
play, however, lightning struck the
electric light wires and the house was
left in total darkness. Lamps were
lighted however and the play went on.
The stroke of lightning which put out
all the lights in town. burned out the
near Mr.. Garrison's resi-
dence and Manager Wheeler is quoted
as saying that the lightning strength
was so great that it actually stopped
The ponderous machinery at the power
house.
THE FLOOD.
Both the East and West Boyer are
On the rampage the flood being the
highest seen here in many years.
The East Boyer has flooded the lower
part of town, setting sidewalks afloat,
cutting off roads and doing consider
able damage in small way. The
wagon roads across the bridges toward
The cemetery and the Dow City road
are completely closed to traffic. The
East Boyer has in fact boycotted the
Nash bridge almost altogether and has
made new channel for itself running
north from the railroad bridge and be-
tween the Boyer Valley tracks and the
new Y. This is exactly what the rail-
road company wanted and they say it is
au i'll flood that brings nobody good.
The west bound trains were delayed
until this afternoon by a big wash out
at Vail.
The West Boyer has just been finding
out that flood is the proper thing and
has been rising all day 1t is now real
" higher than the East Boyer and
about all that can be seen up the valley
is water and two black lines of the rail-
road embankment. There is every ap.
pearance Of more rain tonight and an
other storm would mean the greatest
Hood ever witnessed in the Boyer
Valley.