Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-12
FLOODS and RIAL
Do MORE DAMAGE
Another Storm Visits This Sec.
ton, With Almost Three
Inches OF Rain.
Great Western Again Tied Up by
Floods and Other Traffic
Delayed.
Hail Falls in the City, Damag.
inc Greenhouses and lDJur-
ing Gardens.
Linn Creek Overflows and the
River Again High and
Rising.

ming but 1t poured, and then 1t hailed
lust for variety. Following the devas-
tating storm of Tuesday night came an
other on Wednesday evening and night,
and while the destruction left in Its
wake was not so great, the rainfall was
,nuch heavier and the railways have
suffered.
Including the shower of Wednesday
afternoon, the total precipitation during
The last storm amounted to 2.69 inches,
or total Of 4.24 inches since Tuesday
evening. The last train brought repe-
tition of flooded streets and the electric
storm further damaged telephone wires
and instruments. A hard hall storm
which swept over the city between
and s o'clock played havoc with green
houses and injured gardens and trult.
Traffic on the North Third street line
of the electric company was interfered
with, the hollow in the vicinity of Park
street as well as adjoining yards being
transformed into small lake, the wat
er being so deep that the cars could not
get thru. They ran as far as Lincoln
street.
The hail storm was not very extern
sive and did not extend west OF Twelfth
street and had spent its force by the
time the southern limits of the city has
been passed. Immediately. north of town
crops and gardens were injured, the
crops on the Cation and blessing places
being considerably damaged. At the
Kemble green houses on North IMrd
street between 400 and 500 lights were
broken by the hail, and at the houses
of j. II. Wright, near by, 1S5 lights were
broken. Two of the walls the entire
length Of the Wright green houses
were washed out and all the houses
were flooded, doing considerable dam
age.
The hail storm extended considerable
distance north of the city, and on ths
IaPIant, Estel. Wilson and other farms
in that vicinity the corn and other
crops were greatly damaged. Some OF
the fields Of corn were cut to pieces
above the ground, but it is believed
that it will come up again. altho its
growth and development will be re-
tarded.
Mr.. blessing says his extensive gar
dens are almost ruined. Cherries and
apples in orchards in the city were
stripped from the trees. Many tin
roofs about the city were punctured by
the larger hail stones, some of which
were larger than cherries. The ground
was almost covered with the stones
where the hail was the heaviest, and
they were picked up by the bucket full
by children.
Another hail storm swept Timber
Greek township, covering the same ter
ritory as that of Tuesday evening, but
there was little left in the path to des-
troy.
Linn Creek Highest in Years.
AS a result Of the unusually heavy
rain all creeks overaowed and the bot
tom lands are covered. Linn creek was
a half mile wide In many places and
some of the residents of the lower por-
ton of the city were considering the
advisability of moving out. The river
rose rapidly and this morning was
within fourteen inches Of the high mark
OF last week, and rising rapidly. 1t is
believed that the river will exceed the
high mark of several years. Archie
White this morning moved his house
hold effects from his boat house, until
such time as the flood subsidies.
BY morning the waters Of Linn creek
had reached the highest point in years.
and were still rising, altho slowly. All
timbers in the yards of the Central car
shops were afioat, and all that portion
of the town south of the creek to May
street was flooded. The water reached
the rails on the bridge of the Central
glucose spur, and Ninth avenue from
the Central right of way south to Tur-
rer street was two feet under water.
The plant of the Standard Oil Com
pany Is surrounded by water, and the
cellars of the Marshall Grocery Com
pany, the Iowa Central offices and the
Marshall Canning Company contained
from eighteen inches to two feet The
damage to the grocery company stock
will amount to several hundred dollars
On the bottom lands east of the city
the floods from the creek and river have
joined and the water reaches to the top
Of the fence posts in many places. All
gardens in the southeast portion of the
city are under water.
At II o'clock Linn creek was about
stationary. report reached the city
that another flood was coming down
the creek, but this could not be veri-
fed.
Washouts on Central and c. G. w.
The Iowa Central and Great Western
north of Marshalltown and the north
ern division of the Northwestern We're
'shot to pieces" by the storm. No
trains reached the city from the north
on either line after o'clock Wednes-
day evening until noon today. Tele-
graph wires of both companies were
washed out or blown down, and for
many hours the officials here could not
tell where trains We're or when they
would get thru.
The Central suffered the greatest
damage in the vicinity of Steamboat
Rock, the storm having been severe
from that point to Marshalltown. The
bridge at the foot of the hill at Liscomb
was in danger of going out for several
hours, and work trains in charge OF
Roadmaster Shelley and Master of
Bridges and Building Boileau were sent
to that point and farther north to re-
pair culverts, bridges and damaged
roadbeds. Between here and Minerva
Junction the Central tracks We're also
badly washed. The Central spur and
the bridge leading to the Timber Creek