Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-30
Iowa River Comes Within Three
Inches of Mark Reached
Wednesday
RIVER TWO MILES WIDE.
Loss to Crops Will Be Douby Heavy
Owing to Second Inundation-River
LowIands One Big Lake-Iowa Gen.
trail Tied Up Between Grinnell and
oskaloosa on Account of Soft Track.

The heavy rain Of Wednesday night
and Thursday along the Iowa river
valley north of here. has done the
business. and the high water mark of
being equaled Friday afternoon. Dur
ing Friday night the water fell about
an inch, but the steady downpour
which lasted thru the past twenty-four
hours, up to 10 o'clock this morning,
and extended as far north along the
river bottoms as Ackley, will doubtless
send it up again. Today the river is
falling slowly. and the rise. If it takes
place. should reach here by night.
Linn creek rose about eight Inches
during the night, but is still within its
banks.
The second submerging of the crops
on the river iowlands has made the
partial damage done almost complete.
After the water receded for the first
time. it was found in places that the
damage to the young corn was not as
much as had been thought. Being un-
der water, as much of it has for the
past thirty-six hours. will probably re-
suit in rotting it badly. Mr. c. T. La
Plant, who owns several hundred acres
just west of the Center street levee,
will sustain n loss, having seventy
acres Of corn under water that will
have to be replanted. and twenty-five
acres of oats that will be total loss.
Mr.. Cation will also lose his stand of
corn. but his loss will not be great. as
he is reported to have received $500
from wealthy relative to cover the
damage he has sustained.
River Two Miles Wide.
Those who have not visited the river
and seen the vast area covered by the
it's swollen waters, having little
idea of the thousands of acres under
water. The width of the river varies
from half mile to almost two miles.
Some idea can be obtained when it is
known that the water stretches almost
due north from within a few yards of
the city's detention hospital to within
about 800 yards of the Estel home on
the Albion road. All the low ground
from the Center street road to the
dSSuuc highway 10 otiS oio istAS'
broken only by the intersecting fences.
Central Heavy Loser.
AS result of the heavy rains that
have beaten upon the new work of the
line of the Iowa Central between
Grinnell and Oskaloosa, traffic on that
portion OF the line is almost entirely
at a standstill no trains having passed
over it since Friday morning. Passen-
ger No. 2 went south Friday evening
only as far as Grinnell. returning this
morning as No. !. No. 5, due from the
south at an early hour this morning,
arrived about noon No. 6, due at 3
o'clock this morning, was sent via
Grinnell and the Rock Island to Valley
Junction. then via the same line to
OskalooSa.
Great Western Suffers.
The flood situation in Des Moines
has crippled the Great Westerns serv-
ice south of this city. No. s, due from
the south at about o'clock this morn
ing, was annulled, while No. 4, due
at 1O:30, from the same direction, ar
rived about 1880 O'Clock, having run
via Des Moines. The trains from the
north are about on time. The North
Westerns trains We're about on time.
except the thru train No. - from the
west.
Tho Local Rainfall.
The local rainfall for the twenty four
hours ending at $50 o'clock this morn
ing was / 81 inches. Fort twelve hours
from $50 a. m. to $3.50 p. m. it was
40 of an inch, and from the latter hour
until 80 this morning, 81. The fall
up to the time the rained ceased will
probably make the total about an inch
and a half
The rain storm experienced here has
been general all thru the central part
of the state. Rain has fallen as far
north as Ackley, as far south as Oska-
loosa, and from Cedar Rapids on the
east to Des Moines on the west.