Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-07-11

by the rain, and the paving in severa
places was washed out by the surface
water. \ large hole was made in tn,
street at Twelfth street and Eleven-S
and Twelfth avenues. where the new
southwest drain is being constructed.
District IL Flooded.
The houses in the 700 block. on both
Seventh and Eighth avenues, are prar
tically surrounded by water. and there
| is not a cellar in the neighborhood
| that is not entirely filled with water
| The land is rather low i'll that district,
and on some of the lots the muddy
| fluid is about two feet deep. Some of
the families were compelled to remove
| heir belongings from their lower floor
about 10 O'Clock, as the water began to
come into their back doors.
! Foundation Gives Away.
During the downfall at $3.50 the west
wall of the foundation of the saloon
owned by Knochenmus * Knapp AT
| 1901 Fourth avenue cavcd in and the
| bricks from the sidewalk at the side
of the building slid into the cellar
which was filed to the floor of the
building with water. The slide took "a
great deal of dirt with it, and made a
large excavation in the sidewalk Pc
lice guarded the place most of the
might to keep pedestrians from falling
into the opening, which at the time OF
the rain was not unlike QuickSand. The
building is owned by NJ. J. Murphy.
who at present is out of the city.
Tracks Washed Out.
The Milwaukee road is having Il
great deal Of trouble with its trains
from the south today. some of them
coming from that direction not pulling
through here at all. The trains from
the north were nearly ali late. The
Southwest Limited failed to reach the
city, and the officials have been mott
fed that there is a bad washout be.
tween Musc2tine and Ottumwa.
The trains on the Peoria and Bureau
branches of the Rock Island were con
siderabIy delayed this morning on ac-
count of the many washouts along the
line, the tracks being in very bad con
dition. The Rock Island road reports
mo trouble along the main line. how,
lever.
Almost the Record.
The rainfall yesterday exceeded the
record for this week. and nearly equa,
led the record rainfall for a given pc,
iod of time. The weather bureau T..
, Davenport reported total of IL
inches OF fall in the p minutes yes
terday afternoon from sos to $50
which is but slightly below the recor
rate, established June o 1905, wher
l.GI inches of water fell in 80 minute
Last evening in the 40 minutes froH
$40 to $50. the heaviest period of tn,
; evening storm. 90 inches fell. so thu
in the two heavy rains lasting in all =
minutes. q total Of 30 inches fell. ThC
: total rain fall in n hours up To
o'clock this morning was 2.3S inches
The average rainfall for the month 4"
) July in the records of the weather b
rcau for over a quarter of a century D.
Z but $50 inches for the entire month
( and during the series of storms whici
2 began Monday and have been of daiI
5 occurrence since, 4 total of Al inchc
has fallen. This indicates that IN
month will far exceed the average +.
{ July in the matter of precipitation fo
s the fall in but three days has been con
Z siderably more than the average fo
5 the whole month.
< Rise OF Rivers.
Z The unusually heavy rains hav
s brought the Mississippi and Rock rive
2 waters up rapidly. the MISSISSIPPI
s stage changing from s feet to So in =
& hours. In Rock river the rise at tn
s head of the canal was also 6 inches J
& the p hours. Some little damage froU
3 the flooding of low lands along Roc
z river is reported.
= bothered the Campers.
< \ number of the campers on NaI
2 druffs island who are camping in ten
3 were nearly driven from their camp
e last evening by the rain. Some of til
5 members of the camping parties WEI
& kept up most of the night diggin
5 bitches around their quarters.