Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-22
A,lLetnEa- WASHED AND Low
LAMps FLOODED. DAMAGE
ING some CROPS.
bRAppX CREEK DAMAGES
APPROACH To-sRiDoE.
!Wssxsolds o. Thirteenth Street Cross
laeaovsr Creek 10 Cut Thru-Nerth
Third Avenue Storm esswsr eadly
Damaged Rainfall Sunday Morning
2o<AlneIpss-phene Service Crippled.


swspt4over the city and central Iowa
saturday: night and Sunday morning.
doing somsSdamaes to pssand' filling
sore>-oE tho ema1lerlstreams andcreeks
fun to overflow. Rain that began FALL
inS shout II O'Clock Saturday night
continued unt1l;7 acknowledgements with
freausnt showers d.arinsssunday.
Tive and thirty-four hundredths
3nohes.of water feu during the night
ana the rains OF the day added .o4 of-an
inch more. Durtngsthesrine days end
ang with Sunday AS inches Of rain have
fallen. ..S.a~a!x
Crops ovsrsfe.~sd.
On steep hil1stdes the, was wash
ed badly. doing some .damass-to the
yomgscorn and. other crops The rain
was % heavy that in the low places.
especially in; thesIowa river valley, i'm
naSnse ponds Of water gathered In the
nelds,; but the river did not rise more
Than one.Soot. Timber, Creek. however.
was out OF Its banks in places, and
Linn creslk wasavery.1igh-
The Iowa eCentrakftrack In 1.-The. cut
so,atlas Of the beer garden" hill was
again flooded. but snossertous damage
was.done. Ne. g. the uth-bound JAS
senEes.ywas held here for an hour@untl
the track was. known TO be safe.
Damage ln,thsc City.
IN this city tho water cut thru. and
washed gullies IN dirt roads and cinder
walks that made II. necessary to hang
out lanterns to warn the public OF the
danger Sunday night The most seri-
Gus damage. OF this kind was near the
Av.iHoA .rvvov H4ror1dx,
creek The: flood waterloo this creek
WASHED out q part 4of ethe approach to
the bridge on tho west side Of the
street and cut guliies thru the slide
walk The overflow washed away \
part. OF stheagardsn; orc. J. Banfa1ear.
nearsthes bridge dnnsthe north bank OF
the creek. ,.a:t.
.es.vAo.sb.o.massd. @
The avenue wooden
storm, ssNeriwass.b badly damaged in.
places by: being washed OFT or by cav
Ing In. Ths council 10 already consid-
ering the installation of concrete sew
er 10 replace tina old one p1>wood.
Telephone ~ iros sDurned Out.
The two storms ofsEfiday and Sat-
urday did moro lightning damagefo tbs
wires Of the 1farshau Telephone Com
pany than any. storm IN tho history Of
the company. Lightning struck the
wires leading 20 the, Rosengren home
on Ansonistresf,sbuT ningsout the house
wire, ands tearing the Hay street cable
pretty cear.y.A SO pieces This put most
OF the aphoness in the south part OF
town out oficommission, and resulted
In the laying Of. a. new cable.
In Saturday nights storm lightning
A-,ck and burned, out. the same cable
agar. and every man;tn'the company's
employ, including euperintendentB owe
and. the switchboard man, worked all
dayHunday4 on replacing the cable, Ut
IL believed that the work will be Nm
ished by tonight.
lightning also caused the -temporary
Impairment Of practically all services
west Of Ninth and Boone streets. and
out ot4100 pairs Of fuses not single
ono escaped These. however. were re-
placed within a few hours.
Weather eIisheiy Cooler.
The maximum temperature Sunday
was "a. one degree cooler than Satur-
days maximum. The minimum Sunday
nixtrt vas 81, compared with So Satur-
day night. At z o'clock this morning
the temperatureswas 81. three degrees
cooler than at the same hour Sunday
morning.