Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-27
IOWA RISES EIGHT FEET, AND
SPREADS OVER Low GRoUNp;
is STILL COMING UP.
VALLEY INUNDATED HERE,
EAST AND WEST OF CITY
Stream Came Up Two and One Halt
Feet at Marietta During Sunday
Nisht-Linn Creek Covers Low
Ground, But Lacks Eighteen Inches
OF Reaching iisn Point Of Week ASS

The second torrential rain of the
week. a downpour of S.25 inches Sat
urday night. raised Linn creek and the
Iowa river out of their banks and
inundated the valleys of these streams
in places. The flood along Linn creek
lacked eighteen inches of reaching as
high a point as last Monday. This
forenoon the creek was going down
slowly.
At midforenoon the river was about
two feet higher at the Center street
dam than a week ago. and was still
coming up. The crest of the flood
in the river should reach here tonight
or perhaps Tuesday.
Comes Up Eight Feet.
Superintendent Hans Matsen. at the
city pumping station. estimated this
forenoon that the river had come up
eight feet since Saturday night. The
river was still rising this forenoon. II
had spread out over the low ground
near the dam and had surrounded the
city detention hospital.
Across the links at the country club
! a stream Of flood water was pouring
eastward north of the dixie. The
water was rising steadily this fore
noon, and Frank 3. Sheffield. the care
.taker removed the live stock from the
barn lot and barn today. Down the
river valley other farmers were driv-
ing out their cattle.
AT Marietta the river had come up
two and one-half feet during the night.
and was higher than a week ago and
still rising. The north ard south
Marietta road vas flooded just north
OF the village.
Little Damage in Creek Valley.
Not much damage was done BY the
| floodwarer IN the low ground border
ing Linn creek Neither the NJ. & St
L. car shops nor the LaPlant Company
shops both OF which were flooded early
last week. were damaged sunday. The
water did not rise high enough to get
into either. No damage was done on
the properties Of any Of the other fac
tories in the vicinity OF the creek.
The water flooded the east end OF
the fair grounds. about half block
of the new pavement in East Main
street. and again came close 20 lowing
i over Twelfth avenue.
/ No calls for help came from people
! in the low ground. who had been
trapped in their homes by the rising
water a week ago The police and
men from the fire department stood in
< readiness all day 10 answer calls for
! help No live stock was reported
marooned or endangered.
/ Cellars Flooded: Foundation Caves.
In all parts Of the city cellars were
flooded either by water seeping IN
thru floors that We're not cemented
thru the walls or by surface water that
ran in around windows or other places
| Cellars in quite high ground that
| ordinarily are always dry have water
! in them.
! The heavy rainfall so soaked the
earth supporting section Of the
| concrete foundation under the house
being built for Harry L. Ruopp. 1910
1 East Main street that fifteen or
/ eighteen feet of the wall gave way
Sunday forenoon. II is thought that
+! trench dug by plumbers close 10 the
wall, and filed with soft earth settled
and was partly the cause Of the
j foundation caving.
J A rainfall Of 10 Of an inch SUNDAY
made a total of "a inches for the two
| days.