Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-03
LOSS AT, DUBUQUE cccAsioNED
az RISE or MISSISSIPPI WILL
gill; BE GREAT.
MANUFACTURING PLANTS srHrs
WILL BE HEAVY LOSERS
MuIsrew zee Company Threatened With
Loss of 10000 Tons Of Finest Chan
Under Water-Duhuque Boat and
Boiler Works Forced to Suspend.
,eciaI to Tirnes-Repuhlican.

Dubuque, May 3.-The National Re-
fining Company. of this city. has
large number of large oil tanks in
vacant lot in the lower part of the
city. The lot is several feet lower
than the street Water from the
Mississippi floods flowed into the lot
and started one Of the empty tanks
to float about the lot The manager
thought to hold it in place by filling it
with oil. After about nifty barrels OF
oil had been siphoned into it, from
cars on the railroad track il suddenly
careened and went on its side in about
six feet of water. \ large quantity
of oil was lost.
The Seippel Lumber Company.
wholesalers. are among the heaviest
flood sufferers in the city. Several
million feet of lumber is in water of
varying depths up to ten feet. II Will
scarcely float away as it is in back
water which will go out slowly.
The Dubuque boat and boiler works,
builders OF all kinds of craft for river
work steel hull affairs, has been
forced TO entirely suspend operations.
Some parts of its yards are in twelve
and fourteen feet of water There is
three feet of water on the floor or Its
main shops Hundreds of tons OF
steel used in boat construction are
under water. but it will not float away
and neither will it be seriously dam
aged
Protect City Pumping Station.
By banking with clay around the
pumping station Of the city's water
department. the flood waters were
kept out of the engine rooms and the
first reservoir. Fire engines have
been busy there several days pumping
water out of the engine and fly wheel
pits in order to keep the plant run
ming.
The Dubuque Excelsior Company,
one OF the largest of its kind in the
middle west, was compelled to close
down several days ago Large guam
titles of cord wood from which ex-
celsior is made has been washed away
by the water.
Ice Company Faces Big Loss.
The Thomas J. Mulgrew Company,
ice dealers. have sustained a heavy
loss, the extent of which will not be
known for several days Its ice houses
containing almost 10000 tons Of finest
channel ice are built on the bank OF
the big river. They have been en-
tirely surrounded now for several
. DAYS and the water is up nearly three
! feet on their sides. The only pTotec-
ton that could be given them is a
bank of clay about TWO feet thick
which was built around the base OF
them. The water will not permeate
| the clay. but the fear is it will go
under the houses thru the sand and
back up into the houses. There is
! some hope in the fact that the sand
under the houses is frozen. If the
water does not stay up long enough 10
thaw out this frozen sand the ice may
be saved. If the water does get up
under the ice in this manner 1t is felt
certain all is lost
The ice harhor where are moored
more than a hundred launch houses,
presents a decidedly odd appearance
to persons who are acquainted with It.
AT ordinary water stage the tops OF
these boat or launch houses are barely
noticeably above the banks OF the
harbor Now the bottoms Of them are
on a level with the surrounding
streets. for the water has just reached
into the streets.
Suffering in the "Flats."
In the extreme eastern part Of the
city in what is known as the mats
there has been considerable suffering
occasioned. tho no great property loss
That part Of the city is inhabited by
class of very poor and sh1tless
Americans and a large number OF
foreigners of the lower classes. Nearly
a hundred of these families have been
forced out Of their homes. which are
now filed two TO five feet with water
In dozens of factories and jobbing
houses located near the river front all
manner Of pumps propelled by engines
and dynamos have been kept gong
day and night for several days now.
Everything movable has been moved
from the Easements to upper floors
but an effort has been made to keep
the water low in the Easements be-
cause Of the fear Of the foundation
walls being damaged by becoming
water soaked
Some Of the lower parts Of the city
are without sanitary sewers because
the water from the river has hacked
up into the sewers until they can no
Longer discharge.
Many Freight Cars Marooned.
Because of the extremes Of coDdi-
ton Of the ground, much OF which is
made ground" where their tracks
and switches are built the railroad
companies have allowed many cars to
! be marooned on sidetrscks and
switches, fearing TO send in their loco
motives to take them out. The ex-
perience of one locomotive sliding
! into food waters a couple Of weeks
ago has been enough for them.
| At East Dubuque, H.. just across