Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-03-02
Engineers Working on Biz
Floe Recommend New
Precautionary Step
ROMMEL FUNERAL
SERVICES ARE HE'LL
Body Of County Officer u
Brought Through Here
en- Route Home

OAAoo' M0ICu l.--ACyl0H i. On N
recommendations OF engineers at tke@
scene OF the flood at Oskaloosa, STATE
omclals today took steps to place men
on guard at bridges above and below
the ice gorge which caused the over
now. me guards were furnished With
uynamite to use In case ice foes. ptl.I
ing against the piers and abutmentass| 4
menace the safety Of the bridges N
IN report to Gov. Clarke today. HI,s
glneer Peterson said that with the roIS
turn or mild weather the situation at'
oskaloosa was solving itself.
Rises Three Feet. -
Oskaloosa, March 1. - The ~
Moines river rose three feet Tuesday
IN the vicinity OF Givin when maS62I
OF Ice from the upper river smashed
INTO the huge foe that is choking the
river mile and a half west OF @ lkin.3
mo overfowing waters OF the river, NV
celved q new impetus for several hoi| III
Dut To-Day the flood was again recedink VI
NO attempt will be made to blast
channel through the six mile long icd 4
gorge, engineers decided. The undorsa
taking, they said, would probably
prove fruitless, even though thousands
OF pounds of dynamite were used. W.AA
II, Petersen. Rock Island .enginDefsss "
sent here by Governor Clarke, has ols
posed any further attempt 1t dynamitsj
Ing the gorge. He believes the situa.
tion will solve itself unless . seyeros,
freeze ensues. ~
Gorge Motlonisss Now.
The gorge is motionless now ana is|]
fpO~ ~ ~ -
Is augmented by further freeze or
released by sudden thaw the dam
age will likely be confined to tfls1
vicinity now suffering. No damage
further southeast is feared at present
and alarm has subsided at Eddyvillo@
and points south Of there. VI
It is estimated that more than 1,O00
acres OF land is submerged In tho
vicinity of the big gorge. Thirty fam
HES have been driven from their farm
homes. N
The ice in the big foe towers thirty
feet in the air at some points and iaS
frozen to the bed of the river Those
battling with the foe say 1t IL q mag
nifcent sight. Scores OF men haves3
been engaged in attempting to br9A6S
1t up for fve days but their efforts
have been attended by an absolute look;
of success # n s.ss
RommeI Funeral Today. II
Funeral services for A. e. Romm0lss
Mahaska county engineer who lost hiBg
life in attempting to break up the fl0N$
with dynamite last Saturday, wer6S
held here this morning.
|. They were held at the Cheesmans'
funeral home at 9 o'clock and wef0s
under the auspices of the Masonic frasS5
ternity. Rev. Alexander McFerran olS
the First Presbyterian church waS talS
charge.
Body Through Here.
The body wass taken to Mt. Pleas
ant by way Of Ottumwa at 1O:$0T
o'clock. After. short service the30s
this afternoon at the home OF RichArdS
Budde, where Mr.. and Mrs. Romuae1y
were married, the remains were buried
in Forest Home cemetery. "
Beside his widow, Mr.. Rommel is'
survived by three children. rMargaret.s
aged 12, Jane aged three and Arthur
Jr1, aged seventeen months. His agcds
father Dean A. R0mmel Of the school
of music, Iowa Wesleyan college, and
q brother, George Rommel, chief 0f fsthas
animal husbandry division. Depart
ment Of agriculture at Washingt0n, D.s
c., also survive.