The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1937-06-17
County Flooded as 3 Inches
of Rain Falls In IL Hours;
Rivers Above Spring Stage
HIGHWAY II DAMAGED:
ROADS AND FIELDS
UNDER WATER

Inc heaviest rain In years
raised the Redwood river and tri-
butary streams to heights sur
passing those of this spring,
flooded fields, streets, highways
and Easements and washed out
several bridges in this section
Saturday.
The doWnpour was accompan-
led by an electrical storm during
which lightning struck in several
places but caused no fatalities or
serious injuries.
N. B. Andersen, Redwood Falls
weatherman, took two unusual
measurements Saturday. The
morning and early afternoon rain
totalled Isl inches and the
amount of the late afternoon and
night deluge was LAG, making a
total of exactly three inches in II
hours. Mr.. Andersen says the
amount has not been equalled
here in several years.
Logs Wash In
AT Marshall 1922 inches of
moisture fell during the weekend,
helping to swell the Redwood
river higher than it has been
since 1919. Logs and other de-
bris washed from the banks of
the river and from barnyardS
along the watercourse Uttered
Lake Redwood. j. L. Parsons and
Merlin Johnson worked at the
dam 5 a. m. to 8 p. m. Sunday,
standing on the dam to rake away
debris which if collected would
clog the entrance gates of the
fiume to the poWerhouse.
Wash from the banks made the
water almost black and Ramsey
Falls, the highest it has been for
years, poured over in a brownish
oily appearing torrent.
According to Mr.. Parsons the
water in the lake raised two feet
Saturday night, but was lowered
about IL inches when top boards
at the dam were removed. At its
height it spilled 10 inches over
the small footbridge there.
Easements Flooded
Easements in some sections Of
Redwood Falls were flooded.
Residents of North Redwood
who were up at 2 a. m. Sunday
saw the streets flooded with water
from six inches to a foot deep and
running over the sidewalks in
some places. Nail kegs and drift.
wood f1oated in the lumber yard,
some of the lumber being in foot
of water. Nearly all of the base
ments in the village were flooded.
some to height of four feet.
For the second time in three
weeks, rain played havoc with
the sewage system at Morgan.
Saturday nights storm flooded
the cellars of most of the business
places and nearly all of the
homes.
i The residence of the August
Gruendermann family at Morgan
suffered the most damages, the
rain causing the earth under the
foundation of the home to cave in
and it was necessary to build
braces under the structure to
make it safe. The White Eagle
service station is at the front of
the building.
The well which had been locat-
ed on the east side of the black
smith shop at Clements was dis
covered by members of the pres
ent generation who had not been
aware of its location when the
rain caused it to cave in. Old
settlers said the well has been
there for 20 years.
The road past the Frank Peters
place at Seaforth was made i'm
passible when the bridge nearby
washed out. Seaforfh easements
were also filled with water.
Springfield Flooded
Unofficial reports of rain from
other sections TO the county in
dictate Redwood Falls was not in
the center of the deluge. Near
Rock Dell a farmer reported that
IL quart pail standing in the
open twas filled before the
cloudburst had hardly started"
The Cottonwood river at Spring.
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