Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1913 — Pullins Bridge Grade Washed Out by High Water in Iroquois. [ARTICLE]

Pullins Bridge Grade Washed Out by High Water in Iroquois.

The east grade to the Pullins bridge, east of the Werner Miller farm, 4 miles north of Rensselaer, washed out Sunday morning and until the high waters recede will be impassable. The water in the Iroquois ditch is very high and the grade began to wash Saturday and by Sunday morning was in a very dangerous condition and is said to have gone out only 10 minutes after some one had passed over it in a buggy. It is believed that about 24 feet of the grade washed out. An effort was made to span the washed out portion of the grade with trees for stringers, but this proved unsuccessful and was abandoned. The water at the.fiurk bridge was also very high and crossing is said to have been regarded as unsafe.