Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1917 — Tells of a Big Storm at Oakland, III. [ARTICLE]

Tells of a Big Storm at Oakland, III.

Martin L. Ford was in the office Saturday and left a clipping from an Oakland, 111., paper tellinv of a big rain storm they had there on Monday. Water on their paved streets was running like a, millrace at nine o’clock at a depth of 18 inches. The entire, south portion of the city was -a huge lake Tuesday morning. The homes were in water up to the porch floors and there was no getting out without wading boots. The paved street in front of Jeff Swinford’s residence on Ashmore Road was axle deep in water for nearly a quarter of a mile. On the Charleston-Danville road in the north of'the city a long strip of pavement near Mrs. Mary Valodin’s residence was waist deep in water at 6 o'clock a. m. It is said to have been the very heaviest rain that has fallen there for many years. The accompanying electrical storm was something fierce and did considerable carnage. At the home of Paul Ringland the telephone was torn out when the house was struck.