Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1915 — Battling Against the Elements. [ARTICLE]

Battling Against the Elements.

The rain of Wednesday evening boosted the water again in the east part of town, especially along near the Monon railroad, causing the yards, streets and sidewalks to again become inundated with several inches of water. It seems that a sewer under the Monon tracki causes considerable of the water from the north side of the track near the stock pens, to pass through to the south side, and almost a pitched battle betweep the residents of the north and south sides of the track, took place Thursday morning when it that, the south slders had stopped up this sewer with sacks of. sand

and thereby preventing the water front flowing through. The north siders removed the sacks only to have them replaced by the residents on the south. This was kept up for some little time, and the air was blue with the complimentary remarks made by each of the opposing forces toward the other. The marshal was finally appealed to, and later the health officep, then the city attorney. The IrJtter obtained permission from President Kurrie to stop the flow of water, but Thursday night—it was difficult to tell which of the two sections of town was the worst sufferer from the high water, a number of families being marooned by several inches of water entirely surrounding their homes on both sides of the track.

was about three inches higher yesterday than it has been at any was about three inches higher it is thought, than it had been at any time during the present "wet spell. '