Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — High Water Delays Removal of Bridge at Brook. [ARTICLE]

High Water Delays Removal of Bridge at Brook.

The high water occasioned by the big rain of Friday night and another heavy rain in that vicinity Saturday afternoon, has delayed the removal of the wagon bridge over the Iroquois river south of Brook for a few days. Firman Rutherford of Rensselaer, who has the contract for removing the bridge to permit the passage of the Sternburg dredge which is forking on the dredging of the lower Iroquois, had hoped to get the bridge out of the way yesterday, but it will probably now be the latter part Of

the week before he is able to do so. The dredge is right up to the bridge to pass through as soon as the latter is out of the way, and the planking had been removed and timbers set alongside the bridge to raise the structure and pull it back to one side Friday, when the big rain came that night and put a stop to further operations. The writer was over in the vicinity of Brook Sunday afternoon, and many fields were still nearly covered with water, including some of George Ade’s corn fields near Hazelden, while the -‘holes” in the Hazelden golf links were filled to the top with water. There was lots of back water in the bayous along the river, and tow and motor boats were running in the bayou just northeast of the Brook wagon bridge.