TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 637 



Water covered the tracks in front of the Illinois Central R. R. depot, 

 and below the depot employees performed their duties in water half way 

 to their knees or higher. The Mulgrew Ice and Coal plant east of the 

 Illinois Central R. R, depot was deep in water and could not be used 

 for about 10 days. Water covered half of Jones street as far west as 

 the railroad tracks, and the buildings at the foot of Jones street were 

 completely surrounded. The pressure from below forced up the concrete 

 cellar floor of the Iowa Oil Company's building. The road on the south 

 side of the harbor was a foot under water, and on the north side of the 

 harbor all buildings of the Dubuque Boat & Boiler works were flooded 

 above the first floor, necessitating the raising of machinery. The road 

 immediately south and east of the C, M. & St. P. R. R. depot was flooded. 



East of Washington street for practically the entire length sewers 

 backed up and flooded the basements of scores of homes. The packing 

 house region near the foot of 17th street was flooded, and partial suspen- 

 sion of business resulted. Water covered streets around the Metz Manu- 

 facturing Company's plant, but did not run over the curb. At Eagle Point 

 the Pumping Station, the yards of the Dubuque Lumber Company, and 

 the Bathing Beach Buildings were badly flooded. The water was several 

 inches above the floor of Bathing Beach buildings. The road beyond the 

 Eagle Point High Bridge was closed during the period of the flood, and a 

 large amount of work had to be done to save it. 



Statistics of Money Loss by Flood of Mississippi River, 



Dubuque River District, April, 1920. 



Tangible property that can only be restored by the outlay of 

 cash, either to clean it up and to put in serviceable condi- 

 tion, or to restore the property where the loss was total. This 

 item includes loss to buildings, factories, highways, bridges, 



etc. Total about $ 70,000.00 



Loss to railroads, chiefly expenditures in saving track or other 



property, about 18,000.00 



Loss of crops that were housed, about 1,000.00 



Loss of prospective crops, chiefly strawberries, about 500.00 



Loss of live stock and other movable property, about 5,000.00 



Loss due to suspension of business, including wages of em- 

 ployees, about 5,500.00 



Total loss, approximately $100,000.00 



Money value of property saved by warnings, as reported to this 



office $125,000.00 



MAY. 



For the State as a whole the temperature averaged slightly below the 

 normal, the deficiency being uniform over each division, though several 

 stations in each division showed an excess. Except a warm period from 



