DAMAGE BY THE RAIN

The violent storm of rain which passed over her night before last and yesterday morning, did considerable damage to culverts and streets in different parts of the city. The culvert on the Second street, near the burying ground, was not large enough for the immense body of water which came pouring into it; it consequently overflowed, washing away a good part of the street, and rendering it impassible so that it was fenced up. A portion of the street was also washed away near the culvert on Third street near Warren, from the same cause. – Fillmore street, between Third and Fifth, is badly cut up and rendered impassable. Some streets in East Davenport are also very much washed away. The culvert on Perry street near Eleventh is choked up or broken in. – there was probably other damage done by the storm. Mr. Baker, our efficient street commissioner, we presume, will have the damage repaired as early as possible, so that citizens will suffer no unavoidable inconvenience.

– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Thursday Morning, April 17, 1862, p. 1