2022 Fall Home and Garden

2022 Fall Home & Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Sept. 23, 2022 Page 29 drinking water as a precautionary measure. Beyond this, the public may help by refraining from telephone the plant of the Lincoln Water and Light Co. Men, water soaked and fatigued by fighting the flood for 48 hours, have no time to answer useless calls. The telephone wires from the plant are needed for official business. Supplies must be rushed. Orders must be given. One useless phone inquiry might result in a delay that would bring disaster. --------------------- BACK FIFTYYEARS Today’s flood edition of the Courier returned to the days of hand set type and a hand pumped job press. Printers worked by candle light. This little miniature edition will continue so long as the flood emergency keeps the power shut off. It will serve to keep the public advised of conditions, and will convey a brief condensed survey of the day’s news. Through fire, flood and storm the Courier, in seventy years, has never missed an edition. We stand ready to serve, even though our daily message must be of necessity brief. ------------------------- LINCOLN NOWAN ISLAND, ALL HIGHWAYS FLOODED While Lincoln faced a water famine today because of too much water, the city was an island, completely surrounded by water. Only one highway was open today out of the city. This was Route 4 north, although water covered the slab at Lawndale. The Kickapoo bridge two miles west on the Fifth street road was closed by a washout. This cut off the Mason City detour. Sugar Creek was over the road at Orendorff bridge. Salt Creek cut off the Lincoln - Mt. Pulaski road. The Seventeenth street road was under water at the Rosenthal and Wiwikopf bridges. The temporary Sangamon bridge, route 4 south, was washed out. Salt Creek at Clinton went over the I.T.S. bridge. Service south of here via I.T.S was halted today. Water, lashed into waves, ate into the fill of the road near Boren Siding for a distance of 200 yards, undermining the track. Water lapped the ties and traffic was halted. A freight engine was hauling cars loaded with sand to ballast the crumbling railway fill. Two bad washouts which did not wreck the track, but made traffic dangerous, occurred on the I.C. between here and Mt. Pulaski. Peoria division traffic was detoured via Clinton and Decatur. Chicago - St. Louis trains were being detoured via Clinton. The C. and A. maintained service with the Kansas City trains about half an hour late. Derailment of four cars at Sherman due to washout, caused detours temporarily via San Jose. CONTINUED u