2022 Fall Home and Garden

Page 28 2022 Fall Home & Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS Sept. 23, 2022 The water at 9 o’clock this morning was over two feet higher than the record high water mark of 1913. Inside the plant, with two feet of water on the plant floor, doors and windows were barricaded with planking, clay and straw. C. E. Steinfort, superintendent, and Ben Hallock, chief engineer, were working side by side with scores of worn, water soaked men, caulking up holes as the rising water broke through fresh loop holes. From time to time water spilled over the coffer dam. Water will continue in the city’s mains as long as the boilers can be fired. The flood was within inches of the boiler grates this forenoon. Pumps were by every minute pumping water out of the inside of the plant, and only the I.T.S. tracks at the east side of the plant, acting as a dam, prevented another foot of water from sweeping in on the plant. The plant’s pumps, working submerged, handicapped the steam pressure. A score of trucks and teams, the horses wading in water up to [cannot find the continuance of this story] ----- THE FLOOD EMERGENCY Lincoln today faced an extraordinary emergency. Flood has cut off the electric current and threatened momentarily to stop the water supply. The public may rest assured that everything humanly is being done to keep service open. They are advised to draw off a supply of CONTINUED u