Dangerous River May Be 18 Sunday Don't Relax, Mayor Says

jTi April tl, IMS WINONA DAILY NEWS 3

Dangerous River Engineers Get Don't Relax, Mayor Says May Be 18 Sunday Loss Estimate By WILUAM J. COLE Northward from Winona the Pally News Managing Editor river was dropping all Ihe way : The Mississippi River, still ex- to St. Paul, but flood stages tremely dangerous, was slowly were not expected to be reachreceding from its crest at Wi- ed until near the end of the nona today. month. The decline to noon today slill Joseph Strub, the Weather was less than half a foot from Bureau's river expert, who the 20.75 high of Monday after- nearly a month ago started Winoon. nona flood preparations wilh bis The reading at noon today prediction of the highest river was 20.39, down .36 of a foot in the city's history, flew over from Monday's crest. ! the area Tuesday. For the next four days (he projected Weather Bureau figAfter reluming to .Minneaures were: polis he tald: "There's 10 much water all over everyThursday 20.3 where (hat it will have (o Friday 19.8 be a slow drop." He reportSaturday 19.0 ed water from bluff to bluff Sunday 18.0 In some cases.

Wednesday Tuesday Monday Sunday Saturday

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258,000 264,000 281,000 260,000 230,000

Of $3 Mil ion

By FRANK VHUG Daily News Staff Writer Like a wild creature, stung but undefeated, the Mississippi River today is an even more dangerous enemy, officials in the cily flood-fighting headquarters believe. City Engineer James Baird warned that slightly decreasing pressure CD outward defenses tends to loosen them up. This means there are more week spots to watch for, h« said.

flat gate and this is holding back most of the dirert flow from the river. Infiltration continues, he said, but pumping at points along Crooked Slough is controlling this influx, THE TWO MAJOR »rm menaced by poiilbl* STORM SEWER ruptures are low-elevation residential districts at the city's northeast and northwest corners. About 40 hlocki between Harvester and Olmstead streets and about 35 blocks lying roughly between Adams and High Forest streets ar« endangered. Residents hava been evacuated from major portions of these districts. Constant pumping has brought water levels 5a the 5th and Jefferson Street silo down about two feet. Aiding in this reduction are tha successful efforts to cut off som» of the backflow through mains by means of sandbags and inflatable bags. Some water enters from an outlet at Louisa and King streets but pumping Is handling this problem. A similar well near 3rd and Mechanic streets also had been lowered by pumps. The Olmstead Street pumping station now is handling overflow from the Washington Street sewer system as well as seepage in the adjacent Chicago & North Western switch yard. An additional 12-inch pump installed Tuesday near th» Archer-Daniels-Midland plant has helped reduce water leveli In overflowing sewers. All SANITARY SEWAGE now is being pumped into the river, engineers said. Tha sanitary sewage disposal plant Is completely under water, flooded early Monday by tn eruptlng effluent main. A sanitary sewer main on Belleview Street, between Sioux and Dacota streets, has collapsed, engineers said. Th« .failure, occurred in a 15-inch collector main. Emergency pumps are in operation, carrying the flow around th« break in a temporary bypassing setup. Engineers said a partial collapse of street surface on Center, between 3rd and 4th streets, has occurred for reasons not yet determined. Round-the-clock checks of MUNICIPAL WATER supplies are being made by the Department of Health, Dr. Warren Haesly, health officer, said. No contamination has been observed up to this point, he said. Most of the vigilance is concentrated on water coming from wells at the Wesifield pumping station, the city's source of supply for the duration of the emergency. Wells are more likely to become contaminated than the water main system, said Dr. Haesly, since the mains carry water at ' a pressure of about 60 pounds per square inch. The internal pressure is much higher than any external pressure of contaminating seepage and this keep the mains from being infiltrated, he noted. Samples from points along the mains are taken twice a week. Wells are sampled three times a day, Dr. Haesiy »aid.

An estimate of losses up to AS IK TO underline his warning, strings ot trncki con$3 million was to be given to Thursday 182,500 Corps of Engineers today in tinue to haul fresh earth to back up the dikes. Much of th« St. Paul by a Winona City Coun- traffic, was directed toward Prairie Island, where contractors The Mississippi and other cil delegation. built themselves a new access road after covering up preflood swollen rivers continued to Council President Harold vious roadways with additional diking. recede after inflicting an esti Briesath headed the group Some spot reinforcing also was being applied at Crooked mated $50 million to $60 million which included George M. Rob- Slough and Mankato Avenue dikes. At Mankato Avenue, occasional sand boils were countered by enclosing them with damage on the state. ertson Jr., city attorney, and William P. Theurer, formep barrels and surrounding the barrels with sandbags. Street But there are still perils, Commissioner Arlhur Brom said the chimneys appear to delegation Three crewmen of Northern alderman.to The meet. briefly with be working well States Power Co. were pulled pected Mayor R. K. Ellings warned against any letdown: and later to confer from the swift current of the legislators with banking officials on the "We have spent a tremendous amount of money up to Mississippi after their boat subject emergency now and we simply have to keep on going. We don't consider tipped Tuesday, and four per- borrowingsof forlarge ex- any dikes finished and we're still working on all of them. sons were plucked from a tree penses incurredflood-control (he past two surrounded by flood waters of weeks. "People shouldn't get the Idea the danger Is past Snake River. just because th« river level Is Aowa » lew tenths of i ' Thus the first of (he big daily At its Monday meeting the foot. The critical time In my flood comei as the crest drops will come Sunday when A slight drop occurred in flow- The NSP employes, Gordon council authorized emergency drops. the river is expected to fall a age over the Winona Dam to- Rieger, 43, and Richard Koch, borrowings of up to $3 million. day, Wallace Voss, lockmaster, 31, of St. Paul, and William Curfoot. "We still have a flood that's far above that of 1952. K Data furnished the corps in tis, 32, New Brighlon, were turn At La Crnsse the crest passed reported. will be forwarded to the anything, we need even more dike patrols than before. Wa trimming branches of a tree Tho figure today was 258,000 at 5 p.m. Tuesday and for the federal Office of Emergency can't relax for a minute — not until the water is down to tha next three days readings of 17.7 cubic feet per second. At the surrounded by deep water when Planning which will set up t point where it can't do any damage, even if dikes were to their boat overturned. Two of peak of the flood the rate was and 17.6 are expected. The rivof disaster aid to the city break." the men managed to hold onto plan er is not expected to be back 264,000. Winona is eligible for such aid AT STAKE in the Hood light Is the estimated $186 milto the 15-foot reading until April Figures for the past week folunder provisions of the Presi free1 "* lion of real and personal property in the city. Were dikes M. dent's designation of parts ol low: to break — or the sewer system to erupt — at the 20-foot Workers in a nearby sand and Minnesota as a disaster area. gravel plant saw the men fall Few solid guesses can be flood stage, officials say roughly three-fourths of the city into the water and rescued them made on gross cosls of the would be inundated. This would jeopardize about $139.5 in a tugboat. million of property values, according to such approximations. j city's current defense project the city recorder, John S Wchard Havisio, 19, and Kicli- Carter, said today. Advance Few solid estimates of floodfighting costs are available but officials expect (he total bill to approach S3 milard Foster, 18, of Pine Cily, estimates of $100,000 by Winona lion. tried to ride the Snake River Plumbing Co. and James in a canoe, but it capsized and O'Laughlin Plumbing Co. ant Dike workers feared, perHigh priority is given to prevention of sewer system was bent around a tree on a $75,000 by N. A. Roverud Con haps more than anything flooding. The situation appears to have brightened somesubmerged island near Pine struction Co. have been submit elst, sharp wind action with successful closure of three major avenues of j Cily. Foster's uncle, Robert Fos-! ter, Carter said. O'Laughlin what, which would drive floating backwashing and stcpped-up pumping efforts. . . . . . . . . ! ler, 43, and a friend, Mark Elia-1 and Winona Plumbing are work debris against the dikes, Baird said no other inflatable bags, aside from two inDaylight savings time may (son, 40, also of Pine City, took i ing on the Prairie Island sec damaging them and possistalled Monday and Tuesday, had been put in city mains. be the subject of a special City ja molor boal out !o rescue the | lor. Roverud is assigned to th bly causing the start of * A 34-inch main at Harvester Avenue was found to have a Council meeting this week, aid-1 two. Mankato Avenue area. breakthrough. ermen Carter said , c . indicated . . todav. i The j. HC boat uuak capsized vauaiLcu. and aiiu the me — -—•>• the ..•« city's %,i»j ^ bill uu* to i\j North Central Alrlinei !>' delegation was to con-j m e n had to S!,ck safety in , he { burlap bags will be above $200, weather station at Mai Confcr with local legislators on the tree. 000 but few other costs can b rad Field repotted Ihe wind matter today in St. Paul. They helicopter was called from defined at present. *t IJ mitf.i per hour from planned to ask about status of IheA Twin and the four Ihe northwest at noon wilh a a bill recently submitted in the were lifted Cities, of the iree. haromtter of 30.04 and rislegislature which would penal- More thanoul5,000 private wells By TERRY BORMANN ing slowly. about the width, on the top, of addition to strengthening the. cedes. This probably would bi ize cities which changed their in the stale are threatened by • Daily News Staff Writer a three-lane street. dike, Modjeski and he were im- • done on all the dikes, the conclocks independently of the rest floodwater contamination, about of the slate. "We're working with confi- T H R E E BROTHERS from proving the road so that it tractors surmised, as other 1,000 of them in suburban comWinona coordinated its switch munilies near Minneapolis, the dence, backing up the dike now; Lewiston—Allen, Howard and would carry car traffic to Ihe equipment was pulled off th« homes on the island, when these job. to fast time last year wilh that State Health Department said. and things are well under conAll officers and trustees o trol," said Jim O'Laughlin, IJjaVerne Peterson—said that are opened up in a week or 10 The air under a warm sun of Wisconsin by special resoluthe Minnesota City dike had \ the Woodlawn Cemetery Assodays. tion of the council. The cily Gov. Karl today was almost lazy on th« iciation were re-elected at the contractor, with Mark Modje->been "weeping" more today The two contractors also Prairie Island dike. There wera thereby went on DST a month 11 more counties ski, for the Prairie Island dike, than Tuesday. However, it earlier than the resl of Ihe flood disaster areas, to make association's annual meeting O'Laughlin said lhat the area wasn't anything to be alarmed jraised the workers who came fewer men than last week, and jut to the dikes in response to the sense of urgency which state, except for a handful of them eligible for emergency fed- Tuesday. the deer park and about, they said. Mayor R. K. Ellings' call last drove those hundreds was aberal assistance. The Office of They include R. J. Selover, between other border municipalities. Dam 5A, which people have The brothers work for the sent today. Some worked in This year Wisconsin will Emergency Planning already president; K. A. McQueen, vice been concerned about, looks ] government on the dike pro- Thursday. and A. B. Youmans, make Its switch at the same [ hal approved 46 other counties, president, Workers from Goodall Manu- Iheir T-shirts. A few young reasurer Tr "real, real good to us." tecting Dam SA. They have - "stees re-elected LAKE CITY, Minn.-At noon lime — Sunday — but it will Wabasliar'a"" com"munity"~of j ! facturing Corp., Brom Machine girls walked the dikes, flirting today Lake Pepin here was stay on a month later, to the 2,500 remained surrounded by include Selover, John Glenn and MOD.TESKI said that he and been on dike watch and, also & Foundry Co., Madison Silo, wilh workers. fill sandbags when the need J. Russell Smith. water Tuesday, but the river down inches from Tuesday noon end of October. Walking Products, Inc., and Sandbags are still being filled Neil Sawyer was appointed O'Laughlin are gradually tak- arises. "Just so long as the Northwestern Cooperative Mills and placed, however, as the rebut the street above the en- Council President Harold there is falling slowly. ing equipment off the job. "The water that seeps through is secretary lor one year and gulfed boat harbor still was Briesath is expected to call a At Stillwater, the St. Croix are on the job, usuallyceding river drags some of thi Hartner Jr., superinten- things we are taking off we clear," one of them said, still River was about aa half covered. special meeting for the pur-If™ ™* down aown aoom nan George with their own supervisor, and dike facing with it. And treknow where they are, though," dent and actuary for one year. "we're okay." r s amounts of fill continTuesday's east wind, which pose of putting putting'Winona on Ihe ^'""LlS .S Other trustees include A. M'. IMmljeski emphasized. "We're O'Laughlin and Modjeski gave doing marvelous work, accord- mendous be opened ES?.: today ?l° for the.lfirst battered the dikes and caused same of ing to Modjeski and O'Laughlin ue to be brought in to strengthtime schedule as Wiscon- lo not going to get caught short," Oskamp, F. W. Sayyer, Norspecial praise to the truck time in almost a week, but no repairs to be made, have died The contractors also thanked en the already massive dike.* drivers who "stuck with us in the Salvation Army crews who extending toward each other automobile traffic is permitted man Schellhas, Youmans, Mc- he said. down and the lake now is calm. Queen and George Robertson O'Laughlin agreed: "We the muck" early this week. kept in the downtown area. The their men supplied with from the Madison Silo Co. and WITHOUT WIND, (here is no • About 800 feet of dikes weret b r i d g e al stil , water remains Jr. aren't about to go home," he About half the truckers left food through the many days of Minnesota City.• appreciable c u r r e n t on Ihe! built there. During 1964 there were 181 said. them, O'Laughlin said, "when flood fight — and continue Bhorc here, the police explained; Five to eight inches of water [closed. interments, an increase of 51 Civil Defense Director George the road near the deer park be- the to do so. (The Peterson broththe [low is .2 of 1 knot per hour. were reported over Highway 61 There Is one cheering note over 1963. They included 165 also said, of plans for came so thick in mud that bull- ers put in their own words of One-lane truck traffic has at Maple Springs. among all the grim reports. adults, eight baby and eight McGuire dozers had to push the trucks thanks to the Salvation Army been gelling through from the Tourist Park, otherwise known j Peter Mitzuk's polyethylene- cremated remains. A lota! of gradually shutting down the canteens.) north end of town since Monday as Lake City Point, still is un- wrapped house at Hastings is, 173 concrete vaults and eight flood-fighting machine, "Right in and out. morning. About 8,000 feet of der 12 feet of water in some I as he puts it, "as snug as a'wood rough boxes were used now, everything is tentative. BUT THE REST stack with O'LAUGHLIN said that Moddike were built by the state places, the police said. Tree-; bug in a rug." ! During Ihe year 12 monuments, We're talking about a lot of jeski and he plan to keep backHighway Department from the tops show, plus the roofs of two! Mil7.uk took a 400 foot roll of i 111 grave markers and one two now have a clay road as good up rigs loaded with fill in renorth city limits, past Central cabins left on the point. j polyethylene 16 feet wide and I crypt mausoleum were erected. wait and see." as any of the unpaved county serve to take care of trouble Point and into Goodhuc County. A watch is kept on the pow- wrapped up the house. j A recent survey showed 2 100 On a trip out the length of roads. O'Laughlin said that, in spots as the Mississippi reThis diking, extending more er planl, which is protected by I "Now 1 think I've got it i grave spaces for sale in the the Prairie Island dike, Modthan a mile, is 5 to 6 feel high. jeski pointed out that the road Don't get too complacent, Ray Downriver, south of the Milwas now two-way for part of H. Brown warned Winonans towaukee Railroad overpass, one its length and that it had been day. lane of traffic is allowed over water in basements near the wa- where from $5,000 to $6,000, and raised to the height of the The manager of the Minnesoshout 300 feet of Highway 61.lcr front. dike—in effect making the dike ta State Employment Service office here and area manpower coordinator during the flood emergency, Brown said today that there is still more than » A postponement in the open- are concerned, thought w a s ; 20-foot river stage here, ing of Winona's public and' given Monday by the Board of j A call for a lot of men could parochial elementary and sec- Education to a possible exten- [come at any time if a dike ondary schools and the three sion of a day or two of the would break or another emercolleges until Monday was an- school year this spring to com- gency would occur, he assert•ounced today. pensate for the lost days dur- ed. v Superintendent Schoolsu A. „_(.,.-.-.. — ——» of -. ~....~_, ,__ *"o ti4v; * i mittwjgtt liILS ing -..», the -j...^.fjL.Ji-j emergency j*if the re-j Although uic the uin onlyv taSlJ calls this L. Nelson said at the conclusion opening of schools was to be! morning were a few for skillof a conference with city Civil postponed until Monday. ied equipment operators. Brown Defense Director Pn n rP nr U ACTION ON this would be i ™ """•" ~ Guire "that' in"' consideration of was not existing emergency conditions taken at a meeting of the i yet over andemergency they should keep it would be best not to have Board of Education. th selves ava and Lincoln schools' ™ jlable. children return to school Thurs- •cMadison af Of the CO communilies at oloualinnc elevations holnir below tti. the nro^ pres- "One day as previously planned. are outh of river levels and the super- i 5, Winona-such as La Schools originally were (o have ent {nrtnnt *inin,j' 4U:~ : i i _ _ i CrOSSe. WnPrP tnA rlvpr is fr*":t_ the river: this morning that resumed classes after the East- lnere today—has calls for b« any major w kers -rom issued ssue cas or er recess Tuesday but a two- 11' floodln were ..... said. MO uu,ivij\(iic.iucm. was agreed at; i ecu _...„,,.„ would »uu*u j °J _T. „ here,- Brown , (! dav"i postponement «» .-. — .._, ^hools e c u t of[ rom om n mu ln to last weekend because of the]? _ ! * «. J^ing u,,,'!! „ . " " J ? 1° T basts, transportation of children lo !erate on a 21-hour-a-day flood situation. he added. their homes difficult. THE MONDAY reopening ap- Nelson pointed out that Jef- Brown said that figures cornplies to all public schools, ferson and Central Elementary ;P'led Tuesday show lhat, as of Catholic and Lutheran parochi- schools are designated as auxil- [ Monday night, a total of 4,330 al schools and Phelps School, iary hospital units and Senior j Pa'd workers were sent to floodin kindergarten through 12th High and Washington - Kosciu-1 control jobs by his office, grades. sko schools are evacualion [ Of this total, 3,310 went to The city's three colleges — centers. itvork on city projects. The fed! Winona Stale, SI. Mary's and . Virtually all of the teaching j eral government hired 810 for College of Saint Teresa — also i staff in the public schools and j work on area dams through th» -• will reopen Monday morning. ; many of the high school boys Office, and private industry -' Phelps School follows the are now engaged in emergency look the remaining 210 n-orkschedule of Winons State and flood "—' work. —'1st. Matthew's Lutheran School 1 was on vacation this week. I Nelson said that several fac- j j tors were taken inlo considera-1 [lion during the discussion with |CD authorities this morning. IN THE FIRST pl.te, he! said, the river crest only recenlly has been reached and i water will remain at a high level for some time. The superintendent said that it was felt that calling children back toApril 22nd Special Meeting postponed to school at this time would be exposing them to unnecessary later date due to flood emergency. hazards. Also cited was the fad lhal the concentration, of some 6,000 pupils in school buildings JAMES M. FOSTER, i throughout the ctiy would be WARFARE . , . Engineers fight a battle against infiltration waler inside dike system keep batteries of pumps operating at capacity putting an additional strain en President already critical storm sewof seepage water behind dikes, as this photo of Crooked Slough levees shows. output to maintain « differential. Sandbags line outside of dike to level of the er system. ls o{ The view is upstream, with the river on the right. Large poo seepaga about four feet »bove the river's high-water point. (Daily News photo) As far as the public schools

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Lake Pepin Calm; Trucks Move in City

Friday

210,000

City Council May Discuss Daylight Time

Woodlawn Names Same Officers

They're Confident on Island

Employment Office Gets Only Few Calls

School Reopening Set for Monday

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