Lookback: 1892 flooding created widespread impact - Austin Daily Herald

Lookback: 1892 flooding created widespread impact - Austin Daily Herald

By Tim Ruzek Around 3 a.m., Austin awoke to “a big wave” coming down the Cedar River in 1892 after heavy rain drenched the area. Floodwaters raging toward Austin’s downtown dam carried “outhouses, pig pens, hen coops and a small house and several windmills, together with chickens, pigs, sheep, cattle and horses,” the Mower County Register wrote June 16, 1892. A small carriage and “thousands of pieces” of lumber, trees, machinery and other items …