Nebraska advertiser., 1869-09-30

-Four F1ourfng Mills Swept Away
Hogs, Cattle and sheep Drowned
Wheat andHay stacks Carried OH
The Lille Blue publisheda at Jenkins
Mills, jefferson County, has just been
received. containing the particulars Of
the great food that visited the Blue
river country three weeks ago, mere
umOrs Of which only have reached
Us up TO this time. We transfer the
Little Base's account in part 70 our
columns
Friday evening, Sept Sd, this vi
einity was visited by the heaviest rain
OF the season. The rain commenced
falling about . 2. M, and came down
in torrents ali night deluging the
earth with water.
1t Eained more OF less all day Satur-
day, but the river did not rise but lit
tie.
Sunday morning, the water com
menced raising, about pa N. ". r.
Sr-, andS :. F. Jenkins, came down
the river, and reported the bottom
I covered with water. and that Il was
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wait but 8 few moments to see Il com
ing down in = body about four feet
high, and sweeping everything before
IL Every man on the ground plung-
ed into the water 20 save the lumber
and logs about the Mill, but il was all
1 Of no avail-almost everything was
carried away, and the water stood If
teen feet higher than it was ever before
known.
Wheat stacks we've swept past like
lightning. Haystaeks were torn and
scattered over the waters. Houses
that were supposed tn be Highland dry
we7ecOvered with water: out buildings
were carried away with their contents
men, women and cbileren barely
made their escape. Cattle. hogs.
sheep and poultry were drowned. In
fact. everything either drowned or
carried away. Crops or nearly all the
tributaries OF the Little Blue were
destroyed Rose creek was swept
clean Ofeverything. Watts FIGURING
Mill On that creek was carried OF. and
is 9 total loss. We have not learned
its estimated value, but its loss TO that
section is great.
The town Of FneepOrt on the opDO-
site side Of the river from this place.
was covered with water TO the depth
Of eight and ten feet. The wagons.
buggies, harness, haystacks. and In
fact everything might be seen wend-
ing their way St LOuis-ward- Mr..
JAS FraZier's loss cannot be less than
$1,000, while many other citizens were
heavy losers. We have not been able
70 ascertain theamOunt.
We cannot give the loss Of all, IS It
is impossible for Us TO get about to see.
We viii only give a few Of the heavi-
est.
d. G. Jenkins lost his entire crop:
estimated at least $1,000. His loss at
the mill in damage done to the dam.
levee and machinery. Is ar the least
calculation. 5000. The water was so
high that il covered Front street from
end 10 end, but did not get into any
Of the houses in front Of the kiln. It
washed the street out eight feet deep.
This was the only place it done any
damage. The levee on the south side
Of q river Is gone, and 2 channel cut
through from above the dam that will
cost $500 or 5000 70 repair.
The school house on the bottom
above town, standing, Is we supposed
FIVE feet above high water mask, was
half covered with water.
The little BhIe Office was complete
" surrounded byWateT, and we came
10 the conclusion that If the water rose
much higher, we would have to dis
pense with this number Of our paper.
but no damage was done to the Office.
Tho Nnruun ~ nunn~Eer- --sNh=~- s.
miles Of this place is estimated at S75,-
OO0and the loss in this vicinity is light,
compared with some others.
This flood has been TO this new
country a great damage. Plenty Of
everything has been raised, more than
would be consumed but il has been
swept away, and the farmer to-day
looks on empty fields and graneries.
We feel satisfied that we do not
Over-estimate the losses on the Little
Blue and its tributaries, when we put
il at 81, 600, 900.
As near as we can ascertain from
our own figures and those made by
others, there was eleven and three
quarter inches OF water fell during last
Friday night. II seemed TO Us that
the heavens opened and poured one
ceasless stream Of water down upon
the earth for nearly sixteen hours.
Streams that were never known TO
have more than q foot Of water in
them, had ten TO fifteen feet, and wa
ter could almost be seen standing on
the hill-sides.
Since the above was put in type, we
gre informed that Vessels Afill and
dan at Meridian, in this county are
both gone. We have not yet learned
the damage A gentleman in from
Wateryille tells US that the Railroad
Bridge across the Blue at Irwin, was
reported washed away. The bridge is
said 20 be sixty feet above high water
mark.
There is no property left, we are in
formed, on Rose creek. This creek
was thiekIy settled, and had the best
grain on il Of any stream in Southern
Nebraska, or Northern Kansas
NOON.-NO news from above yet
No travel up OF down the river. We
learn to-day from farmers who have
been TO work among the stacks of
wheat not washed away, that it is all
spoiled, owing TO the water working
upward through them.
Mr.. John Mitchem, Just In from
above, reports Marks FIGURING Mill,
on RISE creek, gone. This takes the
last FIGURING Mill out Of the country,
making four mills gone.
Parties Just in from Rose creek say
that 2 number Of spans Of horses were
drowned Saturday night, and that the
water stood by sexual measurement IS
feet deep. Rose creek is a small
stream and il w~as4lever before, since
its settlement by white men, known,
In the biggest storms, to have risen
more than ten feet.
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