Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-07-07
NUMBER ia
MANKATO NEWS.
ESPECIALLY REPORTED FOR THE ST. PAUL GLOBE.
MANKAro, July 5.-The recent storm did


a good deal of damage in this locality.
The Wooden mill company sustains loss
of $500 by the destruction of property in
the basement of their building. The en-
CINE was drowned with mud and water, the
water line shows that it reached depth of
eight feet. part of the basement is also
used as soap factory, and the immense vas
and tubs were tossed into disordered heaps
piles of lumber and wood on the outside of
the building were waahed against the open
ings of the sewers, and it was blocked up,
stopping the flow of the mad waters, thus
creating dam that was over seven feet in
depth space of q block.
Fred Kron, dry goods dealer and grocer
on Front street, had his store cellar flooded,
and goods amounting to 1915 or 800 de-
stroyed.
Several blacksmith shops and Sherwin &
Fay's sash and blind factory were flooded.
The damage to gardens will amount to, at
the least calculation, $3.50, several being
buried under several inches of sand. Jacob
Traub is the heaviest loser, 1926. The water
IN its mad career near his place swept dag
onally across the street and into his garden.
Your reporter also had visit from this
flood, and now the work of week can be
summed up with the result, nothing.
Ewing & Wilkinson's livery stable. fine
brick building on Hickory street, was thor
oughly soaked in the basement where horses
are kept, and only by liveliest action of sta
BILE hands got the horses out. No damage,
but damp stable.
At upper yard. the Mankato Brick Co. lost
$4,000 brick, and the dry sheds are left in
bad condition.
The streets are still filled with water, parts
of w shington and Second being almost i'm
passable. Nothing of the kind has occurred for
years. The Oldest settler is amazed,i and
thinks there must be a screw loose some
where.
One of the good results of the storm was,
that 1t settled in manner peculiarly its own,
feud between q couple of families in the
vicinity of the Catholic church that grew out
of the common use of we'll. The unusual
flow of water sapped the foundation Of the
wall, and they found the we'll caved in this
morning.
The trenches for the water pipe were badly
caved, and filled with water.
Rain fell at intervals yesterday, COM
mencing at O'Clock yesterday evening, the
fall continuing all night. The river has
risen some ten inches or more. Grain is
reported to be badly beaten down in the
oA.AAoA AZ eA1Ao SouI1oy aAA 1(ACoAlots IdTM0tS
are hopeful that it will come to an upright
position again.
Mr.. Buckley, car inspector on the Sioux
City road, worked all night to his waist in
water trying to turn the flood from his house
and lot; in spite of all his efforts it entered
it and stood foot and half on the floor,
and two and half on the lot.
Washouts and landslides at Minneopa
the track covered in several places in this
city.
The bands employed by the water works
contractors are on strike. They ask 25
cents increase in wages, thus making it
$l.5O per day. OF the 100 men lately at
work, but twelve are willing to 60 to work
for the old wages. The contractors are en-
deavoring to break the lock by telegraphing
to Chicago.and other cities for hands, The
men are determined not to work for less
than $1.5O per day, and the contractors
>laim they cannot afford to pay it. The
probabilities are that the matter will be
settled with satisfaction to all parties. The
principal cause of the strike, from what I
can learn, is dissatisfaction with one of the
bosses. Everything is quiet, and there is
but little doubt but what as soon as IL gets
dry enough to go to work, that the men will
do SO. That the men can and do earn the
asked increase there is no question. 1t only
HINGES on the fact that, where there is a sur
plus of laborers capital rules, vice versa,
labor rules. There is faint possibility that
men may be imported to take the place of
the strikers whether or no.