Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1880-06-10

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age 4 Ferguson were being drowned
out, having heaps Of hardware in their
basement.
Joseph Closuit was also inundated
losing his fence and all loose material
about his house.
Spaford & Cole were also at work
taking up goods from their cellar and
even from high shelving. Their loss
is only nominal.
T. G. StAmour had considerable
property in his cellar and much Of it
was damaged. The loss cannot be ex-
actly estimated.
Warren had everything swimming.
basement and barn stood several feet
in the water.
For time it seemed gloomy to our
citizens, the water was still rising sur
prisingly fast, there were no trains on
the Valley road, bridges, culverts and
trestie work all along the line were tax
en- away with the flood on Yellow riv-
er. The telegraph line received its
damage also and not until Wednesday
morning did they get the line in any
condition to run a train, and then on
| ly as far north as junction City.
Their loss will necessarily be very
large,
The Green Bay road was even more
unfortunate than the Valley. On
Monday it was found there had been
waahout at Dexterville, having taken
the bridge and good deal Of track
besides the large filing and created
general havoc.
T6os. Pitts is a heavy loser also
Webster & Co. Their mills, logs,
bolts and stock having been carried off
in every direction, scattered along the
river for miles.
At Scranton Hiles Brothers mill
was very much damaged and their
lumber was also foated through the
woods.
Another serious washout between
Whitehall and Independence and sin
gular enough there happened to be a
train between the two serious washouts
Immediately there were men set at
work to put the track in running con-
dition. Trains are passing now
regularly as far as Dexterville, each
way, and the company have built
pontoon bridge on Yellow river over
which passengers are transported and
in that way travel is carried on. No
freights are run through on either
road.
Another break was found between
Taylor and Mcmillan. A pile driver
and about five box cars were ditched
Saturday, at Hixton, and smashed to
pieces. A large force of men are kept
filing in at the Whitehall break with
ties, as the water washes the sand out
about as fast as train and men can
pile ties under the track for the pur-
pose of allowing the passenger train to
pass. Tuesday the officials came over
the road and men by the hundred were
set to work breaking jams that were
threatning the bridge at this point.
The pile driving at the west end was
only saved by being tied with ropes in
every manner possible to assist in
holding back the flood of logs that
came in to Garrison's slough, Not
withstanding the tying, the piles were
moved about six inches. The I'm
provement Cos dam. just below the
r. r. bridge, has gave out. which is
quite serious loss.
John Edwards had lost about $780,
900 feet of logs by their passing I'M
der the boom and then lost 1900, 900 |
by the boom giving way, Monday, |
This will prove very serious loss to
the company.
The Biron mill is all right but the
boom is being tried by the immense
quantity of logs coming down from
above, several booms having give way
to the terrible pressure.
At Neilsville the condition is far
worse than at this point. Dwelling
houses and farms, streets ETC., are be-
ing deluged and made impossible.
Never before was such food known.
The bridges, dams, and booms have
given way and there seems to be no
ond RI tho dau1apa