The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1881-04-09
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The Missouri has overflowed its banks
and is covering the bottom lands. 1t is
eighteen feet above low water mark and
is still rising. Little damage has yet
been done. Everything has broken loose
at Sioux City, and the river is rushing
down with a five foot rise. The great
gorge between Sioux City and Yankton,
said to have been over fifty miles long,
has at last given way, and the vast ac-
emulation of water which had been
backed up for so long is now having q
free blow. All but two or three build
ings at Vermillion have been swept away
The water is up to the roofs of the cars
at the depot, and at Yankton the water
is twenty feet above low water mark and
rising six inches an hour. The gorge
has caused the river to run out of its
channel, and it is filling the Bluff from
Yankton to Vermillion ON the Iowa side.
Fears are entertained that it will make
new channel that way. If the river
makes new channel it will run across
the country from Vermillion and enter
into the Big Sioux river, three miles
northwest of Elk Point, leaving about
thirty five miles of the Dakota Southern
Railway, between Sioux City and Ver-
million on the Nebraska side, together
with large track of land This will be
a tremendous cutoff, but not at all
strange with this river.
CHICAGO, April 4.
A sensational attempt at murder was
made last evening on West Madison
street. For some time c. II. Atchison,
salesman, has suspected that his wife
was guilty of improper intimacy with
Austin A. Barnum, the bookkeeper of the
Chicago club. The parties occupied ad-
joining rooms in the same house, and
Atchison laid trap to ascertain the
truth of his suspicious by boring small
hole through the ceiling of Barnum's
room and then pretended he was going
out of the city. Instead of doing this he
took friend and stationed himself be.
tween the roof and ceiling of Barnum's
room. His watch was finally rewarded
by the realization Of his worst fears, for
he saw his wife and Barnum in fagrante
delicto, to which his friend also was
witness. He then fired through the cell
ing at Barnum, the ball grazing the lat
ter's thigh and passing through the bed
into the floor. Mrs. Atchison rushed to
the window and fired five shots from
revolver to attract the police. Atchison
was arrested and tells the whole story
with great calmness.
SIDNEY, Neb., April 4.
Reddy Mcdonald, the head musician
of dance-house and noted cut-throat,
was taken from the County Jail at an
early hour yesterday morning by the
Vigilantes and hanged to a tree in the
Courthouse yard. Mcdonald was one of
sixteen desperadoes who were jailed on
Friday. They had held the town in ter
ror for several years, and the citizens re-
solved to clean them out. Mcdonald
was found arranging plans for breaking
Jail and hence the lynching
Ex-Deputy Sheriff Ryan, who stabbed
attorney Michael, has not been captured.
He will be lynched when caught. 1t is
limited that two more prisoners who have
committed foul murders and escaped
punishment will be taken out and made
into good men by lynching them.
SANTA BARBARA, (Cal.) J, April 5.
A sheep herder was arrested on suspi-
cion Of having ravished and murdered
Mrs. Sargent ann taken by the citizens
after the inquest and hung by the neck
for few seconds. On being taken down
he said some other man had committed
the crime, but he saw it, and it was COM
mitted near his cabin. To divert suspi-
cion from himself he put rope around
the neck of the deceased, and dragged
her to the place where she was found. He
went over the ground with the citizens,
and also dug up the club with which the
murder was committed, and produced
some of the articles taken from the muir.
dered woman. His stories as to the per-
petrator were so conflicting that the citi-
zens considered his guilt beyond doubt,
and they hung him to tree.