The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-29
Track Repairers Working from Eae'
End OF the washed Out Road.
Another Rise Of the Missouri Feared
at Omaha
Twenty Two Feet OF n Rise I'm the
River at Yankton.
Large Number of Cattle. sheep. Hogs
Etc. Drowned.
The River Banks and Bottom Lands
strewn with Careasses.

Omaha, March 2S.-The situation in
the inundated district on the Platte
river is much better than any one had
reason to expect. The telegraph re-
pairers, who went to work early yester-
day morning, have succeeded in getting
up the fallen wires between Fremont
and Colpmhaasy- y-by which through COM
munication along the Union Pacific is
resumed.
Dispatches received at the Union Pa
cific headquarters gives the condition
of the track. At the old washout,
three miles west of Fremont, the new
track which was finished last Thursday,
was mostly washed away, many of the
timbers being floated clear into Fre-
mont. Further west, a stretch of
nearly six miles is SO badly washed that
it will have to be almost entirely re-
built. At North Bend there is Sc
rious and extensive washout. From
North Bend to Columbus the track is
in fair shape. The pile bridge, just
east Of the Loup river bridge, was part
ly swept away, and on both sides of the
Loup river there are extensive wash
outs A gang of nearly one hundred
bridge repairers are working hard at
the Loup river pile bridge, and large
gangs of track repairers are working
from each end of the flooded portion of
the road, the water having subsidized
yesterday, 30 they push right along.
By the end Of the week. at the furthest,
trains will be running over the eastern
division as usual. To-day they were
started west by way of the Kansas City
road to st. Joe, and from there over
the st. Joe & Western to Grand Island
on the Union Pacific main line, beyond
the flooded section.
The Burlington & Missouri road over
which the Union Pacific had beeu run
ming trains, is in bad shape, owing to
the high water having rendered two
or three bridges unsafe, and several
Union Pacific trains are now delayed
on that road, but expect to get in to-
morrow. The Burlington s. Missouri
road ran no trains to-day between Om-
aha and Lincoln on account of the
high water on the track and insecurity
of the Platte river bridge. The Union
Pacific bridge over the Missouri river
was considerably shaken by the break
ing Of an ice gorge yesterday afternoon.
1t was tested this morning thoroughly,
and found to be all right. after which
trains were allowed to pass over as
usual. As yet no reliable reports have
been received of the loss of human
lives, either in Loup or Platte valley,
but great many cattle, hogs, etc.,
must have perished, as they were seen
floating down with the flood. Some
farm houses were destroyed there, and
some oftheir occupants barely escaped.
The Missouri river is reported to have
risen twenty-five feet at Yankton yes
terday, owing to the ice gorge, and it
is expected that this will raise the river
considerably here tonight. The Elk
horn river is rising and gorging at the
Cnion Pacific bridge, and trouble is
expected there.
The bodies of drowned woman and
two children, unknown, were discov-
cred few miles west of Schuyler this
afternoon, and probably more will be
found there and at other points. There
has been a great loss of stock throuoh-