Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-03-30
NEBRAsKAs RAILROAD TROUBLE.
Celebration of the Birthday of Mapd g,
the Trotter.
FUNERAL OF THE LATE GENERAL UPTON.

OF THE LATE GENERAL UPTON.
Fruit Outlook in Maryland
and Delaware.
THE POSITION OF THE WORLDS FAIR MATTER.
Death of the First Girl Child Born in
Louisville
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Submerged. Nebrasfa-Inmense Damage.
Council BLUFFS, March 29th.-No pas
senger trains have arrived from San Fran.
cisco since Saturday, and only two have gone
west. The washouts are heavy. Great dam
age has already been done and more is an.
ticipated, both to the company and to indi-
viduals. The bridge between here and
Omaha was terribly shaken by the break. up
of ice in the Missouri, and it was question
for time whether it would not go down.
OMAHA, March 29th.-The water having
subsidized in the Platte valley, the work of
repairing the Union Pacific is being pushed
with great vigor, and by Saturday the dam
age viii be repaired sufficiently to admit OF
running through trains again. Meantime
the Union Pacific trains will be run with
little or no delay over the Burlington and
Missouri road to Kearny, which road is to-
day again in condition to receive and ham
die these trains, and no further trouble is
feared Three delayed Union Pacific trains
arrived here this evening. Through freight
will tomorrow be forwarded over the Bur-
lington and Missouri. The damages to the
main lines of the road will first be repaired,
and then viii follow big job of work on the
branches. Over 80 per cent. of the bridges
have been washed away in Nebraska by
freshets, and numerous grist-mills have been
destroyed. Cattle, sheep, hogs, etc, have
been drowned in large numbers in the Platte
valley. As far as can be learned no persons
were drowned except one woman and two
children west of Schuyler. Near them was
found the box of an emigraDt wagon, and it
is supposed that they were part of an emf
grant party. the rest of whom were also
probably drowned. The ice went out of the
Elkhorn river this afternoon, without doing
auy damage except knocking the Union Pa.
ciic bridge ten inches out of line but it can
be easily repaired.
OMAHA, March 29th.-It is impossible as
yet to procure more than meagre facts about
the particular towns in the Platte valley in
undated, owing to the fact that the telegraph
lines are only partially rebuilt. Only three
lives have been lost as far as known, but
probably more persisted. The loss Of stock
and property counts up in the hundreds of
thousands. 1t is intended now to run the
Union Pacific trains through direct by Fri
day.
A Flood In Dakota
PIERRE, March 29th.-The loss by the
food here is So, 600 only. At Fort Pierre.
opposite, but two or three habitable houses
are left The loss is $50, 600. No loss of life
occurred at either place. 1t is thought the
officers and crew of the steamer Far West.
frozen in twenty miles below Pierre, are lost
FoRr PIERRE, March 29th.-The steam
ferryboat Jim Leighton has landed on eight
feet of ice 600 feet from the river bank.
Teton Island, which was heavily timbered,
was swept as clean as though mown, and coz
cred with seven to fifteen feet of ice.
Heaviest Sn0w.storm of The Season.
DAYTON (O), March 29th.-The heaviest
snow storm of the winte. set in this morning
about 4 o'clock. and has continued all day
with little cessation, and is still falling this
evening. The snow is wet and heavy, and
has caused g great impeachment to business.
About ten inches has fallen.
CINCINNATI, March 29th.-A snow. storm
prevailed to-day throughout Indiana and
Ohio, and has been generally accompanied in
many places by strong wind. Here the
wind began last night. A heavy rain came
this morning, changing to sleet and then
snow. which at II P. NJ. was still falling. In
the city it melts a good deal, forming disa-
greeable slush, but on the hilltops it lies to
no 1ay,fh Of X n
is twenty inches, and at Wilmington and
Millersburg six inches
Funeral of General Upten.
AUBURN IN. Y. J. March 29th. The funeral
of the late General Upton, whose remains ar
night, took place this afternoon from the
Sandbeach Church. All the flags in the city
were at half mast, out of respect to the dead
soldier. The church was heavily draped in
mourning, and the service, though brief, was
very impressive. There was a profuse dis.
play of flowers, the offerings of citizens. The
remains were not shown. At the city limits
the funeral cortege was met by two posts of
the Grand Army of the Republic and y
band, which escorted it to the Fort Hill
Cemetery, where the body was inferred by
the side of Lieutenant Kehoe, who was
killed in the Custer massacre. The streets
to witness the procession, although there was
nc military display.
The Worlds Fair Outlook.
New YORK, March 29th.-The Commercial
says: The present position of the Worlds
Fair does not appear to be encouraging. A
reporter called to. day on Walter Hart, local
Commissioner for California, and from him
learned that one of the causes Of the present
apathy is the lack of activity on the part Of
the Executive Committee. He said very en-
phatically that the Executive Committee, Of
which he is not a member, has been assured
of subscriptions to the amount of over ST.
100000, and have good promises for $500, 600
more 1t should go to work and show some
energy. He said California was ready to APP
propriate. a large sum if the Legislature could
only see that anything was being done to for
ward the enterprise. His colleague. w. B.
Ever, recently wrote him from San Francisco
that nothing can be done there until the pre-
liminaries are completed in New York. The
Commercial adds: AS California, or rather
San Francisco. is to have very important
celebration in 1888, where very large pro-
portion of American citizens are expected to
assemble, this expression of the San Francisco
Commissioner has a weight that should not
be lightly overlooked in the present condition
of affairs.
Fruit Outlook in Maryland and Della.
ware.
New York, March 29th-The Times says
The accounts given by the fruit-growers of
Maryland and Delaware at present say the
appearance of the peach orchards of these
States do not give an encouraging prospect,
and seem to confirm the accuracy Of the
theory that the excessively cold weather has
not only greatly endangered the peach crop
for the year, but the orchards themselves
Fruit growers in these States during the past
week or two have become alarmed because of
the failure of fruit and leaf buds to show
signs Of healthy life. One farmer in a cele-
brated peach center writes to his landlord
that he has made careful investigation of
the peach orchards on the farm, and he cam
not find a live peach bud among all of 10000
trees The old orchards are all killed, as
there is no sign of life in the leaf-buds.
Use of the Mails for Fraudulent Purposes.
ROCHESTER IN. W March 29sh.-One H.
Lannen was taken before the United States
Commissioner yesterday on charge of hav-
ing used the mails for fraudulent purposes.
According to his own admission he has been
sending out circulars as a real estate broker
and the compiler of great real estate direc-
tory, asking remittance of 81 in each case
for the directory, when in fact he had no