The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1881-04-27
THE FLOODS.
Rivers Continue Rising in Minnie
sofa.
DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY AND
LOSS OF LIFE.
washing Away Of Bridges and Rail-
road Tracks.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, April pa despatch to
the Pioneer Press from Shakopee says the river
rose two feet Sunday night, and is rising two
inches an hour. 1t is now one and half feet
below high water mark and is one and half
miles wide. The track is washing out in
places near mere. Passengers are transferred
from Henderson depot to the town in large
boat. Water is four inches deep on the st.
Peter depot floor and railroad business is sus.
pended. The water is up to Front street at
Mankato and people are being rescued by RATS
from the flats at Jordan At Belle Plain the
river has risen suddenly over five feet and all
the bottom lands are overlooked. There are
no casualties. The damage to the new bridg &c
is increasing every hour. The river is now
within few feet of the superstructure of the
bridge. AT Carver the Minnesota river is
within about eight inches of high water mark
and still rising. The rise from a. m. to p.
m. has been nineteen inches Six dwelling
houses in the lower part of the town are sub
merged two to four feet. The occupants have
been forced to retire with furniture, ETC., to
the higher part.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad track
across the bottom between this place and Sioux
City junction is badly washed out. At Monte
vldeo the iron bridge has been carried away
and business streets are flooded. AT Granite
Falls the town is entirely surrounded with
water, the river having cut new channel
around the town, leaving it on an island.
Minnesota Falls, two miles below, is reported
proaches to the bridge are under water. At
Mankato and St. Peter the railroad tracks are
still under water.
A dispatch from Lake City says the ice went
out from Lake Pepin to-day. The Mississippi
river is now open its entire length.
A despatch from Leseur says farmer named
Abner Denholm was drowned while trying to
cross the river. A wealthy Irishman, named
Stafford, visiting this country, was drowned at
Redwood Falls under the same circumstances
Later advices from Mankato say the river is
falling, and it is hoped the water has reached
the highest point. Part of the town is a scene
of desolation, with the water surrounding
buildings and some floating from their founda-
tions The loss is estimated at $4,000 to pub
lie buildings and railroads and $4,000 to pri-
vate property.
DIES MONIES, Ia, April 26.-The Raccon
river continues very high at this point, and
some twenty families on the low lands have
been kept out of their dwellings for several
days past. The Des Moines river is rising here
and swell of six feet in thirty hours is re-
ported from Fort Dodge, near the quarry in
Marshall county
BOSTON, April 26.-Western dispatches con-
tinue to report high water and Overlooking
rivers with railroads submerged at many points.
All the railroads terminating at Atchison,
Kansas, have been cut off except the Atchi,
son. Topeka & Santa Fe and the central branch
of the Union Pacific. The tracks of the Han
nibal & St. Jo Rock Island, Kansas CITY
ST. 10 and Council Bluffs cross Mud lake to-
gether and all were washed away last Friday,
ST. PAUL, April 26.-The Mississippi has
risen steadily all day and stands at o'clock
three feet higher than at 10 this morning, and
foot higher than in the great June flood last
year. The water spreads from bluff to bluff.
About 1000 people live ON the West St. Paul
flats, whose houses will be flooded if the rise
continues. Many houses are now isolated and
some are half buried under water The water
has commenced to flow through the streets
with current increasing hourly