The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-01
THE tFLOODs.
The arr Effects Sf sssIisH
BtneaMs-Liges Lost.


stneaMs-Liges Lost
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In the course of an article on the Ne
braska floods, the Omaha Herald says:
Later reports yesterday told OF . better
state of affairs in general than one
could have dared to hope for on Satur-
day night. People had taken flight
from the bottom lands and started for
the towns.
Some had not reached there and
their safety could not be ascertained
for several days. The missing children
Of the bridge watchman at Columbus,
and the two farmers who were last seen
crossing the bottom had not been heard
from. The bodies of a woman and two
children, all unknown, were recovered
yesterday neal Schuyler. There
win, in the opinion Of the best
informed, be other families mourning
the loss of members taken from them
by the flood, when they a gather
themselves together about their desc
lated firesides.
Several hundred dead cattle have
been seen near the stations, and the
wrecks of houses, barns and haystacks
are something that cannot be easily
estimated.
The Republican says: From North
Bend TO Columbus the track is in fair
shape, and can be easily repaired. Be
tween Columbus and the Loup river
bridge there is a washout, as has been
already stated, a portion of the pile
bridge, used as an approach to the iron
bridge, is gone, while on the west side
Of the river there is a washout three
quarters of a mile long. The iron
bridge is all right. Already a large
number Of men are at work at the west
end, under Robt. Law, superintendent
Of the mountain division. He has
seventy-iye bridge repairers and plenty
Of material, with two work trains, and
as he is a "rustler," it will not be long
before the Loup river bridge and the
washouts in that vicinity are all re-
paired.
The railroad has not been the only
sufferer by the flood. A great many
farmers have lost very heavily. A dis
patch from Schuyler received last night,
states that one man lost 200 head of
cattle and as many sheep, and that
| others have met with severe losses in
the same way.
Dead stock Of all kinds-hogs, sheep
and horses-are floating all around,
and the a thickly dot the prai-
rie where the water has subsidized and
left them. The extent of the loss thus
inflicted upon the farmers of the valley
cannot now be estimated. 1t will be
several days before the reports all come
in, and then n can form some idea of
the disaster. We predict it will sur
prise everybody.
That several persons have been
drowned, there is now no doubt, for on
yesterday afternoon the bodies of a
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cred a few miles west of schuyler. Their
names are unknown. The m was
probably attempting to escape from the
rushing waters with her children, but
they were overtaken and drowned. We
have every reason to believe that in a
day or two WI shall hear of several
others being drowned in the same way.
Many persons living in the lowlands,
particularly in the vicinity of North
Bend, had very narrow escapes, some of
them barely escaping their lives by
climbing upon their housetops and re-
naming there until the swollen waters
went down.
1t is very likely also that human
lives have been lost in the Loup valley
and that a great deal of stock has been
drowned. 1t is certain also that in
both valleys a great deal of property,
such as bridges, fences, wagons, imple-
ments, lumber, and ever buildings
have been swept away by the broad and
and irresistible torrents, as mixture of
almost everything was seen floating
down stream, and the debris has been
scattered along everywhere.