Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-28

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Loup river in the central portion of the State
this morning, and carried bridges before 1t till
if reached Columbus, on the Platte river, and
the Union Pacific railroad, where gorge
flooded Columbus and inundated Benton, seven
miles below, reaching there at 8 O'Clock in
the afternoon. .mendous body of water
moved down on Schuyler, Rogers and North
Bend, which must BE- doing tremendous dam
age, but as the wires are down nothing more
can be learned. Several people were drowned
at Columbus, and great damage was done to
buildings and live stock. There is apprehen-
sion of more fearful destruction IN the lower
Platte valley for fifty miles, before it reaches
the Missouri river.
FURTHER REPORTS OF DAMAGE.
CH1cARo, March 27.-A dispatch to the
Inter Ocean from Omaha, Nebraska, says the
Platte valley, about seventy-fye miles west Of
here, is a scene of the most disastrous floods
experienced in the history of the Union Pacific
railroad The Platte is broad and shallow
stream, which easily overfows its
banks, and all its tributaries are now
pouring vast volumes of water and ice into 1t
until 1t has become rushing food, pouring
out over the level prairies for miles on either
side. The freshet which has done the most
an immense ice gorge in the
Loup river, which is tributary
of the Platte, broke and let loose the accumu-
lation of water which toic out the Omaha,
Niobrara & Black Hills railroad bridge, this
side of Lost Creek. The water flooded the
surrounding country and struck the main line
of the Union Pacific, washing out the tack
bridge over the Loupa and Columbus, about
mile and half. The damage
done will probably reach several
thousand dollars, and fears are entertained of
loss of life. When news Of the flood was re-
Ceyed at headquarters warning was tele-
graphed to towns below on the Platte river,
and the people took refuge on the tops of
houses. Barns and fences were carried away,
and all stock drowned. The fif-
ty thousand dollar wagon bridge at
Columbus; was washed away the food reached
Schuyler at six O'Clock last night, and was
raging torrent at North Bend at nire. The
telegraph poles at all these points are down,
shutting of all communication, so it is i'm
possible to state the loss Of property, or
whether any lives have been lost. The Union
Pacific head Just finished building mile and
a half of new track around the wash out OF
Freemount when the disaster came.
Fears are felt for the Burlington
& Missouri bridge at Oreopolis. This after
noon the river began breaking up there, and
crowds gathered on the banks to see how it
would affect the great iron bridge of the Un-
ion Pacific road. Tie ice went crashing with
fearful force against the iron piers, which
withstood unshaken and unhurt by Its at
taeks
ATTACKED BY A MANIAC.
LOUISVILLE, KY, March 27.-Paducah
special to the Courier Journal: Some weeks
ago telegraphed about John Humphrey, this
city, who was subject to fits, supposed to
have been caused by the bite of a dog some
years ago, and of his attempt to kill his wife.
He recovered from that spell and was all right
until Thursday afternoon he went perfectly
wild and told his wife he felt lmpelled to kill
her, and If she did not get out of the way
he would do so. She ran off and
he took TO the wosds, a frenzied
maniac. AT 0 o'clock that night he reached
MarSac, Il town nine miles from Paducah.
Procuring an axe and pitchfork he attempted
to enter the house of Samuel Gholson, who
was absent, but whose wife and five children
trance at the door he went to a window, and
while attempting to get in Mrs. Gholson
snapped two barrels of gun at him, but it
did not go off. She then struck him with the
butt of the gun as he came through the win
dow, breaking the stock of the
gun. He jumped into the room and
struck at the woman with his axe,
but being too close the handle struck on her
head and the axe few out of his hand. He
then knocked her down and seizing his pitch
fork was in the act of killing her when,
aroused by her screams, neighbors came to
her rescue. One of them struck Humphrey
on the head with stick, stunning him suf.
fciently to give the woman chance to run
out of doors, and he soon followed her, when
chase was given and he was captured, secured
and brought here and lodged in jail for public
safety. Mrs Gholson is enciente, and it is
thought the wounding and fright she received
will prove fatal f aer. Her condition to-day
is critical.
RIOT IN MICHIGAN.
DETROIT, Mich, March 27.-Trouble has
broken out in Presque Isle county, this State,
among large settlement OF Poles The sheriff
undertook to arrest ten men for threatening to
burn q mans house down and kill him, but
was attacked by mob of 200 or 800 aud driven
from the place. The mob then attacked and
destroyed the complaining witness house and
drove his wife and baby, fourteen months old,
INTO the snow. The sheriff appealed to the
governor, who has telegraphed to him to use
every available man in the county to suppress
the incipient rebellion.
DIED OF HER INJURIES.
ERIE, Pa, March 21.-MisS Kate Lehan,
who was horribly burned Friday, by her cloth
ing catching fire from the stove, died to-day
in great agony.
DROWNED.
BosToN, March 27.-The body of Rev. Abiel
Solver, aged so, the well known Swedenbor,
gian clergyman of Roxbury, was found to-
night in the Charles river.
BURNED.
ELIZABETH, n. j., March 27.---Fire starting
in No. 81 Broad street, destroyed that and ad-
joining buildings. Loss, $4,000; insurance
about S25, 600.
NORFOLK, Va, March 29--Fire in the cot
ton press of James L. Harway, Boston Steam
ship companies wharf, caused loss of nearly
SrOO,000; insured The burning cotton and
shingles of the sheds, borne by the high
wind to different parts of the city, started a
number of other fires, but these were easily
extinguished
SAFE ROBBERY.
CHICAGO, March 27.-The office of Geo. w.
Higgins & Co., pork packers at the stock
yards, was burglarized last night, the safe
blown open and robbed of some 50 600. The
night watch was overpowered by the masked
burglars, who threw him to the floor, and
while one stood over him with a revolver the
other three drilled the safe door. After it was
shattered by the explosion, they seized the
contents and made of, dropping S2S on the
floor in their haste.
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