The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-12
The sItaation at Omahn.

Omaha, Nebraska, April 1O.-The
river has fallen here about three inches.
1t was reported stationery at Sioux City
last night, and rising there to-day, and
also that 1t has risen over nine feet at
Yankton since yesterday afternoon,
but these reports lack confirmation.
The Omaha lumbermen have been fish
ing out their lumber all day with large
gangs of men, and hauling it to the
high ground. They fear another rise,
which would sweep all their stock
away.
No eastern trains were able to reach
the Union Pacific transfer to-day.
They, however, managed to get into
their local depot at Council Bluffs, be-
tween which and the transfer depot the
distance is over two miles, and the in
tervening space is inundated to the
depth of two to four feet. The passen-
gers desiring to reach Omaha, or to
take the Union Pacific train for the
west, were obliged to go in small boats
to the transfer depot, the boatmen
charging all the way from one to ten
dollars per trip. One man, with a
smallboat, made one hundred and fifty
dollars to-day. On reaching the trans
fer depot the passengers, to reach the
transfer train for Omaha, had to walk
across a pontoon bridge Of fiat cars
covered with fiat cars for about q quar-
ter of a mile, as there is a broad and
deep stream running past the west side
OF the depot. There were comparative
ly few passengers who cared to make
the passage Of the double tranter.
To-day's eastern trains nearly came
into Council Bluffs owe the Chicago &
Rock Island road, which they struck at
Atlantic. The passengers of the Chi
cage s. Northwestern trains were trans
ported into Council Bluffs with wagons,
having to travel two or three miles in
this way.
The Union Pacific west bound express
left Omaha at 6 O'Clock, with a light
load. The passengers who arrived on
the eastern-bound Union Pacific express
are detained here tonight. The bag
gage, mail and express are being trans
ferred tonight, to be ready for to NOR
row afternoons east bound trains. The
Union Pacific hotel, at the transfer, is
flooded throughout the basement. The
engine fires have been put out and the
gas extinguished, causing great incon-
venierce owing to the suspension Of
business.
A large portion of Council Bluffs
continues submerged. At least FIVE
hundred persons have abandoned their
houses and are being cared for at the
court-houSe and Bloom and Nixon's
opera houses and are being fed at the
city's expense. The business part of
the city is not inundated. All the
tracks on the flats are submerged and
badly washed out. A great many
freight cars are more or less under
! water, and some have tumbled over on
the sides.
The fall Of the water Is anxiously
awaited by both Omaha and Council
Bluffs. At Omaha fears are yet enter
tanned for the safety of tho Union
Pacific shops, the smelling works, the
lumber-yards. the distillery, etc., and
also for the lcvee itself. as it is believed
that the falling waters, with the strong
currents, will cut the ground and wash
it out. and undermine the buildings,
tracks, etc. 1t showed all the morning
here. The storm extended west as far
as Kearney, about two hundred miles.
The snow Is two or three inches deep.