Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-04-22
GREEN ISLAND LOSSES.
a full List of Property Destroyed There b,
the Flood.

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Just before going to press to-day, we
Revived pleasant call from Jno Mel
soa. 0f Green Island, and one of the
hnhvlest loosers OF the late disaster.
Ftom MIR. Nelson we learn that 33 houses
win barns were carried away by the
iinl and some of which no trace has
b,an had. The following are a list of
I :ersons who were unfortunate in
F. Bailey, house and blacksmith
sep, barns, &c with all their contents.
Eey. Chns. Seccombe, house with con-
tents, barn, and some stock.
Fed Calvert, large frame hotel with
contents, barn, sheds &c.
.lls. Marsh, dry goods store with cou-
:eits, barns, &c.
Sable Strahm, house and contents, $50
head of cattle, IA horses, barns, sheds,
chickens, hogs, &c. Loss about 80,
NM.
Mr.. Chamberlain, house and con-
tents. ~
Mr.. Van Allen, house with contents.
a. Van Allen, house with contents,some
stock, wagon, buggy, &c.
Geo. Lake, household effects, and some
stock.
John Sebring, house and contents,
%iti some stock.
Andrew Carlson, shoemaker, tools,
leather. &c.
Mr.. Robertson, household effects.
John Mallory, household effects.
Mr.. Mallory, house and contents, some
htor.s, hogs, chickens, &c.
L. IL. Shufelt, house and contents.
Louis Miske, house aud contents, sheds,
barn, stock, team, hogs, &c.
C'iarles Johnson. house and contents
Mrs. ID. r Brown, house and contents
+. Il. Mix, house and contents, togetll.
et with his barns, sheds, one horse, and
S,any farming implements.
JOAN Grimes, house and contents, one
horse. barns, sheds, &c. Stock al
savel.
NJ. Florence, house and contents.
joan Gustofson, house and contents
and SOME stock.
Mr.. Howard, household effects.
;Mt. McCristol, household effects.
Mrs. Stephen p. Saunders. house anG
contents, barns, sheds and some stock.
Mrs. Platt Saunders, house and con
t'uts, barns, sheds, some stock.
Jhos. Mason, household effects, farm.
ing implements, &c.
Henry Morton. ST., house and contents
fr,rns. sheds, and some horses. Cattle all
a3ycd. ~
a. s. Parker, house partly gone. sheds
l'arns. and some stock.
Geo. A. Hall. house and contents, with
nil its surroundings.
One Methodist church, one Congrega
tionnl church and one public school
building, with all their fixtures.
John Nelson, 107 head of cattle. sever
Horses. 100 chickens. i've nice hogs, W(
feet Of shed, five miles of nearly new
fence, farming implements, wind mills
hay, &c. Loss, about $4,000
Mr.. Nelson's house. which is two stor,
brick, with frame kitchen addition, wa
not injured by the first food, but stoot
IN three or four feet Of water and partial
II hid by great blocks of ice. On Tues
day last, about three o'clock in the after
noon. the ice commenced to move, ant
came down with such force, that tn
frame addition was carried away, and tn
lrick walls of the upright par t commend
ed to yield and came down with crasl
MIR. Nelson was on the roof Mt the time
(hc being the only person left on tn
rrcmises) and did some pretty har
scratching to get to his skiff, which h
aa,nG tied to the building to save all ths
was left-his own life. Mr.. Nelson ha
]i"cd in Cedar county for the last twent,
three years, and during this time had a,
cn'nulated n large amount of propert,
lie had one OF the finest bottom Ian
farms in this part Of the state. on whic
he had made many valuable improv
nnents. Mr.. Nelson is now placed whe,
lie wns twenty three years ngo. with IL
exception of little timber now standin
~ the bottom; not even tree to mai
tho spot Of his once pleasant home.