Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-04-06

the Rock Island railway bridge over Skunk
river, near Brighton, Iowa, was swept away by
ice.
Advices from Bismarck, under date of the
91st ult., state that the Missouri at that point
is higher than has been: known in years. Ice
gorges have formed at various places, causing
the river to overflow and inundate the surround
ing country. Mandam, opposite Bismarck, was
completely submerged and ice from the stream
drifted about the streets. The sufferings of the
populace were very severe as the thermometer
was down to 12o above zero. The Missouri at
this point is four miles wide and over 200 head
of live stock in tie bottom lands were swept
away5
Tie town of Green Island, opposite Yankton,
was devastated by the rushing stream, and it is
feared many lives have been lost. At Vermil-
lion, IS miles northwest of Yankton, the water
was ten feet deepin the principal streets, on the
31st ult., and the inhabitants had taken refuge
on the bluffs back of the city. Three steamers
at Yankton were totally wrecked and others
badly damaged.
Specials from Fort Pierre, Dakota, give
graphic particulars # a sudden rise of the Mis-
souri, at that point. The water subsided rapid
ly after the ice gorge broke, and desolate pic
ture remained. Only two or three habitable
houses were left in the vllagean and the loss foots
upin the vicinity of $4,000. In the Platte val
stock up in the hundreds of thousands. It is
thought the officers and crew of the steamer
Star Of the West, which was frozen in twenty
miles below Fort Pierre, are all lost.
A dispatch from Bismarck notes the sinking
of the steamer Western, of the Coulson line, by
ice.
Serious washouts have occurred ON the Union
Pacific railroad at Fremont, Neb., and other
points. The inundation in the Platte valley is
gradually subsiding. Bodies of q woman and
two children were found near Schuyler, Neb.,
and no doubt number of others will be re-
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9th the ice in the Missouri river went out, and
for q time the great bridge between Omaha and
Council Bluffs was in danger, the structure be-
ing shaken like leaf. Floods in the west
promise to be serious this season, with great
loss to railroads and individuals.
MOrtuary.
Jules Noel, the French painter, is dead.
Rev. August Held, the Oldest Lutheran clergy.
man in New York, is dead.
D. G. Fitch, one of the earliest Democratic
editors of the state of Ohio, died at Dayton on
the 1st inst, of pneumonia, aged SO. He was
associated with Vallandigham, the first Demo-
cratic daily paper established in Dayton, and
was at one time clerk of the house in the Ohio
legislature.
Princess Caroline, widow of the hereditary
Prince Ferdinand, of Denmark, is dead.
John +. Brown, one of the wealthiest lumber
man on the Muskegon river and president of the
village of Big Rapids, Mich, for the past ff-
teen years, died on the 3Oth ult.
The death is announced of Weyprecht, the
explorer and discoverer of Francis Joseph's
Land.
The German revolutionary hero DIR. Heinrich
Windwart, died in New York on the 30th ult.
Ex-Congressnan BENZ. f. Loan, of Missouri,
died suddenly at st. Joseph, on the 30th ult.
The deceased served three terms in congress,
and was prominent Republican politician.
Capt. E., P. Dorr, Of Buffalo, whose name is
familiar to everybody interested in lake marine
matters. died on the 29th in South Carolina.
Admiral G. G.. Patey of the English navy,
who was intrusted with delicate duties in regard
to the Trent affair and the detention of belhg-
erent confederate vessels at Southampton, died
at London, Eng, on the 18th.
The Earl of Caithnees died at New York on
the 29th ult. Deceased was prominent as q
scientist and inventor. g.. .
Capt. E. G. Hail. a prominent newspaper
man, and later holding, . responsible position
in the Erie railroad Office, New York city, died
at Salamanca, n! Y, on the 29th ult. =
Luther Bosworth, one Of the early settlers of
Western Michigan, died in Eaton county, aged
80 years. ...-.,..,,--...-r .>...-...~~,
Gideon Hol1ister, author, and formerly min
lister to Hayti, died at Litchfeld, Conn.,, re-
Capt. Charles W. Kimbeck, navigator, we'll
known along the great lakes, died at Trenton,
Mich, on the 28th. -