Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1881-04-01

turn up Jos. Pottgeiser was found float
ing on piece of ice. He was nearly ex-e55
hausted, and unable to speak when found
He had rolled over with the ice several
times, became thoroughly wet, and hiss
clothes had frozen stiff about him. He.
was left at farm house on Apple Creek
bench and is doing well. Mr.. Peoples
says the gorge is simply in the bend abovess
Lincoln, and that the river is clear below
that point. He believes the Ice is packed,
solid down to the bottom OF the river and'
that it has formed dam which will res
main for weeks The water covered somes
of the houses at Point Pleasant, but the.
transfer Union was in good shape. Mike.
Feller and several other residents of the
bottom were on the Union. They had a
narrow escape. Three men are supposed
to be lost as they were known to have
been on the bottom. Their names are
Little Jake, Qhe vegetable maD French
Joe and Valentine. r
AKRl AL OF IdE ECLlPSE.
Last night the steamer Eclipse unex-
pectedly arrived from her winter quarters
sixty miles this side of Buford, Captain
Braithwaite in command. He was in a
pleasant humor over his success in bring
ing his steamer safely out OF her icy tet-
ters and making the earliest arrival on
record at the Bismarck port. The cap
tain reports the river falling above Ste
venson and Sand bars appearing IN places.
This side of Stevenson the Eclipse struck
the ''rise" and rode into the Bismarck bay
on it. All along the river on either side
was every Indication of the mighty flood.
The captain thinks there is sufficient ice
on the bottoms to last all summer. At
Painted Woods the gorge had been over
whelming. The cottonwood trees as
large as the SMOKE etacks of the steamer
we're broken down as if they were will
lows. Upon one high point of land the
beautiful sight of over one hundred deer,
surrounded by water, cheered the sports
mans heart, but the sportsman didn't
taLe advantage Of the poor deer. Every
'now and then," as Chspin, Of Fargo, says,
smaller herds of deer were seen, waiting
for the creek to fall Near Buford there
was q wholesale murder Of the 1nnocents.
About 200 got on the moving ice and be-
fore they could get off, the crash came
and the deer struggled III vain. 1t re-
minded the boys of the leaping deers'
they used to see by moonlight in the ru-
ral graveyards of Pennsylvania. This
morning the General Sherman arrived
safe and sound from her frosty nook near
Stevenson. Two arrivals the earliest Of
the season.
BOUND FOR MANDAN.
About 10 o'clock this forenoon the
Eclipse steamed around through the bay
and landed at the foot Of Third street.
The whole town turned out to see the
ship ana several hundred took passage
for Mandan, whittier she has gone TO re-
turn this evening. The presence Of the
Eclipse at the foot Of Third street sug-
gests bit Of poetry:
At the foot of this street many ships may be
found,
At the head OF the street many lawyers abound,
Fly. honesty fly to some safer retreat,,
There craft in the river und craft in the street
THE MERRY FAMILY LOST.
1t IS reported the Merry family, at
Painted Woods, were all lost except one
son. They were getting out their house
hold goods when the flood picked them
up and sent them booming down the riv-
er. 1t is sincerely hoped the rumor is
false.
LOSSES BY THE FLOOD.
VIM. Wolf lost all his stock. He had
sig yoke of oxen, two COWS and three
horses. The other men on the bottoms
also lost heavily. Seven cattle were seen
on the roof of the old Larry Moore shack
on the road to Lincoln. Instinct told
them 1t was safer to he there than on the
ground. They must have climbed up by
means of hay stack which was next to
the building
Those living on Apple Creek bottom,
towards its mouth, also had a narrow es-
cape. Norman Falconcr had fine herd
of cattle. He watched them from his
house, on q point: He saw the water
coming around them, and saw them hud-
ding together. 1t was a sad sight High
er and higher the river rose, and faster
came the ice foe. One by one he saw
the cattle picked off by the floating
chunks of ice. In a few moments the
last one had succumbed to the inevitable,
and Mr.. Falconer had lost forty head.
J. II. Salisbury and family were caught
suddenly They were rescued by means
of raft, from the second story windows,
yesterday morning. Mr.. Salisbury loses
one of his horses, which he had saddled
and hitched to the fence, expecting that
he would be obliged to look after stock
on the bottom. The rise was SO sudden
that lie had no time to escape. The FAM
ily were taken to the residence of Henry
Falconer, where they will remain till the
water falls.
Mrs. Kelly, on Apple Creek, was also