Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-29
Stage of ,rater and Prospects.

While the big boom in the Mississippi river
is still maintained, in fact has be en- increased
the past twenty.four hours, the record of the
day furnishes cheering proof that the worst
of the food, so far as the outflow from the
Minnesota is concerned, is passed, and gives
grounds for the hope that if notify noon to-
day, at least by nightfall, the water will have
reached its height, If 1t has not actually COM
menced to recede. But let the figures tell the
story.
At 10 o'clock Wednesday night the water
stood, as shown by the government mark, at
Is feet AZ inches. At 8 o'clock yesterday
morning 1t was Is feet 10 inches, showing q
rise in ten hours of but 81 inches. Between
8 and 0 there was rise Of 1 inch, at which
figure it stood until between 12 and P. NJ,
during which the swell was half an inch. Be.
tween 1 and P. n. the rise was 1H inches,
and from the latter hour to 10:30P. N. another
inch and half was added, giving depth
above low water of 10 feet Ok Inches, or foot
81 inches below high water mark, as per the
government gauge.
The figures as above show total rise for
the twenty four hours from 10 O'clock P. NJ,
Wednesday, to the same hour last night, Of a
fraction less than ten inches, in marked con-
trast to the rapid swell Tuesday, when the
average per hour was over two inches, or even
Wednesday, when it was more tian an inch.
Advices given elsewhere show that the Min
nesota at Montevideo has fallen five feet from
its highest point. At the same time, how
ever, steady rise of half an inch at Chaska was
reported up to P: NJ: yesterday. But Chaska,
OF the rate the water is rising, is less than six
hours distance from st. Paul ,and as the swell
there yesterday, evidently the last, will have
reached st. Paul before this paper is dry from
the press, the supposition that the flood has
reached it's elimination will at once be ac-
knowledged well founded. Still more confirm
atory of this supposition are the reports from
the upper Mississippi, reporting the river at
stand.
The situation in front of the city yesterday
on the east side was practically unchanged.
True, the water crept up q little higher, but
it did no additional damage from that
heretofore reported, beyond kthe washing
away of small shanty up near the North
western stockyards. These stockyards
though entirely surrounded by water, and
submerged to certain extent,are not damaged
as yet to any perceptible extent. The rail-
road and steamboat warehouses along the
levee, are in the same condition as at nightfall
Wednesday, having sustained no damage be-
yond the springing of the floors and plat
forms.
Yesterday thelsswelllng river continued to
pour strong current into the mouth of
Phalen creek, washing the old embankment
of the St. Paul q Duluth transfer track and
raising the overflow of Third street and the
ponds throughout the former swamp lots dis
trict, now being converted into railway yards.
Superintendent Smith of the st. P. & D. kept
large force al work strengthening the pro-
tections of the transf track, which was partly
washed out Wednesday and succeeded in saw
ing it. Portions of the newly flledin grounds
of the N. P.,St. P. & 0. and st 2. & NJ. freight
yards, which were thought to be water-soaked
T. UAIo oneIo V,Nf.1 .1cadx
terday for moving cars and at nightfall, though
soft, with the water only few inches below
their level, seemed to be as far as ever from
the sinking which was feared. The river is
considerably above the rip-rap by which is
protected the shore filing of the NJ. & st. P.
company, from the Davidson elevator to
Phalen creek, and the current rushes along
against the embankment, with great speed !;
but up to nightfall little harm had occurred.
On the low level, opposite Pigs Eye bar and
lake. the NJ. & st. P. track was flooded yester-
| day and current setting over the line of the
road indicated considerable washout.-
| The first floors of the Manitoba house, cor:
ner of Third and Broadway, and Of the Mime
| sofa Home, 100 East Third, were covered with
water yesterday afternoon, while wood.saw.
| yer's portable engine on the other Side OF
| deal Of lumber and other property Is afoat in
this region, but not in danger of loss, as It can
| not he washed out. -
| The oil company's depot and the coal yards
beyond the St. Paul & Duluth tracks are aban-
doned, with everything about them which is
| lighter than water floating, but the losses are
| not likely to be serious. A few shanty squat
| ters on the creek bottom lands we're dispossess.
ed yesterday by the rising waters, but are ready
| TO move back, without loss, when the flood
recedes. Third street is covered from near the
railway crossing to west of Broadway. On
the levee opposite the steamboat warehouses
! the water is slowly advancing toward the rail.
| way tracks, which would be covered if the
water should come up to the stage which the
Oldest inhabitants have agreed shall be recOg.
| nized as the high water mark-that is, twenty.
one feet by the new government guage, from
which the figures elsewhere given were taken.
| The back water from the Mississippi river
food is having its effect on the st.. Croix ur
| to and above Hudson, where the grain in the
warehouse was yesterday transferred to barges
for safety.
| The Latest From the Rirer.
At11:30 o'clock the guage stood 10 feet 211f
inches; at 12:45 o'clock this morning Il
showed 10 feet inches, and at 2 o'clock thls
morning it stood at the same notch, showing
that no rise had taken place in an hour.
Still Rdsing at C1saska.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l