The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-04-10

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Omaha, April 9.-The Missouri ID
still rising slowly. 1t has reached q
feet above low water mark. A run OF
vast masses of ice from the small lakes
last night, carried away two frame
buildings. The smelling works and
railroad embankments are greatly dam.
aged, and the channel of the river ID
cutting out of its course.
Omaha, April 9.-The Missouri river
continued rising all day slowly, and at
six O'Clock this evening the water gauge
showed 2l4 feet above low water mark,
having risen one foot in "a hours. The
flood is now regarded at its height. and
it is expected that the river will begin
falling some time during the night.
A dispatch from Blair. so miles north
by river, states that the river began
falling slowly there this afternoon. A
dispatch from Sioux City says the river
fell there last night 10 inches, and is
still falling fast. 1t has fallen 15 feet
at Yankton, but reports from there
this morning say that the big gorge 90
miles below Yankton, and reported to
be so miles long, has not yet gone out,
and it may cause another immense local
flood.
The river at this point is six miles
wide, reaching from bluff to bluff.
There is about three feet of water in
the Union Pacific shops and between
four and six feet in the smelling works.
1t is now believed that the railroad
shops will escape without serious in
jury. The smelling works, however,
will be considerably damaged, but if
they remain when the water falls. they
can be put in good shape again..
As stated in these dispatches last
night the water broke over the high
track Of the Union Pacific along the
levee, about ten O'Clock last night, and
soon filed the area within. and flooded
the lumber yards, etc., to the level of
the river. This morning everything
was afioat In the lumber yards. but ow-
ing to boo ms having been laid around
the yards, the lumber is being held from
floating away. Several other breaks
occurred during the night, and the
levee from the Union Pacific shops to
the railroad bridge, distance of over
one mile, Is uuder water. Numerous
freight cars loaded with lumber and
coal and other heavy material are sub
merged entirely. This morning the
Willow Springs distillery, below the
bridge, was shut down on account of
being flooded. Fifteen hundred head Of
cattle, which were being fed in the dis
tillery sheds, were removed with great
difficulty to the stock yards, and they
were compelled to swim through con-
siderable water in order to get out.
1t has been sort Of a holiday here,
nearly every man, woman and child
visiting the river front to see the re-
markable sight, which they may never
witness again.
The situation on the east side of the
river, at Council Bluffs and at the
Union Pacific depot, is fully as serious
as it was at Omaha, and perhaps more
30. About half of Council Bluffs is
under water to a depth Of from one to
three feets. and many people have been
comne,led to ,eoyo +ha;r ho,so, ~,
seek shelter in n higher mart Of the c,tv
A broad and heavy stream coming IN
from the bend north Of town !. eo,n;na
through the place and runs dowr
broadway. the princinal bpsines. .trsat
past the Pacific bonse Tb,, st-aar, =
said to be 1s inches daen IN Tho v;c;r,t- !
of the Pacific bouse and the vo,ar !,
within six inch of the stem. of tho a.
den house.
The south part of the town is flooded
by stream from the north and also bv
backwater from the river A strea n
running west of town flows mast the
west side of the Union Pacific transfe,
depot, flooding the bridges over Snoon
lake and innndatine the entire vicinity
together with the Union stock Yards
and numerous residences and ra;lroad
buildings in the immediate LOCALITY
The water is within three or fonr incbe,
Of the floor Of the Union pacific dane,
and hotel, where manv sor,,,;..