The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1881-04-02
karoh Floods and Storms,

/ Po drlnS vast volumes of water and ice into IL
and It has become a rushing flood, overflow
ing the level prairies for miles ON either side
The treshet which has done most damac,
occurred yesterday, wben an immense ice
gorge III the Loup river. which is a tributar,
dt the Platte, broke and let loose the accu.
mutation OF water and ice, which tore ont the
Omaha, Niobrara and Black Hills Railroad
bridge this side Of Lost creek. The water
Hooded the surrounding country and struck
the nam line OF the Union Pacific, washing
Out me track and the telegraph poles between
the Union Pacific bridge over the Loup and
Columbus, distance of almost a mile and
a-half
The damage done will probably reach sew.
eral hundred thousand dollars, and fears are
entertained OF loss of life. When news of the
| Hood was received at United States headouar
tiers here warning was telegraphed to the
towns below on the Plate. People took re-
tuge on the roofs Of the houses. Barnes and
fences were carried away and all the stock
| drowned. The $50, 900 wagon bridge at Co.
lumbus was washed away
The food reached Schuyler az six o'clock
last night, and was a raging torrent at North
( Bend at nine. The telegraph poles at all
these points are down, shutting Oh communi-
cation, so that 1t Is impossible to state the loss
/ OF property or whether any lives have been
lost. The Union Pacific had Just finished
/ building n mile and a-haif Of new track
around the washout AZ Fremont when the
new disaster came.
/ Fears are felt for the Burlington and Mis-.
1 souri, bridge at Oreapolis. This afternoon
/ the ice in the river began breaking up there,
and crowds gathered on the banks to see how
I it would effect the great iron bridge of the
/ Union Pacific Railroad. The ice went crash
] ing with fearful force against the iron piers.
/ which stood mistaken and uuhUrt hy its at
tack,
I Dispatches on Wednesday say that the re-
cent flood IN the Platte Valley. Nebraska, Aas
/ occasioned serious washouts on the line Of the
Union Pacific Railroad. The Darlington and
Missouri has also been compelled 20 stop lis
trains for repairs to its ro&dbed, and conSe
/ quently the Union Pacific vas unable TO send
+ its overland train 4 Kearuey junction, and
had 20 send il from Omaha, via CogRcll Bluffs,
ST, Joseph and Western. 90 Grand Island. on
the main line This is 8 circuit through Iowa,
. Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska Of $40 miles
to get around the washaa, 100 miles west Of
Omaha. On Monday about 500 ives; bound
travellers had gathered al Council Bluffs ana
Omaha, some 200 Of whom claimed that the
I L MON Pacific Company should feed 'hom dur
ing the detention, and the demand was grant
ed
A telegram from Fort Pierre. palo.s.
March p. SAYS that the ice in the Missoari
River broke 81 thar polut this morning at 3
clock. The water began rising rapidly. and
at noon the ice sorSed, flooding The whole
town with FIVE feet O: water, the people barely
getting their yalaab,gs ont %! their houses 30
the bluffs, whore theyare eucRnpel. Tho IoUn
Is completely drowned ont. An the psop3e
are on the hills safe, and ms comfortable as Il
IS possible for them 90 Bee. The damage SO
the City is very great.
4 gorge elght miles long ilsu.sI Tuesday
afternoon IN the Missouri. south OF anktoa.
raising the river seven fert above lhe danger
line. The Cauufry for miles was uycrtj1wed
70 the depth Of several feet subme-ziu- ths
railways and doing egbes damage. a, uil-
night the river was falling
A terrific cyclone hss occurred ia Randolph
county Ala, which destroyed the hone and
killed the entire family ol Joda Emh5gy. con-
sis.juE OF himself viie and tafu CbifIrta. while
they were asleep. naoviljc VA, and yiciui.
" WAS visited BY q tornado Taesiay uiEht.
blowing down q number 81 houses. ard many
trees aud fences.
The suovsgo5m wh5ch has been prevailing
~ The West several DAYS reached ChIcasa
Wednesday morning aHd continued viii high
Winds ap 70 noon, leaving three inches ofsnna
on the ground and rrncEins isaublc Ng,h the
street car tracks. Railroad trains vere al
delayed. The snou at Colambas. Ohio, Wed
nssday. was the hearies. Ut thc season Ii
vas over foot deep.
severe suow slorm prevailed Tass3ay
throughout nearly al Of Indiana aad Hs5a
A. heutUn, O.. twenty isChes fell, uhila a.
other places the Er0auS sas covered Pa a
depth u iogr iHChcs,
The foods 10 Nebraska washed away uver
6ty per cent Of the bridges .n lhs STATE. ard
Numerous Eris, asiiis FFore DESTROYED A.
For; Pierre. Dakota, sl Is estimated taat c-l,
900 worth OF property has becu destroyed ard
DC is feared that the officers and e-r4 90 the
steamer Far West, which WAS frozen lg lAe
ice. are lost In the Platte Valley ihr lAa-
age Is coaaied BY hundreds OF thoa.aHis Of
dollars 10 stack aud property OF al kiul- Il
: known that three persons have been drown
ed, and PROBABLY TIA, many morn hays peg.
ished.
The Special Weather Ba,,eua. issued from
Washington, March 81, SAYS TIE uorm
yesterday In Virginia iias moved very s'osly
Horthward with increasing violence and is nov
central A. q very severe storm ia Mes Jersey
Daring Wednesday heavy sngE, accom- panied
by light norihcrly Winas prevailed from kea
tucky 70 Illinois, Horihsastsarj 70 New EGG
laad. From SAudasky thc aaassAi Wiud vc
locity Of - miles per h1lr vas reported.
The storm ia Ohio has been one 81 The worst
Of the season. Along the Atlantic coast ys3-
lent gales have occurred a. arst north cas-;
cry from Maine 70 Delaware. ba; sinee
changing 20 westerns from Florida 20 New
Jersey, with hourly SIND velocity above thlr
" miles from nearly every coast station.
The following unusual wind yelacities have
been reported jack sonyi,lc, ~ miles, Il
lau,ic City, ~; Sandy Hook, -. aud Cape
Halteras, -. The temperature has fallen
from ten 20 twenty degrees from Maryland 10
Georgia. Temperatures beloE The freezing
paint are now reported from ohio, Western
Pennsylvania, the lake region and from Iowa
northward.
Dispatches FROM the Upper Missouri dated
March 90, SAY thas the rlver rose tea feet a.
Yaukton to-day. 0vegtl owing the lower part
Of the city and driving the inhabitants 20 the
hills The water Is over thirty feet deep 10
the channel, making the present the greatest
flood ever known Ia that section. No csu
mate Of damage can be made, bdt it Is sm
mensc Nothing has been heard from 1auk
ton since p. VI. 4 telegram from Nermil-
lion saws the water began rising again 10 noon
to -day and is now ap % the second story
windows Of the houses The occupants of
the buildings are appealing for relief and are
being taken of 10 the bluffs IN skIHs. In
tense excitement prevails and every thing pos
sible is being doae to rescue the people.
A despatch from Bismarck, d. f., March
81, says.-The heavy iail Of snow and early
breaking up of ice in the tributaries OF the
Missouri has caused the highest river ever
known The ice gorge here on It's breaking
at Fort Liuc0n. five miles below, caused % 70
overflow rs banks into Mandan, opposite
Bismarck Il is thought that all the people
reached the bluffs safely, but their suffering
last night and s0-dsy must be indscribable.
Three or four feet OF wafer aud large c.uHks
OF floating ice lie in the streets Of the uniOr-
tunate city, aud the thermometer has been
down TO u for the past n hours. Tonight
the river is still thirty feet above low water
mark, aud no signs OF giving away Mayor
George Peoples, with 4 skif and crew, rcscu-
ed FIVE men from the ice in the bottoms below
the town to-day One man named Pategerser
was on a floating piece of ice, unable to speak.
Mayor Peoples walked over two miles on
gorged ice to gethim. The river is four miles
wide here. The end is not yet, II is feared,
as there is still another gorge above. Over
two hundred head of cattle in the bottom in
this vicinity persisted. Bismarck is twenty
FIVE feet above the present rise, and therefore
safe.
QUACK DoCToRs.-The Philadelphia, Pa,
Record recently published the confession OF
'Dean" John Buchanan, the bogus diploma