Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-30
The lriduigtt Patrol.

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somewhat for the worse. The current pass
ing through the culverts had attained greater
velocity, and rushed with the speed of a whirl.
wind and the roar Of torrent. A drizzling
rain had set In about an hour previously, and
the night was inky dark,s that the police had
| difficulty in making their rounds. There were
still several families in the houses on the fat,
and one in the river school house. About IL
O'Clock 1t was discovered that the water was
f1ltering through beneath the western end
of the first culvert, and was in danger of
carrying that structure. Several teams were
hastily summoned, and some half dozen cords
of stone thrown in the edge of the stream sup
porting the timbers, and by midnight it was
| thought to be secure.
The water also threatened seriously the
| foundations off. G. McCarthy's houses adjoin-
ing the culvert. 1t had managed to wear
channel around the front OF the houses. wash
| ing away the the earth filling and causing the
plank platform to sink about foot. 1t was
propped as well as possible and surrounded
with ropes so as to prevent any person from
stumbling into the aperture llnawares. The
rest of the Bridge street eauseway was ap-
parentlysecure along Its whole length, which
was traversed and inspected mlnutely by the
GLOBE representative.
Nineteen feet six inches strong was the
record of the government gauge at the foot
of Jackson street, of the stage of water at
11:S0 last night This is encouraging and
sustains the representations Of the GLOBE
yesterday morning. At 2 O'Clock yesterday
morning the mark showed nineteen feet three
| inches. At s o'clock it was nineteen feet four
inches, rise of only one inch in six hours.
During the next three hours there
was q rise of half inch, and in
the next six hours bringing the time up
to P. NJ, an inch had been added, bringin g
| the depth, above low water mark, mp to nine.
| teen feet five and half inches At 11:30 last
night, the mark showed nineteen feet six
| inches large, total rise from A. N. to 11:30,
forty.fve and half hours, of three inches,
| half of which occurred in the first nine hours.
With these figures, backed by reports from
Mankato and other points on the Minnesota
that the river is falling rapidly, and also by
reports from the upper Mississippi that
| that stream does not yet show any signs of
genuine rise, it is safe to say the food is
over, and that the river here will soon com.
connected with 1t is the fact that it com.
menced raining last evening, the indications
pointing to staying storm. If this should
prove to be the case, and the storm should
reach to the upper Mississippi pinerles, a rise
in this stream before the Minnesota food is
entirely disposed of, may reasonably be ex'
pected.
| in the yards of the several companies, have
as yet suffered no injury worthy Of mention,
though the water is up to the surface of the
road bed in several places, while at the west
end of the trestle work over the Phalen creek
and Trout brook outlets, for distance of ten to
fifteen rods,the road bed Is partially submerged
and numerous small streams are steadily add.
ing to the back set of those streams, now
Hhe 9hsk G., full M. for st. l0fs F. road aifa9ss Ss:
already bsen strengthened by rip-rapping of
this point, and yesterday the st. P. & D. road
was hauling in fresh dirt to raise and
strengthen their 'ad bed, between the trestle
| and the depot. The n. P. and the st. P. & O.
were also engaged in hauling in fresh dirt fol-
their new tracks north of lower Third street
this work is evidently as much to make neces
sary filing as to provide against any antici.
pated danger from the food.
The overflow on lower Third street had ex.
panded and deepened somewhat from the added
volume of water in the river, but 1t is still
pI ssible for teams If care is only taken to keep
in the street
The condition of the steamboat and rail
road warehouses along the river bank Is un
changed, all still standing firmly upon theil
foundations, and not having suffered any
damage, so far as can be seen, beyond the
springing of the. floors, and displacement oi
portion of the surrounding platforms.
Capt. Reauey, of the st. Paul & St. Louis
packet company, has removed his ofic to tht
Bethel chapel, near the foot of Jackson street
the steamboat Office now being covered by
about five inches of water.
The Office of Messrs. Sanders & Mathews
next to P 81. Kelly & Co.'s, a
the foot of Sibley street, has beer
temporarily aban doned, about ten inche
of water covering the office floor. Thei
warehouse floor, however,is still high and dry
s. l. Sheldon's agricultural warehouse ad