The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1881-04-07
THE WEST.

Ola ABE, the famous war eagle of
Wisconsin, is dead.
Most of the tin manufactures OF
Pittsburgh are closed by strike Of workmen
A fire at Leadville destroyed Nc.
Daniels theatre and restaurant and saloon
adjoining.
An ice-gorge carried away the
wagon bridge over the Des Moines river at
Ottumwa, Iowa.
The Indians at Hoocheno, Alaska.
recently burned at the stake two of their mum
Der for some crime.
Five distinct parties of railroad
engineers have crossed Tho Rio Grande between
Laredo and Eagle Pass.
Deming, the new town at the juno
tion of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific
roads, is said to have already fve thousan>;
inhabitants.
There is excitement in Decatur,
ILL.,, ont OF the refusal of the manager of the
Opera HOUSE in that city to sell tickets for rr-
served seats to colored men.
A panic prevails at Milford, Ind,
over the development of twenty-five cases of
charged from the hospital at Fort Wayne.
Hon. r. B. Langdon, of St. Paul, has
been awarded contract for constructing an
extension OF the Chicago, Milwaukee s. St.
Paul road from Marion to Council Bluffs, a
distance of two hundred and fifty miles.
Leading citizens of Chicago filled
Central Music hall, last evening, to discuss
the project OF fcommemorating the anniversary
of the great fire by laying the corner stone Of
public library and art gallery. The deepest
interest in the enterprise was manifested.
The Missouri has at length broken
its icy fettcrs, and its pent-up force has beqn
hurled against the frail banks, which have
proven inadequate to resist the mighty rush
Of waters, being too low to hold the moving
food. The liver opened at Fort Yates, March
"a, hut little damage was done at that time.
On the 2Sth the river opened at Yankton, with
no damage being done. But the disaster was
reserved for Pierre, the present western ter
minus Of the Dakota division of the North.
western Railroad. On March %, the Ice broke
ut this place, and within an hour the water
had risen to a level with the streets, and a
mighty, resistless food was swept through
the streets, carrying with it huge fields Of ice,
and doing considerable damage 10 the build
ings Of the place. The town was entirely
deserted, the inhabitants seeking safety on the
bluffs. The food subsided after being on the
rampage for about twelve hours. The water
crowded the ice on the banks into Fort Pierre,
and left it standing like wall along the river
bank-a monument of its strength over twelve
feet high. All houses along and close to the
river bank were crushed like a shell under the
weight Of accumulated ice. No casualties are
reported, as the food came on the people early
in the day.
Extensive floods are reported in
various portions of Nebraska, doing consider
able damage to property, and carrying out
bridges. The whole Platte Valley from Co.
umbus to Fremont was under water. Loup
river which empties into the Platte river near
Columbus, swept out the bridge of the Omaha,
Niobrara & Black Hills railroad near Colum-
bus and flooded the country in the immediate
vicinity, and. flowing over the Union Pacific
track, washed it out, together with about a
mile and half of telegraph lines, cutting oil all
communication west of that point. Bridges
everywhere were swept away, and even the
most substantial structures were unsafe. The
railroad bridge at st. Paul, on a branch of the
Union Pacific over the Loup river has gone.
All the wagon bridges in Howard county have
been swept out by the Loup river. The Bur-
lington Il Missouri bridge over the Platte river
at Oreopolis has been abandoned, owing to it's
insecurity, and other bridges on the Burling-
ton Il Miss0nri railway are REGARDED "A unsafe
The Union Pacific has abandoned the eastern
division. Three spans at the pile bridge over
the Loup river were washed out, and the track
is washed from one to three feet deep for a
long distance east of the bridge, and for about
three quarters of mile west of the bridge.
The total rise was about thrice feet.