The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-04-10
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
THE FLOODS.
Omaha. Council Bluffs and
Other Places Partly Sub
merged.

Omaha, Neb., 9.-The Missouri
River continued rising slowly all
day, and at 6 o'clock this afternoon
the water gauge showed tWenty-one
feet and a half above low water
mark, having risen about one foot
in twenty-four hours. The flood is
now regarded at its height, and it is
expected the river will begin falling
some time in the night.
A dispatch from Blain, fifty miles
north, by river, states that the river
began falling slowly this afternoon.
A dispatch from Sioux City says the
river fell there last night nineteen
inches and is still falling fast. 1t
has fallen fifteen feet at Yankton,
but reports from their this morning
say that the big gorge, twenty miles
below Yankton, and reported to be
fifty miles long, has not gone out
and that it may cause another i'm
menSe local flood. The river at this
point is six miles wide
1t is now believed that the rail
road shops will escape without seri-
Gus damage. The smelling works,
however, will be considerably in
jured, but if they remain when the
water falls, they can be put in good
shape again. Several other breaks
occurred during the night, and the
Ievee from the Union Pacific shops
to the railroad bridge, a distance OF
over one mile, is under water. Nj
merous freight cars, loaded with
| lumber and coal and other heavy
material, are submerged almost en-
| Jirely. This morning the Willow
Springs distillery, below the bridge,
was shut down on account
Of being flooded. Fifteen thou
sand head of cattle, which were
being fed in the distillery sheds,
were removed with great difficulty
to the stockyard. The situation on
the east side of the river, at Council
Bluffs and along the Union Pacific
depot, is fully as serious as it is at
Omaha, and perhaps more so. About
one-half of Council Bluffs is under
water to a depth of from one to
uhree feet, and many people have
oeen compelled to leave their homes
and seek shelter in higher part of
town. a broad and heavy stream
coming in from the bend north
of the town is now flowing
through the place and runs
down Broadway, the principal bust
ness street, past the Pacific House.
The stream is said to be eighteen
inches deep in the vicinity of the
Pacifice House, and the water is
within six inches of the Ogden
House. The stream running west
Of the town flows past the west side
Of the Union Pacific transfer depot,
flooding the bridges over Spoon
Lake, and inundating the entire
vicinity, together with the Union
stock yards and numerous residences
and railroad buildings in the imme-
diate locality. No eastern passengers
or mail arrived in Omaha to-day.
The Union Pacific approach to the
Missouri River bridge is flooded to
such an extent at the lake just west
of the tranfer depot, that a transfer
has to be made by boats and by
showing fiat cars through the water
AOhCl Dlndl1 DLAASCOs OAAeAA11 ID Wv
off in every direction except to the
west. Possibly trains may get into
Council Bluffs tomorrow and also
cave for the east. The Kansas
City, st. Louis and Council
Bluffs track from Council Bluffs
to the Pacific Junction, which is
used also by the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy, and also temporar-
lily by the Baltimore and Missouri
in Nebraska, is under water and
washed 50 badly that trains cannot
run over it.
1t is expected to accommodate the
above roads with outlets tomorrow.
Several hundred freight cars at
Council Bluffs are submerged.
st. Joseph, 9.-The Missouri River
at this point is seventeen feet six
inches above low water mark. An
additional rise of several inches is
reported, which will reach here to-
morrow.