Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-05
Destructive FIRE AT RED WING.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. |

mond mill in this city, one of the largest
in this state. It made rapid progress, and
was soon enveloped in flames. Soon after
wards the Bluff mill, situated about 200
feet away, caught lire, and both burned
rapidly and were soon almost entirely con-
sumed. The Diamond mill was owned by
Baker 81 Co. The loss will amount to about
100000. The stock of grain in store was
light. Neither of the mills were in opera
ton at the time, one having been idle
several weeks, and the other having been
shut down at 6 o'clock Saturday evening.
There are strong suspicious of incendiar
ism. as both mills caught fire almost sim
ultaneously.
THE LOWER MISSISSIPPI ON THE RAMPAGE. |
ST. LOUIS, March 4.-The latest news
from the overlooked country of the lower |
Mississippi river, is that what one knows
as the sunk lands, in the ST. Francis river |
region, are entirely submerged, and nearly
as far down as Helena there are but few
places above water. People are living in
the upper stories of houses, where there is
more than one story to a house, or are
| floating around on RATS or in boats. Most
of them have deserted the country for the
higher land back from the river. Several
| lives are reported lost in this region,
| but no definite information is given. Five
railroad laborers who were lost in the
overflow were picked up in a boat day
or two ago in a starving condition, they
having been without food nearly week.
All the bayous in this region are rising
rapidly, and great volume of water is
pouring to the southwark, which will
reach Helena Tuesday. All the railroad
grading in this section is suspended. New
Madrid, which is further north, is sub
merged, there being from two to four feet
OF water in all the streets, and there is
scarcely house in town the lower part Of
which is not in the water.
The whole country back of this place, as
far up as Cairo, on the Missouri side, and
from Hickman, south, for over fifty miles
the entire bottom-is inundated. Much
property in the way of corn, live stock,
fences, ETC., is destroyed, No great
amount of suffering is reported, the
people generally being in better con-
dition to meet the circumstances than last
; year. A good many of the people have
left the bottom lands and gone to the
high lands.
: At Arkansas City the water is still about
two feet lower than last year. Backwater
in the town is more than foot higher than
the river, running over the low spots in
3 the levee back into the river. Nearly all
business houses and residences have water
Q in them, and business is good deal cur
?. tailed.
The Little Rock, Mississippi River
. Texas railway is still operating, and the
y superintendent is taking every means tc
- keep the road in working order. good
q many women and children have been sem
q out of town to friends on the high ground
l. back from the river. Only ONT
o case of real destitution ha:
o been reported. The losses on stool
y around Arkansas City much less than last
= year. The Bolivar county levees in Missis
= sippi, are intact and it is hoped that sec
u ton of country will escape the overflow
"a this year.
II A roadmaster and two men of the Mem
" phis & Little Rock railroad were precipi
$ tated into the water at Blacklist bay, OF
rs Friday night, and as nothing has beef
:, heard from them it is feared they ar
= drowned.
RIVER STEAMER oAPsIzED AND SUNK AN.
=" LIVES LOST.
- New ORLEANS, March 4.-News was re
: ceived from steamer Yazoo lest evening
levee for bayou Macon and Tensas, tina
= while turning point last night, during
~ the high wind she capsized and sank nea
g Red Church. The boat and cargo are
D. total loss. Capt Sullivan and others say
lie ed came to this city on the Jesse Bell. TIL
e, captain reports the following known to b
D. lost: Lee Carper, second clerk; c
: Kerns, first mate; John Franz, carpenter
d. Lightner, steward; colored chamber
maid and eight colored roustabouts. Pas
III sengers lost: Mrs. Lewis, of Chicago;
~ seven-months- old child of Pilot Cooley
ed and colored woman, name unknown
ic The disaster occurred at Gypsy Poin
te twenty-five miles above this city. Th
n boat was heavily loaded with miscellaneou
>, freight, with value unknown. The boa
y was valued at $500; insured in the Pee
"S pies, of New Orleans, and Eureka, of Cir
81 cinnati.
On Donaldsonville special says, thi
st morning at 1 o'clock, the steamer YazoC
? at Bennett Core, struck an obstruction
supposed to be a log, and commenced
o+ fill. She landed and a small line was PIT
- out, which parted, and the boat sank. tn
. following were picked up by the steame
e st. John, from the floating debris: j. /
SIS Sullivan captain; w. B. Foulk, first clerl
he R. E. Cooley pilot; Bill Curtis, barkeepe
u. J. H Richardson, Mrs. R. Cooley and Mi:
or Daniels passengers; Alfonso, barber; Graz
at Miller, third cook, and six roustabout
os 1t is hoped the rest of the ere
went ashore.
WAvERLY, o., March 4.-Gehr 81 Brotl
ers planning mill and lumber yards burne
=: sLoss $4,000.
INDIANAPOLIS, March A fire at E.
wardsport, Ind, destroyed the store houi
- of A. Simonion d Son this morning. Lo
ne between $4,000 and $4,000; no insu
d ance.
n PITrsBURG, March 1.-The Vulcan forg
ON works on Thirty-second street was pa
off TALLY destroyed by fire this morning. Lo
i'll $4,000; fully covered by insurance.
n CHICAGO, March A message from I'll
"a stock yards stated that the Method
., church at South Englewood is burning al
,al will probably be total loss.
THE BRAIDwooD GRAVE.
BaAIDwooD, H., March 4.-The water
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