Omaha daily bee., 1883-05-21

and everything went before tho food.
All the town u the guloh wss badly
damaged. Pennington is entirely
gone. The valley 70 lp,ded ard half
# Speartfh Washed away. Csook
City is nearly all gone The water is
now falling though there is much snow
IN the mountains yet. George Can.
der and wife and two unknown men
are known to be- drowned. Lots
roughly estimated at $500. 600. Rope
and basket communication ia estsb.
lished between the two parts of the
city.
ADDITIONAL FACTS.
BISMARCK, May 20.-The Tribune
apecial gives additional facts as to the
flood at Desdvood. Tho hoavy snow
aud food reported some days ago in
n dispatch from Stevenson, was at
Deadwood. Additipns, rain had
fallen almost every day for o moeth,
making the roads impossible and sat
urs.ing the ground thoroughly With
water. This was followed By u heavy
fall OF snow, whica disappeared
rapidly under the heavy warm
rain of Friday nignt and
Saturday. The gulches or valleys
In the hills are from a few hundred
feet to probably q quarter of a mile
wide, generally Dsadwood Is at the
Junction of Whltowood and Deaduocd
gulches. Numerous gulches In this
case emptied their accumulation of
water from tho mountains into those
5wo mSiu CATCHES and gave volume to
the water that rushed down White
| wood IN resiStless force. Central
Ci y, Anchor City and Golden Gate
are on the Deadwood above Desdwood
City. The gres'er portion Of Central
City would be az, We the food but for
Anchor and Golden Gate. There was
no escape here, however. The gulch
Is not over ak hundred feet Wide.
Deadwood is q town of 5000 peo-
pie. The main residence portion of
ths city Is from 100 to 800 feet
a1Ove the gulch, and the main bust
uesa portion was also above the danger
line. The portion destroyed was
occupied by cheap tenement houses,
second. class hotels, laundrles, small
traders, sporting houses, livery sta.
bles, etc. Some buildings wers
built over the stream, which, at Its
ordinary stage, was only a few feet
wide. It's locality was avoided, no "
ever, by the shrewder interest, for
the danger Was recognized, In this
case timely warning was given by
mesns of the telephone system exist.
ing in tho Hills, and the most valuable
articles we're removed.
So far but three bodies have been
recovered, but IL is now believed that
the loss of life has been great. The
Wild excitement was only eqGslled by
that at the time Of the 6ro. Horsemen
! rushed in every direction and hastily
loaded vehicles jostied each other.
When he food came 1t carried every.
thing excepting the most substantial
buildings before 1t. The loss In Dead
wood Will reach 500, 600. Golden
Gate, Anchor City, Central City,
South Bend and Crook City are heavy
%lossrp. Several of the mills in Deadwood
Gulch were destroyed and the damage
to mines By floods cannot be replaced
for several weeks. All roads are i'm
psssable aud trains were forced to sus.
pend on the Hills railroad because 1t
was impossible to get wood to the
atatious, The Methodist church and
public school building were among
the buildings destroyed at Deadwood,
also Mtlier's fire proof warehouse; also
Isman's & Ayres and one other and
s brewery. One hundred houses are
known TO have been washed away.
Five lives were lost and three bodies
have been recovered.
Among the drowned were George
Chandler and wife, and a man named
Brindley. Spearfsh and Rapid are
broader valleys, the former from two
tc twelve miles wide. The food was
not 80 destructive there, but the
damage was aerious, nevertheless.