The daily gazette., 1883-05-22
DESTRUCTIVE STORMS.
FEARFUL GALES ON THE
GREAT LAKES.
TERRIBLE FIooD II DAKOTA.
DeadwOOd streets Turned Into Rivers.
Loss Of Life on the Lake Coasters.
Various Notes.

l nave OC6u bI9uoIOflufu DI ucltluR Snow
and heavy rains into angry mountain tor
rents, which have swept down with incredi-
BILE fury upon the mining towns In the viciD-
ity. The 200 inhabitants of Deadwood
are navigating part OF their town 10 boats,
and the people Of Central City, Anchor City,
| and Golden Gate are forced to use the same
method of travel. It is known that mum
Der of people have been killed. A
| special dispatch to the 1ribase of this city
| contains the following details Of the food
| Almost every day for month there has
been fall Of rain which has rendered the
roads impossible and thoroughly saturated
/ the ground. A heavy fall Of snow followed
| but disappeared rapidly under the heavy
warm rain of Friday night and Saturday.
The gulches, or valleys, in the hills are from
9 few hundred feet to probably quarter of
q mile wide.
EMPTIED THEIR ACoUMTLATING WATER.
Deadwood Is situated at the juactlon Of
the Whitewood and DeadwOod Clutches, and
numerous other gulches emptied their ac-
cumulating water from the mountains into
these two main gulches, making a voiume
| Of water that rushed down Whitewood with
resistless force. Central City, Anchor City
and Golden Gate are on Deadwood Gulch
above DeAdwood City. The greater portion
/ Of Central City was above the food but for
Anchor City and Golden Gate there was no
escape, the gulch there being not over 800
/ feet wide.
The main residential portion of Deadwood
/ 10 from 100 to 800 feet above the gulch, and
the main business portion is also above the
danger line. The portion destroyed was oc-
cupied by cheap tenement houses, second
| class hotels, laundries, small traders, sport
/ ing houses, livery stables, etc. Some of the
buildings are built over the stream which, at
| it's ordinary stage, is but q few feet wide.
This locality is generally avoided, however,
its danger being recognized. When the
1 food came timely warning was given by
| means of the telephone system, which ex-
ists In the Hills, and the most valuable
articles were removed BY the residents. So
/ far but three bodies have been recovered,
but 1t is believed now that the loss of life
has been great.
EVERYWHERE WILD EXCITEMENT.
The widest excitement prevailed, horse
| men rushed in every direction and hastily
loaded vehicles jostled each other. When
the food came it swept everything before 1t,
1 excepting the most substantial buildings.
| The losses In Deadwood will reach $7OO, 900.
Golden Gate, Anchor City, Central City,
South Bend and Crook City are all heavy
losers. ...,
Several mills along the DeadwUod Gulch
have been destroyed, and the damage to the
i mines by the foods cannot be repaired for
several weeks. All tine roads are impossible
and trains have been forced to suspend on
the Hills railroad. The Methodist Church
and the public school building at DeadwOod
were destroyed; also, Miller's freprooi
| warehouse, Ismond 81 Ayers hardware store,
and q brewery. One hundred houses are
known to have been washed away aud five
| lives have been lost. Among those drowned
were George Chandler and wife, and man
named Brindley. Spear Fish and Rapid are
broad valleys, the former being from two to
twelve miles wider. The food was not so
destructive there, but did serious damage
| nevertheless.
FIERCE WINDS PLAY SAD HAVOC WITH Be
LATED VESSELS.
CHICAGO, NAV 2l.-A stiff breeze has
been blowing from the North for "a hours
At times the wind has passed through this
city at the rate OF 80 miles an hour. There
was no disaster, however, reported in the
immediate vicinity of Chicago until to-day.
The two masted schooner, Jennie Lynn,
laden with slabs from Muskegon, went
ashore at the foot OF Thirty-third street, be-
tween 5 and 6 O'Clock this morning. She
went to pieces at once, and out of crew of
i've but one was saved.
The vessel left Muskegon yesterday morn
ing, and shortly after leoving that port, was
overtaken by the storm. She managed to
reach Chicago In safety, however, sometime
during the night. On her arrival here she
anchored off the Government Pier, and rode
In safety there for some time. About 3
O'Clock this morning the cables of both her
anchors broke, and then she became the
plaything of the winds and waves, Heavy
seas broke over her deck, and very soon
cabin and forecastle were flooded, and the
poor men who composed her crew saw death
staring them In the face.
The vessel at once began to drift and con-
tinued In southwesterly direction till she
got opposite Thirty-third street, when she
turned over on her beam ends, and the men
on board were thrown in the surging waters
of the lake. They clung to the mast, how
ever, for a time, and the vessel righted
again, when the yawl was launched and the
| captain and crew took to it. They had not
. left the vessel long till she went over again,
|, and very soon afterwards the yawl also cap
sized and the captain and three of the crew
sank to rise no more. hxel Lampe clung
, to the bottom of the yawl for while, and
then attempted to swim ashore. He lost
consciousness and was washed ashore by a
| breaker.
The schooner Mary Ellen Cook was max
| ing the harbor at 5 O'Clock this morning. A
J heavy sea heaved her bow high on the break
water. Another wave carried her midshipI
8 on the breakwater, and third threw hel
J, over 70 the other side. She at once became
| WaLer-lORRe0, DuJ Wds GOWeu III. DuFlnt
the peril boy named Frank Miller jumped
q on the breakwater and was washed awaJ
o and drowned.
4 A white shirt has been floating in tn,
breeze all day at the Fullerton avenue con
h duit crib located short distance from tn,
q north shore. 1t was the signal of distres:
r hoisted by two fishermen who could be dis
tinctly seen from land, but to whom it 1
l. impossible to render any aid so long as tn
n sea continues to run as high as now
v There are over 100 vessels just outside tn
harbor to-day, tempest-tossed and in i'm
II niinent danger of destruction, and owini
a to the heavy sea no tugs dare go to tn
-r.r SIX MEN DROWNED.
J. MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 21.-A terribl
ir gale swept across the lake last night, play
ct ing havoc with the shipping. The schoone
N Petrol, anchored off this point, was in dar
ger of fouudering, and six of the crew de
1t serted the captain, and, taking yawl boa
ID attempted to reach the shore. They ha
le gone but q, short distance when the yaw
&c capsized, and three of the crew wer
n drowned. The others clung to the bottoI
of the boat, and were saved this morning
e- The Petrol did not founder, as was feareI
On but she was SO disabled that the capita
B. could not handle her, and he was taken {
or OF the wreck by atug,