Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-06-02

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KILLED RY THE CARS.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, June 1-Charles
McPuilau,a brakeman on the Flint & Pere
Marquette road, fell off car this morning
at Flint and was caught under the wheels.
cutting off leg and MASKING the other.
He died shortly afterward.
DESTRUCTIVE RAIN AT COUNCIL BLUFFS.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia, June AT 6
o'clock this evening one of the worst rain
storms that ever visited this vicinity set
/ Il, and for four hours poured down in tor
rents. Indian creek, which runs through
the heart of the city, overfowed, and the
damage caused roughly estimated at $780,
600. Seven iron bridges and two culverts
belonging to the city were swept away.
Also several dwellings and barns along the
creek. All business houses on Main and
Broadway streets were flooded. Several
osses OF life are reported. The water
IN the streets one block from the creek
was waist deep with a swift current. Cries
for help could be heard in every direction
but the swiftness of the current rendered
assistance impossible. Particulars are
very difficult to obtain tonight. At 10
O'Clock it is raining the most terrific rain
flood western Iowa ever experienced. The
flood rose so quickly that many business
men found it impossible to reach their
wives and children, and narrowly escaped
from drowning. The gloom of mourning
liz the city tonight is universal.
The NOnparei will say: A most frightful
calamity occurred last evening. There
had been threatenings of rain during the
entire day, with occasional showers, but
when evening came it seems as though the
very heavens fell. Dark, portentious
clouds swept the ground to the eastward,
and discharged their torrents at the head
waters of Indian creek, and the maddened
flood, with constantly increasing volume,
poured through Council Bluffs, sweeping
bridges and culverts from one end of
the stream to the other. Many buildings
were swept away. All that part of the
city lying between the bluffs and Broad
way on the north was inundated by the
rushing and boiling waters. The sight
was awful to behold. The loss of life is
feared at this writing to be large, as nu-
merous instances have been developed
already. At o'clock four had been re-
ported. At midnight the general gloom
over the city increased by the continuance of
spent its fury. The waters in the western
and southern part of the city are rapidly
rising, and many people were compelled
to take boat to escape. The facts as to
the amount of devastation by the storm
are impossible to give at this hour, but the
loss to the city alone, will be hundreds of
thousands, besides that of private individ-
uals.
THE BROOKLYN BRIDGE.
New York, June 1.-The police commits
sloners, to-day, at the request of the
Brooklyn bridge trustees. directed eight
men to be detailed for duty on the bridge
from the New York entrance to the center
OF the main span, from noon to midnight,
daily.
A special meeting of the trustees was
held, and they referred the matter of the
disaster to committee, to report. The
mayors of New York and BROOKLYN were
appointed on this committee. Chief En-
gineer Martin made q report of the acct
dent, and said that center rail would be
put up Immediately in the middle of the
walk upstairs. This, he said, would be a
simple experiment, as the accident was the
result of a panic. The trustees decided to
increase the police force, and have made a
requisition of the two cities for aid from
the regular force on special hours, when
there was likely to be crowd. They would
have about twenty men on duty at one
time. The question of an inclined plane
was discussed, but no action, and the mat
ter was referred TO a special committee.
THE BOILER BURST.
EAST SAGINAW, Mich, June 1.-The
single mill of G. V. Turner & Sons, eight
miles below this city, was blown to atoms
at $50 a. m. by the explosion of its boiler.
viii g. V. Turner, engineer, Hiram Gould
ing, fireman, and John Mcdowell, the
night watch1nan, were killed. Turner and
Rose Plew were seriously injured, and
Orlando Soldiers and Peter Nelson fatally
The cause of the explosion is not known.
Damage, $4,000.
DROWNED.
LOUISVILLE, June 1.-Wm. Manly, aged
twenty, while returning from fishing ex-
cursion, was thrown from a skiff by col
liding with tow-boat this afternoon and
drowned. The body was recovered.