Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-19
D0INCS OF The DELUCE.
A Torrent that Overlooked Grow
Greek, and Swept Through
Cheyenne.
The City Inundated BY the Most
Destructive Flood Ever Known
in That Region,
Particulars of ~ Flood That Caused n
Loss Of Nearly Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars.

Cheyenne Sun.
Friday night there were seen evidences
of an approaching storm. Away at tn,
northwest heavy clouds hung dark and
low; in the east rapid flashes of light.
ming darted with erratic energy athwart
the sky, and the thunders muttered
growlings at times swelled into deep
voiced echoes. Yesterday at the dawn
ing the sky was clear, but soon became
mantlcd with II canopy of gray, that here
and there had darker tint--omens of
approaching rain. About II o'clock u
regular thunder storm began Com
moncing with II steady fall of rain, the
storm increased until its strength was ex-
hausted in a torrent of rain Resting for
few moments the storm king gained
new strength, and again Il heavy shower
showed his power was still potent.
THE BEGINNING OF THE FLOOD.
About two o'clock the cutters were full
of fast flowing murky tide that soon
found its way to the center of the streets.
| Within very short time the entire city,
from the electric building, at the north
western part of town, to Dodge street,
was vast river; each street being q
separate channel for the food. BY three
o'clock the lower sidewalks and crossings
were under water, or dislodged, foated
on the surface of the flood. Those higher
walks on streets where the grade is high.
were Just at the surface of the water.
Beginning at about the hour stated, the
serious aspects of the flood commenced
THE PORTION INUNDATED.
The tide of waters was directed to the
city at point on the railroad to Camp
Carlin, at the southwestern corner of the
Driving park. The flood flowed south
ward until it reached the track, and then
it followed along the ditch by the track to
the city. Near the electric light house
the body of water was divided; part still
followed the track and part, flowing more
to the east, entered Thomas, Bent and
Eddy streets. At the intersection of the
streets, from Twenty first street to Fif-
teenth street, the waters were divided at
the crossings, and flowed eastward and
southwark The northern limit oJ the
food ON Ferguson street was Mt f.. A.
Slack's house and the alley just north of
the court house. On Hill street the
food did not extend north of Eighteenth
street. Ransom and Dodge streets were
not flooded north of Seventeenth street.
That entire portion of the city including
the main business part of town, was knee
deep in water, while those houses on the
south side of Sixteenth street from Dodge
street westward, were flooded. That
western portion of the city known as the
bottoms, did not escape the flood, but
there the overflow was from Crow creek.
In order to give clear conception of
the extent of the flood it may be well to
state by streets, the sections inundated:
Reed, Bent, O'Neil, Thomas and Eddy
streets from Twenty first street to the
Union Pacific track, were under water,
Ferguson street from Nineteenth street,
Hill from Eighteenth, Ransom from
Seventeenth, and Dodge from Sixteenth
street were overilowed. South of the
Union Pacific track the waters were
divided, but quite II number of houses
were flooded. Those houses ON Six
teenth street and south of that street,
situated west of Dodge street, We're
most unfortunate The water "backed
up" against the high bank of the Union
Pacific tracks, just east Of the Railroad
house. The culvert under the track was
inadequate, and to make the matter
worse it was chokcd by ties, lumber, etc,
that were hoated into it by the food.
The back water soon became very deep,
and at the southeastern corner of Six
teenth and Dodge streets was fully four
feet deep. A few doors south of that
point it was deeper, and ere it subsidcd
was doubtless eight feet deep at points
between the houses and the track. The
overflow from the creek washed away the
corrals at Camp Carlin, cleaned out Mr.,
r. Dyer's hog ranch, inundated the bot
toms, swept away the bridges over Grow
creek and tore out the fences at the
slaughter house.
THE ORIGIN or THE FLOOD.
Primarily the flood Was caused by n