Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-12
WISC0NSIN'S MISFORTUNE
! THE FEARFUL CYCLONE FOL-
LOWED BY A FLOOD.

Over 400 Houses Carried Away st Eau
CIaire-The Loss to Property Owners
Appalling II undreds of Families Des-
tftute. but No Great Loss of Life Re-
ported.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Sept. 1.-THE
most disastrous flood ever known in this
| section is now upon US. The Chippewa
river has risen 20 feet since Tuesday night
at u O'Clock, and is still growing higher
at the rate of foot per hour. Three rail-
road bridges are in great danger, and the
wagon bridge is hourly expected to go.
All of the upper dams on Duncan creek,
which passes through the town, are cut.
A portion of the flood from this cause
reached here at / o'clock yesterday after
noon and swept away every bridge,
five in number, together with
large number of buildings, including
Kehler's planning mill, Collins feed store,
Stiles building and Bailey's livery sta
bles and Slumm & Viewers agricultural
buildings. The loss in this city so far is
estimated at 100000, The worst is still
to come, however, as a dam fourteen miles
north of here passed out yesterday after
noon and released 100000 feet of logs
which, it is feared, will do great damage
in their course down stream.
RISING HOURLY.
EAU CLAIRE, WIS, Sept. u.-The'Chip-
pewa river is rising six inches per hour.
The Eau Claire river is 16 feet above the
low water mark, and is still rising. Scores
of families are moving out of their houses,
in some of which there is four feet of
water. The PhpniX Manufacturing Com
pany's building is partially under water.
BILL NYE's LEG BROKEN.
CLEAR LAKE, WIS, Sept. lin addi-
tion to the three persons killed during the
cyclone here yesterday, clerk in Briggs
store was seriously injured, and it is
thought that he will die. Some of the
principal losses are: John E. Glover, saw
mill, machinery and lumber, 500, 900; A.
A. Ingalls,, general store, $4,000; Smith
& Lewis store, $4,000. The total loss in
Clear Lake and its vicinity, will reach at
least $250,000. Bill Nye, of Laramee
Boomerang notOriety, was driving with
his brother, about 8 miles east of
struck them. He was lifted clear
out of his wagon by the wind and
dashed to the side of the road. His right
leg was broken in two places below the
knee. His brother was only slightly
injured, and walked back to Clear Lake
and procured help, but it was six hours
before the injured man could be brought
with fallen trees About forty buildings
were wrecked in Clear Lake, including
the Methodist Congregational and Lu-
theran Churches. Humboldt & Co.'s saw
mill, three miles east of here, was destroy
ed, causing loss of $4,000.
THE sQUALL AT ALPENA.
DETROIT, MICH, Sept. II. An Alpena,
Mich. special says: ga violent thunder
squalI occurred yesterday noon. The
wind reached forty-eight miles per hour.
The rainfall was over an inch in eight
minutes. Thomas Scarf was struck by
lightning and killed on the street, and
another man had his arm broken. Forty
thousand feet of lumber were blown into
the lake. The tornado was not very wide
and lasted fifteen minutes.'
BOONS CARRIED AWAY.
ST. PAUL, MINI, Sept. IA special
dispatch from Eau Clair, Wis, says:
"The bOoms on Point Greek, tributary
of the Chippewa river, went out late last
night and the water in the Chippewa rose
rapidly. This, with floating logs, carried
away the upper bridge of the Wisconsin
Central Railway at Chippewa Falls, and
also the lower bridge between there and
this city. The Chicago, Milwaukee and
st. Paul Railway bridge and all the city
bridges here, and the city bridge at Chip
pewa Falls, have been carried away. The
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
Railroad bridge at Chippewa Falls is still
intact, but will be in great danger should
the river continue to rise. The bank of the
latter road is being badly washed. The
water is flooding the streets of this city
and doing great damage"
Later news says that the Eau Claire
and Chippewa rivers are higher than was
ever known before. The water is flooding
over the principal streets, and many
buildings on the lower ground are float
ing away. A million feet of logs have
broken from a boom near the Eddy mills
and are floating down the stream.
CAUGHT IN A BARN.
A party engaged in thresbing for
Charles Thelander, in the town of Grant,
retreated to the barn for shelter, when the
structure was blown over by the wind.
George Rutherford was caught in the
falling timbers and fatally injured, and
Ira j. SOule, the engineer, received severe
injuries. Where wire fences inclosed
pasture lands horses and cattle were
blown against them and badly cut up.
THE CLIMAX REACHED.
EAU CLAIRE, WIS, Sept. IL, 2 A. NJ
Both the Chippewa and Eau Claire rivers
began falling at noon, after reaching the
unprecedented height of 26 feet, 3 feet
higher than the great flood of 1880. Every
bridge on the Chippewa river has gone
down. Five railroad bridges, and wagon
bridges in this city are gone. The loss of
property is appalling. No satisfactory es-
innate can be made at this time. In and
between Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire,
the loss will not fall short of $1,000, 900.
1t may greatly exceed that sum.
The Eau Claire Gas Light Company lost
$50 tons of coal and all their buildings,
valued at $4,000. The business houses
on all sides of the two rivers are sub
M -~oed, and great apprehension is felt
lest when the @'eter recedes the founda-
tions n J may be SO much impaired as to
cause the walls to crumble. In this city
over 300 houses have been swept away,
and only one life Iosb so far as heard frcms
Three buildings on Bridge street, on the
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