The Dickinson press., 1884-09-20

estimates it's damage ct $4,000! The
bridges vi am across The Ea y Claire il the city
the damage to them being heavy: Reports Reppra,
of a house having 1oated into the bells
pond with five dead persons in it have lust
come in. Summarizing all the damage
resulting to this town up to date,
damage IS to the mill and numbering ng' inter- rtea.
ests, though private property in that section
has suffered considerably. At Eau Claire the
city and railroads suffer; the mills are less
damaged. 1t is stated that over 5000 PEG.
pie nave been directly injured by this flood,
oyertwenty-ive corporate firms damaged, one
of the principal divisions of a great railroad
almost entirely swept away. one-ffth
OF a large city submerged, o dozen and over
smaller places more OF less damaged and a
great agricultural region turned into a sea.
The flood is directly traceable to the cyclone
that swept St Croix and Polk counties. The
great bulk Of rain did not fall though till
after the blow of last Tuesday night when
all the small streams in Chippewa and Bar.
ron counties north of here were turned into
rivers and lakes that discharged themselves
into the Chippewa and came down its course.
No u rainfall has ever occurred in Wis.
consin before since early pioneer DAYS. and
the destruction from wind and rain is unpar-
alleled. Nearly four millions damage from
wind and over three millions from water ia a
terrible record.
THE LUMBER INTERESTS.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Special Telegram.
Sept: l3.-Fred Weyerhauser, president OF
the Mississippi Lumber and Logging com.
the interests of the company. He states that
there was in the Chippewa 525, 600. 900 feet
OF logs belonging to his company, and above
100000 O belonging to other parties. Adj.
vices received from Mr.. Irvine, at Beef
slough, are to the effect hat all the logs run
in there thus far are safely cared for. Mr..
Weyerhauscr thinks there is more than 100
OOO,OO there, an equal number at the Dells
reservoir. and 100000, 600 in the Paint
creek dam, and, as far as is known, ever
more above Little Falls, filling the mouth OF
Jump creek and the main river for some
distance up to the stream. No advices have
been received from Little Falls, but Mr.,
Weyerhauser believes that everything is safe
there. Ihe ends of the Paint Creek dam are
washed out, as is the east end of that on the
falls here. Mr.. -W%eyerhauser says that his
company owned Improvements worth $780,
. on the river, and he estimates that it
will cost at least 100000 to make the re-
pairs. From $4,000 to $4,000 will be
necessary to build the Point Creek dam. The
generally gone, but has no positive informal
nation. The storm he believesto have been
MOST SEVERE ON THE EASTERN TRIBUTARIES
of the river. He has heard from the West
fork and the Court d'Ourelle, and everything
is all right in that direction, but the storm
seems to nave been along the East fork and
the Flambeau, where the water must have
fallen In torrents. A telegram FROM HAY.
ward states that no damage is lone there
A large proportion Of the logs now in the
when the water falls. OF the 600. 600, OO0
on the river, Mr.. Weyerhauser estimates that
fully 300, 100000 are so high up on the
banks that they will have to be
hauled into the river again. Little, if any,
more lumber will be cut on the Chippewa
/ this vQ0r and fhnra y an011rh 1Nrc f.o,,
Little Falls down to start the mills waiting
their supply from the Chippewa next year.
He believes that the Winter will have to be
occupied in hauling the stranded logs into
the river again, and that the lumbermen
will probably have to do their logging before
securing the stock for next year. He urges
that this work should be done before going
into the woods to get another start for next
winter. With the water fallen no more than
at the present time,
LOGS ARE SCATTERED ON THE BANKS
two and three hundred feet out of the water,
and high and dry. He does not estimate
the damage to the Chippewa LAUNDERING
company's mill and buildings here at more
than $4,000, although the yard and sur.
roundings present the ~sorriest sort of a sight.
The work of repair of boiler and of yard has
been commenced, but will occupy several
weeks. The partially demolished buildings
will be repaired. Some of the improvements
swept away We're made on the basis of the
AAoou VI 1ooU, anu above Gne nigh
water mark then. Mr.. Weyerhauser says
that the most serious part of the whole
affair is that it is almost impossible to pre-
pare against the recurrence of similar disas-
ters. The flood will limit the lumber pro.
duction of the Chippewa to about 125, 900
600 feet on this years stock. and accomplish
what it was hoped to do by the combination
to shut down. The mills are all more or less
injured, but the most serious loss will be tic
the logging company in the damage to its
improvements along the river Anew dam
recently built at Pike lake, it is believed. is all
right The estimate of a damage of $780,
600 ii only approximate, Inc the actual loss
it is not at all unlikely, will far exceed thai
amount An enumeration of the losses in
Chippewa Falls gives an aggregate of about
100000. A large number of stores and res
licences were either swept away or damaged.
The county board are receiving bids for the
reconstruction of the river bridges, which
will be completed in a short time. The bod.
les of an old couple named Rogers, who lived
about three miles below the city, were found
inside their house, which was washed away.