The Mineral argus., 1884-09-25

1 line estimated damage lIOm NGhbNLl6 w AnN
Half Moon lake canal, which Is the northern
boundary of Shawtown, is over $2o,OOO
OF deaths on the West side Unere
are not many, as near as tney can bt
traced now. 1t seems that a Mr., Lilly, wht
lives near the Madison street bridge, wal
trying to save his wife from the flood Hh
body was found Friday morning. Friday
evening a float passed down the Chtppews
with two men on it According to the story
of the bystanders it disappeared Just Opposite
I the Bailey house and the men were not seen
again. ilGrossly exaggerated stories are ny
ing around about other deaths in the vlclnl-
", but their TRUTH doubtful OF the logs
that have broke loose, lumbermen say not
one Will reach Durand, and they
can easily be recovered when the
water goes down. Between Eau Claire and
Rumsey's Landing, down the river, many
farmers were found by the relief party
perched upon knobs with their families;
homes gone, fields under water, and no pro-
visions There are fears of great suffering
between here and Durand A careful esti'
mate made by parties resident there approx
imates the West Eau Claire losses about as
follows, and the figures given cannot be fan
from correct:
Milwaukee road S25,OOo
Lumber firms, foundry. tc............. $4,000
Municipal loss, bridges, tc........-... S0O,0O0
No outside aid will be needed A public
subscription is being taken up In the
city for aid to sufferers. 1t Il
believed that the total loss in all Eau
Claire will not exceed 81 ,00O, 900. A house
passed the city Thursday half submerged,
a woman with a child in her arms standing
at the uPper-story window and man on the
roof. They are supposed to have been
drowned The river has fallen rapidly to-
day, at the time of writing having gone down
from fifteen to seventeen feet 1t is stated
that over 400, 000.00 feet of logs have
drifted into the Dells reservoir from north
ern points The Phoenix Lumber company
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bridges across the Eau Claire in the city
are jammed into all possible shapes,
the damage to them being heavy. Reports
of a house having hoated into the Dels
pond with five dead persons in it have just
come in. Summarizing all the damage
resulting to this town up to date,
from Chippewa Falls to Eau Claire the main
damage is tc the mill and numbering inter
has suffered considerably. At Eau Claire the
city and railroads suffer; the mills are less
damaged 1t is stated that over 5000 peo-
pie have been directly injured by this flood,
overtwenty-ive corporate firms damaged one
of the principal divisions OF a great railroad
almost entirely swept away, one-ffth
of a large city submerged, a dozen and owe
smaller places more or 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 it's course.
No such 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 is a
terrible record
THE LUMBER INTERESTS.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Special Telegram,
Sept 13.-Fred Weyerhauser, president OF
the Mississippi Lumber and Logging COM
pany, was here again to-day looking after
the interests of the company. He states that
there was in the Chippewa 525, 900, 600 feet
of logs belonging to his company, and above
rs, 900, 900 belonging to other parties Ad-
vices received from Mr. Irvine, at Beef
Slough, are to the effect that all the logs run
in there thus far are safely cared for. Mr..
Weyerhauser thinks there is more than 1OO,-
o 900 there, an equal number at the DeIls
reservoir. and 100000, 900 in the Paint
creek dam, and, as far as is known, even
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..
W~eyerhauser believes that everything is safe
there. The ends of the Paint Creek dam are
washed out, as is the east end OF that on the
falls here. Mr.. Weyerhauser says that bis
company owned improvements worth $780,
DOC on the river, and he estimates that it
will cost at least 100000 to make the re-
pairs. From $4,000 to $40, 900 will be
necessary to build the Point Creek dam. The
smaller dams above he thinks are pretty
generally gone, but has no positive nforma-
nation. The storm he believes to have been
MOST SEVERE ON THE EASTERN T~RIBUrARIEs
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 have 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 done there.
A large proportion of the logs now in the
four great reservoirs will be high and dry
when the water falls OF the 900, 600, 600
on the river, Mr.. Weyerhauser estimates that
fully 300, 00O, 900 are 50 high up on the
hauled into the river again. Little, If any,
more lumber will be cut on the Chippewa
this year, and there are enough logs from
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 lone 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 10 the Chippewa laundering
company's mill and buildings here at more
thar $40. 600, although the yard and sur.
roundincs present the s~orriest sort of a sight
The work of repair of boiler and Of yard hal
been commenced, but will occupy severa
weeks The partially demolished building
will be repaired Some of the improvement
swept away were made on the basis of the
food of 1880, and above the higf
xrafar unark fhon Mr. WpVnrhanqQr saw