Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-09-19
g.os ,e& at Eau Claire.

That part Ut the North side which was in
undated il tow Sat along the river, occu-
pied principally py one-sto,y frame dwellings
OF poor ycopc. Tho scene has already been
descr'tt in general il these dispatches ana
u more careful survey only emphas! Ies the
seriousness OF tbH disaster The bank OF thu
rive rises quite abruptly fpr 8 Jew few
feet to elevation " about one hundred or
80 feet wide back to Forest street. on " h'ch
is the trncl, Of the Milwaukee road, and
which is depressed three or four feet below
the lots GA either SIDE. The strip between
this and the river as well tiled with popu-
lOus shanties, and when l'le biz Use HCastrreti
Wednesday, night the people ut nr3C refused
to leave When the logs came Gown. how
ever and battered ut their doors nothing was
lett for them but To tee They 5ound
that Forest street which they must Gloss,
was q rushing river, whose deNth vas more
than the stature OF a man, anu full OF crash
ing logs The crossing was made success
fully, however, and as tar US eau be learned
not life was lost, nor Wns any serious
injury incurred The Hood made great havoc
with these little houses They were f'oated
away in every mag Unable shape. The topoy
raphv of the land Is entirely changed The
tlrv" along the river front is gone, and 9TH
it Is annihilateG fifteen or twenty feet OF the
rear Of the lots What We're fertile gardens
are now beds Of quicksand and saNduat, or
ponds and crerks the whole covered with
logs ON which one may walk over TIE wbo,e
district without touching 5he ground. Forest
street and it's railway track is piled with logs
three feet deep. A smart lawyer could no
doubt involve these moor people in some
interesting legal complications For ia
stance, one mans wood pile floats OFT
TO the premises of his third or fourth naigh-
Dor; whose will be the wood, and what out
slider can decide as to it's identity? A mans
house floats a block and finds an
anchorage in some one else's back yard If
The building is worthless and it, owner dent
TAX If Cpay he ha S1!aI for tTnSNnSSD
Such are some of the problems which will
arise to the legal mind
TIE LOSSES
The principal loser here is August Huvssen,
who owns and rents eight Of these little
dwellings, His tenants are all poor and
many OF them lose 5tleiI little all Mr. Huvs-
sens loss including his own premises, which
were quite ornamental, VIII amount to
81 900 Other losers in this vicinity on
houses and contentsa are A Anderson $500;
Pierre Neinssser, 5000; G. ScosSer, $500;
William Ulricn, 81, 500: Peter Warner,
81 600. On the east side OF Forest street
and the railway track, and cross streets,
great damage was found The houses there
were mostly two-story frames occupied by
Norwegi ans and SWedes. The principal
losers are-~
Chris Sack, residence, $500; William schrie-
bar, residence $500 Repricht residence, P4OO;
Pete Peterson, residence, $780, Lena Hole, resi-
d doe SeSeoHase gaoo + WIFI ressncs
$500; C. Fails residence, $500: 4. Huyssen,
residence, $500; Lars Nelson, residence, $175;
Sin1 resdard a"r zoe r. os
ges dS and f osor $50. o 6ersee
residence, $500; Mrs Garland, residence
800: Madison hotel, 5000: r. Yum, residence,
stead block, $500: William Bachrnanu, resi- :
dence sloo.;, Anton Meyer residence, $500; j.
Gull residence 500: g. Ellison re sh1nts
residence, $3.50; Ole Hansen, residence, $500;
Miss Bsrg, laundry. $500; FIVE or Elk residences
near Phoenix mills, owned by Ole Mortimer
Jacob Lurbe and others damaged over 81 900
These are only the principal LOSERS there
being great number Of little houses deluol-
"ished the foreign names OF whose owners it
is impossible to Obtain correctly, much less
to send by telegraph. ~
ON BARsTow STREET.
On BarsSow street, going north from the
bridge and on the East side, losses are:
Ullrich & Nygardis, store, 5000; s; Arnold,
s S. &c., IT, Holmes saloon ooo FAIR Bfos
store, $3.50: A. Halverson, store. $500: S. strurn,
store, $500: Simpson d Co store, $500; Ice &
ware, 500; Frawley's block. $500; F. Ksnaps.
store saS a Miaon each H so; eso sna
Linz hnh a@ ssfs5 4 sS SSo Pau s hios as.
furniture, 5000: Holm D. Thompson, dry goods,
$500; McIntire, groceries. 81 200; Fl. Schwaii.
butcher. 5000: IS. G. Posick, gents furnishing,
$500; Larson g. Johnston, grocery. $500: ten
saloons, 500 each. Other losses on the North
j side were J. C. Olson, cigars and tobacco. $500;
FL Peterson, saloon aud dwelling $500: G. P.
Jc,is,son, hotel and dwelling 81 900: Eric Skata-
ing, goo; John Higgins, Dwelling $500;
Mangua Olson dwelling, $500; Hugh Carey,
dwelling. $500: Berssng Grnan, tobacco,
3 $500; John Girnard, dwelling $50: CASTOR
Brothers, boiler shop. O., 900: Frank Nc
Donough, four dwellings. ST 500: sohn Britton
4 hotel, $500; 3. y. Campbell. dwelling, $500; w.