The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-09-19

The estimated damage from Westville TO the
Half Moon Lake canal, which is the northerr
boundary of Shawtown, is over SZo,uVo
of deaths on the West side there
are not many, Ms near as they can De
traced now. It EeemS that q Mr.. Lilly, VINE
lives near the Madison street bridge, Wai
irving TO save his wife from the flood fh
hSdy was found Friday morning: FRIDAY
evening a float passed down the Chippews
with two men on it According to the story
of the bystanderS il disappeared Just oppoSlVt
the Bailey house and the men were not seen
again ilGroSSly exaggerated stories are ny
ing around about other deaGhs in the Vlclhl'
ty. but their truth is doubtful. VI the logs
that have broken loose. lumbermen say not
one Will reach Durand, and they
can easily be recovered when the
water goes down Between Eau Claire ana
Rumsey's Landing, down the rlYer, many
farmers were found by the relief party
perched upon knolls with their families;
homes gone, fields under water, and no pro
visions, There are fears OF great suffering
between here and Durand A careful esu-
mate made by parties resident there approx
imates the West Eau Claire losses about rs
follows, and the figures given cannot be ta
from correct;
Milwaukee road S2o,OO0
Lumberfrms, foundry, tc............ $4,000
Municipal loss, bridges, etc..."..".... So0'oo0S
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 4oo,oON
No outside AID will be needed A public
subscription is being taken up in the
city for aid to sutferera 1t IL
believed that the total loss in all Eau
Claire will not exceed 81 600, 600. 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. 600, 900 feet of logs have
| 1rif+sl into tho naltG rpSpryDIT from north
ern points The Phoenix Lumber company
estimates its damage at $4,000. The
bridges across the Eau Claire in the city
are damned into all possible shapes,
the damage TO them being heavy. Reports
of a house having ioated into the Dells
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 TO the mill 2nd numbering inter
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 peo-
| pie have been directly injured by this Hood,
oyertwenty-tive 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 over
smaller places more or less damaged and q
great agricultural region turned into a sea
The flood is directly traceable to the cyclone
| that swept ST CroiX and Polk counties TIL
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 such rainfall has ever occurred ia Wis
consin before since early pioneer days, and
the destruction from wind and rain is unpar-
aIleled Nearly four millions damage from
wind and over three millions from water is q
terrible record
THE LUMBER INTERESTS.
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, Special Telegram,
Sept 13-Fred W~eyerhauser, 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 525 600, 600 feet
of logs belonging to his company, and above
$4,000, 900 belonging to other parties Ad:
vices received from Mr.. Irvine, at Beef
Slough, are to the effect that all the logs run
i'm there thus far are safely cared for. Mr..
WeYerhauser thinks there is more than 100,-
900 900 there, an equal number at the Dells
reservoir. and 150,000,000 in the Paint
creek dam, and, as far as is known, wen
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. The ends of the Paint Creek dam are
4 w hGhCA ~ 40 10 04OH Ooob Eho III NAASAN O4 khCs
falls here. Dir. Weyerhauser says that his
company owned improvements worth $780,
600 on the river. and he estimates that it
will cost at least 100000 to make the re-
pairs. From $25, 900 to 100000 will be
necessary to build the Point Creek dam. The
smaller dams above he thinks are pretty
generally gone, but has no positive informa-
nation. The storm he believes to have been
MOST SEVERE ON THE EASTERN TRIBUTARIES
of the river. He has heard from the West
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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 dom there.
A large proportion OF the logs now in the
four great reservoirs will be high and dry
when the water falls OF the 600. 600, 600
on the river, Mr.. W~eyerhauser estimates that
fully 800, 600, 900 are SO high up on the
banks that they win a to be
hauled into the river again Little, ii any,
more lumber will be cut on the Chippewa
this year, and there are enough logs from
Little Falls dow to start the mills waiting
their supply from the Chippewa next year.
He believes that the winter viii have to be
occupied in hauling the stranded logs into
the river again. and that the iursbsTmen
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 mex
winter. With the water fallen no more than
at the present time,
LoGs ARE SCATTERED o. 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
c0mpany's mill and buildings here at more
than $4,000, although the yard and sur
roundings present the ~sorriest sort OF q sight
The work Of repair OF boiler and Of yard la,
been commenced, but viii occupy severa
weeks The D~artiaily demolished butldiDgr
|, viii be repaired Some of the Improvement
swept away were made ON the basis Of ths
! flood Of 1880, and above the higf
water mark then. Mr.. Weyerhauser say
pare against the recurrence of similar disns
! terra The 1cod will limit the lumber pro
} duction Of the Chippewa to about 125, 600,