The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-09-26

ern points The Phoenix Lumber company
estimates Its damage at $4,000. The
bridges across the Eau Claire in the city
are jammed into all possible shapes,
the damage to them being heavy. Reports
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 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-f five corporate firms damaged. one
almost entirely swept away, one-tifth
of a large city submerged, q dozen and over
smaller places more or less damaged and a
great agricultural region turned into a sea,
The flood is directly traceahle to the cyclone
that swept St Croix and Polk counties. The
great bulk of rain did not fall though till
utter the blow of last Tuesday night, when
all the small streams in Chippewa II 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 In Wis.
consin before since early pioneer days, and
the destruction from wind and rain is unpar-
alleled. Nearly four millions damage from
lA0 dhu ONC ulC ulilllOu6 I1Ou1 WHICH 16 u
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, OOO, 900 feet
of logs belonging to his company, and above
75,OOO,OOO belonging TO other parties. Ad.
vices received from Mr.. Irvine, at Beet
Slnuph 0ra tn tho affart thot NIL thu 1ore rim
in there thus far are safely cared for. Mr..
Weyerhauser thinks there Ii more than 100.
100000 there, an equal number at the Dells
reservoir. and 100000, 900 in the Paint
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
washed out, as is the east end of that on the
falls here. Mr.. 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-
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
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 Fambeau, 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 GOO, 600, OOO
on the river, Mr.. Weyerhauser estimates that
fully 100000 600 are IS. 50 high up on the
hauled into the river again. Little, if any,
more lumber will be cut on the Chippews
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 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.
r%oundings present the sorriest sort of n 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 were made O. the basis of the
flood of 1880, and above tho high
water mark then. Mr.. W~eyerhauser say
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 food will limit the lumber pro.
duction of the Chippewa to about 125, OOO,-
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 tc
the logging company in the damage to it,
improvements along the river. Anew dan
recently Quilt at Pix lake, it is b believed. is al
right b estimate of a damage of 800,
600 is only approximate, and the actual loss
it is not ut all unlikely, will far exceed thai
amount An enumeration of the losses IL
Chippewa Falls gives IN aggregate of about
500, DOC. 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 livet
about three miles below the city, were found
inside their house, which was washed away