The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-20

The Freshets in Minnesota and Wiscon-
sin Very Disastrous to the Lumber In
terests-The Rivers Filled With Log -
Bridges Destroyed and Railway Tracks
Injured.
ST PAUL, Mimi, April 16--The Missis-
sippi river was very high at Minneapolis
Saturday and many logs from above we've
carried over the falls Lumbermen calcu-
late that 1000 900 feet of logs were thus
foated down the river.
At St Paul the water is low, but still cov-
ers a portion of the West St Paul flats
The Red river at Moorhead continues to
rise The grain warehouses and elevators
on the levee are surrounded to the depth
of six or seven feet and considerable dam
age has been done to them. @Shanty-
town" on the Fargo side, is under several
feet of water Ice is coming from above
in large quantities and the bridge is threat
ened
At Lake City it is said that every bridge
that spanned the Zumbro river in that coun-
ty has been swept away.
At Red Lake Falls high water in the Red
Lake river is doing serious damage to the
$40, 600 dam just completed by ]. B..
Holmes & Co., but it will probably be
saved.
At Bird Island the bridge across Beaver
creek, five miles north of Beaver Falls, has
been carried away by high water. The
bridge across Hawk creek on the line of the
Hastings & Dakota railroad has also been
carr ed away, and all passengers and bag
gage have to be transferred at that point.
At Litchfield it is reported that the dam
at Forest City has gone out
FLOODS IN WISCONSIN,
NEENAH. Wis, April 16-At Gills Land.
ing, where the Wisconsin Central crosses
the Wolf river, disastrous washout oc-
CURED yesterday, and no trains have run
for the last twenty hours
OSHKOSH, Wis, April 16.-Reports have
reached here that the boom near Fremont
containing $4,000, 600 feet of logs had
been carried away by the food The
logs are scattered over an area
of two miles square away from
the main channel of the Wolf.
The logs are those hung up in the drive
last fall, and are owned here and in Nee
nah. The loss will be at least $4,000 II
will cost fifty cents per 1000 to get the
logs back. again, besides those that will
float into the lake.
MARsHFIELD, Wis, April 6-Ihe watef
known for years The Yellow river has be-
come torrent and nearly every bridge
over it has been swept away. The one
between this city and Nasonville, alone re-
naming, is expected to go out, as about
eighteen inches of snow still remains in
the woods.
The Eau PLANE is very high and many
logs will be washed upon the banks by the
extremely high water
CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis, April 16-The
great ice gorge lodged against the Omaha
bridge was broken up by dynamite, and at
O'clock Sunday morning the huge mass
broke loose and passed. down stream.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis, April 16.-There
was another rise of four feet in the Black
river yesterday morning. This brings the
river twenty feet above lew-water mark
The foot of Main street is cutting badly.
The Nautilus Boat Club house is badly
wrecked and several other buildings are
undermined. The south part of the city is
under water.
WEYAUwEGA, Wis, April 16-The high
water in this part of the State is playing
havoc with bridges Fremont is mum
dated, people being obliged to travel about
in boats The bridge across the Wolf river
at that point has been carried away and a
number of log booms broken and scattered
widely The bridge at Phillips Mills has
also been carried away.
r5- In DAKOTA
FARGO, D. T., April 16-Contrary to ex-
pectations the Red river continues to
spread itself over the surrounding coun-
try, and a vast sea of water meets the eye
in every direction owing to the low lands
near the river. Thousands of dollars of
! damage has been done along the river,
warehouses, elevators and many other
buildings being either swept away entirely
or the foundations Torn from under them
and the buildings wrecked