Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1888-03-23
rLooDs NORTH AND WEST.
Railroad Bridges washed Away and
Many wsshouts.
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WAsHINoroS. March 22.-Dispatches
tonight report rivers at food height all
over the North and West. The New
York and New England railroad Is washed
out on the Woonsocket division in two
places $50 and 70 feet respectively, and
many bridges and culverts washed out
Some OF the cotton-mills are interrupted
in different parts of New England.
Easton, Pa, reports a similar condition
of affairs caused by floods in the Della
ware and Lehigh rivers.
POPLAR, MONTANA, March 22.-The
great flood on the Upper Missouri does
not abate. The water is the highest seen
for many years, AID the river is still
rising rapidly. The ice has broken at
Galipin and is running fast. There is
big gorge at Cut Banks, about ten miles
above here, and another ut Frenchman's
Point, seven miles below. There IS six
feet of water on the railroad track at
Wolf Point and the bridges are all washed
out. All the trains are delayed. The
Milk river is also commencing to
break up, and the country is flooded for
forty miles around. Hundreds of cords
of wood, cut for river steamers. are float
ing away. Cattlemen and Indians will
lose large quantities OF hay. The Red
Men have all left the bottom, and are
camped on the hills and high grounds
Their farms are under four feet OF water,
and their fences are swept away. There
is some loss of stock, and if the river
gorges at this place the loss will be i'm
mense.
BRIDGES CARRIED AWAY,
CANAJoHARIE, n. Y, March 22.-At
midnight last night the eastern section
of the immense and beautiful bridge of
the West Shore raiiroad which crosses
Schohorie creek at Fort Hunter was
carried away. The railroad bridge at
Cables Kill, crossing the same creek,
was also carried away by high water and
ice yesterday. The ice is nearly three feet
thick, and great fear is entertained for
the Mohawk river bridge when general
breakup occurs The West Shore rail
road trains will run on the Central tracks
for several days. Traffic in this section
on the West Shore road has been
stopped.
THE sEvERRsT STORM OF THE WINTER.
ST.. PAUL, March 1.-The storm which
ragged on Tuesday night and until this
morning through portions of Dakota,
Minnesota, ana Northern Wisconsin was
one of the severest that has been eXpe-
rienced in the Northwest this winter. 1t
consisted Of a cold wave OF unusual Sc
verify, accompanied by heavy and cut
ting wind, and in many places WAS rem
dered worse by binding snOw-storms.
In Minnesota, north Of CroOkstOn, and IN
Northeastern Dakota most of the roads
were badly blockaded. The Duluth and
Manitoba, Little Falls and Dakota, aud
jamestown branches of the Northern
Pacific we're most affected. while all the
Manitoba lines in Retriyer Valley were
more or less troubled. On the James
town and Northern there was a complete
cessation Of business. On the Hastings
and Dakota, the Omaha, Minneapolis
and st. Louis, and the st. Paul and
Kansas City the worst storm OF the
season was experienced. Whenever
there was any new snow it was bad
" drifted, aud the railroad tracks
in numerous instances were covered
to depth of nine feet. The Wisconsin
Central train due here at 8 o'clock this
morning is reported indefinitely late
The Omaha train for Chicago which left
St Paul yesterday afternoon at o'clock
only managed to get as far az Elroy's
Trains on the Hastings and Dakota are
abandoned, as ere also those OF the Fer
gus Falls and Beckinridge road. A very
bad blockade is reported on the Elmo
branch OF the Chicago and Northwest
ern, and several trains are indefinitely
snow-bound.