Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1888-04-11
THE SPRING FLOODS.
THE SNOW AND ICE TURNED TO wa
TER, AND MUCH OF THE COUN-
TRY COVERED.

Wide Spread Destruction Of Property.
The unusual quantity of snow distrib-
uted over the country has caused many
anxious forebodings as to the result, when
it should be let loose upon the land IN the
form of water. As the days passed
and late spring became certainty, fears
of sudden breaking up and consequent
high flood became more general. During
the past week the snow has left US and
while the worst fears were not realized
on account of cool nights and absence of
rams, still the vast amount of snow has
made itself manifest in It's departure by
the longest if not the highest high water
ever known here. In this immediate vi
cinitY there has been no loss of life, but
in other places they have been less fOrtu-
nate, and throughout the State and north
ern Iowa, the loss of property has been
great Mankato, Faribault, Rochester,
and the valleys of the Cedar and Des
Moines rivers have exceptionally high
water. Last Thursday morning the train
on the /. s. D. division of the Milwaukee
road went through bridge over the
Wapsie river near New Hampton, Iowa,
and plunged into the swollen river The
Engineer James Scagel and four others
are known to have been killed and al arge
number were injured. Mr.. Scagel was an
old resident OF Austin and was well
known to many here. He is the fourth
Austin railroad man who has met with
days the Dakota trains were obliged to
come around by the way of Austin on &C.
count of the wreck.
The Village of Rock Falls, on the Shell
Rock river was completely inundated
Friday. Mr.. and Mrs. Cruikshank had a
very narrow escape through the roof of
their house. A Mrs. Anderson and five
children were on the ice five hours in their
night clothes before being rescued.
At St. Ansgar. four boys, Frank Lun-
dy, Isaac Loudstrom, Frank Rahmes and
A. Goldberg were drowned while trying to
cross small stream. Goldberg was a
brother-ln-law of Ed Dalager of this city
Henry Shulz, driving team belonging
to 0. Ayers, attempted to cross Rose
Creek and was carried away by the water.
ShulZ was rescued after remaining on a
cake of ice five hours. The horses were
both drowned.
Mr.. Harrington and Fred Rolph we've
driving over the small stream just east of
L. Motifs when they were carried off the
road by the current and one of the horses
was drowned.
The bridge across the Cedar at Officers
mill was carried away, and part of the
dam, the dume and bulkhead and a part
of the foundation of the mill was torn
away. 1t was feared that the entire mill
would go and the grain and flour were re
moved from it.
The mill plant at Otranto has been en-
tirely swept away.
Fifty feet of the dam at the Gregson
mill was washed away Saturday afternoon
Several of the timbers under the bridge
across DobD1ns' Creek at Campbeips mill
were taken out last week
The railroad bridge at Ramsey was
moved three or four inches Saturday, but
has been braced up and kept in place.
The dam at Lansing was reported on
Monday to be going out slowly.
The heavy rain Wednesday night food
ed the north end of Main Street and filled
the cellars in the post Office block. At
tempts to remove the water by the appli
BILE attention Friday and Saturday. The
work is going on under direction of the
Mill St.eet plummers.
Trains on s. NJ. have been running only
to Rushford on account of wash outs on
the Root river. On the Wells and Man
kato branch they were cut off by floods at
Good Thunder. Trains of the Minneap-
oils & St. Louis ran from Albert Lea to
Minneapolis on the Milwaukee road by
way of Ramsey for while but have beer
suspended on account of increasing wa
tiers. A complete sweep of dams and
brldges is threatened at Albert Lea.
o. e. La Bar, OF Lansing, was at New
Richland last week when the food came
and trains stopped running. He walked
II miles toward Albert Lea and was pick
ed up by an engine and taken to Albert
Lea, getting to Austin Saturday.
Joseph Keenan, was 'snowed'' in at Ell
more, little town south of Blue Earth
City for two or three days. Evidently
providence is on Joseph's track and max
ing preparations to head him off. Look
out next time.
The wreck of small bridges throughout
the country seems to be pretty general
and reports of their destruction comes in
from all directions.
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