The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-23
FROM FREEZE TO FLOOD.
EVERY VARIETY OFBAD WEATHER
TO BE FOUND NORTH.
Costly Bridges Washed Away on tn

Costly Bridges Washed Away on the
West Shore Railroad IN Central New
York Mercury Drops Down Out of
Sight in the Northwest-Death IN
der the Ice in Dakota.
POPLAR, MONT, March 22.-The great
flood on the Upper Missouri does not abate.
The water is the highest seen for many
years and the river is still rising rapidly.
The ice has broken at Galpin and is run
ming fast.
There is big gorge at Cut Banks, about
ten miles above here, and another at
Frenchman's Point, seven miles below
TRACKS FLOODED.
There is six feet of water on the railroad
track at Wolf Point, and bridges are all
washed out. All trains are delayed.
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 floating away.
The cattle men and Indians will lose large
quantities of hay.
The red men have all left the bottom and
are camped on hills and high grounds.
Their farms are under / 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 immense,
DROWNED IN AN AIR HOLE.
BISMARCK, DAK, March % While cross
ing the Missouri river, a few miles north of
this city, yesterday Eagle Head" we'll
known Indian scout, and John Warren, n
white hunter, were drowned. They had
been in pursuit of game, and while crossing
the ri into hole and
ried beneath the ice.
BREAKING OF AN ICE GORGE.
CANAJoHARIE, n. Y, March 22-At
midnight last hight the eastern section of
the immense and beautiful bridge of the
West Shore railroad, which crossed Scho-
harie creek at Fort Hunter, was carried
away The railroad bridge at Cobhlesklll,
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 the general breakup occurs.
The West Shore railroad train will run
on the New York Central roads track for
several days Traffic in this section on the
West Shore road has been stopped.
AT FLOOD HEIGHT.
WASHINGTON, March 90 22-Dispatches to-
night report river at flood height all over
the North and West.
The New York and New England rail-
road is washed out on the Woonsocket divi-
sion in two places, $50 and rs feet respec-
lively and many bridges and culverts are
washed out.
Some of the cotton mills arc interrupted
in different parts of New England.
Eastern Pennsylvania reports a similar
condition Of affairs caused by the floods in
the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers. The
Schuyltill and Susquehanna rivers are also
up.
The food in the upper Missouri Valley,
reported by telegraph, has warned people
in the immense district along the lower
Missouri, which was flooded last year and
in previous years, and they are prepared to
seek places of safety as soon as the flood
approaches. The lower Missouri is at
very low stage and in places frozen
to the bottom, so that there seems
no possibility to escape from a disastrous
food, unless the present cold snap gorges
the ice above and let's the water down grad
ually, and in this case it would simply be
transferring the locality of the evil. The
weather is reported tonight as moderating
rapidly ID the Northwest, whence the food
is coming