Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-24
The River.

Advices received Thursday at the gen.
eral Office in st. Paul of the railroads
%travessing Dakota and Montana indi-
Gated little change in the Missouri RIVER
high water situation. The Northern
Pacific reports the water falling q little
at Bismarck and Only six feet above low
water mark. The Manitoba reports in
dictate that back water from the Missouri
at Oswego, 239 miles west of Ninot,
washed away q bank, causing some slight
damage to the road way. The water
was reported falling again, and the pro-
liability was that trains would not be
delayed. The Manitoba officials dis
claimed ell knowledge of a serious oveE-
flow at Poplar river.
a Poplar River, Montana, special of
the 22d says the great food in the upper
Missouri does not abate. The water is
the highest seen for many years and
the river 10 still raising rapidly. The ice
has broken at Galpin and is running fast.
There Is @ big gorge at Coalbanks. about
10 miles above Poplar River and another
at F~renchmen's Point. seven miles be-
low. There Is six feet of water on the
railroad track at Wolf Point and the
bridges are all washed out. All trains
are delayed, The Milk river is also COM
mencinR to break up, and the country
is flooded for 40 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 oanped on the hills and the high
grounds. Their farms are under four
feet Of water, and their fences swept
away. There is some loss of stock. and
if che river gorges at tina. place she Loss
will be immense.
Az Msndan Thursday the ice in the
Missouri was still solid. The water un,
der the ice raised six feet in "a hours. II
is believed the ice will GO out with ar
overflow. The water in the Heart river
is lower.
Reports from Bnford of the 22d state
that the Yellowstone river has broken up
and has formed an ice gorge at tho
mouth of the Yellowstone. The food al
Wolf Point in the MiGouri has abat.
ed. 1t was caused by an ice gorge
which has now disappeared. Georges
are reported from Fort Belknsp, but the
water is going down. Tslegraphic ad-
vices state the railroad track on the Te-
ton and Marias river is in good condi-
tion. The flood at Poplar, of which ex-
aggerated reports are in circulatIcn, hat
, abated. and no further trouble ia antici-
pated as all the ice from that region
which caused it, has either melted O.
foated away by this time. The ic'
gorge was for a time forty fee
high, and caused much water Il
Overflow. It is expected that the trait,
on the Montana extension OF fh,
Manitoba will proceed as usual. Th,
. floods have not caused the strack mucl
j. damage. The fooda in general are ct
tributeS to the soft weather in the Grea
Falls region. which caused the ice :
break MP q week ago. The floating ic
from Benton was impeded by the 10
at Poplar causing q gorge which mad
the river overflow it's banks. The rive
. continues clear of ice. The water i
about the ordinary height. No wide
spread devastation has occurred in an
part OF the Missouri valley, and zone
feared.
The east wind5of to-day has stirre
up the latent sand bars which cover th
bottom OF the Missouri river, and the
stream has the appearance of havin
risen considerably since last night, whe
in fact only two inches more water
there. The ice from above is still forsl
looming.
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