Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-05-20
SIOUX CITY REscUERs.
Praises for the Young Mems Boat Club.
Extent Of the Flood.


Extent Of the Flood.
SIoux Cry, Iowa. May l9.-Ths city
Is ringing today with praises Of the
young men Of the Sioux City Boat club
who brought their boats from rivers
five n,iles away to work in the flooded
section. They had forty boats at work
yesterday and last evening. and took
several hundred people out OF the
food. The number drowned cannot
be verified but it is now placed
vt about fifty and those who have been
working iu the district say that any
variation will increase this number.
Not over dozen have been recovered,
aud il will be days before the correct
number can be known. The list of
missing 10 still large aud about 100 peo-
pie are not accounted for. At the
mouth OF the Floyd the stream
Is very narrow and on this
accounts little of the debris found its
way to the Missouri at the mouth be-
low. The stock yards is mass of
debris, in which are the remains of the
hog and cattle pens from the stock
yards. Many of the buildings from
the packing houses, pieces OF houses
that have gone TO pieces and some
small houses not yet broken up, piles
OF timber and lumber. Several hun
.dred of hogs aud cattle were drowned.
The city IL the heaviest looser. Sewers,
paving, water pipe and curbing must
be put in new in large part OF the
city. The council has decided to begin
the work on an extensive scale at once,
and employment Will be given every
laboring man in the city. The lumber
yard Of the Quel Lumber company
burned yesterday afternoon and out in
the midst of the flood where 1t could
not be reached. It is total loss. Fire
men were detailed in boats to break
up the burning rafts, which was threat
enlng the town from the fire. and q
terrlfic struggle they ha6. The cur
rent was fearful, and several times
boats were caught IN eddies and almost
hurled into the masses of flames. The
men worked till late at night, and
when they left the FIRE was out and ex-
tended but very little beyond the lum-
Der yard. The railroads are unable to
do anything yet
Only four bodies have been recov.
cred, but it is feared that many more
will be found when the great piles of
debris have been cleared away. At the
Omaha bridge and elevated road, in
the southern part of the city, great
piles of lumber, wrecked houses, rail.
road ties and paving blocks have gath
cred. The bodies of Frank Hender-
son and wife were recovered
this afternoon, but their child
has not been found. The total dam
- tod mn M
The city will lose $500 900 in damage,
entirely swept away. About 5000 has
ers, and the work 10 well in hand.
Commissioners have been appointed,
and their work has been done In
thorough manner. Tomorrow the
work of clearing away the wreckage
will begin In earnest.
The list of those known TO be
drowned has been reduced bv the re-
covery Of some who are supposed TO
have perished but when the debris near
the mouth of Floyd river can be
moved it will increase. Tue list as
corrected at midnight is as follows:
Those known to be drowned: George
C Millard, aged 62; Nellie West, aged
5; A. 6. Anderson; Frank Henderson,
wife and baby, 5 weeks old; Thomas
Fitzgerald; Oliver Hoblett; daughter Of
E. Leonard, aged 9; son Of E. Leonard.
aged Z. Those reported drowned by
persons claiming 70 have been eye wit
nesses: A. p. McClarren, Mrs. II. Ticker,
Mrs. Peter Rasmussen and two children,
two men unknown, drowned on Fourth
street near Paramount avenue bridge;
an unknown man drowned in the Sioux
City and Northern yards and an uu.
known man in house on lower Fifth
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