The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-20

TWO BOAThEs, unknown
4. r. MKRES.
house.
mrs. PETER RASMUSSEN and two children.
TWO UNKNOWN MEN, at Fourth street, near
ysirmount bridge.
TWO UNKNOWN MEN, at Sioux City d
Northern yards.
NELLIE WEST.
MRS. LOUISE sONgR9
ANDERSON. wife and child.
WILLIAM STONE.
WILLIAM Res.
Ags. LOUIS HOMER and two children.
MRS FRANK LUTHER and child.
+. LEoSARD's 9-yezr-oId son ana 7-yeaY-old
daughter
GEORGE Mox. a child Of 4 years.
GEORGE G. MILLER.
AARON JOHNSON.
ANDREW ANDERSON.
ROBERT HARVEY.
As one approaches Floyd river on the
west and In the vicinity Of the stock yards
near the mouth Of the river the damage
Increases. 1t is impossible to get to the
yards or estimate the damage there, but
six or eight blocks above there IL evidence
OF the surprising violence of the water.
About eight 10 ten blocks above the inter
section OF the river and Fourth street the
current scooped q deep channel right
through the residences. Thirty houses,
large aud well built, were wholly carried
away. Just below Is the iron bridge Of
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, and
against II is lodged n tremendous mass Of
debris. Here the houses were smashed
into kindlinR wood. and the pile is heaped
up with furniture, railroad ties and car
eases of dead animals.
The city council last night ut a special
meeting appropriated 5000 in aid of
the food sufferers. The citizens will raise
many times that amount. No appeal viii
be made outside for assistance. The ele-
waited road Is crowded with sightseers,
and from station to station the tracks are
lined with men and boys. Many armed
men with ropes and long poles, rendered
assistance to the people who came floating
down the river on pianks, boxes, etc. and
number Of lives were saved.
The Floyd river is subsiding. and rough
estimates are that the loss of life
will reach twenty-five and perhaps
may be higher. l. number of per-
sons are reported missing. Three
bodies were recovered today, A. q.
Anderson, wife and baby. The stock
yards company estimated it loss at
from $4,000 to $500 800. The loss
OF house furniture and stocks Of
goods in the flooded district will aggregate
$4,000. and the damage to city pave
meats etc, will amount to 100000. The
street railways are also considerable losers,
but the railroads are the greatest indi-
viduai losers. Up the Floyd for
twenty miles the Sioux City Il Northwest
ern and Illinois Central tracks are washed
out or damaged. The loss to tho terminal
company and all the railroad companies Is
estimated At from $3.50 900 to 81. COZ, 600
Citizens are carrying on active relief work,
and are fully confident of their ability to
provide for the destitute
COUNCIL BLUFFS. Ia, May 19--The
Missouri river is still rising. but there Is
west portion of Council Bluffs is still I'M
der water. and the residents Of the flooded
districts have great difficulty in getting
about.
KKoKuK, Ia, May la-The Egyptian
ing, and in less than half an
Alexandria and IL 900 acres of wheat sur
rounding il were q sea Of water several
feet deep and nearly eight miles wide.
houses are atoat and business Is paralyzed
AspURY PARK. n. j., May io.--A violent
storm IL raging along the coast, aud terri
hly high seas prevail. Rain il
falling in torrents and driven in
binding sheets along the beach. An
unknown schooner has been driven ashore
opposite the Beach house, and it is re-
ported that the crew leaped overheard and
~. 4 ai..,
cut into the bluffs at Long Branch. A
bulkhead below the assure withstands the
assaults % the waves.
MILWAUKEE, May IA binding snow
storm ragged in the southern, central and
northwestern part OF Wisconsin this after
noon and evening. The storm approached
Il almost blizzard at Portage. Columbia
county. and sleet and heavy snow fell at
Durand, Pepin and New Richmond. and
in 81 Croix county.
LINCOLN, Neb.. May I9.-The floods in
tue vicinity are subsiding, and efforts are
being made In restore the devastated dis
tricts to their normal condition Moder-
ate success Is meeting the efforts of the
railroads To run trains regularly. Its
impossible to estimate the total damage.
but II is heavy.
from storms are coming in from all ever
the Northwest. The rains Of past twenty
four hours were especially severe and
violent windstorms have greatly increased
the damage. At Crooks.on, MINI. the
Red Lake river hss risen four feet, and ia
stii, rising. Madison, Mian., il nearly
under water, and thousands of acres Of
grain are ruined. Az Lake6eld the
a Anf 81 -
impossible and many small bridges washed
away. Several washouts are reported along
the railroad. and no trains arrived
today. Three bridges between Jasper,
Mimi, and Sioux Falls are washed
out. and one or two on the SIOUX
City 4 Northern. One Of the most severe
storms Of the year struck Duluth today
All the ice nj the head Of the lake
was piled up ten 70 twenty feet
high before the entrance to
the harbor Of Superior. Though
little damage was done by the storm, the
captains OF incoming vessels report ter
rife weather on the lake, and marine dis
ssters are looked for. On the north shore,
near Port Arthur. the wind is reported to
lie blowing seventy miles an hour.
DAYTON. O., May la-Contjnued rains
have created = serious situation for farm-
erS. The streams are all AZ flood height,
and she danger of washouts renders rail-
way traffic precarioUs. The Pennsylvania
line has had washout between Richmond
ana Hamilton. and sends all Cincinnati
trains via Dayton - Chicago.
NV ORLEANS. May i9.-The levees
along the front Of the city are in good con
altion. and but little uneasiness IL felt on
sccount III high water. \ Large territory