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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
The Troublesome Booms.

All yesterday forenoon, however, the
river rose rapidly and by o'clock in
the afternoon it was thirteen feet above
the low water mark. With raise of
two feet more the water works would
be flooded and the disastrous flood of
ten years ago duplicated. Yesterday
morning at 80 the j. w. Day boom, at
Twenty-fourth avenue north, broke
loose, and over 10000 feet of logs went
adrift. They swung out into the river
and became jammed between the two
center piers of the Northern Pacific
railway bridge. About 100000 drifted
down the river, part drifting into the
Diamond boom and the remainder over
the falls. The pressure OIL the North
ern Pacific bridge is not, with the pres
ent weight of logs above it, in
any danger. The danger arises, how
ever, from the Akeley boom at
Twenty-ffth avenue north. This boom
contains about 100000 feet of
logs. The water is within six inches
of the top of the piling. A foot more
of water would set the logs adrift, and
their weight is sufficient to carry with
it the big bridge, half mile below.
The bursting of this boom would also
mean the carrying away of the boOms of
other companies below it. The boom
company has drive Of 100000 logs
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
WITHOUT A PRECEDENT

According TO the Records-A Talk
With Lyons-Eair Weather Com
ing.
The weather bureau has held ont the
hope for two days that the-last of this
sort of thing had come, and yet the ele-
ments have kept up their iRterminable
and relentless dowrpouTing upon
helpless and discouraged world. Last
evening the change that Jupiter Pluvius
had been invoked to send came like a
gladstone smile. At last the lowering
clouds swept past, and the sun ShOne
down upon the city through a rift
This welcome visitation occurred just
previous to the hour of sunset. And
the weather bureau declares that the
end of the storm has come. This is
positively and unequivOcally promised.
1t is no longer amere prediction founded
upon doubtful hypothesis.
Observer Lyons was found in his
office up next to the roof of the cham
Der of commerce building. last evening,
attentiVely engToSSed with the charts
for the day. He was in a more cheer
full mood than for several days, and he
cheerfully laid aside his work to give
tile GLOBE any information at his COM
mand.
Il presume you have become nearly
discouraged with our predictions" said
he with CHEEKY smile. 81 don't know
that | blame you for 1T. We have been
making natural predictions from the
indications that we have had and from
reasonable deductions of natural Sc
Quences. and they have simply proved
tickle. The fact is the weather has
been rampant-acJng about as intract-
able as the river. But now we are
ready to make positive predictions of
fair weather. Tomorrow will surely be
pleasant and warmer. 1t will last
through Sunday anyhow, and probably
through Monday, and l think really
longer. Every indication of precipitation
has disappeared. | suppose you would
like me to tell you something about this
snow Storm" he pursued picking up a
comparative chart for a series of years.
"Well, it is without a precedent. We
have no record of anything of the sort
so late in May. Here is the record since
1875 of the last snow each year." and he
handed thereporter carefully compiled
statistical sheet showing the meteOro-
logical record as he had explained. 1t
showed that the last snow had fallen on
the following dates:
In 1875. Gil April 25; 1876, on May 5;
1877, on April %: 1878, on Feb. Is: 1879.
on April 2; 1880, on April 20; 1881, on
April Il; 1882, on March 81: 1888, on
April %; 1884, on April 8; 1885. on May
6; 1856, on April l, 1887, Oh April %;
1883, on May a; 1889, on April 2; 1890,
on May II; 1891, on May 5.
These show snowfalls at rather late
dates to be sure" resumed the general
observer, after the reporter had copied
the list, "but these snowfalls were gen.
orally of an inconseQueDtial nature,
S9thingi like the storm of last hight. l
want to add tat Some one here in st.
Paul has 1eeh talking about snowfall
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
DYING OF WITCHERY.
Queer Claim Made Regarding q
Vnr,nG Pnnlx


SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, May 90
The Indian village of Garden River on
the Canadian side, twelve miles from
ereh is the sceneo of transactions quite un-
usual for this day and date and within
400 miles of the greatest cities Of the
world.
Briefly, the trouble was caused by the
INCONSISTENCY of the young buck, the beau
of the reservation. He whispered his
affections to two young SquawS and
then only married one of them. This
offended the mother of the Tilted maid
en-, who is widow, old, wrinkled and
uncanny, and who was formerly medi-
cine woman. Suddenly the newly mar
ried man became violently i'll and had
terrible SpaSms. The Indians aver that
shot, glass, pebbles and other torture
some things actually came outof the
offending young bucks eyes. Wabnosh,
the chief medicine man of the tribe, was
summoned. He pronounced it a clear
case of witchery, and said the old
medicine woman had previously be-
witched those at whom she was angry.
Wabnosh says he can do nothing unless
the old woman gives up her medicine
bag, but this the wrinkled sQuaw re-
fuses to do. WabnoSh thereupon ap-
peaied to the Canadian reservation au-
thorities to search the old sQuaw'S wig
wan for the medicine bag. The reserva-
tion officials refuse to interfere Just now.
Wabnosh and his supporters, however.
threaten to m AXE search of their own
account, while the friends of the old
Squaw and those who fear her are as de-
termined she shall not be molested.
Meanwhile, the bewitched Indian is
said to be suffering all manner of tor
lures and is slowly dying. Trouble Is
imminent.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
HE PREDICTED 1T.
Prophet Kellogg Recalls His In
terview---More Rain the Coming
Week,

Prophet Kellogg Recalls His In
terview---More Rain the Coming
Week.
The public generally places but little
confidence in the sayings of weather.
wise men, and the weather prophet
meets with small encouragement in his
efforts to ascertain for them just what
action the atmosphere is liable to have
on itself a month hence. st. Paul has a
prophet. however, whose predictions are
seldom found to be wrong. and who,
among his intimate acquaintanceS at
least, is regarded as much more reliable
than the local weather bureau,
with all its appliances and refer
enceS, on the great science OF
meteOrOlOgy. This local seer has no
great AMOUNT of science to assist him in
his investigations. and, furth ermore, he
is totally blind. Rain, snow or unShine
are one and the same to him as far as
the sense of. sight is concerned. Yet
with sort of infailibe Instinct he feels
the pulse Of the atmosphere and is able
to tell what kind of weather this region
will experience for months in advance.
This prophet is NJ. n. Kellogg. whose
reputation is already widespread
through the Northwest. A cold bleak
daY last December GLOBE reporter
held conversation with Mr.. Kel-
logg, and he predicted with won
derful eXactneSS the heavy rain
fall and the floods that have
marked this month of May. A reporter
called at his residence, $50 Aurora av-
enue, last evening, and was ~ushered
into cosy parlOr. In a few moments
the prophet appeared and took seat
opposite the scribe as naturally as he
would have done if his eyes were capa-
bic of seeing the surrounding objects.
The conversation at once turned to the
weather. and MIR. Kellogg explained
that this late wet season had been no
surprise to him, as he fOreSaw it many
moons ago. The dates for the most re-
cent rain storm he had figured 10 be
between the 18th and Goth. This would
make yesterday the last day on which
rain should fall, and we ought to reason
ably expect some clear weather. An
other rain storm is approaching.
however, and will be here
from May "a to Is. Mr.. Kellogg
thought it possibility that it might
continue wet in the meantime. He pre-
diets great deal of rain i'll June, aud
says it will fall chiefly on the days be-
tween the Sd and 5th, 11th and 18th and
l0lu anu lOlil VI lltC luOlfGlls H6IS 10
also probability that some very hot
weather will be experienced in. June.
The river is liable to rise to a consider
able extent. according to Prophet Kel-
logg, as the period of ten years is us
ually marked by floods in and around
st. Paul. The river has risen highest
in st. Paul in the years 1852, 1862, 1872
and 1882, and 1892 will be but following
the example of its predecessors. The
greatest flood ever experienced in st.
Paul was in 1862. when the river COW
cred the country for miles in this vicin-
ity and considerable loss of life was oc-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21

tory referred to, practically 1900 square
miles. the waters have rendered il, In a
majority of cases, impossible for the
farming population to raise a crop tllis
year. All this comes in addition 10 the
damage actually done to existing prop
erty. AS TO the number OF per
sons driven either from their
homes or to their roofs in
the flooded territory. an esti-
mate is impossible, figures running
from four to eight thousand persons.
Beyond this, in st. Louis, at least 1900
persons have been temporarily thrown
out of work by the stopping of factories
by the high water.
Today the outlook is perhaps no
brighter. but certainly no darker, and it
is believed that what has been done by
way of protection, supplemented by
further work rendered possible by the
breathing time given, will suffice to
avert further damage.
In East st. Louis there is no change
from the condition of the past few days.
Water surrounds the city, but has been.
and probably will be. kept out of the
town. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
trains on the east side have been aban-
doned. In North st. Louis, Central st.
Louis, and South st. Louis, on the west
side, and Madison, Venice. Brooklyn
and East Carondelet, on the east, the
state OF affairs today is the same as YES
terday. The slight recession has pre-
vented any marked increase in the dam
age. In the country districts of st.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21

in June, but there is certainly some
mistake about ii. OF course there
might have been few flakes in the air.
but there could not have been anything
like precipitation that could have been
recorded aS a snowfall, else it would be
shown on our books.
..Shall tell you something about the
river and the probabilities? All right.
The river is rising at the rate of %
inches day, and has been rising at that
rate the past 24 hours. Should the rise
continue at this rate, the danger point
VIII have been reached by Sunday
night or Monday morning. Now |
don't want any one to think l am an
alarmiSt in the least, and for this reason
l will only hint that the old adage
often gives very wise advice. l
refer to the saying that
stitch in time saves nine, and l might
also quote that an ounce of prevention
is worth 4 pound of cure. Therefore, l
advise any one who has any property on
the flats that is not above twelve or
fourteen feet that the safest thing to do
at this time is to remove all that they
can to higher ground. This may not be
necessary, and yet the floods may con-
tinue for several days, and if they do,
there is surely danger. All the streams
lDdC leeu the MISSISSIPPI are Dduly
swollen, and the indications are that
the river must rise still higher Had
the weather taken this turn two or
three days earlier, with the same
amount of rainfall. there would have
been no danger at all. The water was
pretty we'll spread out upon the earth,
and pleasant weather would have evap-
grated goodly amOmnt. but the bulk of
the fall is already in the streams and is
flowing towards the Mississippi. The
area of exposure is narrow. and there
can be but comparatively little evapOra-
ton.
"What about the temperature of this
morning? Well, l will say as l did coll
eerning the snowfall, that it is without
a precedent. Let me see; the tempera-
ture this morning was 29 degrees above
zero. Yes, there is no record of such
an occurrence this late in the season pre-
viOusly. In 1873 the thermometer went
down to 24 on the I'd; May Z, 1881, it
went to %; and May 13, 1888, to %, the
same as this morning. That is the rec
ord of the coldest days in May.
"You might add that we can look for
frost throughout the greater portion of
Minnesota, the DakOtas, Wisconsin and
Northern Iowa tonight. and that will be
the probable end of the cold spell"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
What May Develop Into a Ru-
inous Wave Running in
the Big Sioux.
A Deplorable State OF Affai rs
Reported in the Vicinity
of Des Moines.
Eleven Millions Of Dollars in
Damage From Wild. Wa
ters Near st. Louis.
Lower River Points Becoming
Anxious at Bad Pro-
SpectS Ahead.

Special to the Globe
Sioux CITY, To-, May 2O.-The work
of clearing out the debris today was
somewhat retarded by wind and snow
storm extending all over Northwest
Iowa and in South Dakota. Hundreds
OF the homeless people are still being
housed and fed by the public, and the
committees think they can care. for
them without outside aid. The eX-
saloon men held meeting today and
decided to offer 70 the mayor to guaran
tee a fund of $4,000 If he would agree
to allow the saloons to reopen.
Opinions differ as to the number
drowned, but it is now believed first
reports were much exaggerated.
Another flood is coming this way to-
night in the Big Sioux, which forms the
west line of the city for miles. The
water is reported by the Milwaukee tS
st. Paul road as having reached Elk
Point, where it forms
A Wave Several Feet High.
The river there has risen twelve feet
in few hours. For miles I'D the valley
the land is reported covered by water
and the stream two miles wide. The
wave is expected here about 10 o'clock.
1t will do little damage in the city, as
its banks are given up to parks. Great
damage is done to- farms and villages
UP the valley. but reports are meagre.
The Floyd river flood has almost en-
ireiy subsidized. Nearly all the railroads
running trains here expect to make
schedule time tomorrow. The union
stock yards are being built better and
larger than ever. The market. however.
will not open until next Week. The
packing houses are all right, and will
resume work when hogs and cattle can
be procured. The loss OF cattle and
hogs has been greatly oyerestimated.
The actual loss MAS about $50 cattle and
300 hogs.
Two bodies were rescued today.
Frank Henderson and wife were found
caught in wire fence after the flood
subsidized. Their three-year-old baby
was drowned. but the little ones body
was not recovered. Mrs. Henderson
WAS beautiful woman ofelily thirty
two. Both parents and child were lost
by the eapsizing or ;ftoatsi in charge Fefs
a 5Teseuimg party. The total number of
bodies found is four, ten still missing.
The relief association is actively at
work relieving distress and providing
food and clothing. The citizens raised
a fund of S10.GO0 to provide for imme-
aiaIe necessities. Offers of aid from
other cities have been received. Gov.
Boies wired the situation. The mayor
replied:
: Doing best we can; loss large. Many fam
lilies lose all. Inundated district homes
being cleaned up today amidst binding
snow storm. Other bodies expected before
tomorrow. - -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21

long aud smooth as an Atlantic swell
swept from the higher level to the
lower, swithouta break kto mark its de-
scent until the rocks below we've
reached. From there mighty cloud of
foam rose thirty feet into the air. All
day yesterday and until late in the
evening. the Tenth avenue bridge was
crowded with sightseerS. Late in the
afternoon the city engineer ordered the
bridge closed. considering it unsafe, in
view of the tremendous body of water
continually beating against the piers.
The. logs are coming down the river
from one to a half-dozen at a time. 1t
would seem to the uninitiated that these
must pile up against the jam already
formed at the Northern Pacific bridge.
This, however. is not the case. The
logs, some of them sixty feet in length,
invariably rear themselves INTO the air
on approaching the obstruction and
dive straight down, and. reappearing
below, continue their wild chase down
the river. A large number of people
moved out of the shanties on both
the Washington avenue and East
side flats during the afternoon.
Many more moved away last night. fear
full that before morning their frail cab
ms would be Ell route to st. Louic. The
lower portions of the flats are already
submerged and the river is slowly
creeping higher. Weeping women may
be seen at every turn in the Water
Sodden district, while men with stern
faces and children shivering in the driZ-
Zling rain crowd about the doors of their
threatened habitations.e 1t is probable
that much of the alarm felt in that dis
trict will prove to have been unfounded.
There are evidences from above that
the water will begin to subSide today.
The stone crib from Hennepin island TO
the Tenth avenue bridge is entirely
under water, with the exception of a
sharp point which looks to the imagin-
atiye like the dorsal fin of huge shark.
The dumpkeeper's house has been
lashed to the foot of the Washington
avenue bridge by some facetious person,
with line that would not hold good
sized bass in shallow water. On the
East side flats a greater area is under
water, and number of cOtterS have
been evicted by the relentless torrent
The old piers, from which the long
shOremen have been wont to catch
driftwood. have disappeared altogether.
Bridge Engineer F. w. Cappellan
says that all the bridges in the city,
with the exception of the Tenth avenue |
bridge, are above suspicion, except in
the event of logs, irresistible by any
pier. The situation at midnight was |
less threatening. The water was still
rising, but at the rate of not more than |
quarter of an inch an hour. If moth /
ing breaks about the upper dams and |
there are no further heavy rains to the |
north, all may be well, but if from any |
cause the boom companies logs should |
start, nothing on earth could save the i
lumber on the river below them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
ONE RAGING RIVER.
A Great Deal Too Much Water
Around Window.

special 10 the GloDe-
WINDOW. Mimi, May 20.-The Des
Moihes river is still rising, and the rail
road and wagon bridges are both in
danger of going out through the night,
and the danger to the mill is growing
hourly. Workmen have been busy for
two days in saving the wagon bridge,
and as the wind is going down tonight
they may succeed. The river is very
wide, and it is reported that several
dams above are in dangerous shape.
Should they break, especially the one at
Lake Sheek, the flood would be very
great and might cause immense damage
on farms along the river bottom. 1t is
still raining. though it has showed a
part of the day. The trains are very
irregular, and one of the passenger
trains is suspended between here and
Huron Lake. The track is in danger
our condition. but there have been sew
eral gravel trains at work for forty-i
eight hours.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
ELEVEN MILLIONS LOSS.
Astounding Figures Measure the
Flood Damage.

+. ST.LoUIs,May 2O.-Today's decline in
4 the river here, though it has stopped at
[ $685. has given the people of the afflicted
! district an opportunity to catch their
breath. preparatory to fighting the rise
which is coming from above, and which
is now expected before tomorrow night
Sunday Incidentally nedd too ss5matn an
sthe losses of the districts Immediately
tributary to st. Louis, and truly the
figures are appalling. Here they are:
St. Louis county, s, 1000; st. Louis
81, 900, 600; the American bottom, from
Alton, ILL.,. to Cairo, s5,OO0,00O, and in
Guiding East st. Louis and vicinity.
Total, s11 100000. These figures, as as
founding as they may seem, are con-
Ssidered by competent judges extremely
conservative,
In looking at this loss it must be re-
nembered that in all the flooded terri
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
SITUATION AT AITKIN.
River Rising Rapidly = Dams to
Be Opened.

AITKIN. May 20. - The Mississippi
river rose two feet in the past twenty
four hours. The meadows are covered
by two feet of water. The settlers
along the river are now moving. The
river banks are full, and fears of repe-
tition of the food of 1883 are expressed.
Word has been received here today that
the POkogama dam is full, aud orders
have been given to open the Golfer dam
at Sandy Lake tor the reservoir and to
hold boats in readiness to take up set
tiers in case of the dam bursting. ! he
Mississippi river has risen five inches
since o'clock this morning. The man
agement of the government reservoirs
have notified the steamboat owners to
be ready to rescue farmers along the
river in case the dams give away or
they are compelled TO open them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
Too Much Water for Anoka.

ANOKA, May 20.-Rum river is rapid
ly rising and the water Oh the west end
of the dam is within seven inches of the
land. The flush boards will be taken
off to prevent a waShnut and loss of
property. The. shoe factory is in some
danger. Some Of the best river engi-
neers are nervous, as rise of eighteen
inches is expected. The Mississippi
rose over twenty inches since yesterday.
and is still rising.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
A MOTHERS HERoIsM.
Fatally Burned in Rescuing Her
Children

SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich, May co.
News has just reached here of a tragedy
at Ir0quois, a settlement twenty miles
up the shore. The residence of Benja-
min Van Laden, farmer and fisher
man, caught fire after his six children
had been put to bed. Mr.. Van Laden
was absent and the work of reScuing
the mother. She made three trips into
the flames, carrying out two children
each time. On the last trip, she and
her children were on fire when they
reached the open air. Mrs. Van Laden
devoted her every effort to saving the
lives of the little ones, but paid for her
heroic efforts with her own life, being
fatally burned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
SHOT BY A GAMBLER.
Harry 3. Turner Killed in q Bill
ings Bagnio.

Special 70 the GIODe-
BILLINGS, Mont, May 2O.-Harry B.
Turner was fatally shot by Sam Rus
sell, tin-horn gambler, in Mollie Dai
toms bagnio at 2 a. m. He died at 1880
this afternoon. His father is Baptist
minister at Eureka, Kan. Turner and an
inmate had row in bedroom. Russell
rushed in and struck Turner down with
aIevolver, and, as he rose, shot him IN
the abdomen. Russell got away, but
was captured by sheriff'S posse at
noon. He is now in the Jail. COWBOYS,
friends of the deceased, are threatening
a lynching, but it is thought the sheriff
will prevent it if attempted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
THE RUM ON A TEAR.
Several Dams Washed Out and
the Country Inundated.

PRINCETON, May 2O.-The Rum river
is on tear. 1t is the highest water for
years. The dam at Milaca was washed
out early this morning. The Princeton
dam has also gone and the bridge at
Soule's crossing, ten miles north of here,
has been carried away by the flood. The
logs are scattered and it will cost the
rising and the bottom lands are badly
everflowed. The ground is white with
snow this morning and more rain
threatened,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-21
Worlds Fair Funds.

Special to the Globe.
WEBSTER, S. D.. May 2O.-President
OchSenreiter, of the worlds fair COM
mission, has received word from Water
town that that town has raised its
quota of 81, 900 for the worlds fair fund,
with no other conditions attached than
those made by the president when there.
Aberdeen is also in line, and will have
its quota in a few days. The funds are
increasing at a rapid rate. The money
required will be raised in the near
future,