St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-15
WIPED OUT A MARK
Grand River at Grand Rapids Past
the Highest Point in Forty
Years.
Water Flooded the Electric Light
Plant and the City Is in
Darkness.

DETROIT. Mich, March 1.-THE hign
water in some of the rivers in Michigan
has subsidized, while in others it is still
doing considerable damage. AT Grand
Rapids the water is past the highest
point in forty-two years, and is still rap
IDLY rising. One hundred houses on the
West side are surrounded by water.
Children go to school in boats, and fifty
families or more have been taken ont on
RATS, and have suffered intensely from
the cold storm that has been prevailing.
Last night the city was in darkness be-
cause the electric light works were
flooded. The big Wallin leather
works, the Voigt Milling company. the
Stowe & Davis Furnishing company,
the PriestlyW Wagon and Sleigh company,
the Grand Rapids Cycle company, Hart
mans foundry and several other con-
Germs shut down today. Probably fifty
concerns are now idle. -Four inches
more of water will stop the engines in
the electric street railroad power house,
and the cars will have to stop running
in consequence. Several bridges above
and below Grand Rapids have been
carried away. The Gunneson swamp
district. where many Worklngmen re-
side, is af1oat. and house owners are
IL
The Black Hill regions are also under
water. The felt boot works and Cord %
Bradfield's furniture factory are cut off
from communication except by tele-
phone and boat, and work is suspended.
Every factory IN Midland is closed
down, the city water works plant is
flooded and cannot be operated.
The Kalamazoo river has risen at
Kalamazoo, and all the streams running
into it are higher than for many years.
Railroad tracks in that town are mum
dated, and more than a hundred dwell
ings are surrounded by water to such
depth that it renders it neces-
sary to use boats in getting
back and forth. Several factories
have been compelled to shut down.
The Howlandsburg dam on the Kalama-
zoo which holds back Gull lake has gone
out, and the Galesburg dam is in great
danger. The dam at Plainwell went
out yesterday and flooded large area.
The Otsego dam holds back lake Of
5000 acres of water, and mag also be
forced out. The water has been about
stationary all day at kalamazoo. No
material damage TO property has been
reported, nor have any lives been lost.
At st. Louis Pine river is the highest
in seventeen years. and the mills and
electric light works are Hooded out, the
town having been in darkness five
nights. One bridge was carried away.
Cass river is up ten feet and is still ris-
ing, and bridges over 1t have been car
ried away. Unless the stream falls
rapidly before the ice in the Tittaba-
wassee and its tributaries gives away,
a disastrous flood is apprehended.
KEeKUK, To-, March 1.-THE pres
sure of rising water in the Mississippi
river caused the levee which protects
the lands of the Illinois bottoms in Lima
lake district, opposite Canton. Mo-, to
break last night and the lands are being
overfiOwed. The break occurred near
the flood gates where Lima lake drains
into the river. The damage will DO
heavy. Men are at work trying to stop
the break.