Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-04-01

DLs aGAil
has passed the danger
line and Is still rising slowly. All
residep.s Of the west side east oil Stale
street have been driven to higher
grounds. The water lie entering
houses ON the west side OF that street
and several hundred people viii be
forced to move II the water rises
another six inches. There are many
stories Of suffering.
SEVERAL STREETS FLOODED.
FARGO, N. D., April l.-5evera
streets IN the town are flooded. Island
Park district 10 badly hJoded aud the
water will be much higher than
1898, aud probably higher than sixteen
yeas ago.
MiLLIoNs OF FEET OF LOGS SWEET
AWAY.
MINNEAPoLIs, April 1.-The huge
lam which formed in Mississippi at
Furty-eecond Avenue north, broke late
yesterday afternoon and an immense
volume OF water, big cakes OF ice ana
@ thousand feet of logs went tearing
down the river over 81. Anthony falis.
The water rose two feet inside OF an
hour, footing many houses. 1t is
estimated that % 100000 feet Of logs
were swept away. The damage VIII
reach 100000.
TALK OF usING VIOLENCE,
NEW ORLEANS, April /. up to 10
a. m, as tar ss known the line OF tue
Louisiana levees is intact, hut a break
any momeut Ia feared. Constant
watching for weak places has been the
means OF avoiding several crevasses
at uang or Gus points. The great danger
below the city IL due to wave wash,
caused by steamers which run clUse to
the Shore to avoid the swift current
and DRIFT. The governor and IN ayor
have issued prociamatlons calling on
tnem to keep IN the middle OF the
stream. The heavy storm tue past two
days have soaked the levees, ami the
people behind them, indignsnt a. the
heedlessnets OF the pilot Jog
arms TO compel Their Sra, ~Ssy.
HEAVY RAIN.
ST.. LOUIS. A ril 1.-The heavy rain
|. last night was general throug hout the
AZ .tsfssfpli astser. w ithiu two dt-a
| tine upper Mississippi 10 expected 10
reach a higher stage than last week
anu cause additional flooding Of the
bottom lands.
THOUSANDS HOMELESS.
GREENvILLE, Mice, April Item
thousand pc pie are homeless III the
| food disiricls. Three Hundred towns
and cities are submerged and Jesola-
ton reigns over this lovely valley.
| A dismal waste OF water covers the
| surrounding country on every side OF
| Gseenville and the city is q desDlate
| ielRnd, connected with the outside
| world by mere thread, the telegraph
| line running east.
Railroad communication is cut of
north and south. RDsedale, Gunnison,
| Boliver, Huntington and hundred
| other prosperous towns north OF here
| ATcola, Hollsndale, Wayside, Swift.
| water, Stonevllle and Leland, south
/ and west, together with score OF
! smaller hsmlets, are in the SAINT
condition ss Greenvllle.
LOOKS LIKE AN IMMENSE LAKE.
ST.. LOUIS, April /. - The river
broke all previous records and flooded
a large portion OF the city a little
south west OF Forest Park. The cum.
Try lhereabOuts looks like an immense
lake. The food extends west Il
Ellendale station. The st. Louis ant
san Francisco tracks are covered WITH
water and the trains are using the
| Missouri Pacific tracts, which are
about foot above water. Cheltol
Brick worke, La Clede Fire Brlcl
works, the old 81. Louie Smelling ans
4 l,..N h
| concerns can only be reached by boats
For several bloeks the houses on sub
Iette avenue were flooded to the
second story. Police boats have rescued
twenty-five people from them.
The weather bureau observers ii
| Missouri and Iowa report one OF tn
heaviest rain falls OF winter. Tn
Mississippi is swelling rapidly. a
Hermann, Missouri, 1t ross 3.2 feet.
THE TRAINS ABANDONED.
GREENvIJLE, Miss, April It'll
I water CONTINUES To fail but not 3
rapidly as during the hours following
/. the break OF the levee. The train an
crew ON the Riverside division OF tn,
| | Valley road, caught between Stop
Landing and Stokes crevssse 10 obliget
to remain there. The water 10 owe
, the track OF the Leland branch OF tn
I Valley road, and trsirs are abandoneG
. RAILROAD TRAFFIC ABANDONED.
ABERDEEN, Misc, Aprll It'll
nprtuern part at the state Ia largel
! inundated. Railroad traffic on thre
syatems having lines here has bee
> entirely abandoned. The Aberdee
store easements are flooded. III
4 Western Uaion Telegraph company
a Office has two ieet OF water upon Tn
a floor. The occupants OF many res
. uences have been foIcsd to move GU
Westport, north OF Aberdeen, hp
=. from two to SIX feet OF water on Ia
principal streets. The storekeepei
= are carrying on business In the seco
aoTies. At Faulktown George Eeci
"a aged is, has besD drowned.
6 DROWNED NEAR ST. LOUIS.
sT. LOUIS, April l.-George "
# Tate, laOureT aged 20, and Melt
n Tate, his daughter, aged q, we
drew ned In trying to eicspe tue hs'
n a. Webster, near ~. Louis.
Decline 10 Iniorfsrr.
WASHINGTON, April 1.-The Pres
+. dent Illus declined TO take any nctit
u tha COO. ~ t,., RnrrpUoR New Mey