Evening star., 1897-04-01
FLOOD AT ST. PAUL
Residents of the West Side Driven
From Their Homes.
huge ice JAM At MINNEAPOLIS
Several Streets at Fargo Are Under
Water.
LITTLE CHANGE IN THE SOUTH

ST. PAUL, April 1.-The Mississippi has
passed the danger line-fourteen feet-and
is still rising slowly. All the residents of
the West Side east of State street have
been driven to higher grounds. The water
is entering houses on the west side of the
street and several hundred will be forced
to move if the water rises another six
inches. There are many stories of suffer-
ing
The home of Patrick McDonough 33 Fen
ton street is entirely surrounded by water.
He has family of five, two of whom are
lying Ill. McDonough, accompanied by
VIM. Bell, water-bound neighbor, reac he'd
land by means of a boat and appealed to
the mayor for assistance
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, April 1.-The
Mississippi went on tear last evening, and
dwelers along the fats moved out in a
hurry. A huge ice jam which had formed
in the river at 42d avenue north broke,
and an immense volume of water with big
cakes of ice and thousands of feet of logs
went tearing down the river and roaring
over st. Anthony Falls. The water rose
two feet inside of half an hour, edging its
way up the river banks until the floors of
many of the houses were well under water.
When the ice jam at 42d avenue broke,
the water and ice tore away great masses
that 25,UW,G00 logs had been swept away.
Both the bridges at Goth avenue north and
at Plymouth avenue are reported in danger.
The damage may reach $lOo,o1t
FARGO, n. D., April 1.-SeveTal streets
In the residence portion of the town are
flooded. Island Park district is badly flood
ed and the water Is still rising.
wAHPETON, N D.. April 1.-The water
in the Red and Boise de Sioux rivers is Two
feet above the danger mark and about the
highest ever known. The ice has risen with
the water and Is threatening all the bridges
On the lire of those rivers.
Strenuous efforts are being made to save
the Northern Pacific. Great Northern and
the wagon bridges at this place. Continu-
ously since yesterday morning dynamite
has been used in breaking the ice both
above, below and between the bridges. and
there are some hopes now of saving the
railroad bridges: but the road bridge which
connects this city and Breckenridge seems
to be doomed few inches more rise and
the ice will lodge against the bridges onG
force them from their foundations.
GREENVII.LE, Miss. April 1.-Fran nkly,
there is little new in the flood situation to-
day. The water in the river continues to
fall. but not so rapidly as during the hours
corded on the Greenville gauge is IA. This
has given great relief to the levees still
intact. The water is rising in the interior
streams: the rise in Deer creek last night
from the Stops Landing break was nearly
nine inches an hour. train and crew on
the Riverside division of the Valley road
was caught between the Stops Landing and
Stokes Crevasse and is still there AMI can
track of the Leland branch of the Valley
road at Black Bayou, between Greenyilie
and Wilczinski. and trains over this line
have been abandoned. The train over the
Southern railroad leaving at o'clock this
afternoon will probably be the last. Gree ~
vile still sits serenely upon a veri,a BILE
island high and dry.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April I'm to the
present time 40 ann far as known
the line of Louisiana levees is intact but
the strain against them is such that a
break at any moment is feared at almost
any point Vigilance is the price of safety.
and the constant watch for weak places has
been the means of averting several crcyas-
ses at dangerous points. The slouyhiny on
the Algiers side just below the city has
been repaired, 10000 sacks of earth having
been used in making the pace secure
Another weak spot developed at Jesuit' G
Bend twenty miles below the city. but
several hundred men soon restored it. The
great danger below the city is due to wave
wash caused by passing steamers, some OF
which run very close to the shore to avoid
the swift current and drift and the gov
ernor and mayor have issued procIama-
tlons calling on them to keep to the mid
Ole OF the stream and run under slow bells
Tne heavy rain and wind cf the past two
days, which still continues has soaked the
levces and the people VINO are behind them
are growing indignant at the heedlessness
of the pilots and are talking of using arms
to compel them to keep to the middle of
the river.
The Surget-Ashton levee in Concordia
parish is reported sloughing badly; a run
around is being built there but it is feared
that the old levee will give way before
the new one is completed
There is much concern for the rich coun-
try along Bayou Lafourche. The levees
there are low and in some places very
weak.
JACKSON. Miss. April 1.-Greenville tel
esraphs at noon: Reports coming into here
he urly from all points of the flood dis
trict show the situation is rapidly growing
worse There are now some twenty-five
towns and villages more or less overtiowed.
Greenville will get considerable water
perhaps not as much in 1890, perhaps
more. 1t is al matter of conjecture.
The bottom lands are full of water from
rains before the breaks occurred.
This city Is now an island, situated in
wilderness of water. which surrounds 1t
on every side. AS yet the water Is not in
sight Of the town. but is at the Blanton
gcmery place, two miles south. Black
bayou, Williams bayou. Deer creek and
Fish lake are all out of their banks
meeting of the city council is being
held at this writing at thesmayor's Office
to take necessary steps toward the safety
of the people, and for such relief as can
be afforded to the food sufferers.
VICKSBURG. Miss. April 1.-River on
stand. with 49.4 on the gauge. Clear and
bright.
President Maxwell of the fifth district
levee board arrived at am. and reports
all levees in the fifth district intact. Tel
egrams from the upper bends report the
river falling six inches in twenty-four hours
from Lake Providence to Milliken's Bend
Mr. Maxwell is putting all the force he
can secure to raise the leyee from Good
rich down to Bedfords three feet. as he
predicts rise of at least two and a half
feet when the water from the breaks on
the Mississippi side reaches the river from
the TaZoo
No breaks on the Mississippi side report
ed this morning.
COLOMBIAN COMMISSIONERS.