The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-23

tunately, Mr.. Lehman had had the fore
sight to put boom around the place,
and this prevented the whole lot of
boards from going to st. Louis. BY the
use of boats and watchmen nearly all
of 1t was finally landed on Artesian hill.
w. nj. Woodbridge lost some seed grain
by water soaking it, and about three
dozen chickens were drowned.
The Japanese settlement has been
abandoned, part of the men being
shipped east and the others west. 1t is
reported that there is considerable ILL
ness in this crew.
Mr.. Rasmussen, living on the old
Fischer ranch nine miles east OF Chi
nook, lost his entire crop of calves. His
hogs and poultry We're also washed
away.
Great gaping channels yawn on the
street between Lohman's warehouse
and the railroad track, and the scene
along the south side of the track beg
gars descrption-it is one of desola-
ton. Every bush Is a mass of foatage,
and the road is furfowed by the deep
paths washed by the food.
1t is reported from Paradise valley,
on the Milk river, that the stream has
moved from the north to the south side
of the bottom, cutting UP a number of
ranches in bad shape.
The water cut around both ends of the
North Fork dam, but that structure re-
| mains intact. John Cook and son had
just put in a new fiume at their place
at cost of $1,450. The water lifted and
carried 1t down stream two and half
miles. where it lodged below the Para
| disc dam. 1t is nearly all there, but it
| will cost considerable to tow it back to
| place. The families of John Matheson
and the Archer brothers were driven
from their homes and found refuge with
| H. C. Reynolds.
A force of men, under the direction CT
| Harry Liddle, has been sent to the Fort
Belknap headgate. The waters have
washed around the structure, but the
exact damage is not known. The same
| state of affairs exists at the Harlem
! dam.
Graham brothers are reported to have
| lost band of horses. The water wash
| ed them from the range against wire
| fence. The West Fork Ditch company
has lost part Of it's piling and fiume,
| but the main structure is uninjured.
| Ranchers are finding some comfort in
| the thought that after this tremendous
flood the hay crop will be par excel
| 1ence.
The losses around Havre and Pacific
Junction are described by the Havre
Eagle as follows: Although the flood
throughout the valley has caused the
destruction of many thousand dollars
worth of property, no lives were lost
The first to feel the effects of the high
water was j. A. Mitchell and family,
| who reside across the river, north of
| town. He was aroused about IL o'clock
| Sunday night by the water reaching his
bed. The family quickly dressed and
moved most of their things to the coal
mine, mile distant.
| ION Monday the water had raised
| &C.,, Nv,
| and Mrs. Austin were compelled to
leave their homes, but their loss was
not heavy. At. shutdown Paul Decelles
rescued Mrs Ben Smith and Mrs. Cor
| don. We are unable to state what their
loss is, but probably not great. Jack
| Lynch and family were compelled to
leave their home M. j. Healys Beaver
creek ranch was at no time under wa
| ter. While the water was excessively
| high at that place, Frank Jones, who
resides at w. c. Broadwater's ranch,
reports but slight damage. Judge Meili,
| while watching the flood from the river
bank watched with complacency his
hay rack riding the pillows toward the
mighty Missouri, and later discovered
he had lost nearly all his personal prop
| erty at his ranch. The residents in the
valley of Big Sandy creek We're COM
PEELED to desert their homes, but their
loss we have not learned, although j..
| r. Tomlinson lost several hundred dol
lars worth of cord wood. 1t was re-
ported that a piano was seen coming
| down the river, but this Is discredited
| as no houses were lost.
| Below town, any definite estimate of
the loss sustained is impossible. Wa
CONS, mowers, binders and every farm
| implement in the path of the flood has
gone to a watery beyond. Much loss of
| live stock is reported. James G. Aud
reports finding his hogs safely en-
sconced in the downy pillows of his own
bed, and gives it as an illustration of
pretty good hog sense A. S. Lehman
| is reported to have lost several thou
sand dollars by the inundation of his
lumber yard. In Chinook people are
said to have been compelled to go in
| boats from the town to the depot.
| "It is feared that the loss to irrigat-
ing plants in the valley will be almost
| fatal to this seasons CROP
|