Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-04-27


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Missouri Begins to Fall.
River Subsidies at Sioux City
and is Stationary at Points
on the Upper Region.
Omaha Worlds Herald, April 81.
Dispatches from the Upper Missouri
indicate that the river is stationary or
falling, indicating that the muddy tor
rent here cannot rise to any prear
height for the present.
The following special telegram was
received last night from Sioux City:
The Missouri river is subsiding
slightly here this evening. Reports
from upriver points say the stream is
stationary, but the tendency seems to-
ward fall In the water"
Precautions are being taken all along
the banks near Omaha against a fur.
Their rise.
The river continued to rise until 3
o'clock yesterday afternoon. 1t then
became almost stationary and remain
ed in this condition all night. having
approached within about a foot and q
half of the danger line At Swift's ice
house the work of building the en-
bsnkment was not discontinued, al
though those who we're observing the
river at that point we're hopeful from
the reports they had received that the
highest limit had been reached and
that before long the flood would COM
mence to recede.
INIpERCEPTlBLE RISE,
AT the foot of Douglas street the
stream rose about two inches from 6
O'Clock until midnight, having gone up
eigh, inches during the day. The pres
emit high line is ten inches below what
it was two years ago.
AT Swift's ice house on Cnt-Off lake
Yesterday noon 100 men we're started ia
work to building an embankment of
earth and gravel filled sacks about the
place to keep water from pouring in
and attacking the ice and building
Residents of the east bottoms, and
of the little cottages on the east side of
the river near the Douglas street
bridge, have had to move ont, or else
i've in their lite tar-paper houses
surrounded by water
While the river, so far as could be
judged casually, was almost stationary
this morning 1T was all the same get.
ting in lis work of flooding more of
the river bottoms, including the Win.
spear triangle, to which the city coun.
Gil Tuesday night ordered removed tho
smallpox emergency hospital from
Fontanelle park.
The yards of the small houses east
of the east railroad tracks and north OF
Burt street have been flooded for a
couple of days, but up to yesterday The
occupants remained in several of the
highest houses AS the predictions
Wednesday and yesterday were for
still higher water the last of them yes.
terday moved themselves and part OF
their belongings out by boats, and all
the houses had been deserted by noon.
BREAK INTO TERMINAL TRACKS.
About 10 yesterday morning the low
land west of the east Terminal track
which skirts the river bank from the
Union Pacific shops and smelter to the
East Omaha bridge, began to get un-
der water at rate which promised to
flood all of it to q depth of from one to
four feet before night DIR. Ralph and
a World Herald representative were
inspecting the Winspear triangle, and
noted when walking northward that
only the southeast of lit: was under
water. On returning in a.fa1 minutes
1t was found that break ha(ibccurred
in the bank of the Terminal tracks
which had acted as levee, and the
water was pouring through III rapidly
increasing volume, spreading over all
of the Wlnspear Fri angle and climbing
up the bank under the Union Pacific
tracks, which north of Cumming street
gradually become farther west from
the Terminal tracks.
The river yesterday was from one to
four feet above the level of the Win
spear triangle and other land west OF
the terminal grade, and even had 1T re
NAMED firm it would require but q
slight rise in the river to allow the
water to flow over the tracks and dc
the flooding. Drs. Spalding and
Ralph, when the Winspear triangle was
first mentioned as place to put the
small pox emergency hospital, declared
that marshy tract of land, which at
one time had been river bed, now
homegrown with willows and marsh
grass, liable to be flooded every year
| and lying between two railroad tracks
was most emphatically not proper
place for any hospital of any kind. DIR,
Ralph yesterday, as the water grad
ually spread over the ground on which
the council ordered the hospital located
said the condition fully warranted the
adverse report previously made.
NOFEAR FOR INDUSTRIES.
The river was rising yesterday, by
railway gsuge, at the rate of about q
half-inch an hour, having risen about
five inches since shutdown Wednesday
night.
John n. Creighton, one of the hes,
posted river men in Omaha, was view.
ing the Missouri yesterday, and he
said:
81 see no occasion for alarm. Al
long as that immense bed of sand bars
across the river is in sight, the Omaha
side is safe from the flood A rise OF
a foot would spread q sheet of water
over an immense terIitpry, Widening
the river to miles about before il
would cause any trouble here.
SIN 1881 the river was fully eigh,
feet higher than nov and then
steamer eoaled at the I'''
roundnon.e ..on Paciti
Ane lumbermen stake
+, uown their lumber and fiat cars wer
used as water brakes along the unio1
Pacific tracks leading from the bridg
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