Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-10-09
pany lost large lot wood piled at this
ZIG AND LITTLE RIB.

pany lost large lot wood piled at this
place.
BIG AND LITThE RIB.
These streams were swollen clear
over their banks and higher than was
ever known before. All the approaches
to bridges on Big Rib were washed out
and all the low places transformed into
lakes. Twas impossible to reach any
of the western towns by the roads.
At Marathon City the booms and
piers belonging to Menzer 4 Herman
gave way and nearly a million feet of
logs went down stream and are scat
tered all along the stream to the Wis
consin river, and many foated to the
Dessert booms at Mosinee. These logs
belonged to Mr.. Menzer, Pfeiffer &
Rounds of Stevens Point, and the Geo.
E. Foster Lumber Co. of this city.
At the McCleary bridge the river
covered large area, and the south
approach washed away The farm,
just across Rib, at this point, was all
under water and just the roofs of the
house and barns sticking out. Men
assisted in getting the family out and
live stock on to dry land. When res
cused the dog was on the roof of the
house and pigs and sheep were in the
hay loft On Little Rib the approaches
to the Northwestern railway bridge
were washed out, also about twenty
five feet at each end of the bridge which
crosses at what is known as Singles
mill. Several bridges were washed out
on this stream, one pretty good sized
one near Zieglers, in the town of Berlin.
EAU CLAIRE.
From the Eau Claire comes the same
story of washouts, overfows, ETC. The
whole country below the hill on Grand |
avenue was lake, and there was no
way to reach Schofeld only by going |
down the asylum road and then follow
ing the high land in this way the town
could be reached, but chen a traveller
could not get across the main bridge at |
this point after going to this trouble,
for the approaches were gone at either
end of the bridge, temporary approach
es were laid by Saturday morning so
that teams could pass over Up at
Manser's mill the booms gave way
and 100000 feet of logs belonging to
Lamar Sexmith floated down stream
the logs formed jam short distance
down the stream, but it will cost all
they are worth to haul them back into
the pond. >,
IN THE COUNTY.
From every town farmers bring in
news of damages done by the great
storm. M. G. Thorn came in from Sun
set on Saturday, and he said eve
have put in $500 on road work the past
year and every new piece of road has
been washed out, and our loss in that
respect is just the amount put in; it will
all have to be done over again. On
Big Sandy, in our town, we had just
finished a new bridge and this was car
red out, but we managed to snub it to
a tree and it will not be total loss.
The large bridge across Big Sandy, in
the town of Wausau, was badly dam
aged by being raised from its founda-
tions ut one end the only thing that
saved it from going was a jam of logs,
trees, etc. The farmers have all lost
heavily in our part of the county, in
many ways The constant rains have
injured their crops and hindered them
in their work" Mr. Thorn's statement
is about the condition of our whole
county, and the loss to farmers alone,
if figured up, would run into the
tens of thousands of dollars.
THE RAILROADS.
Wausau had no regular trains on
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, The
Northwestern has brought in mails
each day, but had to make a transfer
at Eau Claire river, here one OF the
piles which supported the bridge was
hit by wagon bridge which came
down the stream and knocked out, and |
besides escaping logs from Mansers |
pond pushed the bridge out of place
and rendered it useless for travel. |
There were quite a number of bad |
washouts between Wausau and Marsh |
field, one at Little Rib river crossing |
where the approaches were washed out. |
Several other bad ones were near Big |
Rib river others near Edgar and Fen
wood. All these have been repaired |
and trains commenced running on |
schedule time on Saturday.
The Northwestern railroad now runs |
its trains to Schofield over the ST. Paul |
tracks, and up the logging road, to
connect with its tracks east of the Eau
Claire river. This will have to be done
for some time until the water falls low
enough to enable the repairing of the
bridge which crosses the Eau Claire |
river.
There were no trains over the st. /
Paul road until Monday evening. |
Up north there were many washouts
but the ones which stopped travel be-
tween here and Merrill were the Trappe
river bridge and the overflow of the
low grounds between here and Brokaw.
South between here and NIosinee there
was washout at Cedar cseek. Below
Mosinee the road was covered in many
places and washed out in others, the
most important being near Knowlton.
While all trains are now running on
time i win be some time before all I
damages are repaired. The storm was
very expensive foI the railroads.
TELEPHONES.
For the telepone companies this was
the worst storm ever known in this
city. The night operator in the Office
of the Wausau Telephone Company
says that early Wednesday morning
there was bolt came in over the lines
which made a noise in the office like /