The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1903-09-18
ENORMOUSDAMAGf
NORTHWEST SUFFERS SEVERELY
FROM THE HEAVY RAIN
STORM.
WASnOUTS ON The RAILROADS
oEEicIAL TAXED TO UTMOSI
TO MAINTAIN ThSsH
SERVICE.
SNOWPlOWS ARt CALLED Oul
HEAVY FALL IN WESTERN STATES
AND REGULAR ELlZZARO in
MANITOBA.

amounting to $25O. 600 a DAY LOT tnIee
days. several fatal wrecks. numerous
derailments. more than 100 Washouts,
telegraph wires down. a soaking ram
in progress over several states ana
snowplows working on the Western
lines. Northwestern railways are taxed
to the utmost limit Of their ability 10
maintain anything like regular service
and to preserve the safety OF their
1t has been years since
there was a situation so serious.
Beginning with the heavy rainstorm
Friday night and early Saturday morn
ing, there has been an almost contln'
uous downpour over Minnesota, Iowa
and the Dakotas and sections OF Ne
braska. The widespread damage OF
the first storm has been followed by
lncessant Washouts,
and in every direction tracks are in
bad condition and the operation OF
trains rec. res the utmost precautions.
Late Yesterday afternoon reports
from t. ~~" hern part of the state
showed thal rains were still general.
Southwest Of ST. Paul worse condi-
tons prevail. and through most OF
Iowa, Southern Minnesota and Eastern
Wisconsin it VAS raining. The vio-
lence of the first big storm was lack
ing but the rain was even more
dangerous than that of Friday night
because it is steadily eating away
roadbed and entertainments. undermin-
I've Tho p N ole onI cuyn1lino tho rlVoro
and streams. Another sudden and
heavy rain. conservative operating Of
icials said yesterday, would of itself
cause a loss of more than $ $1,000, 900.
Grain in the shock suffered great
damage throughout the Northwest.
There has been no such disastrous
harvest weather in the Northwest
since 1881.
Bridges and Dams Carried Away.
Pepin, Wis, Sept. 16.-Never In the
history of the oldest settlers in this
country has there been such destruc-
ton from rain as there has been here
since Friday evening. The water
rushed down the valleys. taking every
thing before it. Bridges, fences, and
In many cases stock were carried
away. Throughout the country mill
dams were taken out. Fields that had
been plowed and sowed to fall GRIN
were washed away down as far as the
pillow had gone. Lost creek, a dry run
two miles north of here, raised twelve
feet, filling the valley with a raging
river.
Lake Pepin is rising at the rate of
an insh an hour. During the night
word was sent to people living in the
Chippewa bottoms, below here, that
dams above were going and warning
them to flee at once.
Rain Falls in Torrents.
Menomonie, Wis, Sept. 16. - The
Cured here, the rain coming down in
torrents for twelve hours. This whole
farming region is flooded and extern
sive damage has been done. Thou
sands OF acres of ~unstacked grain have
been soaked with water and much of it
ruined.
Ashland reports 100 feet of track on
Viz A>oi w L oSlhN IOdu hSdI bluIC
washed out, delaying traffic.
At Black River Falls the river is
fourteen feet above low water mark
and many bridges have been washed
away. Farmers suffered heavy CAM
age.
Ten Inches Of Snow.
Winnipeg, Man., Sept. 16. - One OF
the earliest autumnal storms expert
enced in the Northwest for many years
swept over the country on Saturday
and early Sunday morning. 1t is i'm
possible to learn to what extent the
crops have been damaged, but reports
to hand are o ~reassuring.
The only fatality reported comes
from Gretna, where an old man fell
from a buggy and persisted in the
storm. At Hartney, twelve horses
died in the anadian Pacific yards and
in the vicinity other live stock are re-
ported to have persisted. The fullest
fury of the blizzard appears to have
been felt In the northwestern part of
Manitoba
A telephone message received from
Minnedosa reported that the storm
was one OF the worst experienced
there in five years. 1t started to blow
about 10 o'clock in the morning and
q heavy rain soon followed. At noon
this developed into a snowstorm, and
by dark the snow was ten inches deem
on the level prairie.
This storm was a regular old-time
blizzard. and neither man nor beast
could stand against 1T.
Snow Storm in North Dakota.
Minot, N. d., Sept. 16.-One of the
worst snow storms ever known in this
part Of the country occurred on Sat.
urday, a heavy snow falling all day
long. BY night there We're two feet of
wet now on the level, and the wires
were down along both the 500 and the