The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-06-10
1T7EGE ny FLOOD
IN TIE THOUSANDS HOUSINGS
Deaawood and Other Places
Suffer Greatly From Recent
High Water.
THREE LIVES WE'RE LOST
THREE LIVES WERE LOST
In Addition There Were Other Casual
ties in Other Parts OF HiIls-Much
Property Destroyed-Traffic
lmpeded.

Deadwood. s. D., June S.-Three lives
/, lost by drowning and several thousand
| dollars worth of damage to property
and railroad tracks is the result of the
heavy rains of the past three days in
this city and vicinity. Without a min7
ute's cessation rain fell for sixty hours
and every stream in the Hills was rum
ming over.
In this city large forces of men were
kept by the city on guard along Dead
wood and Whitewood creeks to prevent
the streams from becoming clogged. AT
midnight last night the large steel
bridge across Whitewood creek on
Deadwood street was washed away.
The entire end of The three-story brick
building owned by Charles Waite was
knocked out when the bridge gave a
The damage will be several thousand
dollars to the building.
In the lower part of Deadwood, the
greatest amount of damage has been
lone to the railroad tracks. Practi-
cally all of the iron bridges between
town and the tunnel are out and sew
eral thousand feet of rack made use
less. Mails will be carried as far as
Whitewood where connections will be
made with the regular Northwestern
train. A good many bulkheads in the
city gave way, carrying sections OF
streets down the hillside. One house
was turned completely over on Main
street.
At Central City, while trying to ave
the brewery owned by the Black Hills
Brewery company, Matthew Bender of
Lead, the driver for the brewery. was
swept away in the flood. Two other
men were thrown into the stream at
the same tine. but were rescued.
At midnight last night the dam below
the Horseshoe cyanide plant burst and
houses occupied by Italian min
ers. Two of the inmates of one OF the
houses We're drowned.
At Puma, the first station between
this city and Lead, the Burlington de-
pot is partly washed into the creek and
several hundred feet of track lies in
the water. Mail and passengers are
| being taken 10 Englewood from Lead
over the Fort Pierre narrow gauge road
TO connect With the eastern Burlington
train.
The damage To easements and goods
of all kinds throughout the city Will he
very great. The city is without water
today. owing to the breaking Of the
water mains in the First ward. Tele-
! graph communication with the east has
been broken since Saturday afternoon.
Tbs Hood is nearly equal to the over
flow in Deadwood in 1892.
The bodies of the three men drowned
Saturday at Central City and Terry
We're found yesterday afternoon.
The weather has been beautiful since
Sunday morning.
a careful estimate shows great lam
/ age to bridges, roads and city property
of 500, 600. and to private property, $780,
600. The railroads will suffer close to
100000. Nearly every mine in Law
renee county is closed down. either from
lack of coal or water in the mine.
All the cyanide plants in this city
are shut down for lack of coal. Both
the Burlington and Northwestern rail-
road companies are employing crowds
of men repairing tracks.
Lead, S. D., June 1.-THE Homestake
mills are shut down temporarily owing
to high water and ack of coal. Only
the pumps are kept working with a
email supply of coal on hand. Twenty
!ive hundred men are thrown out Of
j employment as a consequence. The city
! has sustained food damages to the
amount OF 100000. 1t is estimated that
1000 miners and mill men are tenn,
| porarily out of work.