The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-04-01
REACHES
INTO MILLIONS
FLOOD CAUSES DAMAGE IN IN.
DIANA ALONE OF TEN MIL.
LION DOLLARS.
WORST IS THOUGHT TO Be OVER
EIGHT LIVES LOST AND BRIDGES
AND TREsTLEs SWEPT AWAY
BY DOZENS.
LOOKS BRIGHTER IN MICHIGAN
BUT THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
ARE IN DISTRESS OWING
TO FLOOD.

Indianapolis, March 80. - Northern
and Central Indiana. including the
Capital City, have seen the worst of
the food and are now repairing the
heavy damage. The crest of the food
will reach the Ohio river in two days.
White river at Indianapolis reached
seventeen fee seven and t~hree-quar-
tiers inches above low water mark. a
record height. 1t is estimated the
damage in this county will reach
5 2,225, 900, and north of this county
an additional 81, 900. 900. In thi scity
twelve hundred families were driven
ties yesterday resolved upon issuing
800, 900 flood bonds to
Repair the Damage
to the public utilities: but the loss in
this one feature may be more than
double that figure. Yesterday the city
was almost entirely without traction
service and water. 1t is expected the
water works will practically resume
to-day.
Eight lives have been lost in the
Indiana flood in two days. and the to-
tai property loss in the state has been
estimated at 5000, 900 to $4,000, 600.
Bridges and trestles have been
swept away by the dozens. Others
that have not zone out are dangerous.
Railroad schedules are still wild.
Situation Is Appalling.
Petersburg. Ind, March 80. - The
| flood situation in this county is ap-
palling. White river above here is
thirteen miles wide in places. Palat-
ka river. which flows through the cen
ter of the county, is three miles Wild
for nearly forty miles. The loss is
already $3.50, 900. The wheat is ruined.
Two Lives Lost in Ohio.
Defiance, Ohio, March 80. - Leroy
Carpenter, sixteen, and Albert ker-
] win, seventeen years old, were
drowned in the Auglaize river. their
buggy being swept away by the swift
current while they were attempting
to drive through the water which COW
cred. the roadway leading to a bridge.
The flood here is now %receding.
Thousands in Distress.
Detroit. Mich, March 30.-Encour-
aging reports from Lansing, Battle
Creek. Flint. Kalamazoo and other
towns where food damage has been
estimated up in the hundreds OF thou
sands of dollors, show the danger and
distress are largely centralized in the
Saginaw valley and around Gran
Rapids in the q valley of the Grand
river. And at Grand Rapids, too, a
~ ~-co1ror,np ic nntal At
Saginaw, however. the ~Shiawassee,
Cass. Flint. Tittibawasee., Chippewa
and other feeders of the Saginaw riv-
er are bringing down
Torrents Of Water,
the escape of which into Saginaw bay
is blocked by ice gorges at and below
Bay City.
At Grand Rapids it is estimated
that 1000 people are in distress, and
at Saginaw a large portion OF the bus
mess section of the city is flooded.
On the Shiawassee river yesterday
near Chesaning twenty-five families
were rescued only a few minutes be
fore their homes were submerged,
IGilbert Bertram, a foreman for a
sugar company, lost his life trying to
save some of the property.
Entire Town Flooded.
st. Louis, March 80. - The entire
town OF Valley Park, Mo-, situated
on the Merance river, eighteen miles
west of st. Louis, has been flooded by
the recent heavy~rains' and the dam
age already done is figured at $780,.
600.