Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1905-06-16
FLOODS IN WISCONSIN
STATE Is DEiUGED FROM END
TO END.
Rivers Rise in Swollen Torrents, Car
rying Away Bridges and Dams-Mi1ls
Are Destroyed and Railroad Tracks
Under Many Feet of Water.

The storms that have swept Wisconsin
almost continuously for several days
nave caused widespread damage. In the
neighborhood of Fond du Lac the loss
has been especially severe, being esti-
mated at from 100000 to 100000. The
Eldorado dam broke and the water rose
rapidly. Every street in the city was
covered with water. Many people were
taken out of second-story windows with
rowboats. Every plant in the city was
closed except the Wells shoe factory.
The Moore & Galloway Company lost
100000 feet of logs.
The Fond du Lac river and its
branches are raging torrents, sending the
water over the banks for miles. Part
of the city became practically a part of
Lake Winnebago, and all the schools
closed.
The Chippewa river at Chippewa Falls
rose ten feet in twenty-four hours.
Houses and barns in the lower part of
The city were flooded. Two deaths from
drowning occurred, Clarence Cleavs, a
log driver, and Paul Labountry, school
boy. Seven washouts are reported on
the Wisconsin Central and five on the
Chicago and Northwestern. Two hotels
in the flooded district could be reached
only by boat. Street cars and the inter-
urban Line to Oshkosh were out of SER
vice.
At Eau Claire there has been much
damage to railroads. The Omaha road
has made repairs, but a passenger train
of the Wisconsin Central which left
there Tuesday was held at Marshfeld,
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At Barron four bridges are gone and
the town was accessible only from the
west. Both dams are out and it was
feared the grist mill and wooden mill
would go. The dam and mill at Paskin
and dam and large grist and planning
mill at Prairie Farm are gone. The
buildings are valued at $4,000. Dyna-
mite was used on Taylor dam in an at
tempt to save the grist and wooden mills.
The railroad bridge just east of the city
was washed away and the large bridge
across the Menominee river seemed like
ly to go. The damage will be over So
600 to the city.
Six hundred acres of planted corn at
Chiffon has been ruined and cattle had
a narrow escape from drowning.
A cloudburst at Newton drowned
many cattle. The railroad track was in
undated. The rivers rose fast and
number of small bridges were carried
away.
At Sheboygan Falls the storm caused
great damage to the business district.
The Brickner Wooden Mills Companys
dam was carried out, entailing loss to
the property of $4,000.
At Sheboygan the Arndt Roller mills,
on Pigeon river, sustained a loss of $15,-
900. The Prone manufacturing plant
at Howards Grove was washed out and
all the factories yarus were under
water.
A 500 Line train was wrecked at
Cumberland, fatally injuring three train
men. At Portage traffic was at a stand
still. Lightning played havoc, and Has
kie's general store at Endeavor was
burned to the ground. The burning of
a barn cost three horses and several cat
tie. Reports from all parts of the State,
including Barron, bingham, Waldo
Tomahawk, Waterloo, West Bend, Chill
ton, Eau Claire and Ladysmith, show
that the calamity was general.