The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-07-21
FOUR WE'RE
On a sanch Near Nswlin Three Arc
pead-Other Casualties.


Pierre. :. u, july 1l.=News WAS
brough; in this evening of three more
fatalities from the Bad river tlood The
deaths occurred Ut the Ritenherg ranch.
near Newlin. The victims are Perry
R~itenberg, I'D - and Fred Trum-
DO. They. with Albert Rifenberg. We're
III their house. which was at the june
ton of Bad river and Squaw creek, and
the rush of water carried the house
away before they We're aware of the
danger. Albert Rifenberg. the other
occupant of the building. saved his life
by breaking his way through the roof.
News from Pedro, at the forks of the
Cheyenne river. l20 miles west of here.
tells of the drowning of Verne Tor
rance in the food III that stream. The
young mans home was in Chicago.
This is the fourth victim of the foods
in the western part of the state.
The waters of Bad river AVE receded
enough so that the people of Fort
Pierre are beginning to tax stock.
They find that seventeen houses went
down the Missouri, ana that fo~rty-three
are more or less wrecked. While all
which withstood the nood are damaged
from water. the contents soaked and
covered With 81 black slime which can
never be removed.
Up the valley reports are filtering in,
all showing wrecked homes and there
is scarcely 4 ranch building standing
on the river valley between Fort Pierre
and Midland. The messenger who
brought in the news of the death of
Branake at Bovine says that the water
was yet from bluff to bluff at that
place when he left and the only way of
travel was in making wide detours TO
set across the streams running into
Bad river.
The party of women from Fort
Pierre which was reported missing are
yet out and the only thing new learned
about them is that they did not reach
the ranch they started for. While those
missing may report later, death is
feared for scme of them. So far the
only deaths known to a certainty are
those of joe Braneke at Bovine. Arthur
Austin at Midland, the little Wheeler
boy a shor distance from Fort Pierre.
n Perry Rifenberg. Fred Trumbo and
ED Cook near Newlin.
~ report comes down Bad river that
John livingston, a rancher on that
stream, lost 100 head of horses by
drowning in d pasture from which they
could not escape.
The people of Fort Pierre have been
granted authority by Major Chittenden,
of the government river service. to use
the government pontoon boats for g
temporary bridge across Bad river un-
til they can make permanent arrange
ments.
Pierre. S. d. July 11.-A report was
brought in from up Bad river of the
death by drowning in the flood of Joe
Braneke. who was carried way While
trying to save some horses. He came
from southern Hand county, and his
relatives have been notified. AT the
time the messenger left the body nae
not been recovered.
All told about "A dozen persons nave
not yet been located. and the actual loss
of life annot be determined for several
days.
A party consisting of Mrs. Douglass
Lowe and Misses Georgia Hague and
Edna Lowe. who starred to drive up the
Bad river valley on Sunday, have %
been located and fears are felt tina
they We're caught IN h flood and
lost.
Reports from the Cheyenne river
ountry SHOW dangerously high water
about Leslie and some property losses.
Refugees from all along the Bad
river, whose property was lost in the
flood. are getting into Fort Pierre and
all relate stories of narrow Il and
h~ardships while camping in the hills,
with little ood or protection.
TIC help shelter the homeless the tents
and blankets belonging to Troop b of
this city We're placed at the disposal of
the relief committee at Fort Pierre. y
benefit entertainment was given in this
city last night for n relief fund.
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