The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1908-06-05
One Thousand Passengers Are
Tied Up in Livings=
ton, Mont.
WORST WASHOUT IN YEARS
Railroads Suffer Heavy Miane-
sofa and Cottonwood Rivers
on Rampage.

Livingston, Mont, June 3. - Seven
overland Northern Pacific and Bur
llngton passenger trains. carving
about 1000 passengers, are tied up in
this city, with he prospect of being
held here two or three days more, as
the result of one of the worst washouts
in the recent history of the Northern
Pacific. Ten miles east of this city
two thirty-foOt fills" one eighty feet
long AMI the other more than 100. are
completely washed out. and the east
ern portal of the Bozeman tunnel is
blocked by a landslide which is said
to have caved in a portion of the tun-
mel. The last train to get through to
Butte went Saturday night. Big floods
have risen east of this city, near Co
lumbus, Mont, tying up traffic. The
stalled trains reached Livingston in
time to be caught by the ~washOuts
east OF here yesterday morning.
Northern Pacific trains are being sent
east from Butte and Helena over the
Great Northern tracks.
Wash Out 500 Feet of Track.
Dispatches from Butte. Mont. say
hat the bridges crossing Silver Bow
'reek, within the limits OF Butte. are
threatened by the floods. and the
street car tracks on the flats south of
hat city are under water. The rain
'alI there during May amounted to
sever inches, exceeding all records.
The Yellowstone river also is on
the rampage and trains are from
tW~enty-four TO forty-eight hours late
on the Northern Pacific.
4 report from Hell Gate canyon
states that the rains of the last thirty
six hours have washed out 500 feet of
the roadbeds of the Northern Pacific
and st. Paul railroads between Mis-
soula ana Clinton. It will take at
least three months TO repair the dam
age suffered by the St. Paul road.
Close New UIm Bridges.
New Ulm. Mimi. June 3.-The Min
nesota and Cottonwood rivers are
On a rampage. The lowlands are
flooded. thousands OF acres of fertile
lands are inundated and this seasons
crop will be practically worthless.
The roads leading into the city are
covered with at least three feet of wa
ter on the Nicollet county side, and it
Is only with difficulty that the farm
ers can reach the city. The city au-
thoritieS have declared some of the
approaches dangerous and have
closed the bridges to traffic.
Flood at ST.. Paul.
ST. Paul, June 8. The Mississippi
river at II o'clock last night had
reached the danger line of fourteen
feet above the low water mark. THIS
is the highest point reached by tn"
water in several years, and numer su9
homes in the lower flats are now sur
rounded by water and the occupants
have been forced to abandon then.
The water is rising steadily, fed BY an
overflow from the Minnesota river,
and may rise several inches more.
Several Lost in Arkansas.
Texarkana, Ark, June 3. Several
persons are reported to have been
drowned, hundreds of others are ma
rooned and thousands of acres of cul-
tivated lands are under water as a re-
suit of an almost unprecedented rise
in the Red river in this vicinity.
Four Drowned in Kansas.
Wichita, Kan. June 3.-Four per-
| sons were drowned in and ear Wich-
tia Sunday night and yesterday on &C
count Of the foods.