The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1908-06-26
Water in the Minnesota Is Ris-
ing Rapidly; Backing Up
Into the Slough.
Panenberg & Co. and Others
Suffer Loss of Wood Which
Floats Away.
From Wednesdays Daily.

From Wednesdays Daily.
Park Superintendent Blake, who at
tended the government markings on
the Minnesota river, states that from
eight o'clock yesterday morning until
the same nour this morning the river
rose pa feet, and from eight O'Clock
this morning until one O'Clock this
afternoon it rose Z of foot. This
afternoon it was going up at the rate
of an inch an hour, which is faster
that it was rising yesterday, in spite
of the fact that the rlver is spread
out over a much wider eXpanse of
territory than yesterday. He has no
idea when it will stop going up, and
there seems no present likelihood of
its stopping, to judge from the rate at
which it is rising.
People Seek Higher Ground.
During today families living on Pat
terson avenue were compelled to aban
don their homes because of the unwel
come visitation of high water. Yester-
day the water was uncomfortably close
to the first floor of the dwellings and
who desired to reach Front street.
The river is still slowly going up,
having gone up something more than
a foot since yesterday morning. 1t
is now higher than it was in May, and
is backing into the slough and all
low places along the river The chan
ces are that it will not go up much
more, as the weather is clear.
Tie river has risen so far that it
is necessary to pump the sewage from
the main sewer and let it reach the
river through an open gutter. The
city's pump, that heretofore has suf-
feed for this work. has proved to
be too small for the amount of sew
age that has to be handled now, and
the board of public works yester-
day telephoned for second pump, of
the same capacity, and it was ship
ped from st. Paul last night, and was
started this forenoon. One pump is
located at the pumping station and
the other between Front and Second
streets.
Heavy Loss Caused.
The water this morning ran into
Pamenberg Co.'S brick yard in Riverside
N
washed away a large amount of
cordwood. The number of green brick
destroyed was 100000, and these were
valued at So per thousand. The water
floated 500 coards of wood down stream
and 500 more cords are in the water
and may be floated off. This morn
ing the water was rising rapidly in
the yards. Besides the wood, 10000
feet of lumber was piled in tae yard
and nearly all of it has gone down
stream
w. w. p. Mcconnell had about 100
cords of wood piled on the low land
back of his Minneopa dairy farm,
and this has gone down stream.
The rain Monday night did a lot
of damage to Glenwood avenue, caus-
ing washouts and landslides big
washout also occurred in the Guenther
ravine.
The water came down Hanover street
street and large amount of sand
and mud was carried across and de-
posted in the gutter and on the boule-
ward in front of the high school build
ing. This is likely to happen after
every heavy ram as long as there is
no storm sewer to take off the surplus
water, either to Warren creek or
down to the Fourth street storm sewer.
Railroads Operating Again.
The railroads have all made temper
airy repairs on their lines and trains
are moving about tne same as usual.
The Milwaukee was the last to fix
the break in it's track, near Rapidan,
but got the first train through last
night The Great Western suffered but
very little The Omaha road got its
trains through yesterday and last night
by using the old track around the
landslide at Minneopa, and the Chi
cago & Northwestern road mas been
obliged to use its old track around
by ST. Peter, as the direct line to
New Ulm was cut off by land slides.
With dry weather it will be but a
few days before the roadbeds are got
ten back into good condition.