Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-03-16

- Peter Wilcox lost number of
stacks of hay in tho high water on the
river bottoms. Hay Is hay at this
time of the year. +. W. Grimm had
q number OF stacks of hay on the
Burnt creek bottoms. and number
of those stacks have been destroyed.
Watchers at the river Monday saw a
dozen or more complete stacks lifted
bodily and swept down in the middle
of the stream.
Gotlieb Huber is one of the heav-
lest losers from the flooding of the
bottom lands. Not content with
driving him out of his house, the
water reached barrel Of lime in his
granary early yesterday morning,
Stacked the lime, set up an intense
heat and destroyed the granary with
several hundred bushels of seed grain,
including oats, wheat and potatoes.
The loss is severe one. All though
there was lack of water several feet
deep preventing the salvage of any of
the property Or the putting out of the
fire. which burned literally to the
waters edge" Gottlieb is just on
crutches from a bad injury resolved
some months ago, and his wife and
daughter are in the hospital-so mis-
fortune is coming in more than its
share to him.
1t has been stated that the flood of
1881 was the highest in the past thirty
years on the river, but the records
seem to indicate that the stage of
water in 1887 was several inches high
er than in 1881. The flood of 1887
was on March II, and for several days
the bottom lands held a stage of FIVE
to fifteen feet of water. Photographs
Of that flood show stage Of water
several feet deeper on the bottom
lands than at the present time. The
old Joe Fox barn, southwest of the
city, was covered to the caves in
1887, but at the present time the wat
er has not reached to within two or
three feet of the caves. Jewell, of
the Tribune, has some splendid views
both Of the flood Of 1881 and 1887.
The 1881 views show street scenes in
Mandan, where great foes Of ice sew
eral feet thtck and twenty to fifty
feet long were carried into the prin.
cipal streets and deposited there like
driftwood. He has also picture of
the steamer. Eclipse at the foot OF
Third street, where it took on pas.
sengers for Mandan, making the trip
entirely over the bottom lands which
are normally high and dry.
The flooding Of the low lands has
overturned number of outhouses,
and there is danger that use of the
wells as a source of water supply
will be a source of typhoid fever,
from the distribution Of foul matter
over the surface of the land, and the
washing of refuse into the wells. Resi-
dents Of that section who may get
their water supply from wells should
exercise due precautions, and prevent
what might possibly be an epidemic
Of typhoid in this region. Health Of
fcer Smyth will warn all people living
in that locality of the danger and seek
to minimize the possibility of typhoid
Infection.
: A courageous little fox TERROR
whose determination was better than
his judgment, followed a hack through
the cold waters as they advanced up
the road Monday, and found himself
compelled to swim against a pretty
swift current before he had gone
many feet. Determined to follow the
vehicle, he would not turn back and
swim to shore and the further he
went the deeper the water got and the
colder it became It was distance
of several hundred yards to a resting
place, but the tiny dog stuck man.
fully to his task, and when almost
exhausted a considerable distance out
in the flood, the driver of dray STOP
ped and took him on board, about
ready to give up the ghost.