Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-10
AT ITS OLD TRICKS.
The Wisconsin River Rises to Point OF
Order and Makes Things Hum.

I east of the Stewart Lumber Co..
boiler house and soon had washed out
the sand up to the Northwestern
tracks, threatening the undermining
| of the boiler house and the tying up
| of traffic on the railroad. A temper
ary Golfer dam was built and bags OF
sand were thrown into the hole, stop
ping the destruction. Part Of the
mill was undermined and the roof
and floor of the planning mill settled
several feet. Several small piles OF lum-
ber were carried down stream. Oak
island below the mill was covered SO
that no one could cross the lower
bridge. The Wisconsin Rendering
Co.'s building below the bridge, as
we'll as much of the rubbish
on the dumping grounds, were
carried away; also several boat
houses.
The railroad companies ran trains
of logs onto their bridges to hold
them down, and the one northeast of
the McEachron mill was almost sub
merged. The first bridge above the
high bridge was within a few feet of
being covered.
I During the afternoon report came
to the Northwestern depot that the
Eau Claire river was washing out the
railroad track this side of Kelly.
Later the company was asked to send
men west, it being feared that bridges
and tracks near Fenwood and Edgar
were in danger, and a train loaded
with bridge timbers and crew started
in that direction. Trains on the
Marshfield branch were delayed and
it was necessary to transfer pasSen-
gers and baggage at different points.
Reports from the country were to
the effect that all tributaries of the
Wisconse were on a rampage. Big
and Little Rib rivers overfloWed their
banks and wagon roads along their
course were impossible. People living
in the vicinity of Kelly had to come
around by the way of the old Nc
Intosh mill into Wausau, and Sandy
was roaring torrent. The bridge
crossing it on the Town Line road
could not be reached from either side
only the steel girders sticking up
above the water. An officer went out
Friday TO serve papers on man liy-
ing in that section. When he reached
the bridge he could not cross and went
back and crossed over at the Nc
IntOSh mill and came in from the
other way. When he reached the
farm he found he was as bad off as
ever, for the mans house stood in the
middle of lake.
The Eau Claire carried away part of
the Kelly dam and carried flood trash
onto adjacent farm lands.
On Saturday the st. Paul road had
to suspend the movement of all trains
north between here and Merrill, and
considerable. damage to tracks re-
suited.
On Friday evening much of the
village of Schofeld was inundated
necessitatiGg transportation in row
boats. The Eau Claire had backed
up from the Wisconsin so that the
Brooks & Ross dam was not notice
able except for little rifle. About
500 logs belonging to the company
broke away from their boom and are
on their way to the Gulf of Mexico.
South Grand Ave, or the main street
was so covered with water from the
Means hill south that traffic over it
was impossible. Even the street car
company's track, which is several
feet higher than the roadbed. was
under water and the track in four
different places was washed out. 1t
was Sunday morning before cars
could be run through to the park and
they carried hundreds of people-all
anxious to see the damage wrought
at the paper mill. The rear of one
house in Schotield is still standing in
water. Only a few of the lower
rooms can be occupied and boat is
moored to the back door knob. II
will be several weeks before the water
has soaked into the ground in that
backyard.
The greatest monetary loss in the
valley was probably sustained by the
Marathon Paper Mills Co. For days
1t had been rumored that apprehension
was felt that the big concrete dan