The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1913-03-20
BLACK RIVER FALLS
AT MERCY OF FLOOD
JACKSON COUNTY TOWN EN-
DANGERED WHEN SPRING
FRESHET STRIKES DAM.
OTHER CITIES ARE DAMAGED
Fond du Lac. Sheboygan and la
Crosse Sustain Losses When Ice
Melts - Railroad Lines Are TieC
Up.

Black River Falls.--Five minutes
after the spring floods hit the new
dam and fainter gates at this city
the ice and water began backing up
| fire of the eight gates were useless
| and the water poured through IN a
menacing flood. The disaster put the
| lighting plant of the city, which was
| turned on on Christmas day, tempo
rarily out of commission. Soon aft
! er the gates went out the tempera-
ture began to fall, and this is all that
| saved the city from a serious flood,
| for the water fell with the tempera-
ture and everything is again safe I'M
| til the warm weather.
la Crosse River Rampages.
La Crosse. the greatest
height in its history the La Crosse
river caused the collapse of Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road bridge in the heart Of the city.
| The structure spanned the stream
close to the point where the river
empties into the Mississippi and was
weakened by an ice jam, which form
| ed above the bridge. For time
mail cars were sent over the bridge
but 1t finally sunk and the line to the
main depot was rendered useless.
Passengers were transferred to and
from incoming trains in carriages.
Twenty-Five families were rescued
| from their flooded homes in North
| La Crosse at midnight when the La
| Crosse river spread over the flats.
| The refugees were taken from the
flooded portion of the city in boats.
| The bottoms dividing the north and
south sides of the city were covered
with water.
Three railways. the kickapOo Val
| ley, the La Crosse and Southeastern
and the Green Bay and Western have
been tied up by numerous washouts.
The Northwestern trains are running
regularly, all washouts having been
repaired, but engineers have slow or
ders on account of weakened tracks.
All ABOUT the country schools are
suspended because of teachers and
| pupils being unable to reach them.
Independence. Blair, Arcadia.
! Whitehall and other towns along
| Arcadia and Whitehall towns along
the Trempealeau river valley, suffer
ed severe food conditions as a re-
suit OF heavy rains and the melting
OF snow in the hills Arcadia suffer
ed the heaviest, according to reports.
| hn " a m n ~, m mil
dam, three miles above the city, was
carried out by the fresbet The part
of the town along the river bank, in
GLIDING the Independence Telephone
building, was under two feet of wa
ter dam at Elk Creek, above In
dependence, went out, flooding that
village and the Waumanbee mill dam
across the line into Buffalo county,
was also carried away. Farmers in
the Trempealeau valley are driving
their stock into the hills. A train
on the Green Bay and Western road
was wrecked three miles west OF
Whitehall by washout. No one was
hurt in the wreck
Flood at Fond du Lac.
Fond du Lac.--Damage to the
amount of several hundred dollars
resulted from food caused by the
breaking of the dam on the Fond du
Lac river at Eldorado. Stocks of
merchandise in Easements constitut-
ed the principal loss. The loss In
abe county outside OF the city of
Fond du Lac will total about $1,000.
the principal item of which is the
break in the Eldorado dam. Great
ly exaggerated reports of the food
situation here were sent out.
Damage at Sheboygan.
Sheboygan.--The water of She
boygan river has lowered consider
ably and all OF the ice has gone out.
The factories in the Eats resumed op-
erations after being closed one day
owing TO floors being under water.
The storm and ice rush caused
thousands OF dollars damage. Many
lives were endangered by the food
and hurricane attaining velocity
of seventy miles an hour.
Several large factories were flood
ed and compelled 10 shut down. The
damage was estimated all the way
from $4,000 to 10000