The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-03-31
Minnesota Is 0verreaChing On
The Low Spots
RISING ALL The WHILE
Points in SibIey Park Threaten
ed With inundation; News
From Towns Above
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
Considerable concern was felt today |
| by those owning property in low
places on both sizes of the Mime |
sofa river over the unusual height of
| the stream, and the possibility of a |
flood.
The North Star Concrete works was
running at less than full capacity to- |
day, owing to the lack of steam. The |
| high water was causing water to ooze
up through the floor into the engine
room. This put the steam plant out
of commission, though some of the
tile manufacturing still went on. When
the weather gets fairly warm, the
tile can be finished without steam.
The tile yard today was partly flooded.
| Water Under Railroad Bridge.
The river today was backing in I'M
der the railroad bridge on A street,
| in the Minnesota street district. There
are houses along A street there, but
these were about two feet above dan
ger this morning. However, the riv-
er seemed to be steadily rising.
| The river today was reported to
be backing up into Mud lake on the
North Mankato side. The lake was
quite high this morning. The water
had almost reached the Weber ice
house, but there was no damage just
yet.
Another place where the people
have felt great deal of apprehen-
sion is the foot of Owatonna street
| in West Mankato. Here some of the
cellars were found yesterday to have
water in them. The cow-shed of Err
uyho
bank, was flooded yesterday and could
mot be used.
! Threatens Deer Park.
Clarence Staley, superintendent OF
Sibley park, stated this morning that
the Blue Earth river was so high that
one more foot would bring the water
over the bank and into the deer park.
Mr.. Staley had figures to show
that the water had risen two feet in
the Minnesota river at Sibley park
since Saturday morning. Taking the
low water mark as zero, the height of
the river on Saturday morning at
eight o'clock was fourteen feet four
inches. Sunday morning at eight
|o'clock it was fourteen feet nine
inches. Monday morning at eight
lo'clcck it was sixteen feet four inches.
AL nineteen l06I Ie Sdlu IuG
sofa street district would be pretty
we'll flooded. The highest record he
had was twenty-five feet, which the
river reached in 1908.
Reports from towns west and
northwest on the Minnesota are to
1.-The effect that the water is rising
Heavily. At New Ulm it was stated
that the water was rising at the rate
of one and one-half inches every
hour. The water had risen to such
"a height as to interfere with the OPP
Ieration of the Eagle mill and it was
believed that the plant would have
20 be shut down until the river low
cred.
Many Exaggerated Stories.
/ Many exaggerated and highly SEN
| sational rumors have been floating
in the air about the condition of the
dam at Rapidan. There is nothing
the matter with the dam. There is
not break anywhere in the struc-
ture and there is no danger of any
disaster The gates are being OPP
Grated daily without hitch. The
water in the Blue Earth river is
lowering At Blue Earth city, forty
miles away the water had lowered
three or four inches in the past
twenty -four hours, and the water in
the lake at the dam is going down.
Manager r. E. Brown of the Con-
sumers Power company stated today
that there was no danger of break
in the dam. He said that at about
one o'clock this morning he was
awakened by a telephone call. A
woman on the other end of the line
said that a boy had reported that
there was big break in the dam
and the water was rushing through
the opening at a rapid rate. She
could not give the name of the
youth. The report was absolutely
false.
The opening of the A street bridge
is being damed up, so as to keep the
water from oVerflowing the Poplar
street district.
Floods in Wisconsin.
UNITED Press Dispatch.]
South Wayne, Wis, March 81
Deaths that have occurred from the
raging floods in Southern Wisconsin
and Northern Illinois now reach to-
tai of four, as far as reported. 1t is
/ thought that there will be as many as
| ten, when the full list is at hand.
Galena, H., March 27.-Heavy floods
in Northern Illinois and Southwestern
! Wisconsin have caused the loss of
several lives and great property DAM
age. Whole sections of farm land
have been laid waste, and the build
ings and other property carried off by
the river here, which is now broad
torrent. Several are reported to have
been drowned by the washing away Of
bridges. One man is said to have
been tranfpled to death here by fee
ing crowd.
Freeport, ILL.,, March 27.-The town
of Winslow, ILL.,, near this city, is re-
ported to have been almost complete
cotton dresses, linens, Palm Beach
SHIFTS and summer ready to wear gar