The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1923-06-28
RAINS SWELL RIVERS
PUT HIGHWAYS BAD
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: and the weather continues cloudy at
the time this is written, with excel
lent prospects Of more rain. No bad
effects on crops from excessive mois-
ture have been heard of and some
farmers say 'let it come, we're not
yet ready to cry enough"
Scenes Described
Local conditions are in great CON
trast to those that beset the unfor-
tunate farmers in the Milk River val
ley. Passengers who came through
by train say that some of the scenes
they witnessed are pitiful-farm
buildings and hay stacks with only
the upper portions showing above
the food and some places the car
casses of drowned livestock were
seen. At one place a farmer was
doing his utmost to rescue a COW
mired in the mud with only her head
above water. The farmers wife was
in charge of a team on a little island
some fifty yards from the mired ami
NAL while the farmer was wading
nearly to his neck in an effort to at
tach a rope and snake bossy out of
her predicament. 1t is impossible
even to guess at the extent of the
damage to property and crops. It
is said to be the worst flood that has
occurred in that valley since 1912.
Report From Glasgow
Special to Great Falls Tribune
G1on.a- T-,,o Or Tla M.1l- -
is out of its banks and the entire
valley is under water excepting a
few high places. The river invaded
a part of the south side of Glasgow
coming up as far as Fifth avenue
south and numerous residences are
surrounded. Ranchers in the valley
were forced to move and remove
their livestock.
Nearly three inches of rain brought
a fresh volume of water to the already
swollen stream and brought the wat
er over its banks.
Rescue Mother and Child
Mrs. F. Rhode on Cherry creek and
her nine-months-old baby were iso-
lated by flood water and were rescued
by boat.
During the heavy rain the sewers
were unable to carry off the heavy
flow of water, causing it to back IN
and fill easements. The basement of
the Milk River Valley Bank, occu-
pied by the Glasgow Democrat, was
flooded, owing to the failure of the
sewer shutoff to operate. Printing
stock, type and electric motors were
removed before the water reached
them, but the linotypes and presses
are partly submerged. The basement
of the Rumble building had four feet
of water but stocks were removed
before much damage was done. The
Glasgow Courier had several thous-
and dollars worth Of typewriters and
supplies in the basement but was able
to remove nearly all of it before
any damage was done. The base
ment of the Cash Grocery and Glas-
gov Meat Market were partly filed
without doing much damage. Ten
ants of the Jansen apartment suffer
ed considerable damage when the
basement containing the storage lock-
ers was flooded.
Tourist Park a Lake
At daylight the city put a force
of men at work and all manholes
and street drains were plugged, en-
the sewer pumping station to
carry off the flow of the sewer and
drain the Easements and keep them
dry. The tourist park is a lake, the
water being five feet deep and com !
ing over the floor of the cook house. |
Tourists who were stopping here and +
were held up here on account of i'm
passable roads were forced to seek
ground. The Deaconess hos |
pital has water on all sides of its
grounds but is Inconvenience only /
a little by it. The highway west of
Glasgow is under three feet of water.
The rainfall of 2.81 inches in a
of eight hours was the heaviest /
in the history of the local weather
bureau, according to Observer Elmer
Hall, a total of TAG inches of rain
having fallen here since the first of
June.