The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1929-06-10
WIbAlx LAUNCHES RECONSTRUCTION WORK
TWO KIDDIES LOSE FATHER AS
LIOUORLESS AUTO IS SHOT UP
Flood Sidelights

More than 800 men are working day
and night to repair washout damage
to right-of-way and restore four
bridges swept away on the Northern
Pacific railway.
Because of the shortage of gravel.
ten carloads Of coal we're dumped In
the Beach yards for use as ballast.
The tracks were undermined from six
inches to three feet in places.
Wibaux residents are still numbed
by the disaster. Merchants stood
among the mud-covered stocks In
their stores in hopeless attitudes.
Three inches Of mud blankcted every
thing.
Malt, ordinarily selling for IS cents
per bottle, cost IS cents III Wibaux, a
memcnto of the pre-volstead era.
Steel rails in the Beach yards
looked like serpentine while box and
flat cars we're turned topsy-turvy.
One Wibaux resident was seen
building a new garage with lumber
which had been washed into his yard
The click of cameras We'd With the
clank of shovels. Both were III great
demand.
Members of the Glendive Red Cross
unit were busy tacking up Drink
Only City or Boiled Water Avoid
Typhoid" placards OH buildings, boxes
and even baby buggy.
Boulders, the size Of cocoanuts. used
as ballast on the N. p. right way
were strewn over an area Of two
acres near Beach. The North Dakota
highway commission had Its graveline
done free of charge in that spot.
Eighteen ton concrete slab bridge
supports were tossed about creek bot
toms as carelessly as poker players
royal flush.
The steel highway bridge, spanning
Beaver creek In Wibaux. was tossed
100 yards down the stream.
One pile of refuse on one Of Wi.
baux's Main Street corners had ar
automobile. two telephone poles,
grain separator. mattress, three
cane-bottomed chairs. several bales oi
hay, and a Holy Bible with the first
page of Genesis exposed.
"Dry cleaning and pressing" Thi.
legend, in flaming colors, was painted
on a canvas sign on the rear end ol
an auto that chugged up and dowr
the canals"
It might have been Sunday to The
rest of the world but it was just an.
other Monday to Wibaux housewives
Every clothes line in the city was bur.
dened with washing.
Hundreds of tourists parked In then
cars eating picnic lunches while
scores of Wibaux residents were going
hungry.
Thompson. the aged man who wa;
drowned in his bed in livery stable
was only Is feet from safety. That
was the distance between his bed anc
a high bank outside Of the building
on which he would have been safe
from the flood that engulfed him.
A farm woman was runored tt
have given birth to baby boy ator
a barn.
The only access to Wibaux from thu
east was series of 10-inch planks
laid end to end. across the sagginG
suspended ties of the railway bridge
The ties hung like sticks lashed to.
gether with steel wire Is feet above
! the surface of Beaver Greek.
Very little damage was done tx
highways. Small washouts, a few
loosened crowns, guard posts, and les
than q score of mudholes were to b.
found between Medora and Wibaux
| One Of the few buildings to escap'
damage on Wihaux's main street wa
the First National Bank. Built abov'
the street level, all records and vault
escaped water damage.
The interior of the Dunham Lum
Der company's yard looked like heal
OF dead matches in an ash tray.
An automobile block signal tower o.
the N. p. right-of-way, just east 0
Beach. was picked off its concret
foundation and carried IS yards dow
q gully.
100000 and more! That is con
servative estimate Of the damage t
physical property alone Of the North
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