Show 3 The Floods > rOmaba 26fhe whole valley of tfie rl latto from Columbus to Fie ontis overflowed Thai i Uni > n Pacfi tracK is washed away at several points Chicago 27A dispatch to the Inter Ocean from Omaha Nb say the PUtto Vnll < y abut cevanty Eve miles west of here is the scene of the mot disastrous floods experienced in the hiltory of the Union Pacific tlailrond The Platte is abroad and shailiwstrpani Kicb enly overflows its banks and all its tributaries are now pouring vast volume of water and ice into it until it hall bcome rushing flood pouring out over the level prairies p f r miles on either side The freshet which has done the inot damage orcurrel yesterday when n immense ice gorge in the Lbup River which is a tributary of the PMte and let loose an accumulation ofw t ran r-an ice which tore out the Omaha Nio btara and Black Hills Railroad bridge this side of Lost Creek The water flooded the surrounding country and ftruck the main line of the Union Pacific washing out the trak and telegraph tele-graph poles between the Union Pacific bridge over the Loup and Columbtfr abQut a mile and a half The damage done will probaoly reach several hundred hun-dred thousand d liars and fears are entertained en-tertained of the loss of lite When news oftbe flood was received at the Union Pacific headquatters here warning were telegraphed to towns below on the PIette People took refuge on the roofs o Houses I Bat ns and fences were carried away and Eltthe stock drowned A 50000 wagon bridge at Columbus was washedaway The flood reached Schsyler at 6 oclock last J night and was a raging torrent at North Bend at 9 The telegraph polea at all these points are down limiting off communication so it is impossible to elate the loss of pr > pertv or whether any lives have ben lost The Uni n Pacific had just finished building a mile and a half of new track around the washout bt Fremont when the new disaster came Fears are felt for the Burlington and Missouri bridge at Oreo > Olis This afternoon the river began break ingup here and Cowds gathered on the banks to see bow it would affect the great iron bridge of the Union Pacific Railroad Th ice wont crashi g with fearful force against the iron piers which stood unshaken un-shaken and unhurt by its attack |