Show LATEST TELEGRAMS THE FLOODS Omaha Council BIuGb aud Other Places Partly submerged Sub-merged Omaha Neb 9The Missouri River continued rising slowly all day and at 0 oclock this afternoon the water gauge showed twentyone feot and a half above low water mark having risen about one foot in twentyfour hours The flood is i now regarded at its height and it is expected the river will begin falling some time in the night dispatch from Ulain fifty miles north by river states that the river began falling slowly this afternoon A dispatch from Sioux City says the river fell there last night nineteen inches and is still falling fast It his fallen fifteen feet at Yankton but reports from their this morning say that the big gorge twenty miles below Yankton and reported to be fifty miles long has not gone out and that it may cause another immense im-mense local flood The river at this i point is six miles wide I It is now believed that the railroad I road shops will escape without serious II seri-ous damage The smelting works however will be considerably injured I in-jured but if they remain when the I water falls they con be put in good < I shape again Several other breaks occurred during the night and the I levee from the Union Pacific shop to the railroad bridge a distance of over one mile is under water Numerous Nu-merous freight cars loaded with I umber and coal and other heavy material are submerged almost entirely I en-tirely This morning the Willow I I springs distillery below the bridge I was shut down on account of being flooded Fifteen thousand thou-sand head of cattle which were being fed in the distillery sheds were removed with great difficulty to the stockyard The situation on the east side of the river at Council Bluffs and along the Union Pacific depot is fully as serious as it is at Omaha and perhaps more so About onehalf of Council Bluffs is underwater under-water to a depth of from one to tluee feet and many people have oeen compelled to leave their homes ind seek shelter in a higher part of town A broad and heavy stream coming in from the bend north of tho town is now flowing airough the place and runs down Broadway the principal busi hess street past the Pacific House The stream is said to be eighteen inches deep in the vicinity of the Pacifico House and the water is within six inches of the Ogden louse The stream running west ot the town flows past the west side of the Union Pacific transfer depot flooding the bridges over Spoon Lake and inundating the entire vicinity together with the Union stock yards and numerous residences and railroad buildings in the immediate imme-diate locality No eastern passengers or mail arrived in Omaha today The Union Pacific approach to the Missouri River bridge is flooded to such an extent at the lake just west of the tranfer depot that a transfer has to be made by boats and by shoving flat cars through the water over small bridges Omaha is cutoff cut-off in every direction except to the west Possibly trains may get into Council Bluffs tomorrow and also eave for the cast The Kansas City St Louis and Council Bluffs track from Council Bluffs to the Pacific Junction which is used also by the Chicago Burlington Burling-ton and Quincy and also temporar ily by the Baltimore and Missouri iu Nebraska is under water and washed so Ladly that trains cannot run over it It is expected to accommodate the < ibove roads with outlets tomorrow Several hundred freight cars at Council Bluffs are submerged St Joseph 9The Missouri River this point is seventeen feet six inches above low water mark An additional rise of several inches is reported which will reach here tomorrow to-morrow |