Show THE FLOODS Terrible Scenes Near Bismarck Bis-marck and Maridan THE INUNDATION COMPLETE O ily Lire Miles Away Yet Less Accessible to Communication Than London or Paris The Missouri River Floods BISMARCK Dak March 20The Missouri Mis-souri River has risen a foot here today to-day The speed of the current is terrific 1 ter-rific and the situation generally growS worC This rise is equal to twenty feet in the upper river the water here I being spread over sixmiles of country Six inches of snow fell here yesterday and this will add to the flood as soon as the weather grows warmer again The heroes of the day are members of the rescuing party whd went into the lowlands low-lands yesterday and saved the lives of seven persons who were perched on the tops of houses and trees Dispatches from Fort Lincoln say people can be seen standing on Laystacks and trees and if not soon rescued they will perish In the floods Many claim that the country opposite the fort contained many inhabitants who are still in great dancer The same reports come from Painted Woods The report is denied that Superintendent Graham of the Northern Pacific has been drowned He telegraphed that he would come to Bismarck Bis-marck on Friday evening but failed The Sibley Island gorge remains firm and if the present state continues a week a permanent channel will be cut across the country two miles east of the old bed of the Missouri Huge cakes of ice are coming down the river and landing on the meadow land of settlers It is impossible im-possible now to repair the Northern Pacific trestle account of flowing ice The terrific rapidity of the rise of the river at Painted Woods is indicated by the experience of two families who saw the flood in the distance dis-tance and attempted to pack off household house-hold goods preparatory to moving back from the stream to the buttes The houses floated on the highest point of lowlands Before the families were ready to start the water was within six feet of their houses There were five children in the party and before the Ill te could be reached the floods overtook reache1 took tueui and the last part of the anddthtehro j > K y was made through three ftet of BIU One of the children narrowly e ru pd drowning Another trmii load cf e > tern passengers which arrived he re tiny will compelled to remain litre until it 13 possible to cross tho Missouri Mis-souri It is believed the Northern Pacific Company will be able to establish a transfer line of boats tomorrow to-morrow ST PAUL March 20A Bisnfarck special to the Pioneer Press The storm cleared away this morning but the river has risen slowly all day and is still rising tonight an inch an hour having passed the high water mark of mnrf the memorable flood of 1881 All lowlands low-lands are now inundated The only houses Hooded on the Bismarck side area few squatters shocks Bismarck > forty feet above the water Some 20 emigrants west bound are delayed here From the bluffs one can see hug cakes of ice in the streets of Mandan and the water extends to near the InterOcean Hotel The only method of communication between he towns is via Cheyenne and Ogden The Boston syndicate property including in-cluding a flouring mill and some fifty residences elevator shops and every thing south of the track is submerged upper Heart River has not yet broken Loose ice began running again this morning w The indications are that the felt Fort Buford An rise is beginning to be All boats are still safe as is the Northern Pacific warehouse the river being 80 ride that the ice no longer crowds them s < Superintendent Odell re ceives telegrams from the western divi smn ot the road via St i trWn PaUl that from trains nre through to Mandan Portland no other being out One of the boats here will steam up as Soon IUI the ice used stops running and be as a passenger transfer blINEAlOLIS March 20 Judge Francis of Dakota who left Bismarck on Saturday and returned here this morning SnindthheToodhed distrIct says the scenes in the flooded hundred defy description ICI cakes 8 feet square are thrown high in Time the huge an when force they of the strike current an obstacle the threads the bank cables A as holding though the they warehouses were snapped cotton to warehouse long Was over 600 feet moved Borne distance and Should Sanded high and dry If the Missouri break now freeze up and Yellowstone away and pour its ice against the Iceiu the Missouri dau the result at Man would be to terrible It seems tobave that strange place in lilies full view only live away aid communication yet less accessible to Time destruction than London or Paris great Several of property will be are been tons of western mail to be sent aroufld brought back from Bismarck ST PAUL aroUtJd via the Union Pacific paCific March 21From Northern officials learned that ail tbs morning it is ce e1rrts to dIslodge the gorge above utile The Mandan have been iVeepjng over water is increasing and a ar though how larger than yest r 4 Ie ely a much damage is done taphl matter of conjecture Tele p cut off communication from Mandan Offcornpeteiy S get news CompieMy so it is impossible direct tCific j The Northern tidge is is not rt endangered as re it Pt L March esPcdenL 20 The Pioneer Puss o1 at andan B13ml telegraphs ck that ij the t r1ef Iflammdan reported inun an is ras Utterly false No SmOiri or entered Heart the streets from the Rivers but > 15 anxiety SWung ti ittit inhnh people of Mandan Poor itt1 B inhabitants 5BSrck Hvin tuSmarck I S living on flats b t he oVi Business is going on as Cre I ig Work damage has been tomorrow hIt tVO miles of a bridge and the cast of Mandan A cross ½ the Submerged lowlands morrow POTLAND Ogn 20The Northern Pacific line is prostrated and the only news we have today is a dispatch from ChasS Fee General Passenger Agent of the Northern Pacific to the agency here that the company expected to be able to make transfers across the river on Tuesday or Wednesday The message mes-sage came via San 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