| Show AT CHIPPEWA FALLS I The Damage Done by the Flood Estimated Esti-mated at 1000000 1 CONFUSION mIIIN IVEnn1llEIU llTirli to Break tho lei Uorgd fly llcnng of lirnamlto Lu 11 illliif I MILWAUKEE Dec 2A ipeclal to the Lveulne Wlaoontln train Cbllpo na Falls Wla Says confusion reigns In Cblprewa Falls today Thoroughly alarmed people are making every iQjlt to leave I aa little for the lucomlcg waters to destroy aa they possibly canTo can-To hundred teams and dry have rushed hither and thither all day The street are littered with marchan dlae dlaeThe The water remained stationary until 3 oclok this morning and then began thing rapidly and Inside of four hours an additional lion of 18 Inches had been registered The river at ooloci la I 2 j feet high slid rising Business Is I abau limed auJ tile city la I In a state of tumuli Thouiandi ot people are anxiously walling In groups of arty or more excllluiily discresing the anna lion on every corner Anything la I tx lected and nothing may happen but the greatest danger Ilia In the probj tbauglng of The rivers course to throw It into the town The water CU ever cuL its Way under the fifteen fif-teen mite 01 Iou gorge formed III rho bed of the river Experts believe the gorge soon will become anchored to the bottom of the river lu tills came The river must flow cut around u Ha natural course lu this event lies directly I behind the town Three tbounand pounds ot dynamite arrived this morning and men have been exploding U at various point along the river It tallou to relieve the cltuatlon All the buildings on Illver street are today flooded to the becobd Glory and the Ice round them la doing serious damage to he atruc force The central depot II under three feet of water Anti will be carried away before night The Milwaukee freight depot la In a similar situation And Lou cool hd meet by are wracked A report reached belt this morning that toe gorge al Little Falls dent nileeii miles above the city bad broken away permuting 0 rub of water upon the town If this report Is authentic the entire town will be Inundated a < soon ns the water arrives Fifty of the large business firms have abandoned their sltuctutee nlll > ajr qAajdmv9ly resident made prepatallounto seek a place of barely In cue the worst occurs The damage already done to this city Rod the rich farming country above 11 la estimated at a million dollars A Special front Durand was The Ice gorge below the city has forced the water within four feet of the great flood In 1886 last night Ailing outlets ua overflowing ttreets HliouM the CUIpiOWB Fills gorge break Duraud will be In great danger aa the bluffs round the bill will hold tbe gorge there |
