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Show I , -i I GREAT FALLS, MONT. ; I '- (Special Correspondence.) After two weeks without a train coming to the city, traffic is again open into Great Falls, and delayed mail is piling into the postoffice by the ton. The Missouri river was higher than at any time in the history of the city. Ranchers living above the city were greatly damaged, and many of them were kept in trees for hours by the high water before being rescued in boats. William Dick, a rancher, ami his wife were compelled to stand by and see their two children drown by the overturning over-turning of a boat in which they were being taken across one of their own fields, which was about twelve feet under un-der water. There was also a great deal of damage dam-age done to the power house of the Boston & Montana smelter, and as a result work there will not be resumed for several months. The marriage of Miss Alice Phelan and Mr. Leo C. Milled occurred at St. Ann's parsonage on Tuesday of last week. ' Mrs. Simms, our agent, who has been delayed here by the recent flood, expects ex-pects to leave In a few days for Belt and Lewistown. Rev. Dr. Kokenge. S. J.. is holding a mission this week in Belt. Rev. Father Kompatich has just finished fin-ished giving a mission for the benefit of the Croatian congregation of Grea.t Falls. Bishop Lenihan. who is making a tour of the diocese, has not returned yet. |