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Show FLOODS IN SOUTH DAKOTA. Two Lives Lost and Much Property Damaged by Heavy Rainfall. As a result of a heavy rainfall throughout tho Dlack Hills, which hns continued for nenrly n week, White-wood, White-wood, Deadwood nnd City creeks, passing within tho city limits of Dead-wood, Dead-wood, S. D, havo loft their banks, cnrrylng nwny a number of houses, burns, sldowalks and lumber yards, Tho Wnito building, ono of tho most substantial in tho city, wns partlnlly wrecked nnd tho city hall bndly dnm-aged. dnm-aged. Ono largo brldgo wns enrried away. Two lives aro known to havo been lost, Matthew Uendor, a young man of Central City, who was diownod In an attempt to savo property, prop-erty, and Guy Shoudy, a fanner, near Sturgis. It Is estimated that tho propel ty loss in Deadwocd and other Pluck Hills cities and to railroads "will exceed half a million dollars. |