Show RAIN AND ICE a I 1 11 1 I 1 A disastrous Dis astraus freshet do I 1 strays a town I 1 I 1 and miles of fences carried off by the floods 4 I 1 ICI IN THE STREETS I 1 I 1 I 1 iristeen ye t beigh looks like an im me ns a arcitio thrill ing except western asad to tun disastrous 0 OnIcA flo april G A special from mason 4 save tile greatest grea teat freshet ever knonk in this part of tile country was experience list night tile town of rock kalls on shell river it tiso most tito iron alridge fett long and tile dam are both gone and 1110 damage to there ill not all short of 2150 the VIII align U rot falls south of tile river wag in und itell houles and barns were crushed and sept away arid in some no mill tills of what was before a substantial tito house of mr cruikshank lit here lie lived with ilia wife and three child was crushed like an egg oliell t 1 e lar rilly having a narrow escape clio house in mrs anderson lived itis her fiva children was siept I 1 from its foundation and floated trees eliere it lodged tito woman and children escaping on the floating lee where they remained barefooted and ia their night clotha cloth a until day light when the water red d and their rescue wa the large bridge went out when the lee gorge wave way and portions of the 8 and stringers are now to be seen on the farm of joseph where they were borne bythe fl a tu below the dam and tub in g the best in tile state 0 no miles of fences were torn from land here file water was never known to reach before when ilia ater receded it left immense plies of iceon the t ailigh cakes three feet I 1 hick are piled up on one another ten to fifteen feet high arid will be there for weeks before they melt and will make the streets impassable it looks like an immense arctic acene with roofs of boasts protruding Ii rough ST PAUL april C abany bouges on tile flats at Alan kato are flooded up to tito middle betho and the riv r is still rising west mancato mankato is submerged three feet note of water I 1 mill cover the walkee waukee road tracks and all trains have been abandoned to nig I 1 it on account of the water lit tile vicinity of good thunder |