Show I The Missouri Flood llISURCR Dakota March 21 The Missouri river has risen a foot here today The speed of the current is terrific and the situation generally grows worse This rise is equal to twenty feet in the upper river the water hero being spread over six miles of the country Six inches of snow fell yesterday terday and this will add to the flood as soon as the weather grows warmer again The heroes of the day are the members of a rescuing party who went into the lowlands yesterday and saved the lives of seven persons per-sons who were perched on the tops of houses and in trees Dispatches from Fort Lincoln Lin-coln say that peoplo can bo seen standing on hay stacks and in trees and if not soon rescued will perish in the flood Many claim that the country opposite the Fort contained con-tained many inhabitants who are still in great danger The same reports come I i from Painted Woods The report is denied that Superintendent Graham of the Northern North-ern Pacific has been drowned He was telegraphed tele-graphed to come to Bismarck on Friday evening but failed to reach there The Sibley land gorge remains firm and if it so continues in a week jja permanent channel will be cut across the country two miles east of the old bed of the Missouri Hugo cakes of ice are coming down the river and landing on the meadows of the settlers It is impossible now to repair the Northern Pacific trestle on account of floating ice The terrific rapidity of the rise of the river at Painted Woods is indicated by the experience ex-perience of two families who saw the flood in the distance and attempted to pack up their household goods preparatory to moving mov-ing from the stream to some buttes Before these families were ready to start the water was within six feet of their houses There were five children in the party and before the buttes could be reached the floods over took them and the last part of the journey was made through three feet of water One of the children narrowly escaped drowning Another train load of Eastern passengers which arrived yesterday will be compelled to remain here until it is possible to cross the Missouri It is believed that tho Northern North-ern Pacific Company will be able to estab ish a transfer line of boats tomorrow ST PAUL March 21 = The Pioneer Press correspondent at Mandan telegraphs from Bismarck that tho report of the inundation of Mandan is utterly false No water has entered the streets from the Missouri or Heart rivers but anxiety prevails among the people of Mandau for the poor inhabitants in-habitants living on flats near Bismarck Business is going on as usual The only damage has been to the trestlework of the bridge and the track two miles east of Man dan A party will cross the submerged low lands tomorrow A Bismarck special to the St Paul Pioneer Pre ° s says The storm cleared away this morning but the river has risen slowly all day and is still rising an inch an hour laving passed the high water mark of the memorable flood of 1881 All of the lowlands are now inundated Dhe only houses flooded on the Bismarck side are a few squatters shacks Bismarck is forty feet above water Some 200 emigrants emi-grants on the westbound train are delayed here From the bluffs ono can see huge cakes of ice in the streets of Mandan and the water extends to near the InterOcean Hotel DREADFUL SCENES DREF MINNEAPOLIS March 21udge Francis of Dakota who left Bismarck Saturday and returned here this morning says the scenes in the flooded district defy description Ice cakes one hundred feet square are thrown high in the air when they strike obstacles The huge force of the current snapped cables holding warhouses to banks as though they were cotton threads Warehouses over GOO feet long were moved some distance and landed high and dry I the Missouri should now freeze up and the Yellowstone breakaway break-away and pour its ice against the ice in the Missouri the result at Mandan would bet be-t It seems strange to have that a place in full view only five miles away and yet less accessible to communication than London or Paris The destruction of property will be great Several tons of western mail have been brought back from Bismarck to be sent around via the Union Pacific |