| Show The Ice Gorffo BISJIABOK March 25The water is rising again today The water in Washburn is ten feet above the high water mark of 1881 while here it is not up to that record The steamer Tompkins which was crushed in the ice near Bowie today was the property of the Evans Transportation Company and its ruin just as navigation is opening is a heavy loss The northern Pacific shops at Mandan are still flooded FERGUS FALLS Minn March 25rhe Red River rose rapidly last night and this morning was the highest ever known The cause of the rise is not known as the ice is still running solid The water is running over the banks and cutting a channel between be-tween Wrights beehive and cable tower i The men are at work protecting the dams E J Nelson head miller at the Park Mills had a narrow escape from drowning while opening the flushgate on Cntterburg He was carried part the way over but was seized before he went under the ice BED FALLS Minn March 25An immense im-mense ice gorge a mile wide and nine miles long is coming this way It is sixteen miles westward on the Eedwood river |
