Show Thc Rivers Gorge BISJIABCK Dak March 19The Washington Washing-ton gorge has broken and the river is rising rapidly The gorge was below the city The ice carried everything with it and struck the immense warehouse of the Northern North-ern Pacific one of the largest in the world The workmen narrowly escaped drowning and in less than two hours from the time the gorge broke the water was in the second stories of the river boarding houses which had been built on what was considered consid-ered high ground The warehouse which is nearly 700 feet in length was moved bodily over thirty feet and sent crashing against the bluffs The loss on this building will be over 15000 The meadow land south of Bismarck comprising 6000 acres is now one vast sea and it is flowing over this nowly made channel at the rate of ten miles an hour The river at this point which is usually three quarters of a mile wide is now over six miles m width The Northern Pacific trains will hardly be able to cross the river for several days and Bismarok will probably be the western terminus for a week Superintendent Graham attempted to go to Mandan but the water on the west side of the river is flowing over the track four feet deep and the fire in the engine was putout put-out Mandan is submerged and the people in tho lower part of the city have been moving mov-ing into tho upper stories of their dwellings All the small dwellings on the bank of the stream have been swept away or destroyed and the steamboats lying at Rock Haven are in danger The high trestle of the Northern Pacific at this point has been damaged The new channel which the river has cut across the prairie let out the ice and the river is falling slowly but the worst has not come The ice went out at Ft Buford with a rise of thirty feet the highest ever known This flood will not reach here until Saturday Satur-day when there will probably be terrible destruction |