Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 27, 1881, Page 7

WATERY DESOLATION, Description of the Doy- fon AL and Near Ver- millon, Dakota. AR S o3, Barns, Fences, and Trees B mpltaly Obliterated by " the Flood, (raphic astal fiot a Trace Left of the Village of Green Island, Opposit Yankton. The pissouri, Rises Another Foob nb Leavenworth, Kansns. ¥ ey & The River at St, Louls Almost Up to the I?anger_ Line. ==L = Many Acres of Land Below and Above the City Now In- undated. A Further Riso Will Force Boats to Tie to the Doorsteps of Houses, - Pl West 8t Panl Entirely Undor Water and Much Damnge Belug Done. ¢ Poople Bemoving Thelr Honachold Goods in Many Localities in -Antiolpa~ tion of Trouble, d VERMILLION, DAK. Bpecial Digvateh to The Chicago Tridtine VEnMiLLION, Dak., April 20.—£ dato- this from s rulned littlo elty, which our stanch boat has sached after n continucd and carndst fixht agalnst a current mover bqualed on this river. Sloux City 18 distant but saveiity miles by water and teirty-five by land, and "we loft thero at 2 p. 10, Wednesday. Not a river, but an inland son, pas been traversed. A segond rise, nlmost equal inyolumo to tho one of threo wooks aga, has come down from above, add farms and houses arougnin at tho mierey of the waters. Thovo is nollouting §ce, however, ana tho damnge by 1bls second disnster- will -not be so mreat. - Tho calumity has been no whit exaggorated, and it {s piffable to wiincss tho detnlls of adostruction of which the prgregato must bo cnormous, Let it bedmpressed upon all minds that the country betweon Bloux Clty and Yankton s ns thickly sottied, and with 8 woll-to-do, respeotablo, in- dustrious people, a8 atmast any portion of Min- pesota or Wisconsln, - Tha farms are rarely larger than 160 acres, and when thoy are a.corro- spondiogly larger muimber - of peopla aru do- pandeat theroupon, Thele dwollings and onte bulldings are, or rather wore, substantlal, large, and oxpensive, maay of tho formor bolng orsamental, and tho Inrge graves of troes around proving that tho rosidonts nro, lndcod, old settlers, 8lnco all tho timber 18 hand planted. Over thoso fortile ficlds . ind comply, honios, tho result ot years of hardship and toil, rushed the utbless river in Its domon-iike undoing, and years henco the frultage of ita ovil wiil show traces, For somo tnllos abovo Bloux City little damazo was dono excopt to.isolated . dwoellors along tho banks, who bad littlo to lose, aud, losing that, could reach - a. place of ald - and - comfort”- without “'risk’ ‘to life or llmb, Nour the-mouth of.the Bix Bloux River, howover, on elther hand, appearod bouses surrounded with water, with the few ro- ‘maining eattlo or horaes ‘porched wofully on top of somo stack or manure plle. Thera woro no #igas of human. lifo visible in mnst of thess bomes. Dut from a fow, mon waded through niud and water, a8 near tho bank proper as thoy dared to, to gazo At tho first boat up. Where aslight Tise of ground kept'the ‘encroachiug waters back, we coulil Res higo siices of corn and wheat flolds tumbling hendlang Into tho ourrent, teresdisappoaring Rlmost as we looked, mnd homesteads shorn of proportions thalr -ownars deemed 08 lnstiog s the oternal,, hilla- Of' tho facesut all was the oxpresslon now rocognized a$almost unlversal, that of hopelessexpootancy, asorry walting for the now wo which snon thould tread upon’ the formor's hools, They Viowed the rising of the now flood .llstlosly, aud moved and apoko as If lifo.bad no favors left, To shouted luquirios whothor they wera in {muecdinte nued of food of * clothes they gave , megntivo shakes .of . the hend, and scomed., sourcd and - sullan, ue well thoy might be. Evon our slow progress covered ut last tho few miles to tho fortila bote tom known ns tho Fronth Sottlemont, tho most {li-fated over Ioonton was. Jotfersan, n protiy louking \‘Illusi , 18 the nuclous of thia old und densely-penpled part ot ‘Unlon Couuty." Lust 1all small- pux broko out thoroin and theroabouts wilh suob violonce thut u rigid tinnrnnllnn Sguinst tho whole scotlon was cstublished, and for four months tralns on the Dakota Southorn hurricd through the pluguosinfootedl roslon Bt Luilepeed, Then came thoenow blookadesund tlio dclnru In tho streots of Joffergon watorstood to the depth bf five nud alx fear, and the villagors Xere resgued by partics:.who cume, out from Bloux City in yuwls for the purposo, “OF colrdo, thofarns nround sulfored equally, ad As wo passed muny houses could bo seen rising like Arks from n wuste of waters, Nowr the bank wo Mirted was the dwelling of a farmor named Thomas Colllus, i prosperous man once, Ho fi"‘ s fumlly wore living in _the u‘l‘mr story of s houso, and have .Leon, for. thruo woeks, Bueh' of'Uhis alook 08 escuped aro on top of. broad straw-stnck. in [y the barnyard, whilo round About -uro oribs and ¥ralnarioa contululng thousands of bushels of mfn.whn.u and oats almust &r.mn ontliuly. wuined. Colitns lntends to abandon RS farin for 10ls yenr und Jivo iy Bious City. :‘Ilnuer nnped Quinn was elgbt days ulons in it water-cireled hoino, d when teacued his nflx‘; m;ll twet wetosa badly frozon 1hat ninpus i 3 oy wh“g ubly be weocssury, T Not faroff o ‘o unders n_ witors rouch those bottoms und bow thoy overllow thens, plature a_ riyer made .xlé of 4 succeasion af - Bnrp - curves, with oo tido (Nobruskny garded by bigh blulfs, Tho g nully hixh ‘wator, finding ho outlet on the h"g-nnofl 8ido, forcos its wuy ovor $ho low “" s, Whilo through the Isthmusos it guts broud, 1n"’iu sud over-widenlng chunncls, Thus, mu - plices, Ba tar oyo could ~ the a with Mt patgnes ot ;lll!nu up. Fill this water with weighty loo and X »: thu wholo & veloity of m\gxu or eigbt wlies 0ur and you onn [maging tho scenc. Tt il )| was and Is, huwaver, 1ho ligures of ey In the -Frouck - Boitlement, Civil o bs and ctmumiuul localities wiil Coiver? jEnermoun, 1&““ dor Hu, %e-. Re- Yahinolf, the Unltod Stuics Land-Office ut Yo, Whodo homo féat Elk Polut, and who inhironiluont citizon, cstimntes the total luss l’l&lnul rovorty in Union Cosnty nt hn\“ shllcl“llluml are wortly of welght, 4 a8 Bupbrvisor of the lust census, and knows 'muuaumr&» thoroughly. Elk Point Ison high vem" hand sufforod very little, thuukh thero bYA l;luuy nuxivus days and wights therd, Whnorpuvhes Was ano of the loaders W b :klm(u'l! volief purtles with Elk Polut for l:ro\q‘ ¥, Bkilly were bustily butlt, ana with 3 8ent out fn nvurr dircotion, suving. huns diodwotlives, "hoyuglon of most ugyravited any T eommenoed above Kk Point, and toere Tace) mora tne buzurds durod unil tugors "Mn. iko by roscuers aud rosoued. ‘Tho ing, ol'nfll scction was of nioro suddon vom- ciy eV to the formation of the bugo foe- Bighe “p ik etituo n buge waves six fool ar mara wirigh 'cople sicepluy peacetuily woro rousod :unl uf tund uction by the dunfentiyg clush of uvml‘rw dushed ugalust thelr houses, and deyy thay oI H0Ir Leds fnfo water alroudy su that husto ! ¥ Bory i€ thore way o neodful to reach the upper or - glig, lhaltu:-"w'nlxm root If thore was not, e u . burn ot . stuul O groatee bight than tho dwelling, {Vn\'u Buegeeded wave, H Wuve, nud frames wero orusbied in, Jg:ficrm»_\mmud und bent, und roofs uplifted, chite ruin ook iho pluce of opderly TrunLDG fyfolnE Chililren wero sunteacdup by iors wid goreechiug mothers, 4nd tho o Hiuugot wi oty o, 4 'lm'm-d'hn]r_[n:lz|‘lfllLl1- talt.clad, bulf- . w04 iebally destitute, mun Whieh §u% uud blgnth exposed 1o o twmp Crutut Seviry) 00 tho chucked wator tow thi ios of Ot wyiCBCS. A fow instances will {nierost. awakepnan loft alouo with ber young cbild. was , bowse, L,;.‘uhy the cenablog i of one ond of hoe oty aad® :c'l::n‘fi::u:ga nlur'mm tho sacnud 510 through the roaf - with hor pa S o : A Yered on'\uo ridge 'OF it Toot Wit herlatagt, and thoro remaloed for untll holp ca Qno womnan was contined dirlng the commeneas mong of the llood, ana as the waters roso her bed was rupsed until 1t finally wna placed ©0u boarda lald_nerosa tho uppermost raftors in the npex of tho houso, Thera ahe remnined nine duys, nnd now sha und the child nro doing woll, Two nld ladles left nlune found tholr honsg gradunlly leaning to its fall, and rushing ont into the uight " through water nbovo their waiats gained sufoty in the top of thoir barn nour by, thero romnining for mors thith i week, Little children, with nnught to cover thom suve tho scauticat night attire, withstond oxposiire that would make n strong man shil- der: to fmoging, aud are to-day il oll save muniry feost-bitten .mewnbors, Ail these havo been resoned, too, These poor +people hava such neeomndutions unly nan eruus peaple, thomeclves little less than destl tuto, could giva thom. Parniiel with, and avon exceedlig tha cudurance manifestad by tha peopio, {8 thut shown by mans, amall hords of Stack, It seoms nimost Incrediblo, but, 18sp el Youched fur that 1 eannot refuse it credenee, that thore wore niany (nstances of cattieand harsea llving full fourtoen days withuut. food, Atanding In wator throo and four feet deep, and standing still bocausa thn surfaco of the witer was - frozen to the dopth of savoral _fuches, and {imprisonod them as {u aviss, Numerous anlmuls fioated for tniles on cakas of oo, and when tholr siip pary eafts stood atiil clambored oveor birrleados and ridies of tho gorges and déhris wntil thoy ronched high wrounid and safety, Those, une fortunately, nre. fsolated” instanoes, Tho bulk of the stock 18 dend. Lonking out 0w aross tho turgid torrout 1 cau sco the curcagses “fu_plonty float prst, miogled with the itiful totsamand jetanin of deéspoliedbomos and oimestends—chni¢s, tabies, beds, bread-troughs, ‘wagan-hoxcs, bay-ricks, window-onsinga and frames, doors, and all - the countless flont- ablo portables clvilization deutdnds, 6 spirlt of the fload fs mamfost even hero, &nd tho woard-hwk whose ranch 18 a ruin, and wuusuonlynulvugolu his skilf, may be_soot in mid-changl, with drag-rope ond pulling to shoro of nu anblu use to hlm. factors, both of dangor and of suloty, tho fce, which formed as soon na' flgrecncss of tho current was checked by the gorges, Of mafety, because, aver its surfuce, Minny wers ablo 10 roaciehigher graund and moro cotnplete sholtor, though it trencherousiy vo Wiy it times, and pno or two of tho lives st wore duo . to tho falth J!ut in s firmness y . tho losors, it dauger, sinee It delnyed tho reseners budly, Traversing It in tnany devious ways were deep awollen curronts to 'bo crossed by boats, and ovar tho Intervening spiaces bourds had to Lo Inld, tho fca not belng strong enough to bear the welght of more than two people ut u thme, and tho boots d"xf“" by hund, Ever nnd agaln hugo barrleados of “thirty feet or more In hight mude up of fce, and fogs, and tud, had to b crossud by tho gallunt bolvors, Whoso hopes and labors, however, wero suro to redoh amplo frultion in tho humsn falvage rescucd from lingoring doath. No Supoy-hunted pris- oners over welvomed mora " Juyfully - tifo aound of the pibroch -or tho sight of tho tartan, No shipwrecked seamen over hafled with more delight the gleam of & coming sall than did those ico-strunded destitutes tho an- nounciug cheers of the brave follows who ‘snntched thomn from the very Juws of douth by starvation and oxposure. The yroves plantcd round tho homes for comfort proved of utility n8 great, and in many cusos served ns fenders whiuh the fee could “net overcome. But sumu idea of tho momontum of ‘tho frozen INARIES mn{ yot bo gained by the observer froin tho stute” of tho trces wherg gorges were greit- est, I saw stumps from which trunks two feet or more ‘in l;rlnlx had been rivon ue If with dynamite, while monarehs of tho forest, three foct in dinmicter, were litor- ally: torn up I‘?' the (roots and thelr brinches crushe to ;&)lmtcm by tho giant forcos ot tho flood. On tho flanks of tho ico-flocs wholo tleys™ of trunks waere bent to an angle of forty-tivo degrces and the bark stripped off ns'cloan s If u myrind of beavers had boen at worl., Southeast of Vor- milion the Missour] anukoes a buge bend fiftoan articlt miles fn jength, rnd un lsthmus nbout boif a wmllg long connects the promontory thus mudo with tho main land,- Over this Isthinus tho wators, sceking vent frow tho finprisonment. of tha L in tho main chunnel, rugnod, no £oon a liasuro forined by the tido was' widenud and deoponed, untit now it {sthe main bed of tho river, nnd when tho prosout rlse subsides tho old bed will be foft high nnd dryv. This Isthmus wud covored with ino farms, aud on it stood severnt bulldings which now nro memorles only. On one alde are muny sottlors who, with tho river forming tho boundary line, aro now . residonts of Dakota, 'wo woeks ngo they ! wero 1 part of the Commonwenith of Nebruski, Cibse to the bunk’ stands the pretty cottago of Mr. Nelson, ono o tho ‘wenlthiest roaldunts in all this region. His guudly neres have -been shorn a8 by an avalanche, und in tho wreck went down_hundreds of head of stock and many dollare’ worth of property holonging to him and his neighbors. The fito of Vermillun, a spright- 1y, busy, thriving little city of 900 inhnbitunts, is fndeed 'pitiable, 18 glory hua depurted, and hufgo slabs of sullen fco, “looking lika siliny turtles of prebistorlo dimen- slons, usurp {ts strocts and cover @ majority of its bulldings. The Vermition River coriies In ubove the town, and ndds its crucl furcos to the onslaught of tho grent artery. * the, 10 houses fn tho lower town, are utterly wreoked, Printlss & Newtor »glnd‘» | o Husiiuss HTobic Wia K" fnjured nd’ to bo worthleas, and 'tho “inrke brick “swro of Leo & Prontiss threatons evory inomatit to becoms an utter ruin, Shops, houses, banks, and stored aro a chaos, and the insutiublo stream I8 enting nway the vory ground fteelf, gnawing huxe pieces mowontarily from iho banks und throatoning not to leave tho taintest strip betwaen the biutf and chauncl, Tho ‘loss I8 estimated at from 8125000 to $150,0, and this 18 lurgoly In ronlty, ns time was given Lo tauve mueh of the portabloe prugmr to tho upper tuwn, where iro the handsome residences cf the businoss men. It 18 betioved by somno that oven should the inrond of the witers bo chooked tha town will never bo_robullt, espeoinlly if, as 18 now mooted, tho Dukota Southern nban- dons its present - line = and adopts ono partlally wrudod and running ff- toon miles fnlond, Othors nssert that tho jmportanco of the plice as nu_entropnt and shipplug point will listiro its specdy robulidiug, 1t Juoks now like n glaclor dotted with bunters' huts,and [n many plioes tho fce 18 you plled ns bigh as. tho cuves -of -houscs still up- right. In the “open Nelds tho ' ico ‘I8 fust disappoaring. Wushod away by the wator and honey-combed by the sun, there are stll hugo mountains of It remaining, but it will soon bo gongo, and will not prove, as fonred, u sorlous obatacly to futming oborntlons, 1 counted bo- tweon and mouth of tho Blfsluuxnnd Burbank, n station near Vermillun, fifty-throo nbandoned dwollings, O theso, at least twenty uro so Aumaged that they will havu to be entirely re- bulit,” The others Will bo occupied as soin us tho riso subsides and the wator drains off ar sorka in, Tho river this afrernoon 1s at u stand, the rise puving been oight foct or more on top of the siready high'water. ¢ —— YTANK'TON, DAK. Bpeciat Dlspateh to The Chicago Tyibune, - YANKTON, Dak,, April 20,—I hava just landed from the Niobrara, which has consumed four duys In making 125'milcs, The curront has boeen foarfully atrong, ond it 8" a. wonder wo mre horo at all. 1 find Dakota’s Cupital soomingly Uttle - tho ' worse for tho fuot that but n short time ago some of her stroots wero cannls and hor houses wator-tanke. All around, however, nre ovidenoes In plenty of tho ruln wrought. .Lhayo evon sadder tales Lo toll thun those of my proceding dispatobes. Detweon Vermillon and Yankton, on buth sides - of tho rivor,. oxcopt fm :that part ot Nobraska in which llo 8t, Jumes and Bt. Holena, far #buve' the rench of any ilond, the bavoo is univorsal, widosprond, complato, and appulling. I cannot doscribo It, nor could any.pon. It teansconds worde, and tho eyo fulls to sce but moloties ~ of the slckoning: Whole, ° Tho Blissourl ran through and over.tho lower part of Yanke ton, and tha gorges bolow obstructing its courso, turned southonstorly, crossiug tha James Itiver fort tnilos abovo its motth, and for more than twonty-ive miles rollod on its do- vastoling way over a ; plin from sovon to twelve miles broad, -covered with homos ahd sottled na donsely us 4ny I know of Inthe Wuet, Of troes there woro but fow, andthero waus: absolutoly nothing to check ko progross of tho scoutge. Ovor that urea of ar lonst S0 squurc milles r0sts mow olther’ . vust lnkes . of . water of = hbu| deposits of lco, tho lattor an high in muny phices that tho peaks dnly of the hulisus aro div- cornible, At foguiltios faw und far hetwaon uro mvmsrn spots of liigh ground, und an those tho peablo are now olusturad, tholr only moans of communicntion with thoso who feed thom bolne boats aud rutts, whioh-vome und go with dithi- oculty und more or loss d.lngur. 1 found on reaching Mookling yostorday that the peuplo so foug seatlod thero hud wwst of thom been ro- “mvna 10 tho hflm ground In roar of Vormillon. ut tho (iundeeson’s ST fnhubitants sull ching to that Jocality. It goes without N thut ull oro sutforwyd fue clothes, thowgh of fou thore I¢ no torrible Inck. During tho first two wuoks of tho tloud tho 1% or moro souls in and nbout tho ’I‘ug-lu clovitor aubalstod on the fuw ontily Mr. tlor bad pesoued frou thws wator Dy meana of pulmyld and sliughtored ononuo of the upper tHoors. Thut sama Tayior, from a rich proprietor, ownor of hundrads of cattlo und much viher viluubio nrcgurly. 16 now reducud Lo 0 poor man, with unlz« uoll clothias 1o euver bl e ho scramblod luto un tho night of threatoned doath, Our bout was ot ublu to laud noar onough thosulforors either o tako thom olf or tu pluce foud whore it woald ba mecesyitlo. It must go from hero in yawis. 1 wish ‘L could sond you a upynoth pipture of - the sooue. Ou the Dukouts side, n dark Jine loads stratght through whoro tho ritiroud restsunder the mill- fons of tonsof lee and muid. Tho far uwuy biully Jouk like the nutural banks of an fufand sen. Long linus of shimwering brightnoss the wluss rovenls. AN tao ‘frequently 18 = seon +ho roof of some stately, camfortable, aad well- appointed dweliing, ac bacu, or store, or ckurel, and over ull brao thu sllenve of desolution. I uvrfl! 1iko mookery 1o suy that this way wuoo & puradise for furmers, and thut under tho chuvd flos u soll famed oven. hero for ité Tlohness, Yet guch s truo, ad tho dwullors olatny that glve them vnly present bolp wud thoy CHICAGO TRIBUNK: WHDNENDAY, AVRIL vILLV Y PAvLa will un}nln maka the plain amtla with groon grain nd “ripplo: with ripening erops. ough onat_do cy Rro nof miring, and show n better faith lm‘mnlm‘,k than many who suffored far less, Tho total ponulue tion of tha-plain of which { have beon aneaking 18 showi by tho Inst consus to be mora thnn 3.000. Idan't bellova that of that number ouc-sixth can swy thelr loss is slight, wWhile fully ong-half may bo regarded as eomplotely dospolied of nil save the bare land. The total amount of joss in doliara I8 pinced at 1%),000, and 1 find n desire o lessen mthor than ngmont _ this total. ‘Tho_fgures do not seem largo when compared with thoso nrising from (irea or Goods in Turge cities or thu dense ‘popuiations of tho Enst, but remember it ropre- sents total values in iImprovemonts and personal property,. On tho Nebmske sido of tho river tho losses in tho threo bottoma known ns frooky, Groon Isiand, and Frankfort, and situnted in the order named,ns you cumu up tho rivor, nre nlso terriblo, if niot ns total uy ‘thuso on the opposit sile, In tho first therc aro nbout 0fty people who have lost fully threo- fourths of tholr stack, nearly ail thelr farm impiements and machinery, many of thair Iarns and outbultdings, and not a fesw of tholr wellings. The samne may be sald of tho othor two,— Frankfort =~ and Groen in ' dogree, for both arn larger an ench na “fully peoplud and as thorough- iy tmproved, 0 low o the stnck, and moro particulaely tho horses, touches must nearly nud keculy. The animals were thoir ontwant and visibie mgna of iwoalth. Soma farmeors lost from $3,00) to $10,000 worth, and many lomr years must clapse oro thoy o be replaced. n tho hottoms Inst ruferred to tho water cnmo In the dayiliht and the fco uftorwurd, ns the goran broko wholly, so that almost all tho inhabltants had time to llco T h grouuds. thoigh 80 switt was the . rush of tha tido that fow I any moveablos wara aaved. 1 do not want to wedry yon with instances of ondurance, but what think yon of three hmflm one i, ono nd ouc 10 months old, the ; af _ sovera perched mothors hotdi know of a verity, and the bables are nlive, well, and In 8t Ifclena to-day. John Nolson thuight his orick house, which had sheltorod sixty poopla on Its roof during the esrller tlonds, was surely safe, and roturiod to It to tey nnd effect sumo sulvawe, but tho Inst rise hns toritgut one corncr, and the whale structurc will- probnbly fall. § eould multiply and remultiply instancoes of indlvidual sulfuring, vx- posure, galluniry, danger, and escape. but more gonerul -mutters ‘prose for room. Opposit this city stood tha llourishing villnge of Urcon Ist- and, with stores, churches, and dwollings in plenty. I can see tho locndon now, and n solitary building 18 all marks ings, every. one, and tho buried fathoms deep buoneath those Jagwed, shupaless, horrible piles of fce, (n which (s co gealed so much mud and sand that the provail- ing color Is black, and the wholo effeot that of musses of luva ojected from some voleauo. Thero are no nshes feam which this tawa caa rise, and wooks must pass before human feet cun press its site. THE FAR NORTHWEST. 81, PAUL, Minn, April 20.—Tho Mississipp! ‘has riscn two feet since morning, and hasgpread aver the fluts on the west sido of tho river totho foot of the bluffs. Bomo bouscs on low ground ure surrounded by water, and In a fow cages it has flowed into the lower floors of dwcllings. The 8t. Paul- boom, two miles above tho city, waont out at noan, and the logs went down tho rivor, The amount s not considerable. The river is still risiog, 2 A spealat trom Grond Forks, Dak., saya: * Tho raging Red well describes our river to-day. 1t s now- twenty-fivo feet nbovo Its wintor stuge, and still rising. The lower bench of tho Red Rtiver at this point, on which s bulit .what 18 known us Stiorty Town, is undur water, and the inhabitants have been compellodto tice o tho uppor bonch, on which s bullt tho town proper. This portion of Grand Forks is still twenty-five feet Above the water, and no dam- nge {s apprehended, ns tha leo has been running freoly and has noarly nit passed our, *Tho workshopsof tho Red River Transporta- tlon Company nt this place, and the boat-yard, aro undor water, and the stentcrs Selkirk, din- nesota, and 3Manitoba aro floatiug fn slx foet of water over the ways ou whioh they rested during tho winter, The Sclkirk has hor flres up, and will lenve for 8t. Vincent to-day with u miscellanes of freight and stock, Capt. Alexander Griggs in command. The Minnesota and Muni u‘lbn will follow within a week for tho lower riyer, “Tho Rod Rivar 18 reported clear to Winnipeg, aod is rlging moro slowly. 1t 18 bolleved (bat it has roached its bighest polnt.and will comineance 10 fall by to-night or-to-morrow mormng." A spectul from. Carvor, Minn., says: o river rose from O p, m. last night untitdp, m, to-duy t.wentrulnht inches, and hus fallen two inches. It su&rg)n that the fall was cnused by the washing of - the ombankmont of tho Hustings & Dukots -Liaiiroad. bulow. Chasko. ‘I'ho ombutikmont of tha Minueapolis &, Lutils Huiiroud went out dnring tho pigbt, and traing oununt puss over the river. Tho dwmnaue tu Drivate parties 18'not sovore, and {f tho Missis- Bipp! does not back up here wo hupo we huve scon tho hlgnm Qur_noighboring villuge, Chuska, has boen moro unfortunate (i having o !1““"1 le:r,:;uory covored, and conaequently invre nmuiges. Aul‘)‘nulnl from Mnnkuto says: * Tho intenso excitoment and foars of thy Inundution of Froot strest huve in a measuro subsided. Tho rlvor foll two Inches Inst night and has risen four to-day, making lwunl{-elsm inches nbove extrome high-water mork, ~ Notwithstanding 1he report recoivod from the Urvnr Minnesola, {‘nu m"mllll gcpllnk ia that the highcat point has con reached.” A Fargo spooial snys: ' Thae Red River con- tinuea torise, and isnow nbout twonty-four feot, Above the ordinary level at tbis polnt. The water Is at the corper of Washington avenuc nnd Seventh streot, and soveral foct deep on tha floor af the enging-houso of the Water-Works, A foot more rise will bring it In tho rear of the Shorman, —and is atill rising. No oue eun tell when wi stop. Dr. Bhurlock bas abandoned his houze on tho Islund ~ Park additfon, and many peoplo heir homes near tho river bunk, Roports from Lulow state that a considorable portion of the Munitobn has been washod out btwedn Fnrs(nnna Hill City. Tho Maplo River ovevilowod its banks, and consid- grable torritary In the violnity of Mupleton is flooded. 1t ia hoped, bowever, that tho worat {s uver, and that no sertous damaga will ocaur.' ‘Tho rlver nt 8t. Paul rulsad ive inches from 7 to 11 o'alock to-night, making sixieod feot olgbe fnches. sland, - but 8T, LOUIS, Spectat Dispateh to The Chicago Tribune. ™ Br. Louis, April 26.—=The publlo bave beon so much absorbed with tho stroct-car striko that thoy have almost ncglected to nots the faot that. thore {8 a great flood In tho Bississippl. Tho rivor this morning . is noarly up to the danger linc at the lower piaces along the city frunt, and has slroady encroached upon many acres of ground above and below the nentre of the city. This morning Jt.was rislng very rapldly. The hight of tho wator above low water, as marked by the Government gauge ut tho foot of Market stroot, was twonty-ulne tect uino Inches,—ouly oue foot and - mnino ipches bolow tho top of tho gnuge, aud ouly three inches below tho dunger line, whon vast roaches of rih bottom lands afong tho Missiusippiabove und bo- fow Bt. Louls will be {nundated. Roports from | North St Louls are somowbat altrming. ‘Tho water basinvpded the lumber-yards at Derall's Paint, nnd lurge quantitics of Nghter stui {s atiout. This scotlon s covered by water to the depth of soveral inohea for a considerable dis- tunce back, but the lumbermen, baviug bad sufMclent warping, hyvo taken overy precaution 1o provido ayalnat damago, Littleof the lumber s likely to tioat off. The Iarger piles will roquiro several fest of wator and a mod- oratoly etrong ourrent to carcy themn off, but there will bo dmnage frow the doposit of wud and sand, which will do & great deal of injury. 3 Tho wator has enoroached also below tho olty upon low plucos, endangering o tracks of tho tron Mountain Hallroad a¢ somo places. As viewed from the water's adge the.Iilinols shoro nppears Jowor than the rivers Helow Buat st, Louls a natrow fringa of groon 1 all that oan bo sown ut samo places, whila® this sldo fs. the vast volume of surglng water, Tho bLresking of the Hny Loveoisall the tulk: niopg tho whare to- dur'. {v s roggrded ns u most scrious calumity, - exoitement Fast Br, Louls “ovor the throatenmg aspect of the water ran up to fovor hoat thismorniug, aud 80 groat was the anxicty displayed Ly both high- lundera and lowlandors that no uno would bruok discugsion on #ny subjedt that bad no connec- ton with tho tlood, Citlzens who bave stoutly denled that there wus unz Immodiate duuger ot & washout no longex adi the buck water bus lroudy warood thelr poril Is vory great. Somo of the buui hear the sloughis uro bolog abundoned. Tho cel- ars of a nuinbor of the resldouves aud saloons fn the vioinity of the, markut-house ure bepluuing to” Al with water, and tho stiblca of the Tranufor Compnny aru completer Iy surroundoa by the inuddy ciement. n Venloo the conatcruntion of vmper'l..g- holders s still greator, 'There gonie of the Hweliing-housos stunding on the low ground bave boon descrted, Whilo rusldents whoso homes rest on high foundutions are puoking up tholr bousehold goods aud removing thew out of tho rouch of duugor. Flso alarma to tke cifect that the dyko hug glven away, o 18 ubout 10 ba Wasliod 0ut, keep the citizans ot Vunico In n sinto of conutuut upxlety, Tue indicaticns aro thyt thoro will be one and pers hu[u two feot mare of the rise, which wilt pretty woll cover the whole leveo, crowding the wharf-bouts on tho strcets, and requiring them to be tied up to tho door-pobts of tha ousce, The boats will huye to load and une joud at the foob of tha streets. This stato of mon (n the noxt tino tho worst of Is not Active preparations .have been guing on for by romo of the steamboat ight hones, by whl things is Inal fari tho present Nood 8 expect HT. PAUL, MINYN, #r. PATL, Minm, April 25.—Tho Mississippl River has risen steadily all duy, and stands at 7 v'clock alxteen feot,—three feot higher than nt 10 o'ciook this morning, and a (oot higher than the great Juno floods Inst year. The water sproads from bluft to bluf, oxcept the groumd filled Ly the raliroad on the eust sldv, and the cloyaied ronds sud silghtly ralsed groand on which West $t. Paul §s bullt. About a thousand peopla llve In the West St. Paul fints, whoss houses will be flooded’ I€ tha rito comtinues, Muny housos aro uow lsolated, and somo Are half hurled under water, The water has commencud o flow througls tho stroots, with an -hourly Increastog curront. From tha southeast tho back watar {s pressing forward toward tho aity, and spreading (na vast shoet over all tho low innds, Bhortly atter noon to-dny nn Istnense number of logs, flling tho river for & spuce nearly balf nmilo Jong, prssod down, Twuy aro tho property of Col. Juhn 8. Peince, and caino from tho 8t Paul boom, this sido of Meudota, whera it Ia sald thore wero 1,600,000 feot. On the west slde, Capt. Cutter's saw-mill surrounded by water, though V. s . boifoved in immediate danger. atnony the resideuts of the flat Jooking to the romoval of houschold goods and ctfects Lo places of sufety, und to this end sbunties Aze bolne oracted to-day near tho Sixth Wurd school for the tempordry ‘nccommodation of the tin- fortunatus deiven from .the lowiands, Others whu buva Caith In the stubility of the houses uro moving thelr goods, 610 to tho Uppur sturies, On tho cnst a1de tho flat abova th vty Is vovered with water, nid the 8foux City shops and stock- yards surounded by water. liopurts from the upper river say It (s rising at Prainurd and Aitkin. Tho Minnesota Kivor, from which tost of tho flood comus, 1y atution- ury or faliing to-day, and fittle more sao is ex- peoted from thut quarter. Adlsputeh from Montevideo, whora tho most. 1088 hins been sulered, says: “Tho toud reachiod its Full hight yestesduy ifterncot nad has now fullon ono foot, and 18 going dowu At thy rate of e fiich an hour,” ¥ D the Cmutmwn five miles thy water hus fallon until It {3 within 1ts bunks, but tho Min- nesota iy still vory high und backs {13 witer on the Chippowa for & fow “miles. Tudy ralirond- bridge still hangs by the tables, aré o furthor dimigs 1s unticipited. The loss 8 Ustimated t 40,000, e ‘The severnl bundred people who tave beon driven, from homs —are wreatly Incone venlended, One dwelling-houss © accom- mwuintes thirty © people. Waler covers the entire Jower parc of tho towiieydecp thut some of the houses vnly show their gultles ubave the tlovd. ‘The rallrond track has W@en witshed nway forn long distance. Tho river bridges nt this point have lndged down thie river, snd ure badly dunnged, A britge over theChippewd has also rone out, (u{cmur with pnc eross the Min- | nesotn hetween Water ‘nnd Lnefln nrle. The town iscutolf from the muln lambhund come munication Is ruintnined by meuu 1e¥ skifTs, - A numbae of cultivated Helds. huve kSen flooded and will bo damaged. ATCHISON, KAS, Atcisos, Kas,, April 2,—Tho Missourl River at this point i¢ twouty-ona fect Geven Inches abova low-wator mark. Nearly tud whole of tha river-bottom opposit here is subinerged. Muny housos fu Bast Atchison buve been tvoded,: but tho min portion of the town, Including the two wucking-bouses, is on’ high grotiud, und In no danger, On this sido of .tho rivex the luwost ground fs still several fect aboy?d water. All the ruflroads torminating bere bave been cut off exceptiog thoe Ichison, Topekn & Santn 6 und the contral branch of tho Unlon Paeffic. The tracks of the iunnibol & 8t. Joc, the tock Istand, und ' the Kuusas City, 8t Joo & Counell ButYs all grose Mud Luke about o mile vust, neur together and ull were washed away last Friday.” No truihs have been running since. Tho Missour! Pacitic hus buon broken fn sovoeral places botween here aud Kunsas City, aid the Atchison & Iansus nenr Doniphun, four miles abovo, and ut White Cloud. The Migsourl Fucitic Is sending Enstorn mails and passengers to'Topckn over “the Atchison, Topeka & Sunta 16 Rullroud, aud thone ‘enst, 'The lvo-houses of Plunkinton & Avmour at Sugar Luke, nbout Iive mlles from this city, tumbleed into the lnke this ntternoon, und those of Waods Bros, nise of Kunsus City, fell in bn - Saturdny. Old ves- idents of Missolirl opgoutt here any” tho flood equils that of 1847, The river has risen nbout #ix inches to-duy, but is now nbout stationury, and it §s belloved the worst is over, LEAVENWORTII, KAS. Bpecial Dispateh to The Chicago Trivune. LeAveswonrn, Kas, o :Aprll 20.—The past twenty-four bours has sden anathor foot added 10 the depth ot tho wutefhere, and tliose in the bottum opposit hero whophave been *holding the fort® .und hoping- wdainst. hope aro-now moving out pr:.-upuuu:'&:‘l-:nn Leavenworth will bo totally nbandoned,to-morrow If the riso keops on, and sovernl families vacated and moved tholr houscliold gotils across ou the forry this ufternoon to this lde. Therois a brond Bweop of rich bottom strotching for milgsup and down the river opposit here, nnd the ood now slmply meauns destitution ta hundreds, for tholr wheat will bLe ruincd, and also tha possibility of plaotiug corn’ will be gone are the tiond subsidea. Tho only rall_con- neotlon left nsido from the nartow-gnugs Kun- Aus Contrul 18 by way of tho Kunsas Pacifio to Lawrenco, ua o bregk of 100 feet haa stopped tho Liock Island truius. Tho.Kunsas Paclile, how norg, and and tr'llp.v 10 LY ‘hore 18 no dumege bera yet, thouuh the wator is coui- ing round the uniinished sugnr-fuctory, thore boine two feetof waler In tho boller-house, und Dutfey's woolen-mitls bave ulse been touchud by tho backwater of Turae-3ile Creok, The end i3 not yut. . iCI.NSAS CcITY, MO. Bpectal Disateh to The Chicago Tribune KANsAS Crry, Mo, April 24—=The excitemont horg over the tlood s unabated to-day, . Tho river I3 still rising steadily, although' not so rupldly during the past twenty-four hours ns proviously. At0a'clock the corrected readiog of. the Govornment kuuge showed o bight of 23010 feet. The Kaw River ls rising rapldly. Tho wuter In the Kaw at Wyandotte: this morn- g was 18 high ns in 1807, 81x dnches higher than n 1817, and 13t4 feet less thin In 184, ut tho time of the grent ffuod. Hurlom, on tho Uy Caunty slda of ‘tho rivor, i8 completely floader, nnd the fnhubltants wre all moving out, taking what olfouts they cin enve with. them, Tho'outlook continues ominous. ITANNIBAL, MO. Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tridunes AANNIDAL, Mo, April 26.—The river is on n stand here. Tho break n thg levee {8 porhaps not as great ns anticipated; though bad enough todestroy & great amount of property, Not- withstanding the Soy is reported by mnany nsa fraud, yot tho loveo {8 doing good service, fn averting n much greater calnmity than has ni- ready befallon the Sny Inlanders, ThaChicago, Turlington & Quincy and & lanir line of traing are all abundoned here, Tho lutter rin s bous fram Keokuk to Loulsinns. lo-aur ta mako con- nuotions for St, Louls. The mauil for Bt, Louls wiy carried via tho Missouri, Kansus & Texus. The worat scewns to huve been past. 3 8T, JOSEPIT, MO. B, Joseen, Mo., April 28.—Tho river bas vison three inchus. ‘The bottom opposit this oity fs Hooded for more thun bat§a mile west from the bridge, and threo milies (urther wost a shoet of water 1,00 féot wido I8 running over the bagtons. The - trucks of tue 8L Joo & Wostorn Road are submerged, and some of it washed out, Tho mavhine shops In Bimwoo ure tiooded and work is susponded, Numbors of famiiles bave heen ressucd to-day from Hoadud hausos Ii the bottom-landy’ In the vidluity of this oity, Merchantd, ox nrlenc? groat om- burrassamont for want of 'lnlp::l Taoilities, No_domuge bus beou dona §n “thisclty by tha high wator. 5 3 OMAILA, NEB, Epectat Dispatch (o The Chleago Tridunes OMALA, Nob,, April 20.—During last night the wiver fell alightly, not over an inch or twy, and bus beon stntionuey all day,, A fall of eloven inchea has ocourrcd at Bloux Oity,and it l thought tha rivor will begin falling horo to- morraw quito rapldly. Affaies tosday ure thé same us yestordny, The Lrausfor of Passengors, buggage, and malls by bouts uud wagons cone tinucs, cuusing oonsidurnble doliy. tralus run within 4 mile aud.a heif of welr Counoll Dlums dopots. culcnm#‘ynnhvuwru tral mo only 10 tho Bl alloy, twi e Soris of Gotuell BIUa, Src ety pustheiainty .- 0CONOMOWOQ, WIS, ¥ Bpectal Dupaich lo The Chicasa Trivuse, - QOcoxouowoo, Wis, April 20.~La Lelle Lake continues to rise, much to the annoyance of those who live on the banks. The lowlands of Shutchit's proporty are covered to # depth of & Coot and more, Quantitics of the lurgoat fleh {n the lnke ure being euptured by yvonturing to shallow water. Guorge A.Seaverns’ boat- houso {s duwmaxed, wnd beyond il ropaips, 'The water 8 tow three feet and moro above highs water merk. | ' —— JANESVILLE, WI8. ESpactal Dispatch to The Chicago Tridunds JangsviLLE, Wis, April 2.—Tho water in Rock Hiver roso half an inch here to-day, and one and one-balf jochos At Watertowp, caused by the rain of last niguk To:day the-Fearof Bnarp, Bell & Nors Rl(l’l e Into the river, eottind ahout two feet, enused hy 1he water undurmining tho foundation, It is feared part of the huliding will fall fnto the witer and bo swept nw Jutting out Y QUINCY, ILL, Bpecial Dispateh 1o The Chieago Tribune, Quixcy, 1L, April 20.—Tho river Is now about ona {nch above tho highest point of lnst year. Two len-houses un the Missouri side, noarly op- posit tho city, bnve boen cartled away, and others are In’ danger. IN OREGON, HAN FrAxCisco, Apell 28.—A dlspatoh from Portland, Ore., says: * The Columhla and Wil- Inmette Rivers aro both very high and risiog tapldiy, The wharvesin this city aro already Inundated.” ALDANY, N, Y, AtpAxy, April 2.—~Tho Hudson Rivor over- fows tho docks and fils hasements fn the vicinity, BIGNAL SERVICE. WASHINGTON, D. G., April 271 a. m—~For the Oblo Valtoy and Tennesseo partly cloudy weath- er and ocousional raln fu tho southorn portions, variable winds, shifting to nortb or wost, falling tollowed by rising barometor In the western portions, stationary or higher toaperntturo. For tho Lower Lako reglon slightly warmer, tair weathor, south to west winds, falling fol- lowed by rislug Laromoger. Fortho Upper Lake region pnrtly oloudy weath- er and occasionul rain, winds vearing to west- nrlr. rising preceded In tho eastorn purtion by ra Ir ing baroineter, stationnry orlower tumperas For the Upper Missizsippl and Lowor Missour! valleys. partly cloudy weathor, ocensionul rain i1 the nurthara portfons of tho former, winds shifting to alightly cooler north or west, and stutfoniey or higheér burometor. 'Tue Chlef 8ignul Olllcer furnishes the follow- ln;{ speclul butletin:} [ho nrea of lower biirometer which at_yestor- dny afternoon’s report was centrnl nt Burling- 101, hus moved enst, and s now colitral i tha Cungdian maritime provinees, The ures which was contril nenr Morohead City hns moved east- ward, und 18 now over Take Superlor, Nelthee depresaion has been nocompanied by hizb witds, Tho_tomporature hus fallen 7 to 15 degrees in thia Lower Luko reglyn mnd tha extromo North- west., bns -~ risen slightly In - tho Cpper Misaissiupl und wor Missour! \'nfl:yu. Southorly winds continue In the South Atlanticand Enst” Guif States and the Uppor Lake regloti, lin hies fullen alnce the lust ro- ort In_Now England, the South Atlantlo and Eust Guif States, Tenneasee, and northern por- tlon of the Upper Misstssippl Valley, The Missour hus fallen elvhtinches at Omaha, whiero it 18 seven feot two fushes above the diane ger line, seven inclies ubove at Leavenworth, une toot nino fiches Above at Kausus City, wherathe lowlands ure overilowod, und two fea abovo ut Brunawick. 5 Fuie Mississippl litver bus rison 0fty Inches almro yesterduy nftornoon nt St. Paul. West St. Paut s looded, and groat damoge bns been dohe ut Minnenpolis. It ls threo feet thrie inehes above ut Keokuk, three feot tiva mches at Calro, und 18 ot the danger line at Now Orlenns and St. Louls: ono inch above at Vicks- burr und two inches at Memphis, The indlcations nre that lovat rains will accur In New Enyglund aud the Middlo Coast, followed by fair weather during to-disy wid possibly to- miorrow, The Missiasippl will probubly continun 10 rise, and tho Mlssourl to risa below Owatu. LOCAL OBSERVATIONS. CI1IEABY, Apri) B=10:18 o m. T¥me. [Bar. TflW.[HIl Wind, 1. | Weather (ol 512 T i Clear, ik bl ) ‘o) {Clear. Hsiba. o, EIOIH OND] 3 13 i [Claar. 240 g . (2981 Al J [Clear. 10418 b e Bisa| & W [Ciear. Marometor corrected for telnperature, elovation, and instrumental orror, "Noun barvmuter, 24 Soan tharometor, 512 Moun bumdity, Gi0, iHiuhost Lomperature, ©.1. ( Luwost tompuraturs, 3. GENEUAL UDSERPATIONS ERETHELEANSATaTazeaesEsRS seonnEnTnttnl BREBT ODD-FELLOWS. CIIARLESTON, 1LL. . Epectal Dlapaleh to The Chicago Tribune. CiARLYSTON, UL, Aprll 20.—The wmeeting of the ' Chumpalgn District Anniversary Associas tion Indepondent Ordor of Odd-Fellows, hold in this clty to-day, wis a grand success, A crowd ot people, catimated at 5,000, thronged theatreots aliday. Fiftyesoven lodgos and encampments wero. repruscnted. The colebrated Ringgold Tund, trom Tocre Hauto, knd., was here, a8 wure also five other bands, In theaftornoon spoechos werg made by the Hon. W, . Jowell, editor of the Danviite Nets; E. B, Clark, Preatdeut of tho Assoolaon; J. W, Wilkln, of Paris; iho Hon. P. ro, of Arcola; and the Hov, J. liobbs, of Kansas. —Arcala was selcated us tho place of bolding the next meetiny.- The followlui ofticers. wore olectod for the next year: Proaidont,: 6. 8. Tarboxi Vice-Presidents, #,” A, fyuts, W. Towling, W, 1. oyer, J. t, Moore,7und A. Summerling Ra- cordlu Broretary: J. T, Willinms, of tho Lin- colu SatuniayJournal, rmwonutuasacrcmn'- R}g‘m‘my. Arcoln; Trousurer, L. G. Dixon, of M, ] H, DUBUQUE, TA. Special Dispate to The Chicago Tribunes DUBUQUE, I, April 2.~Tho Odd-Fellows of Nortbera |lowa oulebrated tho sixty-secoud aoniversary of Odd-Fellowshlp in America in this city tu-day. Tho lodges from Manchoster, Waterjoo, Gedur Raplds, und aloug the lino of the Nilwauken & St Paul Road took part, and tho city was crowded with peoplo. All of the busingas houses were handsomely decorated,and lngs tonted frum pubtla und private bulldings by the hundreds, Sucha duy Dubuguo bas not witnessed since Gen, Graut's visit. Archus were erected from overy cornor, Inl)llll tha prooession moved utong, over u wite In lungth, it was ru- celved with storms of uppliusy from overy quarler. Aftor murchin treets, it brought up nt il :um:fihli“ mh"l’:'"l stroel | ! 1+ flousn, wi i Van Vulk"(-nhu?f dellvorud tho aldress: I the evening o grund banquet was hold at tho Julion House, aud nmopg the prominent Oda- Follows wha took purt wepo Buren Sherman, Jolin Powers. both Btate oficera. T, Hardle, C, G Kretchmer, liermun Block, aud others. ey QTTAWA, ILL, 8pecial Diapateh to The Chicago Tridinsy Ortawa, fll., April 20.-The La Salle County 0dd-Followa’ Asanclation gelobrntod the alxtys second nnnivervary of the Ordorin this city Lo+ day. ‘The nddoss was delivored by J. O, Humphroys of Bpringfield, About B oxoure slonlsts camo from Btreator, also Iayge dologu~ tions MT N";"l" “M;lnlllfl\j-n 8ally -l:l nfl::r tawgs.. In the aveniuy u_dunce, uudor tuo 1 I Daugbtors of Stmet, he SHRvnhy Wl sall 5 duy (70 vtr;"ploduul. ant mfi: werp | row the FreeTrudér otive wiud gtior prominent husly nesthouses, 4 —— GALEN Il | Spsciel Diapatsh (0 Tha Chicago Tridus, GaALaNA, ULy April #.—~Tho sixty-second aaole vorsary of Odd-Foljowship iu Amerios was oolo Drated by the Jo Davicss County hietbron toeday _by a notablo mathoring &t Turaorfall, (n this city, whoso the regular anoivorsary oxorclecs wero canduoted by Pas, Grand Rdward Haaso, astisted by Past Grand Willsm Ripple, Jobn ¥, Brouodlo, und athar leading maomberd of the v, Ad eloguunt address’ was dulivered by Cupt. J. Fuwogtl, which was followed Ly & bane yuot and ball. : e . QALESBURG, TLL. . Bpectal Dispaten to The Chicaga Triduns, GILNAN, IlL, April 3.l ¥ixXty-second annls versary of the estublishinent of tho Order of 0Odd-Fellows in the United Statcs was celobrated bere to-day. The program consisted gf & pro- oosalon fn the morniug, # etrong address in tha afteruoon, In fayor of tho Order by J. H. Funk, 't Grand Ropresantative, of Odell, T1l., and n graud anniversary boll thin cvening, Expenso and labor havenot heeu apared to make it a suc- cess, though the attendance is notas inrgo us was expected. 3 NEW ENGLAND. Nostox, April 26, —~Dispateches from mnoy points in Now England report Imposing colabra- tiops of the sixty-sccond mnniversary of the in- Hohotion of D4d: Fellbwsnip inio America: FIRE RECORD. IN CHICAUO. Charles Lautenschiagor & Co., butohors, dls- covered at 11 o'clock Monday night that a large number of hama hanglug ln the smuka-houso nt the rear of No. 70 North Wood street wers on fire. Wot aawdust was thrown upon the hhm:l and all further danger avorted without the i of tha Firo Dopartnicnt. About 2¥) hans were destroyed, ontaitine a loss ot §2M; insured in the Watertown (N. Y) Compnny foe £2000. Tho dropping of one ImmI upon tho coals is supposed to hnve cavsed the bl The alartn 10X 136 nt 4 o'clock yestor- ny afternoon was caused by tho bitrnfng of o Jarge plis of shavings used as fuol in tho limo- xilus of Stearns & Co., it the corner of Twonty- soventh and Quarry strects. Damawo ${0, Causc, supposed to be a spark from tho kilns, AT PARIS, MICH. Bpecial Diavateh to The Chicago Tribuné Gnaxp Rapips, Mich, April 26.-A firo at Par(s, Mccosta County, this motniug Lurned M, 8, Edwards’ grocory sture, and Peter Kolly's saloon. Edwards' loss, 8800; fnsurod for $1,400 In'the Underwriters', of Now York. Kolly's oss, $200; uninsured. Tio buildiys, wlch woro uninsured, wero worth ubout #1000, and were owaed by £, Maboland and 8, A. Bilsby, AT DAVENPORT, 1A. BEE Bpectat Dirvateh to The Chicago Tribune, DAVESPORT, Ia., April 27.~Just beforu mid- night fira broke out in tha old Kirk pinning- mill, owned by Lindioy & Pheips and tecupled by John H. Whitaker, bullder, and Dowus & Jonulogs' schonl furniture tnctory. The miil und contents were destroyed. The lire orlginated in the ongine roum. Tho losa s nol less than 5,00, covered by lnsurance. AT ILION, N. Y. Urioa, N. Y., April 2.—At 1lion, Horkimer County, on Sunday, n lire destroyed the building knowh as the old Russell flotel, including C. M. Hubbard's furditure store, Juines Grimes’ hard- ware store, Charles Hecox's novaolty factory, the Duid-roow dnd Its musical tustruments, aud tho ‘Temperancy Club rooms, Total loss ubuut $12, QU0; partly Insured. i AT MONITOMR, IND. #pecial Dispateh 1o Tna Chicugr Tribun, TLAvAyETTE, luth,, April 26.—Tho large and vals unble barn of Thomas MeCormick, lucated near Monitor, this county, wasstruck by lightning, and the bulldiug and contents entirely destroyed. Tha barn, machinery, ung grain wore valued at $3,00, No insurunce so far as learncd. AT KINGSTON, ONT. ToroxTo, April 2.—Gunn & Co's steam-tane nery, Kingiton, was burned. ' Loss, $60,000. e ————— STATE AFFAIRS. MICHIGAN. Special Duspaleh to The Chicago Tribune. LaAxarxa, Mich., April 3).—In the House to- day the followine bills wero passad: @iviog members of the Horso-Thief Assoclution tho some power and suthority as constables; reln- tive to action {n ojectinent; tho substituta for tho piank-road tax biil: Senato bl fixiog salaries at tho lonin Prison. . 7 ‘The Sonnte passed n bill to protect trout and gruyling: amending tho law relativo fo School Tuspectors; and a weneral reviston of tha sahool laws, Tho Joint Committeo on Rallways will report o substitute for the Morcer Lill. on the Ontonagon & Brula River Rallrond land-graat case n tho, Houso to-morrow. Your | correspondont is Informed to-night by n mom- berof the Commlttes that the principal objoc- tlons urged to the Marcor bill are cliiaated In tho new bill. For cxumple, the notion of the Board of Control Is conlirned. ‘The Company I8 required to commence the construction of tho roud at Ontonagon, and bulld twenty miles south from that point by Aug. L 1832 Upon tho com- pletion of twenty milos tho Compnny is allowed 0 seleot 12 sogtiond i iy continuons qumr miles on tho hueot tho roud, ondso on till the rond {8 leted,: The Compnny can- not cunvey or ‘recelve un{ putents for any of the lands untll tho entire linoof tha rund s com= pletod und ncoupted by the Governor. As goon 3 the rond is so nm‘ned the lands ure tuxable. Tho sichems nro nlroudy guthoring on the ground tu give thoir Leglalative triends the necessary conching on this fmportant monsure, and the prospoct appone_ fulr for one of tho hottest lights over witnessed in a Michigan Log- isinture, Tho frionds of ‘the bill willatick to thoir toxt—via.: that thoState fashuply a trastea of tho lands, and with tho nbove mmended bilt §t wouliLscom to thode acqualnteil with tho factsthat thers would bo no goixl nrwumonts for tho opposition; but tho ugpmmmn of the menss wro, heudod by the duughity Col. Stockbridge, will put up & poworful plon “for the * innncent putchasers,” ete, and they conildeatly nssert thelr abliity, todetent the weasuro, MASSACHUSETTS. Spectal Diapaleh to The Chicago Tridune. BosToN, April 2.=The muny frauds at tho Jast city clection has led tou bill belng intro- duced Into tho Legisiaturo contalning soveral new and hnportunt features, The bill provides that for the soversl voting procinets tha Mayor hall appoiut Deputy Wardens, Cletks, and In- vetors, 10 servo when tholr principala are Ab- sent. On n potision of voters Buporvisors shull Dba appointed to watch the wunf and the count. iy of buliots. The balluts sbull be stamped i the presence of Tho pursond voting thow, and are n:l, to. }'I: taken from the box until the vlosini of the polls. - con| WISCONSIN. Bpecial Dispatch to The Chicago Tribuna MADISON, Wis,. Apell 26,—Jumes T, Luan, Jcsae B, Thayer, and B, B, Woud have been ape polaton a Bonrd of Examiners of candidates for tunchors’ Stuto certillentos, and will bold examl- nations nt Madison, Buau Clalre, and Oshkosh Aug. 9,10, 11, and J2. PTENNSYLVANIA, Hanmsagra, P, Apeil 26.—A bill equalizing the rutoa of trunsportation - by ratlrond in Pean« sylvanin, prohibiting rebutes, drawba oto, 3728 Worodtd by tho tlouse, oy 00y —eee——— HYMENEAL. A Wedding in Migh Life at Allogheny City, Pa,—Prescuts ~Amounting in Value to §100,000—A Pleasant Uatri= monial Event at I'ittsburg, Spectal Dispatch to The Chicazo Tridune PLrTsbuna, Pa., April 2L~Tho most fashion- able wodding that has oceurred hero for yenrs toak plave in Allegheuy City this evening, the bride balug Misa Annlv Wolls, duugbter of Cnl- vin Welils, proprivtor of tho Philadeiphia Press, and ono of tho woalthicst Iron and steel man fucturors in this city, und the groow ltoburt W, Cuok, uttorney, and x graduute of Yale Colloge, for sovoral yoara being Captain uf tho victorie ous Yalo orew, ‘Tho cerumouy touk pluco at the residonce of. tho Lrido's puronts ou Lincoln ave- nuv, and was witnessod by o large numbor of tho most prominent people of Pittsburg, Tho Rov. Dr. O. L, Thompson olticlated in tho Eplscopal survico, with the rng. Tho bride wore whito watored sutin, duchosso luce, peuti thnulngs, squurg-oul corsuge, vourt mm'l. and digmond ornuionts, ~Tho bridos. i ro Mias Blmpsan, of Hnmkl{n. N Y.y Miss Wilkins, of Dutroit, Mich.3 Miss l{orne, of Ailegbony Citys and Mlss Bindla Wolls, aidtor of the bride. 'The kruomsmun wero . B, Bmith, of L‘mnimmtl‘ Dorblue Horwe, of Allegheny Cityt and Will Mullinsand WL Ore, of burg, 'The proseits wore numorous aid mml{, mnountig to over $100,000. The bappy couplo will sall mediately on the Algeri for un ex- tended European trip. Anotber brilliune weddlng took X“” about the wmme hour on thig side of the river, the high-coutraoting partics bohg Biias Eleanor MoUutobson, daughter of Jumes M (Tmnnfnn.n weaithy fran utgeonant, cm1 Chucles W, Collier,s0n_af Judge Calller. the lev, Dr, Parson, of Washington, 0. 0., ofticiuting, Tho prozents were mwakn!ticent and bountiful. e — (15 SR TR AT, rm we | Aunoia, Ik, April 26—~Tho Common Counoil yoted this evening to light the oity by the Hrush. ciputrlo light, uaing ax;;{n Hgbta At w:mm points, 4t 4 0ost af 6, r_ganum, the cone t unning to ex-Ald. xfi“ w}u KUVO Fouonts i‘-“éinflm oal:halluut.l'u ho will use I} jon the ongiuo of bis fuotary to farulsh tha roqulsls PUWOE, e e —— ROYAL ARCANUM, CINCINMATL, Q., Apri| S6.—The fourth aunual sossion of tho Suproma Couucll of “the Royal Arcanutn bugan hero this oveulng, A, E. Keyes, of Qblo, piealding. ‘The sunusl reparts of the Seoretary and Tre ryr show, for tha your ends ing Morch%), goneral fund rocelpts, $5,0651 ex- pouditures, 825,813 cash halunco, 8,87, ussols, $10,803; Labilitles, none. Widowa' und orpbans’ Benefit fund—Rocolpts, $364,74: exponditure 117 denth loses, full rates, and two nt half rato, nmounting to .00, Light nesessments wero toado _during the ‘year. Totat mowborsiiip, 28011, ° distributed a8~ fol- fowa: Mussachusotts, 5.9, U New York, 3297; Pennsylvanis Michignn,.! 18983 Mneviand, 1:59: fliinols, 1(02; Wisconsin, , 91: and tho remainder 1w othor States. Inoroass during tho year, 8,105 Death rato five por 1,000 e e—. TIRED OF LIFE. Dellberats nnd Peculinr Sniclde of &' - Young Girl at Windsor, Oanmds, Other Cascs of Scif-Destructiou. Bpecial Dispateh fo The Chicagn Tridune, DenorT, Mich., April 20.—Mary Lynch, rosid- fng with her widowed wnothor on Arthur stredt, Windsor, committed sulelda by banging this, morning. Bhortly before 8 Edward Hanraban was startiud by the nppearance of Mrs. Lynetr, an old lndy of 90 yonrs, who told bim Mary bid hung hersalf in her bedroom. Rushing into.tha hnuse, he found that the poor girl had litorally strangled horsolt to death by tho followlug method: Taking of her calicd belt, shetled (s, about her neck: thon, taking o towet, linked it through tho belt and tied tho ends togother, Btanding on 4 box near the open dvor of her bedroons, she alipped tho noose mado by the tawel over the curner of tho door, steppod off the box, and slawly choked to death. Her hands were not tied, and, had the act not been dolibs enite, she could rendily have savod harscll b) grusping the top of, the door and rilsiug hes : clonr of the noose. Tho alnem apread, and n largo crowd gatherod, nmoug thom James E. Cotter, who, learning that some individusl bad advised thy hystauders Lo leave the wornan hang- . Ing untll the Coruncr was calted, did all he could t overcome the absurd and ancient supcratition but, as no one nkroed with him, tho body was loft hanging for somo_tline before taken down® and lnld ot the bed, 1t was thon found to bo ® uite warm, und It it had been at once taken own ber [lfe mighl havoe boon mtied, Mary was a devoted Catholle, & faithful auughtor, and sbout tho Inst young woman in Windsor | ‘who would be suspecied of {ntending suicido. ————— ALASKA., - Disparoging Reports from the New Mines—A Noval Conferenca—a Erlttah Squadron, BAN Fraxcisco, Cal, April 28.~A dispatch tromn Viotoria, British Columbia, 8a; * Acore respondent -at Taco, Awska, writes disparas gingly from the now mines. He says thatoxcites ment nbout the Tueo mines Is graduxlly subsld= 1ng, aud nono of the old miners have much con- fidence in it. About seventy or cighty reen are reported to beon tho spot, but, s the ice has not yet got out of the sround, very littlo hag been dote, “Tha Comander-in-Chief of tho Pacifio Sta- tion, {tenr- Admiral Stirliog, will shortly neet Cupt. Arthir, nsval attacnd to the Washing- ton Uritish Bubnssy, ut San -~ Franclsco, 1o confor wilh that officor us to strengths eping , Vaucouver Islnnd, in. view of possible wur with forelyn nations, who could utitizo the barbor of $an Franelaco as a busa of operations: uuninst British interosta on tho Pacitie, Capt., Arthur wns formerly Captaln 10 tho torpedo-shlp Vernon. “The Triumph way urrive bero in June, *The Adinfrulty notiry that a deturnod squad- ron under thy tomnand of Rear-Admirsl the Itt.-Hou. Earl Clanwillinm, C, B., will leave Cn;i' of Good Hopu ubout Murch 31 tor Slngapore.. It will urrive Lere in Angust, J “Pupers for the extradition of the Russlen murdervr Mngse wore reccived from Washing- ton lust evenlog, aud the nnn, who is in conting~ ment In tho Jml, wiil bo delivered to an Amerls cun oflicor 10-morruw.” PULLED AT LAST. A Den of Infamy that Ias Long En- Joyed Imm Y. The Avlington Hotol, a manche on Mone roo strcot, Wust of Clagk, Is omo of tho down-town Dbulldings to which the cyprians and streat-walkors have tlocked sinco tho pollce Legnn tho roform work on that part of Stute stroet known as the “Lovee.” The Arlington is a botel in that 1t has a small soction of the hullway partitionud off for oflice uso, a koy-rack, und n registor; those lucking, and it I8 on 4 par with the Otls Building, froin which tho polfce puifed some two dozen maio iid fo- mulo prostitutes Mouduy uvemufi. Together with zavern! otbor-adjugent buildings tho Are Mingzton sheiters u troop of streot-wulkng dames who nluml{ causo a. portiua of Clark, Monroe, and Ln Sullo streets to resemble Stata strect, * whon {faroun af IHnrrison begnn makiug trips up and down through fts numorpus divas Alout once n-weok this ‘“hotel" 15 the scuna of u disgracoful brawl, but olther tha ukeut for the building, ar some ona cise, np- ears solld with the niministration, and uothing s over done by the police In the way of wntertol- ng with tho businessof tho “hotel.™ Lust night it wns diferent. AS oarly ns G:15 tho rancho was the sceno of an encotnter botween Mary. Jang Kerwla, faeierly the red-headed toreor o) Stato street, and ono of the gmpr!umr‘. J. Will- jams, 1% J._ Dalnn, the other propriotor, wus nbsolt at tho ting, and Willisms mado thing lively not only for Moy Jano, but for cvary other tenunt of tha bause, exlling thom ull surts ot foul namos and throatenlug to throw them ¥, bug and baggage ‘uto tho streot. He waai formerly u_koopor !u tho Ponitentlary at Juokson, ~Mich., and he koows. w to . do such thioes up in shape. In tho fow a keroseno lunp was broken, und Mary Juuo was burned pulnfutly about tho hunds and wrists, Dotootivo MoDonuld pre« vented the house from bLelng Nred, wnd other damnagaq bolay duno, by arresting Willinns and locking him up ut tho Armory. During tho evuning a detenment of Aruocy polios madsa 1’ deseent upon the hotel amd captured Dolan, sixX . * women, and two non, whn were booked us, keoper and inmnates of v bouso of 1l-fame. e —c——- A FRACTURED SKULL. But the Fracturce Doesn’t Ssom 1o Mind It Mush. ot Georgo Burnhardt, u wmill-stone drosser om- ployed at A. Plmnondon's factory on Clinton stroct, outered tho West Madison Stroot Station nt 6:4) lnst ovening to ontrent tho aid of the pos lice in senching vut an unknown mas who had intontionally thrown o stone, which baa struok . bim on tho right tewple, inllicting o desp gash, nnd causing 6 compound fracture of the skull. He was under the intlucuco of liquor, and tha rn“c&-. unncetistomed to seolng men with frao ured skulls walkig about town in scarch of tholr nssallunts, pefused at_ st to boligve bim. r, J, Sehaller, of No. 103 West [iandolpk stroot, who dressed tho wound, gave asiprancey that the man's skull was really fravtured, und that o wus in reality far worse hurt than houppeared to be, us mikht appenr within the space of o fow doys, shoutd inlimmntion act fn. 8 neatly 28 can” bo necertained, Jobn Gootz, who lives In tho upper story of u house nt No, 154 Fulton strect, of which Bernbardt occuples the lower Hoor, had, while deoply under the in- ¥ fluence of drink, quurreled with somo of the [ nelghbors shortly bofore 8 o'clock Inat svenioy Boroburdt bad been tng witl a_near nolghbor, thom, and [ tho souitlo and skirmlah which en: sued the stone was thrown, Nulther of the men Kkuow who threw it, but poasibly when thoy get sober they wiil ho able to recollect samathing moro thun they wern ablo to toll tast nf) o= tectives Hood' nod Staoton, wbo visl the seono shortly nitor the ntteay, wore unible to - nscertnfu whio throw tho etoud, but they think 16 Jikely that somu elow will bo found to- HJ. Bornhuzdt fe about 37 years of ags, and haa a | wifo und throe childron.’ His injury did not ap- . peur to enuse hiuy much troublo just ulght, anc the Dilmm aays ho wpy got on comlortably onouxh, ————— STEAMSHIP NEWS. st SoyziAnETaY, April 20—Avcived, tha Oder, ' from Now York. T Nry Yok, April 2,—Arrived, the Wyomlag, . {rom Livorpool. e NEw Yonk, Apsll 26.—Avrived, tha Amogique, - | from lHuvre. i X BAUTIMORE, Aptl) 20.~Arrivod, the Nov: Boatian, from Liverpool. e LONDON, April 28.-The Gou. Wardar, from New York. and tho Olympus, trom Boston, bavi arcjved out, e SHEEP-SHEARING FESTIVAL. . § Dispatch (0 Tha Chicago Tribumss™ = Mavisoy, Wis, April 2.—The Wisconsly | Bhovp-Breedors' and Wool-Urawurs' Assogiation will hokd It annual shoaring festival at Walter water Thuraduy and Friday noxt, the 35th aud 20th {nsts, Numorous prizes gre offopod fof o .. shicep wools und shearing. et g WENT THROUGH THE ICE .~ Arthur W. Cleaver, of Nu. 0163 Lake avenus, . yostepday foreucon at 11 o'clock reporied st they Cottuge Grave Aveyue Btytjon that be. had seen & man sink througts tho Yoo about u mila ouf in the luka ut the foot of Thirty-sevquthstyeol. .= When firet seoi, (e mau was 1 3 boat, shoating apparontly ntsca-gulls, Shovtly aftor bhe f° shoot ul h while Rgmz u?.‘ uly disupposred mouxl tha lue, s THE TOLEDQ POLICE TROUBLE, Bpectal Dispateh to The Chicago Tribunts ToLEpa, Oy, Aprl 2,~Oue vf thg atiornoys omplayed by the newly-oppoluted Buard af Vo~ llee Commlssioners o bring the wiattor hefore | n‘m supx;«hmo Coyre :;:u:;um trom Cnl‘umbun :r‘ i nlgut with the writ. 0 attoruays for the i) woumh:ucem ui:vw \lo casn w‘-fld be braught befara the Court in tou duys; buly 88 they wlil not do this, 1t wll ba deluyod for talsty duys or miore, 1 R