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Worse Than In 1881

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Day
6
Month
April
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Minnbapolis, Minn., April 3.- The Journal's Cantón, D. T., special says: The Missouri flood at Elk Point duplicates the disastrous times of '81. Reports f rom there say the town is inundated and rail connection completely cut off. Several miles of Milwaukee tracks are washed out and trains take a circuitous route. There was a warm rain here Monday night, but the river is still Bolid. A special from Sioux City, Iowa, to The Dispatch says: Meager reports received here from Elk Point indícate the overflow the worst ever known. The water is two inches higher than here in 1881. Very little ice is floating and the river is gorged opposite Ponca The water left the Missouri river and crossed the low lands near Jefïerson thence involving the Big Sioux. The Milwaukee company sent a gang of men to the Big Sioux Tuesday morning in hopes of keoping the ice and wood from carrying away piers of railroad bridges.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News