The Winnipeg Tribune from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada • Page 5

ELIE MENACED BY O'FEN DAM ICONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE. couth and east to an unlimited boundary. Dacotah. Biding and north to the Assiniboine river la all being flooded from the Assiniboine water let free through the opening of the dam. Farmers In the district atafe that they will not be able to do any seeding before June 1, even should the water commence to flow and dialn off the land Immediately.

It waa notified that the water la travelling particularly east towards the Canadian National railway tracks. It was stated this morning by residents of Kile that the Hutterites had lndcated that thoy would open the dam should their land become flooded to too great an extent. It Is understood, though, that the dam waa opened to prevent It being carried away by the combined waters of the Assiniboine and Mill creek. General conditions In the Elle dis-trct ax stationary. The water from Mill creek and the Little La Salle river la flowing east, but the current is not strong as yesterday, and no rise was registered during the night.

Basements of the houses in the town are flooded, and many of the stores axe also suffering. The Assiniboine river went up about two inches during the night, but before 10 o'clock this morning had subsided over three Inches. Ice which waa going down the river In large lots yesterday. Is now only floating down In stray pieces. All the Ice from the jam further west has gone down and any danger from the river and the jamming of the ice again la thought to be over.

The general opinion la that the water should be draining back to the creeks and rivers before noon Friday. "Hera Before and After" The farmers and residents of Elle are optimistic about the near future. They declare that the water has reached the 1916 high water marks end to this they add the xclama-tion, "We were here before It and we'll be her after it." Ste. Eustacbe is still dry and no danger of the flood water Is anticipated. Farms to the east and west have suffered considerably and the water In some places is three feet deep.

DYNAMITE RELEASES GREAT ICE JAMS By FRED O'MALUEY fSperlal Letter to Winnipeg Tribune MARQUETTE, April 26 Creaking and groaning under thou- fuinri nf tnnm nf Ire rnlpflMflri bv riv- namite from ams that piled at some places 20 feet above the bank, the Assiniboine river Is now running free here. The river is full to the level of Its bank at all points from Winnipeg westward to where the jam was broken (about sixty miles by the winding trail of the river or twenty miles as the crow flies), and, at many points. It Is flowing out over the country to the northand south. All this volume Is headed for Winnipeg and Is travelling at the rate of four or five miles an hour. After battling with the river and lee jams, miles of flood water from six o'clock Tuesday evening dynamite crew, under the direction of M.

A. Lyons, chief engineer of the good roads board of the department of public works, won to victory wed nesday afternoon. A double charge of dynamite placed under Ira in the middle of the river started the whole river moving. A rumble of churned up ice followed the explosion and then the towering mountain started to move, very slowly at first and then with a rush as the water from behind gave it momentum and start it crumpling up. It seemed like a huge monster had Just been stirred from eiumlmr, as, in angry protest at tbe disturbance.

It rumbled, roar ed, ana slewed tip against the banks tearing out great chunks of earth and smashing trees that stood alone its course. Aliv With Motion The whole river suddenly became alive with motion. The creaking of ice and dull thuds as It ploughed against the banks, where. Interspersed with sharp crackling sounds like rifle shots in the distance: trees were broken and torn up bodily along the bank. The first rush of ice and water carried away many telephone poles when the flood poured over the Portage gravel highway where It passes through the municipality of St.

Francois Xavler. This out off long distance communication witn Win nipeg. Fat men along the Portage highway, whose lands run right to the river bank and who, consequently, were badly flooded, volunteered their mm a ii i-fL The Original, Genuine, Guaranteed Measure GASOLINE PUMP with the Patent Automatic Measuring Device No ether Pump has this feature Beware of imitations. The motorists will eventually buy from these Honest Measure Pumps. S-e our line ef: Visible Oil Display Units, Air Compressors, Vises, and other Garage AGENT WANTED A good, reliable Commission Agent wanted to represent us in tbia province man with car preferred Philip Gies Foundry Kitchener Ont.

CANADIAN NATIONAL RYS. OFFER MANY PRIVILEGES There are many privileges at no additional cost offered the travelling public by the Canadian National railways. Travelling across Canada, tilers Is a wide choice of routing and stopover privileges, enabling passengers to cover ne-sr ground In both directions. Esquire at Tourisf and Travel Bureau, northwest corner Portage and Main (phone or T)epot Ticket Office (phono A3743). about choice of routes, east and i eat from AV'innlptg.

AdvU services and worked with the party under the supervision of Engineer Lyons. Their places have been under water since early Sunday and hourly the situation grew worse. Coupled with the hardships of caring for stock In a flooded country was the tear of what would happen if the Jam were not broken until the ire piled high enough to back water over the dyking constructed -alons the bank at low points. Farmers Iso stood lit fear of possible disaster from releasing the Jam as Its fore boding appearance caused apprelien- Ion for farm houses and barns close to the river, lest they be carried away before the mountains of Ice, They worked frantically all forenoon movinsr everything that waa portaoio away from the danger of moving ioe. Anxiously they gathered along tho dyking to watch when the Ice started moving and a general sigh or remit went up as the main Jam passed down the river, crumpled Into small pieces and steadily grated on Its course towards the city.

Lives in Danger Farmers in their homes along the river bank were actually in danger of their lives until the huge floes missed. Trees torn un by the roots drifted along on top of huge Ice rakes and dirty chunks ot eartn rippea fronv the banks rolled out into the rlver Ice in the main Jam gouged earth from the wall of the river bank Ti its action resembled that of a giant plow. Warning was passed down tho river from house to house that the river was open and the big drift was coming. The main Jam that caused tne r- er to overflow its banks and pour over the Portage highway west of Poplar Point and along the outskirts of the municipality of St. Francois Xavier, occurred west of Joe Curtln's farm.

It had been held there since Sunday afternoon, gaining in size an more ice piled up behind. For four miles along the highway water poured over In torrents completely sub merging hundreds of acres of farm land. Tho water rose over lence tops and farm machinery left in the fluids disappeared from signt alto gether. It spread out over the prai rie to within half a mile of Thomas Wood's (reeve of the municipality) farm buildings, nearly three miles from the river. The trade at many pointa was washed out and for miles the roadway was totally submerged.

Two miles east of the main jam. a second wedge of Ice formed across the river about a hundred yards west of John Patton's farm. Other Jams of losser magnitude formed at inter vals of about a mile between each, at the rear of the farms of W. C. Dellbridge, L.

I. Snary and Fred lloude. Task of Dynamiting Craw Tbe task before the dynamiting crew was to break up all of these. They were at work almost with the break of dawn, feverishly bending to the work of clearing the river be fore the main Jam came down. Get tlnir from noint to Doint wasA pro blem in Itself.

Horses were piayea out from being forced through ice- cold water belly-deep. The parishes of Hale St. Paul, Beh court. KL Francois Xavler and Pop Inr Point were all under water, in only means of transportation from THE WIA-Nimi EViNlxNU -TIUBUNE, THUKiSDAY, A1J1UL '215, 19L'3 settlements along the river to Marquette, Poplar Point railway station or Reanurn waa by boat down tne highways and over fields of summer-fallow. The boats Just rode over fence tops, hay stacks and farm ma chinery left in the field.

The water was anywhere from four to eight feet deep. Stock was moved to places of safety on high knolls and manure piles. At L. 1. Snary's farm a herd of cattle, numbering 30, along with four horses, were ma rooned on top of a manure pilo where they had been feeding, completely surrounded ty water for three days.

It they eat enough they will Just naturally consume their island and place of refuge for the time be ing, in barns and stables Tuesday morning water rose to a depth that endangered the lives of stock and It was necessary to drive horses and cattle out to points of refuge. The Jubilee grade bridge was car ried away with the flrst rush of wa ter after the Jam was broken and late Wednesday afternoon It was lo cated several miles from lta home. Its drift out over the prairies was arrested by a barbed wire fence. Horse Is Drowned Tuesday afternoon sons of John Patton, farmerset out with a horse and wagon to retrieve a boat that had drifted from its moorings. While returning with it the horse sunerea cramps and was drowned.

The boys were forced to jump irom me wagon Into the icy water in a futile endeavor to cut the traces and save the beast. They narrowly escaped drowning. W. C. Dellbridge.

farmer in the parish of Bale St, Paul for the last twenty-two years and veteran of mnv Drevlous floods, stated that In all his experience there never before was such a- volume of water in tne river. Reports received from Ell. south of the river, Wednesday afternoon stated that about noon water was flowing over the south bank and going through the town like a deluge and had carried away telephone poles. Large chunks of ice were riding on top of the water. Farmers In the district worked ho-roically In a very despondent frame of mind, faced the prospects of not being able to get any seeding done in many places for a month yet.

Flood-water reached Sir James Alkln's stock farm on the south Bide of the river Wednesday afternoon. Thrills and Hardships The trip from Marquette with 500 pounds of dynamite by the engineering party sent out by the department of public works Tuesday, had many thrills and numerous hardships. To get the explosives to the river bank it was necessary to toad It onto a wagon which also carried four men. The wagon with Its load ot dynamite and the party in charge Jostled over three miles of soggy farm land to the edge of the wide lake ot flood-water where it all had to be transferred Into a home-made punt and rowed another three milea to where the ice had blocked the river. Even hay stacks were no obstruction In the way of the boat.

For mfles around could be seen evidence of the damage caused by the flood. Caught up against a telephone pole where the water flowed over the highway was part of a wagon that had washed off the Iberville road a mile and a half away. The carcass of a horse floated around a hundred yards from it. A Near-Disaster Making the return trip almost proved disastrous. While passing over a wire fence the boat scraped along the top of a post, halted for a moment and spun around like a top and then slid off sideways, shipping buckets of water.

No further jams In the river are expected, but as a precautionary measure dynamite has been left st strategic points along the banks for use in case of emergency. It will be weeks before repairs are possible along the Portage gravel road. FLOOD WATER GRADUALLY ENGULFS TOWN OF ELIE By SAM ROSS ITrtbune Staff Correspondent ELIE. April 16 With the blasting of the three Ice Jama here Wednesday, Elie, and a considerable area surroundins it, is free from the disastrous flood of the Assiniboine, but wnter from Mill Creek and the LaSalle River Is gradually submerging the farm lnnds and engulfing the town. Dams are being built along the roads by the farmers to prevent them being washed away, but thin appears to be of no avail.

The white-capped ripples are slowly but surely eating ncross Ferry rnnd that leads from the Canadian National railway station to Allary's ferry on the Assiniboine river, eight miles-north of here. The water la flowing east and is taking a large quantity of mud and sand deposits with It. Under the supervision of Fred Lynch, of Cartier, the Ice Jams were broken Wednesday, at three different points all within miles. Each Jam was about a quarter of a mile long but, as the Ice was well honeycombed by the sun and wind, little difficulty was experienced in breaking It. About 200 pounds of dynamite was used.

The men started operations early Wednesday morning on the centre Ice Jain, the ice then began to form one large Jam at the eastern point, but this was soon broken and the field then began to float on to wards Pleadingly and Winnipeg, Many large pieces are In the floe and It Is carrying broken trees, lum ber and mud deposits. Part of Cabin en Floe Part of a wood cabin waa seen among the debris as it swung around the bends of the river in a very strong current. As the furious water rushed on with Its burden of ice it scraped Into the river bank, tearing up small trees, the roots or wnicn were submerged. Part of the embankment has been carried away by the water and ice as it rubs against the clay and sand at a point where the river takes a sharp bend. There is great danger of another ice Jam The Canadian people, after the signing of the Armistice, had ONE EXCITING NIGHT How Can Anyone Who Needs Shoes Hesitate v.

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A careful watch Is being kept here as well es at other spots by municipal workmen. Tha little LaSalle river and Mill creek have overflowed their banks and are now about three times normal size. Foot and traffic, bridges are collecting timber. Aa It floats down It often Jams underneath. The water.

In some instances, is touching the floor of the bridge. When both creeks overflowed the banks, the water was forced eastward and is now covering some of the most arable land around. Where the Assiniboine over flowed Us banks the water Is rushing to Join the foaming lakes formed by the LaSalle river and Mill creek. No distinction Is made ot the land or who owns it. Part of Sir James I Aiklns, lieutenant-governor of Manitoba, farm Is submerged, while that of Senator Aline Henard Is being wahed away in Places.

Trees Undermined Strong trees are undermined on Rennrd's farm, where the big storm of June 23 played so much havoc. The water is about nine Inches by the river. If It gets deeper than that grain must be removed front the granaries on Sir James' farm. This already Is being done only with the greatest difficulty. The water Is already about a toot deep and horses and wagon must plunge through it.

ine tnrms of Tom Griffith and Fred Rynet are also under water In parts and further inundations are feared. John Paton, whose farm Is on the south side of the Assiniboine, lost a horse while drawing grain from his granary to higher lund. The horse, It Is understood, was drawing load through two feet of water when It csme to a sudden drop In the land. It fell and, before It could be got out, was drowned. The water In several places has crossed Ferry road.

On both north and south grades of the old Grand Trunk Pacific railway lines the foamy water Is running across In miniature water falls as It flows along the ditches which are now level with the prairie waters. The current Is very strong and small rapids form a pretty scene. CONDITIONS IMPROVING AT PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE PORTAGE LA PRATRIH. April ti Th ewater level of the Assiniboine here still continues to recede, although the flood waters are coming through the parks board sluice way in a regular torrent and they have wr.shed away the banking of the channel which conveys the river water to Crescent lake. The surface water is drying up fast here.

Medical health officer II. A. Gordon issued a statement Wednesday to the effen that the city water couid now be used, but that the water taken from sand I laMkr atmrnW I Mf II points or wells should be boiled for a few days yet, as the surface water was contaminating the cipally water. The Central school is able to hold classes today. Wednesday the water was in the furnace room and they were unable to fire the building.

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