Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1899 — GREAT FLOOD AT OMAHA. [ARTICLE]

GREAT FLOOD AT OMAHA.

Ataralac Condition* Canted by Bite of the Missouri River. The rite of the Missouri river in the vicinity of Omaha caused alarming conditions, and people in the lowlands and those 'who own property there have had reason for extreme anxiety. Watehmen, armed with shotguns, were kept guarding at the Locust street dyke, at the south end of Cutoff lake, with the intentiou of shooting any person or persons they might catch trying to cut through the dyke in order to permit the" escape of the flood of water that is overspreading East Omaha From the upper river country come alarming reports of the Missouri’s ravages. In Union County, South Dakota, the .river has cut deep into the banks toward McCook lake, an old river bed. It lacks only a short distance now of getting through, and should this happen a new course would be made across valuable farm and timber laud into the Sioux river. Already-one Woman has lost 250 acres of timber land. It is simply falling into the river, carrying trees and everything else with it The river may yet tear a new course into Dakota County, Nebraska, and