People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — HEAVY FLOODS FEARED. [ARTICLE]

HEAVY FLOODS FEARED.

Mountains of Snow Cover the Entire Northwest.’ The states of Minnesota and North and South Dakota are in a nervous condition over the prospects of the next few days. It has snowed every day this month, Sunday’s storm being the greatest in weeks. There are literally mountains of snow all over this .section. Railroad trains are in a hopeless tangle. The people are beginning to realize that if the snow should go off with a rush or accompanied with a downpour of rain, as is likely* at this season of the year, the biggest flood would result ever known in the Northwest. It would cause incalculable damage along the Mississippi and tributary streams, and overflow the Red river valley to such a depth that it would prevent the seeding of thousands of acres.