History of Rapid City, South Dakota, USA

Rap'id City, a post-village, capital of Pennington co., S.D., 45 miles by rail S.S.E. of Deadwood. It has 7 churches, 4 banks, 5 newspaper offices, and manufactures of building-material, stucco, cement, tiles, fire-brick, &c. Here is the state school of mines. Pop, in 1890, 2128.

Rapid City, a banking city, capital of Pennington co., S.Dak., 40 miles SE. of Deadwood, on the Northwestern Line. It is in the Black Hills mining region and has the South Dakota School of Mines, a chlorination plant, a foundry, etc. Pop. in 1900, 1342.

Rapid City, June 25. - Five people are known to have been drowned in the terrible flood in the Black Hills last week, and it is greatly feared that others will be found when some of the ranches within a radius of thirty or forty miles of Rapid are visited. Word was received here Sunday that Clint Davis and his family have not been seen since the flood, and as the house has been carried down and cannot be found, it is feared that the family were in it. The ranch house of Eardly Ham was struck in the night by the flood and the family were compelled to take refuge in an upper story until 5 o'clock the next afternoon, when they were rescued from their perilous position. Another family in this vicinity were forced to abandon their home and spend the night out of doors on a slightly higher place, either standing or sitting in the water. John E. Murphy, in charge of the government irrigation dam at Belle Fourche, last night received word from his wife that a child had been drowned and asking ...