Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-01-15
OREGON.
Tie Storm Up HOrth-Further Partic.



PORTLAND, January 14th.-The following
are the latest reports received from the storm
The first train on the West Side road since
Friday arrived to-day. From passengers the
report is received of a great destruction of
timber in Yamhill county, and many barns
and outbuildings damaged. No loss of life
or injury to person has been reported along
the line of the road.
There is eight inches of snow at CASTOR,
none at Cornelius, and from six to eight inches
between Forest Grove and North Yamhill.
a train left this city as usual this afternoon.
Reports from South Yamhill county are to
the effect that in the country surrounding
McMinnville fences were laid waste and
orchards severely treated No loss Of life has
been reported. The stock in some localities
have suffered, and the roads, wherever pass
ing through forests, are blocked with fallen
trees. 1t will require several weeks to re-
open the roads.
The southeastern portion of Washington
county, which is heavily wooded, got the full
force of the tempest, and sustained irrepara-
bic damage.
In the vicinity of Tualatin bridge, not
more than one tree out of twenty-five is left
standing.
Tualatin bridge, ten miles out from this
city, was torn away, was Fields bridge,
the lowest on the Tualatiu.
Shipley bridge, on the Oswego Railroad,
was also carried away.
Sheds, barns and fences were blown down
in the neighborhood of Oswego, and the cosl
shed of the iron works at that place was
blown down. The roads are blockaded wi h
fallen trees, in many places five or six deep.
In the neighborhood of Beaverton and
Glencoe, in Washington county, great de al
of damage WAS done. The bridge at Jolly S
mill was carried away. The main span OF
Glencoe bridge f1oated off, and Wooley S
bridge was damaged
Late reports from Linn county are to tie
effect that much damage was done in that
portion of the valley. No lives were lost, so
far as known, but there was great destruction
to fences, timber, orchards and houses.
Reports from various sections of Clackamas
county state that the gale prevailed with un-
precedented fury. Houses, barns, fences,
trees, ETC., offered but feeble resistance to the
angry element. The roads leading through
heavily timbered districts are blocked with
fallen trees so that they will not be passable
for ten days or more. No lives are reported
lost.
A dispatch just received from Umatilla,
Eastern Oregon, says:
1.-The storm was the most terrific ever ex-
perienced in this region. Scarcely building
in the town entirely escaped the fury of the
gale. A great many were Frustrated. 1t is
feared that great damage has been done in the
country hereabouts to buildings, fences. hay
stacks, stock, ETC. Had the storm occurred
at night even greater destruction of property
would have occurred, and probably some
lives would have been lost. We put all the
fires out and attempted to secure the houses
by braces, ropes, ETC., but in a number OF
cases the timbers were broken and ropes
snapped like Irvine"
For the first time since last Thursday COT
nec!ion was made yesterday by the Astoria
boat with the cars at Kalama.
train bound for Kalama was caught last
Friday evening in very heavy snow-storIn
at Terio. The snow was lying on the track
to depth of 50 inches, and the locomotive,
in its efforts to make Roadway, got off the
track. 1t was found that the locomotive
could not be got back while the snow was so
deep, and the train was compelled to remain
at that place until Monday morning, when a
locomotive with snow plow arrived. The
snow was cleared off and the ditched locomo-
tive placed on the track. The road in many
places was blocked by land slides. Over
these distractions temporary track was
laid. After surrounding great difficulties
the train reached Kalama in safety. No one
was injured The weather was not cold,
notwithstanding the snow, and the passen
gers got along quite comfortably during the
time the train was snow-bound. Very little
timber is down along the line of road. Only
| few trees were thrown across the track
No heavy wind was experienced by the de
lsyed train. The track is being put in al
good condition as possible for the present.
On both sides of the Columbia, between
Vancouver and the Cascades, great destruc
ton to timber and houses is reported.
During the prevalence of the gale in thu
city the entire roof of the Masonic Templ'
was orn off, and considerable damage to thu
building resulted from leakage.
| The force of the storm was not nearly So
great at Umpgua as in the Willamette valley
The greatest velocity Of the wind at Rose
burg. as recorded at the Signal Service Office
was u miles per hour
| 1t is reported that at the State Peniten
tiary the damage by wind and rain Is IA
more than at first anticipated, and that tn
rain has wet the plastering, and some of tn
rooms are completely fl o1ed. II is hard Z
estimate the probable damage, as the leakag
cannot be stopped until the rain ceases.