The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-02-15
FURTHER DETAILS
Of The Flood in the VIII
IaInette Valley.
THE RIVER FALLING RAPIDLY.
An Unknown Man Drowned in the Rush
ing Waters.

ing Waters.
A $4,000 Wharf COllapses-Tel'
egra phic Communication Open
Again-A Man Jumps With
Serious Results.-Gen.
eral News, Etc.
Special 10 the TIMES. .MoUNTAISEER:
PORTLAND, Or, Feb. Never before
was so warm a welcome extended by cit
izens of Portland as greeted the reappear.
ance of terra .frma this morning. The
gauge at the foot of Stark street shows a
hight of twenty seven feet above low
water, decline of 1s inches from the
extreme hight of the flood. 1t is falling
at the rate of one inch per hour. The
business portion of the city including
Front, First aud all cross streets have
beenthe scene of great activity. In all
buildings from Morrison to G street the
| first floors were covered with mud to an
average thickness of half an inch. Hun.
dreds of men and boys have been busily
engaged sweeping, scrubbing and scrap
ing in order to get stores and offices in
shape tor the transaction of. business.
Sidewalks, crosswalks and wagon ways
leading down to the docks and wharses
are torn up In many places and washed
away. From Morrison to Stark streets
all first floors are bare; but from Stark
street to q point midway between be-
tween Oak and Pine streets they are still
inundated. Below Pine street they are
dry again, but the street is not visible
till A street is reached. and the food is
again apparent from D street to G..
/ The bridges are safe. The Morrison
street structure has not admitted vehicles
owing to the fact that some boards were
torn up by drift wood. The foot passen-
ger way, on the south side, is damaged
on the west shore. The central pier is
ia about as good condition as 1t was be-
fore the flood, The docks are all solid
as far as the foundations are concerned,
though soma of the super-structures
are damaged.
None of the steamboats, were injured,
and so far as known only the ship Patter-
dale has suffered in the least.
No damage has been reported to mer.
cbandise among either Front or First
street stores except Bernhelm & Manner,
who will lose about forty barrels of sugar.
Fhe loss of business and the labor of
Rising or removing stock, of course, will
figure among losses. Not one of the
First street houses was able this morn
ing to state what they will be out by
reason of the flood; but doubtless the
sum will average not over 800 TO each
firm. All day long drays and express
wagons have been hauling stock from
warehouses back to the stores from which
it was taken during the rise.
In many places on Front street the
pavement has lost its foundation and
consequently numerous depressions are
found. One large one caused man to
get ducked at the corner of Parke &
Lacy's on Front street. The hole is large
enough to let wagon through.
No drift wood has come down the
river to day.
About 10 o'clock this morning man
came riding down the river in the middle
of the stream sitting astride log. He
went under the first bridge, but nobody
went out to him. When last seen he was
sailing past the mills below the city.
Where be came from no one knows. He
was bareheaded and wore no coat.
A dispatch from Oregon City this noon
stated that early this morning stranger
was drowned there. HIS n1me could not
be learned. He was helping some tele-
/! graph linemen. When the report first
came it stated that two Western Union
men were lost; but soon afterward it was
contrad,cted.
The Telegram contains no dispatches
this afternoon on account of great rush
OF business which has completely flooded
telegraph offices since eastern wires were
| secured.
The Western Union have secceeded in
getting a line as far north as Riddles, and
by six o'clock will reach San Francisco
direct. They now handle San Francisco
business by way of Helena.
The damage done on the east side to
wharf owners, lumber men and Others
are more serious end may amount to
thirty thousand dollars. Johnson's
wharf, which cost $4,000, collapsed
to-day.
A FATAL LEAP.
| A Man Jumps From Thtrd-Story
| window with serious Results.
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