The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-07
The Flood at Portland. Oregon.

PORTLAND, Oregon, Feb. 6.-The water
is apparently at a stand still this after
noon, but is still up to the waist in front
of the Postal telegraph office. The water
reached the highest point % feet inches,
at o'clock this morning. Since then it
has fallen four inches in the channel. This
is the highest water in the history of the
city. The water falls slowly in the streets
and is not perceptibly lower, but is run
uiug through the street with less rapid
current and is free from heavy drift wood
in the channel. The bridges are believed
to be safe aud there is no evidence of any
serious damage to buildings. The only loss
in the business district would be from the
presence of water on the ground floors of
buildings, which will be trifing.
Reports from points on the Willamette
indicate that the river is falling very
rapidly. Detailed reports Of the damage
above will be slow to come in on account
of the interruption to Geographic COM
mnnication The most serious loss will
be the destruction of bridges which seem
to have been swept away everywhere. The
largest towns in the valley are well above
high water and only small and unimporJant
| buildings have been carried away. The
Interruption TO travel still continues but the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation company
| has established steamer service TO Cascade
Locks, above which trains are running.
Between Cascade Locks and here there Is
a succession of lapdslides, entirely o0llter
ating tue track in some places. The South
ern Pacific sent out a train on the branch
lineswes5 of there, but got no further than
McMinville fifty miles from here. No
trains have been sent out on the main line.
The Northern Pacific is running TO Ia
coma and is carrying the mails. Ii IS expected
that the railroad blockade to Cascade
Locks will continue days and that between
here and San Francisco for weeks as the
track and roadway have been Ell tirely d. S.
troyed for a considerable distance Meagre
advices from Ashland state that the South
ern Pacific railroad bridge across Umpqua
river has been washed out ard in Cow
Greek canon the railroad track has beer
virtually wiped out. Many smaller rail
road bridges between here and Ashland are
washed away and the company does not at
, tempt to send out trains.
On the west side of the Willamette rivel
! trains are running as far as McMinnville
The Union Pacific is blockaded by heay.
slides between this city and the Dalles ant
no trains are expected to be running TO
several days. The Northern Pacific is still
, running AT Salem sixty houses have BEEF
, swept away and many persons driven from
their homes, though as far as known n
lives were lost. Along river bottoms con
siderable livestock was drowned and larg
, quantities of grain and hay destroyed
The damage in this city will no
be so great as at first an
ticipated. Doci.s and wharves, Will
being submerged have ali stoo
the strain of the current, and now tn
water is decreasing it is thought the DANCE
l is over The Columbia river at Vancouvel
= Washington, is falling. At Eugene, Ore
gon, large wagon bridge ear Springfield
. went over today, also part of the bridg
near that city, causing a loss of $4,000. !
few small buildings and large amounts Q
cordwood, fencing and other materials hav
g been washed away, and the aggregat
losses will foot up many thousands c
e dollars. At Roseburg, Oregon, no train
n have arrived since Friday, and a shortag
of provisions is feared unless commune;
ton is restored soon. The bridge aero:
Greek creek and the wooden mills hay
been totally destroyed by the flood.