The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-25
THE FLOOD PASSED.
New Railroad Bridges All With
stand the Log Jams.
GREAT NORTHERN EXP


10 chanRe was reported yesterday In the con-
oision Of alIaifs at the enohomish bridge Of the
Lax Shore railroad. The liver was still falling,
pat me Jam had not gone ont and the crow We
wo1xing hard 70 strengthen the bridge All
danger Il now believed to b pest. unless new
ueshes comes greater than the iask
Cnief Engineer TAlcott returned yesterday
rom the front He says that the Skagit river
rose within three fest Of its highest point, and
put the eedFo bridge to severe tssI bringing
down boom Of logs GO feet long and sixty-nve
Iees wfdes which reached the loweat chord.
Fortunately the draw span wss ia place and tie
iaise work had ell teen taken out 20 that the
danger va reduced to . minimum. About
AUD yards q rock had also been dumped in the
oz1Onang q the pierl and only LOCO Of 1850
yards more 10 needed to make Il aolid. The
water = falling rapidly. having sunk ak feet on
Inussday, and the jam has al gone out and
drin has stopped coming down.
A tolessnn from the Nooksack saad that the
mood there had carried ont one bent Of the tres
ue on the north fork. but no further damage
nad becn done. 1ae piling has not yet been
onveu All across the river. and the false work
has been built between two piers.
The Nooksack Il one Of the most difacult
streams 70 bridge in the Sound country. The
eouth fork. which rises near the source Of the
skagt 10 usually qsist stream Of comparative
warm water bul Il has been booming for the
last few days. The middle fork. which 10 the
NAN stream, lows right from the glaciers Of
Mount Baker, and II . cold, rushing mountain
10 ~ snoIs 9Assnce anove ~ commence
go sne souen aork = = joined ~ the north
~ = - n HsI 80 Low from MOUNT Seker AZ
sne Onnusnce WHO the soatn tork the main
stream, which has beea flowing in almost the
opposite direction TO that tributary, dashes
against high rock blum and there forms Z
great eddy. From that point Il lows almost due
vest The Lake Shore road will croas the south
.olA. rug s,ong me iowiand On IT. banks for six
seseu 1aaes. end sAen cross the nofsn FORK Juss
roose - eonnuence' Insn u wiz run along
'1T uoseom. ana ecross the divide 70 the LumaA
ALe suha&uamisn nvef has also risen to
noOu- uoe' puuane unoer watsr places ON the
lOu.s o. sne eeetue Z Montana ROAD which
.s.c eApec.eo 70 o ofy TINS nas delayed work
- suo cfoeaug northeast OF Stanw00d.
The extension Of the Great Northern railroad
20 the Coast viii stir mp the question of express
service over that line. The American Express
Company haa the business at present bat has
no contract. % that President Hill can give the
1T The American Express Company Il eacer to
get to the Coast and wou.d probably nay : high
price for the Great Northern frenchise. II has
been reaching westward for some years. Il
made an agreement with the wells Farro m.
press Company not to come We NJ of the Miseouri
river il the Wells Fargo would not extend east
OF that stream But when the Great Northern
was extended 10 Butte. the American q.
tended its business 70 that point claim
ing that q Bate II NOT vest Of the
Missouri, It was not violating the
the ~ ~. !. nolsa :.
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