The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-08-02

length, demolished nearly everything in
its course, including rne house on Foster
street and two on South Union street
where they cross Springfield street, passed
from Springfield street into Union square,
leveling over 500 trees, aud thence over
Shawseen river, where it exhausted itself
The fremen rendered great assistance
in removing the injured from the runs,
and business men carried several mangled
and crippled human beings to the hos :
pital. Others were taken to private
houses.
WALLACE IN ASHES.
SPOKANE FALLS, July 27.-News has
Just been received here that the town OF
Wallace, Idaho, the great mining camp
of the Ceur d'Alenes, has been completely
destroyed by fire. At 7o'clock this even
ing the Union Pacific train dispatcher at
Tekoa, WASH, received word from the
Western Union operator at Wallace that
the town was doomed, and that bis office,
which was in the Union Pacific depot at
the lower end of the towr, was becoming
too hot to work in longer and that he
would be compelled to remove his instru-
ments to cooler place ut once. The fire
started at what was Shorty Denver's
saloon, resort in the upper end of the
town, and as the Union Pacific depot is
at the other extremity, it Is supposed that
the entire town was swept away. This
conjecture is confirmed by the report that
at this hour 20 P. NJ at Tekoa that
nothing further had been heard by the
Tekoa dispatcher from the Wallace oper.
alor.
10 P. Mt is now learned definitely,
through an official of the Union Pacific,
hat the entire town is gone, with the ex.
ceptiOn of the two railroad depofs. The
wires are all down and further particulars
are unoDtainable. The loss IS thought,
by Spokane business men who are inter
ssted in the town, to be fully halt mill
on if not more.
The town of Wallace IS situated 1f0
southeast of Spokane, in deep canyon
N spur of the Rockies, and is one OF
he most fiourishing mining camps in
he United States, no less than, a dozen
mines being directly ,ribu
AIRY, among them being the famous
and Evening mines.
at 10; 10 P. NJ. special from Tekoa to
he IieUieW was received as follows:
Through the operator at Wardner it has
oeen ascertained that the fire started in
he Central hotel and burned north and
.ast over the entire business part of the
own. tt was also rumortd that the
Union and Northern Pacific depots, with
he cars on the side tracks, were burned
LATER.-A private dispatch just re
;eived says the town is entirely destroyed
md fifteen hundred people are homeless
Every business house ia burned; no ex-
eptions.
HE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL WILL BE |
CONSIDERED.
WASHINGTON, July 27.-The interest
in the river and harhor bill on |
he Pacific coast, evidenced in the tele-
ram received yesterday and LAID before
be senate by Mitchell, may result in
ctive efforts by the Pacific coast deIega |
ion 10 have the bill considered in the
ear future. The commerce committee is
cry anxious to have the bill put through
nd has instructed the chairman OF the
ommittee, Frye, to confer with Aldrich,
Flo is in charge of the tariff bill, to de-
ermine upon the best time for calling up
he river and harbor measure DOlph,
'ho is member of the commerce COM
nit;ee, has been using every effort to have
he matter taken up. At the caucus of
republican senators held some time ago,
rye asked for instructions about the
ill, but beyond expressing a belief that
ne bill should be considered as regular
ppropriation bill, to be given right of
1ay at any time, the caucus did nothing.
rye has not desired tc antagonize the
ariff bill with his measure, but be feels
he necessity of having 1t put into what
nay be long conference as soon as posi-
lie. There are chances, of course, that
be bill will not go through. There has
cen feeling among the friends of the
ill for some time that the White house
1fluence was inimical to il. They have
elieved, therefore, that there was pos.
Ibillty that the bill would be killed. The
asiest way to do that would be to prevent
Is consideration in the senate. Frye will
oubtless make an effort to have 1t taken
p before the end of the coming week, or
arly in the week following. He will try
} reach an agreement with Mr.. Aldrich,
,Iling this, he expects to antagonlze
be tarii bill with the river and harbor
ill In the morning hours.
ADDITIONAL REPRESENTATION.
The talk of electing an additional rep
to congress IN Washington,
rho is to take his seat on the condition
rat congress would admit him because
IS state, under the census, was entitled
, another member, has reached Wash
,gton. Members of congress who are
on such matters say that 1t
ould be waste OF time, because no ex-
a member of congress will be admitted