The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-06-06
FIGHTING 4 FOREST.
Trees OverWhelm : Growing
Young Western Town.
VICTORY or THE VEGETATION.
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bsr Furnishes Thens 1sr - Im-
seinsstvs Frsneh Neveaist.

Tia rite Waa suTePh for b<1f}dfUH n t0Kn.
Thev 80 onlv Is clear the river hank By
Telling Z narf Of the forest. Of the immense
yirrin forest rooted there since the begin
ninr ~ tn vorid Then. sheltered III
around be wooded hills, the town would
descend to the ouays Of magnificent hsr-
Dor established q the mouth Of the Red
river. bat four mlles from the 80.
As soon - the government q Washing
ton bad granted The privilege carpenters
and wood-choppers went 70. work. But
ron never saw such forest Ciinging TO
the soil With al its vines. with I'll its roots,
when they feiled it u one snd Il sprang up
again at the other. acquiring fresh youth
from e wounds: and each blow OF the AZ
brought ous green buds. The streets. the
town squares. barely marked ont. we're IN
vaded By vegetation. The walls grew less
quickly than the trees, and, g soon -
raised. crumbled beneath the upheavai OF
the still living roots.
To overcome this resistance that dulled
the blades Of the hatchets and axes they
were obliged 70 have recourse TO hre. DAY
and night suffocating smoke fiied the
dense thickets. while the tai trees above
famed like wax candles. The forest strose
to continue the struggle retarding the
CONFEDERATION x;th f1oods al San and the
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49,, S N.ou1 - ~ -,
Einsiiv WihteI came On. Inc Sno~ @
iike second death upon the broad isnos
full Of blackened trunks and charred roots.
Now they could build
so..-,. ~.~.rxa Mss
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BOON IN enormous to~n, an IN "oou,
Ike Chicago, stretched along the bank OF
the Red river, with its broad, straight
streets. numbered and glittering about It's
SQUARES. its Merchants Exchange, its mar
re,. 4. church.. ;,s .chooIhouses and the
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no'o lNao na'n .. s1S ,. .assaI
mouse ssstonss COCKS oepots shu sniPyAIus.
The town OF wood (WOOdtown. - they
called III, was speedily peopled by the
plaster-drvers of new places. a feverish
sctivitv VS. disulaved in eyery Quarter but
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upn s11 sa..oul1us n..As y - ..', n..h.s
sne CROWDED tnofougniares sno sue Nal oo1
packed with vessels som Der ana menac-
ing mass extended in semi-circie. ltwas
the forest looking on.
Twas gazing At the insolent town that
had taken from it its place on the river
bank and 5000 gigantic trees. All Woods
town was made OF IFS life. The towering
masts that swayed down in the harbor,
those innumerabie roofs: inclined one to-
waro tne otner. even 70 we last nus o. tne
aoss .S S,ssans sucuso: nsu =. - ~,
even t l sn mimi Lm;t;ne it, serv,ce only
hv fhs isncsh ~ 10 hrsnches Hence that
terrible hatred it cherished against that
town Of thieves
While winter lasted they perceived moth
ing. The people of Woodstown heard oc-
casionaily hollow cracking in their roofs.
| in theil furniture. From time to time
wall was cleft asunder, store-counter
| noisily burst In twain. But new wood Is
subject to such accidents, and no one at
at the commencement Of spring. sudden,
| fierce spring. % rich In sap that they
heard il beneath the ground like the
| babbling Of brooks-the soil began 10 be
| agitated. upheaved by invisible forces. In
| each house the furniture, the partition
| walls swelled. and they saw upon the floors
| long bulges such - mark the passage OF .
| mole in the fields. Neither doors nor vim
| doWs-nOthing, In fact, worked any longer.
ut is the dampne 7" said the inhabitants.
when warm weather comes that will be
over"
AN APPALLING MIRACLE.
| Suddenlv IN The morrow of : praat
| ..c.,,, rs,,,.. s.,,,, ~. -. ~h,ch h-o,.,ht
ssoll - oosue s,o.. o a' - o1es
summer amiu its sSoscnine iieusnins shu
iukewafm ram. the toWn. Wheh u aWoke,
| uttered cry OF stupOr. The red roofs OF
| tho puoHc DultG1uES. Inc EcuIfe9 Oh Inc
/ churches, the floors Of the houses and even
| the wood nj the beasteaas we're
s,-;rrl.a w;,h r~..c t;nt .h;n
| ~ monld 6Inv as lace Caoselv
ex.mined Il vas. ou.rtitv az ,nicr !. comic
buds. in which the rolls of leaves could al
| ready be distinguished. This freak of the
rain amused without causing alarm, but
before evening bouquets OF verdure were
oioommg Wnere-upoh the furniture,
sh.r ,,ar.a - th.n r;sh,l. r ~" -
/ the hand. one felt them erow and sfrnocis
| ike fiuttering wings.
The following day all the apartments
had the appearance of greenhouses, Vines
clambered up the rails OF the stairways In
the narrow streets the branches Joined one
| roof to another. casting over the noisy
town the gloom of the avenues of the for
est. Matters were becoming alarming,
While the assembled scientists were delib-
Grating over this case of extraordinary veg
citation, the crowd FASTENED out-of-doors 10
see the different aspects OF the miracle
The exciama atoms OF surprise. the aston
ished noise OF ali these Idle people gave
solemnity to this strange event. Suddenly
some one cried ont: Look at the forest!,
And IL was observed with terror that in the
last two DAYS the yerdant semi-circie had
approached very much nearer The forest
had the air OF descending toward the town
A whole advance guard of briers and vines
had stretched out as far as the first houses
OF the suburbs
STRANGE INVASION.
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