The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-31
THE STORM is OVER.
Damage Done by the Wind is
Quickly Repaired.
TELEGRAPH LINES ARE ALL UP.
Tash-Outs From High Waves on Great
Northern shore Line-Many Trees
Across the Track.

NO further reports OF serious damage caused
py tuesdays storm came in yesterday, and the
interruption 70 communications has come 10
an end Reports from the north show that the
worst fury OF the storm covered only limited
ares, Tor ii was not felt very severely further
north than the mouth OF the Skagit along the
sound and inland did not extend far north of
snohomish
he steamers escabed serious damage by lying
up iii the worst over. The steamers Sc
home and Premier both remained at Anacortes
Inc oehoine made Whatcom Tuesday morning,
bur the gaze was worse coming back and the
captain decided 10 wait at Anaeortes with the
Premier until il aba,ed. Both bosts arrived in
about $50 o clock Yesterday morning.
captain Anderson. mate on the steamer W. F.
Munroe, gas al the whee when the boat was
coming IN TUESDAY afternoon, aud she lurehed 80
mat hls feet waFe driven through one OF the
windows In the pilot-house when ne attempted
TO brace himself to keep from falling
On the seettle & Montana road big boo m of
logs ~ McDoaald's chute, half way between
hukiiteo and Edmonds, broke loose and WAS
scattered over the Sound for distance OF about
mile. The waves dashed the logs agains. the
railroad oribbing with such violence as 10 beat
IL TO pieces in soma PAGES. Several " ASH outs
were also found along the shore. The damage
was repaired temporarily so that trains could
run over the road and toe wires were also re-
paired. In order TO guard against wash-ouis il
she future the rock train is being run daily from
Burlington and the eriDoing will be filled in
with rock for the greater part OF the distance
where thu line follows the shore. Trains were
running again yesterday as usual
The wash-out on the Lake Shore road, on Lake
.smmanish, was caused o. tAe extremely high
wafer and the gale com bined. l. only weakened
the roadbed, and has now been repaired with
rock filing. On the northern branch about 100
trees were blown across the track between
49, r~-fFr
the telegraph wires in as many places and de-
laying trains to some extent The wires have
now been al repaired.
The only difficulty on the Northern Pacific
was caused by the breaking of the wires between
here ana Black River junction. As this pre-
vented trains from receiving instructions, they
had 10 run cautiously, and were thus more or
less late. This trouble was overcome yesterday.
On the Columbia & Puget Sound road eighteen
trees were blown across the track between Rem
ton and Newcastle, and caused some delay to
trains, they brought the wires down with
them
The telegraph lines had not fully recovered
from the effects of the storm yesterday morning,
but gradually got into shape in the course of
the day. The wors: break in both Western
Union and Postal lines north OF Black River
junction, where water lies deep on each side of
the railroad and numerous trees have fallen
tang.ing the wires up badly. The Western
Union wires only worked fairly well on Tues
day night but were not in regular working order
until some time yesterday afternoon. The
Postal wire to the south repaired on
Tuesday evening and that company
had It's FIRST wire to the north
al O'Clock yesterday morning and gradually
recovered itself in that direction from that hour
Ali the wires were repaired, at least emporarily,
by noon, with the exception Of the highway line
between Snohomish and Mount Vernon. The
linen haf hnv ha fall on
So thick they were between snohomsh and
Woodinviile.
The weather prediction for the twenty-four
hours from o'clock last night was: Fair ex-
ccpt scattering light rains on upper coast; gen
orally cooler.