The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-22
THE sNODUALMIE DISTRICT.
Damage to County Bridges and Roads
Not as Heavy as Anticipatcd.

County Commissioner w. II. Taylor returned
70 the city sunday evening from the Snoqualmie
country. In taking of the food yesterday to a
observation-disclosures reporter he said:
AT the bridge over the north fork OF the sno-
uualmie river the sixty-ioot span and about
forty or fifty feet of Pile trestle approaches
carried away. twill cont about 5000 10 rebuild
the bridge. The east approach 10 the bridge
oyer the middle fork and the pile protection
piers are gone. The river there Is SO rapid and
the big trees swept down with such force that
they snapped the piers right of. 1t Will cost
about $50 30 repair the damage.
The SnoqualInie Mill Company's pile trestle
bridge at onoQuafmie. which had a railroad
track over 1t, has been pushed over so that it
Leans about ten feet out OF line. There must be
about about 100000 1900 900 feet of trees and
irnber sticks in a jam above it The river cut
he bank away so that II let the com pany's big
cook house down into the bed of the stream
where ii now stands on end. The company's Of
fees and storerooms are also in the river The
big bridge over the Snoqualmie is not hurt
much When left there the water was falling
rapidly. am going out tomorrow morning to
see about repairing the damages. The wafer is
higher than 1t was last year, but the damage il
not so great. It will take about $500 70 repair
bridges in the SnoQualmie country. Many
farmers have been driven from the lowiands to
the foothills.
morning at the county auditors Office, saying
that the middle bridge over the Tolt river was
impossible.
u. A. Van Dussn, OF Cherry valley. 10 stop
ping at the Diiler He said last night:
At Cherry Valley the food in the SroQralmie
rose eighteen inches higher than have seen 1t
IN ten years. 1t had fallen three feet, however,
this morning, and 40 further damage is feared.
George E. Clark HAD \ post washed from
under the corner of his house, which
osnted over and almost ruined it. He
also had a horse drowned. small bridge was
washed out on the east side OF the snoQualmie,
and eleven others are afoat and will have to be
placed ia position when the waters so down.
John butcher lost twenty head OF sheep, Bert
Lawrence thirty hogs and Fowler & Miller thirty
tons OF hay.
A dispatch from snoqralmie received las.
night says:
After doing considerable damage the Snoqual-
,nie river is now falling. The county bridge on
the north fork OF the SnoQ ualmie has gone, and
the county bridge at the snoqualInie hop ranc n
Is badly damaged.
The railroad bridge belonging TO the Sno-
quaimie MIL Company is warped into graceful
curves. About ten acres of logs and driftwood
isl piled along the whole length OF it, and ex-
tends back for several hundred yards.
1hs large COOK house. 4Qx7l feet sud two
stories hign. belonging to the mill company, is
standing siinost on cad: the store and Office IS
slso a total WRECK. 9 he mill company's crew.
book keepers. etc, are stopping Ut the Mount 81
OF ranchers a: the hotel who have been
driven out by tho flood. The Mount 81
people have good accommodations for quite "a
large crowd. Seyentyive or eighty people can
est IN the dining room at one time. The report
that the body 81 Mr.. CAROLS, who was drowned
while working on ths Jam, had been recovered.
Was no, true. A large number Of people have
About noon his hat was discovered III some
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