The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-25
RESULTS OF THE FLOOD.
Ridges on Wenatchee Washed Out
High Water in Chehalis County.


High Water in Chehalis County.
WESAToHEE, Nov. 23.-[Special. I'm has
ksn raining and showing in this section
Msweek past. The Wenatchee river has
Mn very high. Several bridges on the
Great Northern above Tumwater canyon
. .epported washed out, but reliable in
hrmation is hard to get. The bridge
Shere the wreck occurred is unsafe and
tans do not cross. It is claimed that
here is sufficient material west of that
Edge to finish TO the summit, but it is
anbtful. Contractors are trying to get
ben to shovel snow.
CosMoPous, Nov. "a. Especial. l. The
nins of the past few days have been enor-
nous. Secretary Mack, of the Aberdeen
Gambler Of Commerce, reports fall of
.lsven inches in the five days previous to
ga m Friday, November Is. and the re-
markabe downpour of three and one
quarter inches In the last twenty-four
hours of the same date. The result of all
this fall has been serious to farmers and
!Ae railroad.
The middle pier of the Satsop bridge
gave way, one year and two days
aiisr completion, lucky incident
for the contractor, who had guaranteed it
Nsand for one year. Just as the bridge
vas prepared sufficiently for the train to
pass the fireman noticed small bridge
nearby in shakv condition, and by the
ane the train came up it also was swept
away The road was washed out for half
mile along the Chehaiis, and it took
sixty hours of constant work to repair it
WITH two piledriyers. There has beer. bat
one train to Cosmopolis and Aberdeen
Curing the last week.
uyde Weatherwax reported the river
nigaer at the Chehaiis boom than since it
was built,
hanchers report more water for three
Gays continuously than they ever knew
eiofe. In one place on the Newskah
''er ior three days it was 1000 feet wide,
whiie the roar OF the current was fearful.
lei no serious damage Was done nor any
one seriously alarmed
on the upper Chehalis fences, outbuild-
ihgs, logs. hay and everything movable
coated protusely on the turbulent stream.
alderman Trask, late Of Aberdeen, now
w tue satsop. came 10 town and reported
% eism under water, and many others
.Ouhu ten feet of water over their cabbage
"Aa other garden vegetables.
Along with these little calamitles came
much cause for pleasure. Logs came
Gown oy thousands. and there is not log
stream or slough in Chehalis county
s-a' Is not ready 20 ne scaled. and the
Aesf' OF the logger is glad.
pert Morris, Of Aberdeen. got one years
s1ptly OF cedar. County School Superin-
.Yaueht +. \. White FASTENED home when
aeta'h assumed some proportions to get
wi his logs.
capt hnutson, CT the Aberdeen ferry,
A'ss shat so strong was the current in
r "ShEah that Il MAS almost impossi-
Tie to navigate it.
'o'eetion Island Pheasaats Dying.
, a9Si townsend. Nov. ii Special. A
s sa'.l disease has broken out among the
ines. ..aese and Japanese rheasan,s on Pro-
SN ION island, which has caused the
A'a Oh many birds. The island is over
~ ia with the birds. which have multiplied
:" great numbers during recent years.
\" oregon Mail Carrier Held In.
astoria, Or, Nov. 2L-lS Special. Mail
.'eF Joe Watson. on the Ess; Astoria
~ vas held up last night by = foo,nsa
Nss on his way to his home in East
'.a and passing over long stretch al
riva.ay which runs parallel with the
80 oAtk and over the water. The loca.
o. Vi Tue roadway IS dark and lonely
wh,.A Hn is the only road BY
wa@I Watson can reach his hone
w.,.a Soou' half way across the trcstle
,nwa s'u u. met his assailant. The man al
s,no- "a'son - pass. and then he wh!rlei
20, I ~ instantly and caught the mail car
rrouna '1r throat, be4s.ng him TO IL,
over ~. lie thrust Il ch.oroformed cloth
wst, ~ lace, thus preventing an ou,cry
Zee; a,s succeeded IN scrambling TO his
"a sen 49, inoiioned toward his hin pocket
DENT. a his whistle. The man. evi
toos 'lnking shat il was for a gun
way of =, and hurriedly made hi.
Ga,ed IL. Aae efiee. 81 he clioroforrn had
man carrier. and it was som.