The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1892-11-23
Reports from the Flooded Districts Of
Washington More and More
Serious.
Several More Persons Reported to Have
Beeh Drowned Turn
to Lakes.
Low Buildings in Some Of the Towns
Entirely submerged Railroad
Traffic Abandoned.

SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 20. Reports
of the storm throughout the state are
still worse and the prospects are that
rail communication witt be abandoned
for several days at least. A number of
additional deaths are also reported as q
result of the foods, while the loss Of
property in the shape of farm buildings
carried away and wrecked will make a
very formidable item in the valleys of
Duwamish. White, Green, Black, Stuck,
Decar and Puyallnp. The rivers to the
southwark of Snohomish, the Still and
Aguamish, northward, are vast lakes.
In the Stuck valley, far as the eve can
see, the valley is seething lake, on
which logs, shingle bolts, wrecked
buildings, railroad ties, uprooted trees
and debris are jammed together ten to
twenty feet deep and it is feared that
the new county bridge viii be carried
away.
In Chehalis county, near Elma, the
Northern Pacific railroad bridge, ON the
Grays Harbor branch, is SO weak that
trains dare not cross until the high water
recedes. Additional washouts on the
Northern Pacific main line, between
Seattle and Tacoma, and upper Portland
route. are reported, and no trains arrived
Tuesday or are liable to arrive for sew.
eral days. Long trestles have also been
washed out.
The same state of affairs is reported
on all other lines. There were several
more landslides reported. To add to the
already bad state of the roads there |
have been several wrecks. In valleys |
and along the railroads water crosses |
the tracks in many places for long dis
tances to the depth of four feet. The |
Great Northern will not be able to run |
trains until the bridges have been re-
paired, the slides removed and the track
renewed. The Seattle, Lake Shore and |
Eastern railroad runs trains to the inter-
national boundary, but transfer must |
be made around the slide at Blackman.
Three or four steamers have been re-
ported sunk in the Snohomish river, but
no lives are reported to be lost. The |,
large steamers are carrying passengers
TO Whstcom to make connections with
the railroad.
These Reported Drowned.
j. M. Meader's farm hands are re-
ported to have been drowned on Satur-
day near Snohomish. Professor Caliard,
wife, SON and niece, all adults, are be-
heved to have been drowned, as their
boat was found on an island. They
left Everett Friday afternoon for Marys-
vile and have not been seen since.
Many farmers throughout the entire
western portion of the state have lost
all their stock by drowning and none in
the rich and extensive valleys have
escaped from loss.
The damage to the agricultural dis
tricts will amount to many hundreds of
thousands of dollars. 1t certainly has
been the worst rainfall that has ever
been experienced on the Puget sound.
and If the rain sets in again it is liable
to cause additional loss.
Several additional small towns along
the railway lines are under water, and
some single story houses are entirely
1t is believed that when
communication is resumed.
the reports will come in from the worst
flooded localities of many lives having
been lost and much stock killed. Though
no information has yet been received the
Skykomish valley will doubtless suffer
the same as the others, and the valleys
Of the mining districts viii meet with
similar disaster.
Another Wreck Reported. Fl
Another train wreck is reported on |
the Seattle and Northern railroad, up |
the Skagit valley. through running on |
water covered tracks, but no lives have
been reported lost. Kittikas county
will sustain heavy loss in destruction ,
of the bridges over the Yakima ,
river, and other counties are sure to be !
damaged by the floods. Re-
ports from British Columbia are to the
sffect that the valleys in that country
aave met with similar disaster.
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