Evening journal., 1892-11-22
| STATE UNDER WATER
Washington Suffers Severely
From Heavy Floods.
MORE FATALITIES REPORTED.

'Rail Communication May Have to be
Abandoned for Several Days-much
Farm Property Carried Away and
wreeked-The Rivers Swollen Into vast
I.akes-worse Reports Expected.
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. 22.-Reports of
the storm throughout the state are still
worse today and the prospects are that
rail communications viii be abandoned
for several days at least A number of
additional deaths are also reported as a
result of the floods, while the loss of
property in the shape of farm building
carried away and wrecked will make a
very formidable item in the valleys of
IDuwamish, White, Green, Black, Stuck,
Cedar, and Puyallup. The rivers to the
southwark of Snohomish, the Still, Aqua
mish and Skagit, nsrthward, are vast
lakes
In the Stuck valley, far as the eye can
see, the valley is seething lake on
which logs, shingles, bolts, wrecked
buildings, railroad ties, uprooted trees
and debris are iammed together, ten or
twenty feet deep, and it is feared that
the new county bridge will be carried
away.
Railroad Traffic Hindered.
In Chehallis county, near Elma, the
Northern Pacific railway bridge is so
weak that trains dare not cross:until the
4 high water recedes. Additional wash.
outs on the Northern Pacific main line
between Seattle and Tacoma, and on the
Portland route, are reported and no
trains have arrived today or are liable to
arrive for several days. Long trestles
havo also been washed out. The same
state of affairs is reported on all other
lines.
There were several more landslides
reported yesterday To add to the
already bad condition of the roads, there
have been several wrecks. In valleys
and along the railways water covers the
tracks in many places for long distances
to the depth of ten feet. The Great
Northern railroad 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 &
Eastern railroad runs traius TO the inter
national boundary. but transfer must b'
made around the slide at Blackman.
Three or four steamers have been re
ported sunk in the Snohomish river, bu
no lives are reported to have been lost.
Fatalities Reported.
Several farm hands are reported T.
have been drowned last Saturday nea
Snohomish. Professor 6iliard, wife, sol
and niece, and boatman, all adults, ar
believed to have been drowned, as thei
boat was found yesterday on an island
They left Everett Friday afternoon fo
Marysville and have not been see
since.
Many farmers throughout the entir
western portion of the state have los
all their stock by drowning, aud none /
the rich and extensive valleys have el
capped from loss.
Great Damage Reported.
The damage to the agricultural di
tricts will amount to many hundreds {
thousands of dollars. 1t has been I'll
worst rainfall that has ever been e.
perienced on the Puget Sound, and Il
rain having set in again, it is liable
cause additional loss. Several sma
towns along the railway lines are und'
water.
1t is believed when telegraphic cor
munication is resumed the reports vi
come in from the worst flooded localiti
of many lives having been lost and NUT
stock killed.
Reports from British Columbia are
the effect that the vallies in that count
have met with similar disaster