The morning call., 1892-11-22
STILL STORMING.
The Downpour Unabated
in Washington.
RAILROAD TRAFFIC STOPPED.
The Landslide at the Cascades Proves
insurmountabie- DAM
ages to Farmers.
Special to TIE MORNING CALL.

TACOMA, Wash, Nov. 21.-It is raining
hard tonight and railroad officials fear that
the worst of the washouts are yet to come
The barometer is low. indicating still more
rain.
The Northern Pacific succeeded today in
finishing a.temporary bridge at Palmer so
that trains can run over it. The first train
to go East for four days left at O'Clock this
afternoon for st. Paul, and tonight the
overland passenger train left Ellensburg
for Tacoma.
1t will arrive early Tuesday morning IL
no further trouble occurs. This train
brings the mails and passengers of four
overland trains that have been held at
Ellensburg. The passengers alone fill four
teen coaches, mostly bound to Tacoma and
Portland.
Assistant General Superintendent Dick
inson. who arrived to-day from Palmer,
thinks the worst is over unless landsides
start, which the continued rain makes
probable. Not a single train has passed
to-day between Tacoma and Seattle.
When the bridges across the Stuck and
Black rivers were repaired the line was
INSTRUCTED for the third time by the sinking
of the bridge between Black River and
Seattle. This is being raised. and possibly
the line viii be open tomorrow.
To-day the bridge across the large creek
near Elma, on the Gray's Harbor branch,
went out stopping traffic on that line for al
least day.
Many small county bridges are washed
ont throughout Pierce. Thurston. King,
Kittitas and Yakima counties. and it is
estimated that the damage done by the
floods in the Sound country Will amount to
several hundred thousand dollars.
The Puyallup. White. Green and Mes
qually rivers are reported to have lowered
all day, but they will begin rising again by
tomorrow If the heavy rain continues.
dispatch from Mount Vernon tonight
says: The Sksgit River is falling rapidly.
the water being fllly five feet lower than
yesterday. The danger to property is now
entirely over.
The total damage done by the torrent has
not been footed up. but it will reach thou
sandsof dollars. The whole northern part of
Mount Vernon was flooded, and the people
were going about in boats and on RATS.
The furnaces in the shingle mill were all
In water, and the city was In darkness be-
cause the electric-iight works were under
water The dixie below the Town broke
and flooded 10000 acres of fats. reaching to
Stanwood.
A big washout was reported between here
and Stanwood, and no trains have been
through on the Great Northern since Friday.
4 boom of logs belonging to A. Ford was
swept away, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Dennis Storrs, across the river. had large
warehouse swept away.
He estimates his loss at $4,000 A num-
Der of cows were drowned above town and
all the single and lumber mills lost heavily
from material being swept away. The
steamer Indiana arrived from Sank to-day
and reports the bridges all gone on the up
per river.
SEATTLE. Wash, Nov. 21.-There was
but little if any improvement in the food
situation in the Puget Sound basin to-day,
and the steady downpour of rain since dusk
this evening. with falling barometer. gives
but little encouragement for the abatement
Of the deluge for at least day or two. and
many fear that the worst is yet to come.
The upper streams which were so terribly
swollen by melted snow have fallen, but
the turbid flood still covers the valleys and
bottom lands where there is a great deal of
valuable property at stake.
There is still almost complete blockade
OF railroad communication, the Seattle.
Lake Shore and Eastern, running north.
being the only line TO run trains into or out
of the city to-day. The Northern Pacific
will have connections made with Tacoma
tomorrow if the present rain does not tear
away the track faster than ii can be built
The Great Northern has large crews massed
at all breaks, and will have its line In pretty
good shape by tomorrow. The damage to
the eastern extension OF this road, now un-
der construction, will reach at least $50, ooO
and to the Everett and Monte Cristo, now
building, will be over 100000.
In King County the loss occasioned to
farmers is already put at 100000, and to
the county, by damage to roads and bridges,
at S25. 000
PORTLAND. Or. Nov. 21.-Nut since the
winter of 1889 have the railroads of the
Northwest experienced so much difficulty
on account of washouts and landslides.
There is no cessation of the slides at the
Cascades on the Union Pacific. Earth,
powders and trees are being swept down
the canyon on the track faster than the
whole force employed can remove them. It
has been decided to build track around
the distractions, and General Superintend-
ent Baxter left this afternoon for the scene
to oversee the work.
Speaking Of the obstruction Mr.. Baxter
said: ut is the worst slide 1 have ever
encountered in all my railroad experience.
The mass of debris has been accomplishing
on the mountain for years. and the water
from the top OF the mountain coming down
in to rrents picked up the debris and carrisd
it down with such force as to loosen and
break off great masses Of earth and rock,
which are impeled downward with great
force. Pieces are constantly breaking off,
and there is no telling when IL will stop.
Stages have been put on for the transfer of
passengers and mails, and boats are carry
ing all the freight except wheat. which is
accommodating rapidly above the slide"
Passengers and mails from the East over
the Northern Pacific for Puget Sound have
been sent over the Union Pacific from
Wallula and reach their destination by way
of Portland.
NEW WESTMINSTER, B. c., Nov. 21.-No
train has arrived over the Great North
western since Friday. owing to washouts on
the line and no malls have been received.
a small bridge On the Luekakuck River,
near GiiIiwacR, was carried away while a
driver and team OF horses was crossing Ii
The man escaped but the team was
drowned. The Coquitlam bridge near this
city was struck by boom OF logs and badly
damaged. The country roads are still
blocked by fslen trees. The total number
OF landslides between here and $50 miles
east On Saturday was twenty-five.
Rainfall at Astoria.
ASTORIA. Or, Nov. 21-During the last
four days the rainfall has been seven and a
half inches here, which is the largest for iba /
time on record. No marine disasters are
reported.
Two vessels are detained at Sand Island