The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-14
DAMAGE BYFRESHETS
Rain Melts the Mountain Snow
and Fills the Streams.
RAILROADS ALL IN TROUBLE,
Union Pacific, Great Northern, Column
bis q Puget sound and Central
Washington Biockaded.

The heavy rains of Friday and Friday
night, together with the warm southwest
wind which melted the. mountain snow.
started food into the lower valleys, also
troubling the railroad. with sides and
noon Cedar river had risen three feet and
was still rising. Black and White rivers
were also coming up fast, the Snohomish
had risen ten feet since Friday noon. the
Stiilaguamish was very high and the
Skagit and Nookssck were rising steadily,
and the Pilchuck had swollen out of its
bank near Snohomish and was within six
inches of the Lake Shore track, out was
stationary.
The Great Northern Coast lines along
the shore suffered most and slides seemed
20 follow the trains wherever they went
A regular series of mud slides two to four
feet deep came down on Friday night at
intervals between Everett and Edmonds
so that trains could not get through, and
the high water threatened the main line
between Snohomish and Lowell. This
was the more irritating as they had just
about caught up with the schedule after
the delay caused by snow in the Rocky
mountains. The east-bound overland train
Shore tracks and on reaching Lowell made
transfer with the west-bound train and
started back. On approaching Lake station
on the Lake Shore road about O'Clock in
the afternoon il was confronted by a
slide Of mud and stumps $40 feet long
and three or four feet deep. which swept
part of the track into Lake Washington,
and was thereby delayed in reaching the
cir l0-2n al t. f~it
by two other DELAYED Great Northern
overland trains. No attempt was made to
run local trans over the Coast lines south
of Everett, for the slides of Friday night
were no sooner cleared oil than fresh ones
came down, carrying the telegraph wires
with them.
the south-bound train on the Lake Shore
road, due here at 6 o'clock. until 1890
o'clock. and the one leaving northward at
ABS p. m. was also held there. A work
train was sent out to clear the track and
finished the work about $50 O'Clock.
Many of the south bound passengers came
to Madison street on the steamer Duck
hunter.
down on the Columbia & Puget Sound
and continued 10 come down all yesterday.
sloughing of the steep side of the noun
tain. The passenger train due in the city
at 8 o'clock yesterday morning transferred
its passengers and came in an hour later,
and the same course had to be pursued on
the return trip. work train went out
to clear off the mud. A small washout
also occurred at filied-in bridge about
two miles west of Newcastle.
| The Northern Pacific got off easily, its
west-bound train being delayed only four
hours by snow in the mountains. If there
| should be food in the White river there
| may be moro trouble.
| The following dispatch shows that the
storm has reached as far south as the
| Union Pacific road:
"PoRrLAND. Jan. 13-The Union Pacific
track at Reeds about forty mic east of
| this city, is overtiowed by a stream of mud
( and bouiders from the mountains above
| The passengers were transferred todar
| and force OF men set to work building a
/ trestle over the slide"
The storm has also spread over Eastern
Washington according TO the following:
SPOKANE. Jan. 13-Heavy rains and
| melting SHOWS in this section have caused
| swollen rivers and much damage IN the
| surrounding country. At Davenport on
| tue Central Washington, several houses
| are partly flooded and a number of rail-
| road and other bridges have been washed
| out. At Reardon, q freight train was
| wrecked and thirteen cars DESTROYED and
west-nound passenger delayed. A
wrecking train has been sent there. Re-
| ports OF high water also come from Rock
ford, Spangle. Garfield and other points
| in the Palouse."