The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-06
FRASER RIVER FALLING.
Also the Skagit, but the Colum-
bia Rises Steadily.
TIDE cREEP,No Up N PORTLAND.
The Ioss Along the River Front
Reaches $1,000. 900 Already.
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The water rose one and = half inches above
Yesterday D mark at high tide this morn
ing. and moss people shoaght the river
WAS still on the rise. At 3 O'Clock the
steamer Rithst ARMED down from Kstz
landing. bringing the very welcome news
that the water fell six inches during the
tuenty-fouf hours ending at o'clock this
morning. when the Hood vas stili reced-
ing The impression prevails among old
timsrs that the worst Of the dood Is over.
and thst By Saturday night the water viii
have fallen several feet.
A special from Yale at $40 this after
noon says the water has fallen eighteen
inches since yesterday noon. and 10 sill
falling.
Late this afternoon 800 feet Of the new
South Arm bridge between Richmond and
South Vancouver was carried away.
Brodis's cannsry on Deas island 10 likely
TO b completely wrecked The dixie sur
rounding the Island has given away. and
the water hes washed out lot Of piting.
LETTING about hfty feet OF one Of the build
ings into the river. Nothing can be done
TO atop the damage. The flooded condi-
tion Of the streets in the West End last
night proved OF great inconvsnienes. The
electric power house was visited by the
Hood at 8 o'clock, and lights had 70 b.
turned or
Last night Government Agent Warwick
received . Dispatch asking that another
steamer and scow b sent to Mission at
once to save cattle. The steamer Blonde
was engaged and lsft for Mission ~ day-
light this morning. The government now
has three steamers mp the river giving re-
lief.
The Canadian Pacific railway has can
esled the sale of tickets East. and there 10
no expectation Of . tram arriving or de-
parting for several days q least. perhaps
longer. The rosdbsd between Yale and
Kamioops b fspoftsd 70 b In worse CON-
dition than ever. and serious vashouta are
said to have occurred ct various points
yesterday. ssailihg two trains which len
Kats landing on Saturday and Sunday.
The Mission bridge rsmaina
vAxcouvEA June A-The velocity Of the
water 10 six miles IN hour. The water 10
now over the whaxvssV and some are
flooded TO hst4een two and three foe2
The tramuay eompany has had % ahan-
don one Of it, lfnss. - q y submerged. the
Canadian Pacific road yards bsing In SINH
lar condition. Al 6appsrton the vatsr 10
flowing in through the Brunett sawmill
the door bsins covered 70 . depth
Of fourteen inches. The penitsntiaxy
wharf Il lifted mp In the center. and it 10
feared will b. carried away. On Sunday .
heavy rain addsd 10 the volume Of water
In the river. snd Mayor Hoy. Of Wsstmin-
ster, wss engaged ell day with gang Of
men removing drifswood from the Lulu
island bridge. which is thFsatsnsd with
destruction. IL was thought that all
cattle had bsen rsscusd. bus the water
reached portion Of Chilliwaek hitherto
considered sale. Reeve CaWlsy ssns for
assistance and the steamers Giadys and
Erie were dispatched 70 the scene. Al
Langley the watsr b ten inches above the
lsa2 mark, and the Hudson Bay store 10
flooded.
The water entered Lulu Island dixie and
flooded part Of the land inside, bnt the
break has besn repaired and strengthened
with sand bags. All Sunday the people
Of Ladnsr's Landing worked to save the
dyke there They we're headed By Rev.
0lsssford, the Presbyterian minister, and
by their unitsd efforts the dixie remains
intact. The government wharf ~ West
Ham island collapsed Saturday night.
dumping the boiler. engine and derrick
and 600 tons Of rock into the river. The
dixie on the same island was also broken,
doing great damage 70 the ranch Of Alex
Evans, his farmhouse being washed away.
The water came over the dikes Of the
Brstish CoIumbiA Dikiug Company at
Pitt Msadows and flooded 1900 acres.
II sill cost over $50,0o0 70 rebuild. The
dikes are still strong. but we're not high
Of lss1 The Holly cannsTy on Dsas
island ID in great danger. many Of the
piles on which it . built bsing washed out
The tsaf5c bridge ovsr The Thompson river
as Ashcroft was swept away Saturday
night The bridge cost $i7, 900. The whole
Of Nicomsn island 10 flooded. stsamsrs
can sail across the island. the wafer bsing
eighteen feet deep.
The watsr today flooded Begbis street
firs hall, Wessminsssf. and the frsmsn
had to vaeate.
The railway bridge ct Maria island. sew
sral hundred feet long. has bssn carried
away BY driftwood. The hop yards ~
Agassis belonging 10 Sich Il Lane. Capt
Moore and Sir Arthur Coweii-s -stspnsy are
all flooded and the crops spoiled.
President Van Horne subscribed u coo
to the rsiisf fund. A concert VAS held
here this evening and . considerable sum
realized for the benefit Of the distressed