Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-30
FRESHET IN THE NORTHWEST
The Frazer River Becomes a Raging
Torrent
Death and Destruction Dealt Mt Every
Point-HOuses Swept Away and
Valleys Submerged.

VANCOUVER, B. c.. May 30.-The Frazer
river has become a raging torrent and is
dealing destruction and death at every
point. The surrounding valleys have been
submerged. houses and outbuildings of
ranchers have been swept away, and where
but few days ago waving fields of growing
grain met the eye Is now but a waste of
water. Whole villages on the banks of the
stream are floating. So far eight lives are
known to have been lost.
AT Langley a little boy fell from a porch
of the Langley Hotel and was swept away
by the flood. The hotel was afterward
washed from its foundations The entire
town is flooded. The whole of Langley
prairie is now under water, and the island.
on which is the Indian reservation is en-
tirely under water Four Indians who
were trying to tow some cattle from a
ridge on the island behind their canoes to
the mainland, were capsized and three of
them drowned
The dead bodies of three men and a little
girl were found on Hatztic prairie, entangled
among floating trees. Many other bodies
are reported as having been seen in the
stream In other localities but so terrible is
the current that all attempts at rescue
were futile.
At Morris steamers are sailing right
across where farms used to be; farmers,
fearing to remain longer, are taking passage
on steamers and bringing their families
here. The towns Of Chillawack, Harrison
and Centerville have been almost entirely
inundated and il has been with difficulty
that the inhabitants have escaped with
their lives.
The damage done to the Canadian Pa
cifc road tracks is very serious all along
the line. At HatZtic the dyke has en-
tireiy given away and 6Oo yards of road
a - h1a "a
whole town is Under water Traffic over
the railroad is entirely stopped, no train
having arrived from the east since MAY
-. No mail has been received or dispatch
ed.
At Hatztic prairie and Griffin Lake roc
men with six work trains are busly engaged
endeavoring to repair the tracks. At places
II Is proposed to throw hawsers across the
chasms and In this way transfer the mails
to the western side of the breaks
Every farmer and rancher at Hetztic
Prairie is ruined. The latest reports saws
the Matzqui dyke has caved in and the
country is all flooded. Reports from be-
yond Mission City cannot be obtained. for
the wires are down.
The Mission railroad bridge, one of the
largest on the road, is expected to go every
hour The Salmon Arm bridge collapsed
yesterday afternoon. At Yale the river is
rising two inches an hour.
SPOKANE FALLS. Wash, May so-Tbe
spokane river has been at a standstill sIl
day. There has been 10 further damage
here from high water. The reports from
the Couer D'Alene region are that the rivers
are slowly falling. At Lewiston the Make
and Clearwater are higher than ever known
before and are still rising
SEATTLE, Wash, May 30.-The Puget
sound region is almost entirely cut off from
railway standardization with the east The
Canadian Pacific. Great Northern Northern
racine and Union Pacific roads are all