The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1894-06-16
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way in time. A lot of other valuable
hardware, including several complete
pumping outfits, is also badly DAM
of the Oregon City Woollen Mills, a
little farther on, has been subjected to
a very severe test, and the legend on
its product, Goods warranted well
shrunk," will be in order in future.
| passed this place just at noon hour,
and as the clock struck II, the tones
'echoing loud and strange over the wat
ers, the street suddenly woke into life
and activity. From the top floors of all
the offices. not vacated, poured clerks
and employers, with a fair sprinkling of
young lady stenographers. They jostled
one another in a series of good hum
ored scrambles for boats lying inside the
various buildings, and then followed a
long-continued race to the southern end
Of t%own-tubs, RATS, outriggers, skiffs,
dingys, punts and jiggers, all joining in
and making the scene as lively and vi
Vacious as five minutes before it was
dead and dreary. Then in ten minutes
the voices and shouts die away, and for
the straight two mile stretch not a liv-
ing soul is to be seen.
Frank Bros large implement store,
and Fuller's paint and oil warehouse,
are among the biggest losers in this
n~eighborhood, and the George Laurence
Leather Company has also suffered seri-
Gus loss by injury to goods, both raw
and manufactured. The Boston Rubber
Shoe Co., and the large establishment
of the Gutta Percha and Rubber Manu-
featuring Co., next door, are both badly
flooded up to the second story, nearly
all their windows being demolished. The
odor of rotted rubber arising from these
places can be noticed for hundreds of
yards around, and makes a slight, but
not by any means, an agreeable varla-
ton from the "fshlike and ancient
smell' before mentioned. Tatum> &
Bowen, the large printing firm, have
Jared no better than their neighbors,
and printing presses, type, saws, boilers
and engines have all felt the effect of
the water. A few yards farther on is
the Stark street ferry, with thousands
Of feet Of lumber and driftwood scat
tered and piled up in high heaps all
over it. Lewis & Dryden's Offices are
'in it," literally, "up to the neck and
the Brunswick-Balke billiard warehouse
opposite is a total wreck. Immediately
after passing this point we reach the
beginning of the big produce district,
where p~erishable goods of all kinds are
handled, and an immense turn over
trade is done every year. The oppres-
sive stiffness and the cold river water
hold it firmly in their grasp now, and
not a crate of fruit or vegetables has
gone out of it for two weeks. Here,
too, we cen see more superficial evil
dences of the destruction than were pos
sible in the jobbing and manufacturing
quarters just passed. The large and
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Son is a good sample of the majority of
the houses surrounding it in the same
business, and, in order not to tire your
readers, l will describe its appearance
the rest. Imagine, then, a long, dismal
warehouse running back into the river
channel, all the front windows broken,
with cobwebs already spun thick over
the cracks. The water flows through the
ground floor windows, and floating
around on top, in the middle, and near
the bottom of this volume Of flood, are
bags of potatoes, walnuts, almonds and
cabbages, in every stage of filthy de-
The polllting stencil thus gener-
is absolutely nauseating. 1t comes,
from all these produce houses
alike, and makes Front street, for a
distance of two blocks, on both sides of
the road, a very good nursery for a
deadly epidemic. Chicken coops, with
one or two drowned birds at the bottom,
bob up and down necessarily, and cases
Of dried apples turned green add a
piquant flavor to this unmatched con-
glomeration of smells.
At Palmer & Rey's warehouse a dozen
printing machines stand in four feet of
water, and their excellence is thereby
impaired. The Pacific Paper
stOrehOuse is in very bad
shape, and tons of paper are damaged
by the water. At the Morrison street
crossing are two more %curiosities. the
Esmond and st. Charles hotels. Both
once busy hostelries are in sorry
shape. The water has deluged every
thing on the ground floor Of the st.
Charles, blackening and staining the
handsome massive wood counters and
and destroying hundreds of
Of costly carpet and linoleum.
All the front windows are boarded up
and the place looks the picture Of desc
The Esmond has beer invaded
wen in a worse manner It's dining
parlors, longing room, bar and
have all been completely mum
lated. and a great deal of damage done
the fancy panelling and furniture
From here on TO Taylor street. the
street river gradually shadows
up till your boat grounds IN the stones.
A two mile ride by water through a
OF desolatlon unparalleled,
through a single street whose jobbing
business last year amounted to $50, 0OO.-
where today spiders are spinning
heir webs, and where the Willamette.
,xerting its natural privileges. has by