The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-13
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Missoula and remained there eight days.
from June TO s. amusing ourselves IN
every way to kill time. At last on FRIDAY
morning We started 70 come west oy the
Union Pacific. After running oy tue
Northern Pacific to Bate. and lying there
from 9 10 S O'Clock, We started over
the Utah Northern, and ran as lar
as the wash-out on Dry creek on
that road. Then we were laid DIP there
for the night. as the whole country had
been overlooked by Dry creek. as II Is
ironically called, and the track was washed
out or under water. Next morning We
rode fifteen miles By stage around the
food, got on another train and went on 10
Pocatello. We stayed there from noon on
Saturday till $50 Sunday morning, then
ran on TO Pendleton. where We arrived AT
9 o'clock that night. We started again at
4 next morning. that is yesterday. ana
went on to Spokane with delay OF four
hours at Tekoa while q wash-out was being
repaired, and left there at IL 40 last night.
The trains ran only by daylight on account
of the danger of wash-outs."
The postotfce employees are preparing
for a deluge of delayed mails TO come In
tonight, the letters coming then and the
papers on the two following days. Chief
Clerk Collier, of the railway mail service,
came in yesterday and told OF the state OF
the mails tied up in Montana and Idaho.
The mails have all arrived up TO that due
on May %. which is food bound some
where in Idaho. and those of May 80 81
and June have also come in, but nothing
has come in since that date except some
odd sacks, and nobody seems to know
exactly how they got through the
blockade. The mails from New York and
Boston and all Eastern points. which now
come in over the Northern Pacific. due for
the eight days up to and including June 8,
will arrive tonight. They have been tied
up at Missoula on the Northern Pacific,
and are now coming over the Union
Pacific by the route taken by the
passengers who arrived yesterday. Or
ders were given last Saturday for
all mails leaving Chicago from that
date TO be, emit by that route and they will
come regularly two days later than by tie
old route, the first mail arriving under
that order being due here on Friday. The
mail which left here on May % is still tied
mp on Lake Pend d'0reille, with twenty
feet of water on one side and forty feet on
the other and no steamers TO come to the
rescue.
While the food has caused some incon-
venience to merchants, it has been boz
nanza to the local breweries. The supply
of ground coffee, packing house products,
Eastern eggs and butter and Milwaukee
and st. Louis beer has run out, except
where q large stock was kept, and the
supply of other commodities is likely to
run out before the blockade is raised as re-
CARDS freight business. There are seven
car loads of Eastern tied up on the rail-
roads and at the same time one of the
local breweries is running double shift to
supply the demand. The Canadian Pa
cific got in six car loads of freight on Sun
day. which somewhat relieved the necessi-
ties of some of its patrons.