The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-04
WATER Still REIGNS.
Rivers Continue to Pour Il Over
the Valleys.
DEVASTATION ON THE FRASER.
Telegraph and Telephone Wires Down
and the Coast Cut Oh.
The Fraser aoa CeIuWbta Centinue -
Rtss saa the skagss Takes FrssA
start The Rsflreads Take - sAs
nseaneret

start The Rsiirsads Take - sAs
Water. ably assisted by wind. IL king
throughout the Vest between the Pacific
shows no inclination to give up It's hold
ON the country. The Fraser valley is .
great sea. where farms and happy homes
we're formerly found; the Skagis Is again
rising. the Cedar. White and Puyaiiup
rivers ar. swelling and she Columbsa is
steadily increasing In volume. backing up
It's tributaries. the Willamette and Cow
litx. % that railroads have become half
steamboat lines. and the waters are creeping
mp further ana further ON Portland, almost
cutting it Oh from communication with
the rest Of the world. Of the railroads,
the Canadian Pacific still keeps its line
open BY steamer transfer. the Great North
ern 10 blocked with not even q wire 10 tell
where the trouble II. no trains can run
over the Northern Pacific east Of Hope.
Idaho. and the Union Pacific only keeps
up trafhc by means Of steamers ON the
Columbia and Willamette river between
UmatitIa and Portland. Telephone and
telegraph wires have been torn down by
the wind and are only by degrees being
stretched across the breach.
Rain clouds again rolled over the city
poured down all dav and far into the
night. with occasional flashes Of lightning
and the distant roll Of thunder. showing
that the storm center which passed over
on Saturday wss still near. Happily no
lives ssre sacrificed to the rage Of the els-
ments. A. w. Engis and E. w. Price. Who
were supposed to be out In the storm In
canoes on Lake Washington. had seen its
approach and sought place Of safety, re-
turning home yesterday morning.
The whole Fraser valley IL under water
far to the east, and the following dispatch
gives vivid picture Of the devastation
the flood has wrought:
VANCOUVER h. c.. June 3-fSpecial. r.
No one who has not ben there can tell
the full extent Of the disaster that has
fallen upon the province Of British Colum-
b,a. Acting on the instructions Of the
Posr-IxrELLfGEScER. / went out today TO
examine the state OF affairs, and can
easily say that the half has not
yos D0eu toAus IHSo1u8 tIom VANCOUVER
20 the point where the great Canadian
transcontinental line strikes the banks Of
the Fraser river. nothing 10 noticed, bus -
soon ~ the Fraser 10 reached the o1tent Of
the devastAtion commences 10 b realised.
All records have been passed, and ON all
points the matter Of comparison has long
since besn lost sight of. and the only mat
Ter bsfors the people intsrsstsd =. how far
will II 90. Psssing along TO Pitt
s- ~ AwAk II
idsa Of the sxtsns Of the disaster.
Al far ~ the ere can sse on both sides Of
the track there 10 nothing but water.
Where . week or % ago were fertile farms
with crops giving the first appearance Of
green 70 the land, and herds and ticcks on
every side, 10 now . weary waste Of water
extending to the horison. This 10 no
fancy picture. The water u even up 90
lar that u swishss among the wheels OF
the coaches. Hundreds Of farms have been
laid waste and thousands of cattle. ~
10 attssted BY the dosting corpses, have
succuuabed 20 the sise Of the waters. The
expectation Wae that the train would
reach Warnock. where steamer from up
the river. with passengers from trains be-
yond the break, would bs in waiting. But
this vas found 70 b. impracticabls. - an
other bridge had been hoated OF during
the night. Finally IL was decided, after
word had besn sent BY some Indians in .
canoe, to have the steamer come down
and run into the bank. This was done,
and passengers we're transferred Those
who came through say that they had TO
walk four miles through Kicking Horse
pass In order 10 est through. besides MAX
ing many other portages. Among the
passengers 10 the frsnch Diplomatic corps
the finding Of raft st Ruby creek with .
man, woman and three chiidrsn ON it,
iashed together. These evidently came
from she part OF the country from which
we as ret have heard nothing. A China
man who had been Washing gold on the
bank Of the river was carried away by the
current He had iashed himself to .
siuics bog. and he vas seen psssing Yale
waving his banda HIS dead body, stiil
lashsd 70 the siuics boz. was found further
down the stream
II 10 estimated that 1000 families have
been rendered homeless by the disaster.
In the Chiiiiwack district alone there are
1900 people whose oil has been washed
away. The Canadian Pacific has Iost over
$4,000 as Il stands. aad IL The Mission
bridge. goes, ~ II momensarily expected.
This being the second train through the
flooded district II had comparatively fres
passage. The fiFst train drove into the
water hundreds Of cattle which had taken
refuge from the foods on the railway en-
bankment. the only high land available.
A telegram from Canadian Pacific head
quarters AZ Vancouver, apparently refer
ring U the resumption Of traffic with the
steamer transfer referred TO tu this dis
patch. was received by Z. w. McGinnis, the
agent in this city, saying that the line IL
now open and trains leave Vancouver
1~st n A~sx 81.
from Sound points 10 Victoria and from
there by another steamer which connects
with the train.
The spell Of hot weather which followed
last Thursdays rain brought down an
other rush of water in the sksgit, and the
rain Of Saturday and yesterday aided TO
cause another rapid rise. which amounted
to eightssn inches In the twenty Hour
hours up to 5 O'Clock last evening, and
continued at the rate Of an inch an hour
after that time. The dikss have been re-
paired In ths delta and the farmers expect
them To Withstand the new riss. The track
oi the Great Northern coAss lines In the
same vicinity has also hsen repaired. and
passenger trains vent through north and
south yesterday - near 70 Liverpool a
the waters Of the Fraser would permit,
about three miles Of the track bsing over
flowed. The other rivers north Of the
city we're high, eas had done no damage
South Of. the city the Cedar had risen Z
foot since Saturday svsaing. and the
Black, White and Green and Paysliup
we're also coming mp. bat no damage hsd
corded - resulting from the dooding os
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