The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-06-14
DELAYED NAIL HERE.
A Way at Last Found Through
the Flood Blockade.
THREE TOWNS ARE LAID WASTE.
KasIo and Grants Nearly Destroyed and
Trail Entirely Gone-How she
Trains WIN Run.

As the foods recede communication -
gradually being restored and another
week promises TO see traffic over the rail-
roads 70 the East fully resumed. but the
elements continue thei- work OF dssgruc-
Iion. Nearly the whole of kaslo. b. e.,
and Of Grants, Or, has been swept away,
and the town of Trail has been entirely
wiped out. This was the work OF WIND
and water combined. In all the great
rivers the water is falling and the people
of the submerged towns are preparing 70
restore their wrecked buildings.
The delayed mail began to come in yes
terday, and it came in with rash. The
Northern Pacific train arriving about
O'Clock brought all the letter mail from
the East which should have arrived from
June to inclusive, there being fourteen
pouches of il, and the postotfice employees
worked all night TO sort and get II out to
the people By the carriers today. The
newspaper mali will come in during the
remaining three days OF the week. as fast
as it can be carted over the washout In
Idaho on the Union Pacific.
The mails are still five days behind, but
they will soon catch up three days and
then will continue two DAYS late until the
railroads are again in full running order,
as they will come by the circuitous route
followed by the batch which came yester-
day and thus will take six days from Chi
cago instead OF the regular schedule time
of four days.
The Northern Pacific and Union Pacific
have joined hands TO help one another out
during the flood by combining the good
parts of their two lines in the flooded dis
trict. Thus passenger trains on the
Northern Pacific to the East will take the
Union Pacific from Spokane to Wallace
via Tekoa. striking the CHur d'Alene
branch of the Northern Pacific again at
Wallace and the main line at De Smet. 1t
is expected that this part of the Union Pa
ciic Will be repaired by tomorrow. or Sat
urday at the latest, but if it should not be
in condition by that time passengers will
be sent across Lake Cnur d'Alene from
Occur d 'Alene City by steamer. thence
over the narrow gauge branch of the
Northern Pacific from Mission to De Smet.
striking the main line again at the latter
point The Union Pacifc will send it's
passengers over the Northern Pacific to
Spokane and then put them on its own
line again, taxing them east via Tekoa and
Pendleton. so that they will avoid the
washed-out sections of the line. The
Northern Pacific now has wire through
to 81. Paul.
The Great Northern will run freight
train with passenger car attached as far
as Leavenworth tonight. On the Coast
lines trains can only run 10 Port keils,
ten nsles from Brownsville, and il they
can not run TO the latter place today con-
nection will be made by steamer to be
placed on the Fraser river. The back
water from that river has fallen eighteen
inches from the highest point on Sumas
prairie, which means much greater fall
in the channel. 1t is understood that the
Canadian Pacific will start train from
Vancouver today.