The record-union., 1894-06-07
supply they were unable to secure assist

supply they were unable to secure assist
ance.
The Union Pacific is practically a
wreck between this city and Umatilla-a
distance of 200 miles. Much of their
rolling stock is also damaged. In this
city many engines are standing IN four
feet of water, and at The Dalles number
of engines are under water, except the
smokestacks.
SITUATION IN BRITISH COLUMBIA.
VANCOUVER (B. C.), June 6.-News
from up the river is that the water is fall
ing. AT Yale it has gone down fifteen
inches. Methods of communication are
in such a demoralized condition that it is
as yet impossible to estimate the loss OF
life or the damage to property. A num-
ber OF bodies have been recovered, and it
is known that many persons have been
drowned. Victoria, Vancouver and Ma
naimo are the only towns III British Col
umbla not affected by the high water.
Though reports from up the river state
that the water Is receding at Westmin-
ster, the Fraser is still rising. owing
probably TO the prevailing very high
tides. Since yesterday the flood has
risen an inch at Westminster. The cur
rent was 643 miles per hour, the swiftest
ever known at that point. The swamp
district, where all the mills are situated,
is completely under water. The fires
under the boilers at the electric light
power house were put out again last
night and fire engine is now constantly
employed pumping, in order to keep the
water below the furnaces. Many believe
that the farms of the Fraser Valley have
not been so seriously damaged as at nrst
supposed, and that the ranchers will be
able to raise crops this season on the
flooded lands.
At Westminster twenty feet of water
still covers the Great Northern tracks
along the south side of the river. In the
Canadian Pacific yards the tracks are
over thirty feet under water. 1t is now
believed that the Canadian Pacific's loss
will be nearly Sl.0O0,000. The passengers
who We're started East by the Canadian
Pacific on Sunday last have returned,
having been unable to proceed beyond
North Bend.
From points up the river it is reported
that the flood is receding at the rate of an
inch an hour.
THE LOSS AMOUNTS TO MILLIONS.
TACOMA, June 6.-Railroad men and
others are beginning to estimate the
damage by floods throughout the North
west. a number of conservative men
have placed the amount in the neighbor-
hood of $5,000,000. 1t is estimated that
the floods and washouts of tracks and
loss OF business will cause 4 loss OF at
least 5000 900 to each of tho Great North
ern and Canadian Pacific roads, and
nearly as much to the Northern Pacific.
Railroad men here think it will take the
Great Northern and Canadian Pacific
month to fully repair their tracks, and
the Northern Pacific nearly as long.
LOTS OF SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS.
SALT LAKE, June 6.-Superintendent
Bancroft, of the mountain division of the
Union Pacific road returned this morn
ing from the flooded regions along the
Snake and Columbia Rivers in Idaho,
Washington and Oregon. He reports
that the damage done Is simply incalcu-
liable. The water cannot be controlled,
and will continue to rise tor some days,
as there is an immense amount of snow
in the mountains and at the heads of all
the rivers named. Mr.. Bancroft says:
I'VE simply have to bear it, and are ac-
commodating the water all we can." He
will start back again this evening.
HIGH WATER IN COLORADO.
PUEBLO Coli, June 6.-The flood
reached the high-water mark of May 3Ist
al A. NJ, but the water is now receding
rapidly. The damage to property is
slight aside from the washouts OF rail-
roads. The EN- bankment on the Fourth
street bridge over Fountain Creek is
badly washed and 1t is feared communi-
cation with East Pueblo will be cut off.
The Santa Fe and Rio Grande tracks are
badly washed in several places. No
trains can be run through Royal
Gorge for a week, owing TO washouts at
Florence on the Denver and Rio Grande.
Through passenger trains are sent via
AlamOSa.
DENVER, June 6.-The Santa Fe road
was open to Pueblo this afternoon, and
the Rio Grande, Rock Island, Gulf and
Missouri Pacific trains between Colorado
Springs and Pueblo were run over that
road. On the Rio Grande there are two
bad washouts between Colorado Springs
and Pueblo, and west of Pueblo all the
newly repaired track is washed away.
The new Florence and Cripple Creek
Railroad is a total wreck, and cannot be
repaired for several weeks. The Jules
burg line is impossible, owing to the
high water in the Platte, and trains are
sent via Cheyenne.
THE ARKANSAS ON A RAMPAGE.
HUTCHINSON (Kan.), June 6.-The Ar
kansas river is on rampage. 1t is the
regular June rise, augmented by storms
and cloudbursts in Colorado and the
mountains. The river has been higher
but once in the history of the city. Grave
fears are entertained. Bridges across the
river, just west of the city, are in dan
gerous condition and threaten to be torn
of at any hour. SO far the Kansas Salt
Company is the heaviest loser, 10000 bar
rels of salt being under water, and as
consequence, is ruined. The rise further
up the river is continuing.