The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-30
RISING RAPIDLY.
Rivers Still Booming in
Oregon.
TELEGRAPH WIRES DOWN.
Business Suspended in Cities
Near the Flood.
SALMON WHEELS IN DANGER.
Should the Waters Rise Two Feet
More Many Canneries VIII Be
Swept Away.

PORTLAND, May 29-The Willamette
River con tinues to rise at the rate Of half
an inch an hour.
First street is now flooded to the depth
of several inches between Washington
and Burnside streets, and at several low
points the water is encroachng upon Sec
Ond street.
A further rise of six inches will bring
the water up to the record of June, 1876.
Merchants are busily engaged in moving
their goods.
Reports from the Upper Columbia are
TO the effect that the water is still rising.
At Umatilla rise of three feet since yes
terday is reported.
Tie wholesale business in this city is
practically abandoned.
Union Pacific trains are indefinitely de-
layed. Passengers on the Northern PACT
fc arrived here at noon by boat from Ka-
lama.
Ample time has been given to protect
property and little damage will result
unless the water rises TO an unprecedented
height
The Union Pacific passenger train due
here yesterday morning is at Grants.
The eastbnund passenger which left here
last night is at Bonneville. There are
several washOuts between Bonneville and
Cascade Locks. Three miles east of Ar
lington about 1000 feet of track is out in
one place, and at Castle Rock there is a
bad washout. The wires are down west
OF Grants, and no reports as to the cOndi-
ton Of the track can be obtained.
a boat will be run from Portland to
Bonneville tonight with passengers and
mail. These will be transferred to the
Washington side of the river. and by the
portage railway over the lower Cascades,
and thence by boat to The Dalles.
The Northern Pacific tracks are under
water at both landings of the kalama
Ferry. and passengers and mails are being
transferred by boat between Kelso on the
Washington side and Columbia City on the
Oregon size of the river.
Intelligence comes from the Upper
Columbia that the high water is playing
havoc with the salmon wheels there. Me-
Gowan's wheel. costing $4,000, is a Otal
wreck. and Warren's cannery is in immi-
nent danger of being swept away. 1t is
reliably stated that should the water rise
two feet higher it will sweep away every
wheel in the upper and middle Columbia
entaling great loss. Besides McGowan's
wheel, others valued at $4,000 have
already been destroyed in that locality.
The river at 7 o'clock tonight stood pa
feet above low water and rising al the rate
OF one foot in twenty-four hours.
Reports from Eastern Oregon, Washing
ton and Idaho show that the temperature
has risen there and the snow is melting
with greater rapidity. When the water
already in the Upper Columbia reaches
here it will raise the Willamette to a
greater height than ever before known.
The damage ia his city has been light so
far, with the exception of the loss caused
by suspension of business in many whole
sale houses on Front and First streets.
SPOKANE, May 29-The river rose three
inches last night and is still rising. The
Dennis and Bradley bridge is given up.
1t is expected to 60 at any moment. If il
does it will take with it the Olve-street
and Washington-street bridges.
Many houses are undermined and set
thing.
The water is four and half feet higher
at the new water-wOrks site than ever
known. Work is abandoned altogether
The Union Pacific bridge still stands, but
it is expected to go.
The Union Pacific and Great Northern
tracks are inundated. Traffic is sus.
pended.
SEATTLE, Wash, May 29.-The Pugs
Sound region is almost cut off from rail.
way communication with the East. The
Canadian Pacific, Great Northern, North
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blocked on account of the floods.
On the first named road the waters Of
the Fraser River are higher than hav,
| bee II known for twenty years and vas
eXpanse of territory is under water, mucl
damage having been done to farmers ant
| 20 the property of the railroad.
The bridge across the Columbia River a
| Revelstoke has been washed away. Tn,
| Great Northern main line will not be il
runniug order for several days. but tn
Skagit River is falling rapidly and tn
washouts on the coast lines will be re
paired in day or two.
No trains arrived to-day from the Eas
over the Northern Pacific, but passeng &c
train left this evening in the expectatio
| that by the time it reaches the scene O
the trouble the break will have been re
paired. In the immediate vicinity of tn
city the high waters are rapidly recedin
and no further damage is anticipated.
TACOMA, May 29.-The mails for the en-
tire State are greatly delayed by the flood:
| To-day's overland train on the NOrther
Pacific did not arrive and is reported
have been abandoned in Idaho, bridge
having been washed away where The roa
crosses Clarks Fork. Railroad men sa,
tonight that the Great Northern and Can
adam Pacific are both in similar cond
| ton.
The Northern Pacific reports all stream
falling except the Columbia and official
say trains between here and the East vi
run regularly within a day or two.
UNITED PRESBYTERIANS.