New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-06-08
CLOUDBURSTs.

CLOCDBCRSTS.
., Tune THE STAR has a dispatch
az follows from Vancouver: The special
F" Y-,ondent Of THE Star" reached Katz Land
Co." We on Tuesday night, after travelling over
"e uas NJ flooded Fraser River country on
' uA.i relief and work steamer the hrst glimpse
~ eood was from a car window on the snort
Va tron Vancouver and Haney. This district
40 orca an area Of land known as the Pltt
.aov prairies. comprising some OF the hhest
., the province stretching unbroken by
-rs knoll for sixteen square miles; but the
sHs s,.vo went out there on Tuesday. and now
's ,,eadows lie buried under great whirlpools
''0 :, them fifty feet deep. The surface of the
S" s. d Uttered with floating fences. much de-
"a' ,,,ea houses broken bridges and drift After
n'o'@- o,ro,ght through FIVE miles Of food we
49, n.d port Haney Here we boarded the
'..,er Transfer which had her nose run INTO
se'" ,.dbed and which was moored to the rails.
w s..rt,ng directly the boat ploughed through
o'a. waters. We passed herds of half
.-rsd cattle tied on RATS. with no one 10 guiue
s'A .,,rrav Of the insecure craft. Then two
INC .,od with strips to swaying RATS glided
"O ,., nv The families were at the doors with
s"". ,ocas but apparently safe. A red hand-
eN0 S,o, vos furiously waved at us short uls-
h'' - o,d the steamers crew were soon MT
'A'o :, ho,t an exhausted starving farmer
ms -, u,,fa The woman had tainted for want
anu rba steamer sailed over the Canadian
'. pathway tracks and tied up at the Whar-
e,o,,on which was half under water. the
h0'N -. Uharnock told many tales OF havoc
F,,, Mr. Robinson the oldes; settler IN 'Ee
sHu ,os, everything and the Old man ciei
W. ,,,en he said he had not seen anything
p ,o- thirty wears. He explained that IL
HNe ~ because the high tides of April. May ana
"A' - toqetber just before the floods there
JUN oxre~lenced the lowest water for thirty
years. VOW, halfway I'D the tall
q dozen acres Of straight trunks. VITA
w. branches. resembled a floating forest
,,o,,,ng about were all sorts OF craft
-. nv the people OF the town, who stared al
.,., dul eyes. Two houses and a general
ooo.ed ont toward the steamer. but the
-. ~ the buried town never spoke. never
800. they were too wretched. too desperately
,.assrent 10 ask for assistance. soon Mission
r,r uas reached and quantity of provisions
..s NIT off by the relief company the people
.s.,s were wadng through the streets. with
.,or IN N their waists. Dogs were barking
"a hugs were screaming. The steamer bumped
,nto A barn literally covered with chickens in all
.,.sss Of starvation. Then we passed an up
,urned boat At SCmas the water was up 10
IN. roofs Of the houses. and the greatest suffering
was reported.
The Indian ranches have been swept away Tor
hundreds OF miles, and with nothing TO cover
them but blankets these poor people are b.v-
ousckug on the mountain side. and selling
The carcasses as they pass near the shore Tor
snes Az Chilliwack City nothing could be seen
iut the tops Of the houses. The entire popula-
son met the steamer at the foot of the principal
susst They were comparatively hght-hear'ed'
CsvE,,.cl il or was the garden city of the
.rrTsee At Langley not a soul was in sight.
and no sound could be heard but the swish OF
The waves against the window-panes. Inc steam
., sailed up the main street for considerable
distance hut meeting one was headed Tor