The herald., 1896-11-16
And Still the Rain Continues
to Fall
WEB FOOT STATE WEATHER
d Dri wing the Merchants Off the Water
Front
washington Fares Still Worse - The
Snohomish Out of Its Banks-Cat-
tie and Settlers Are Drowning
Associated Press Special Wire

mast seyenty-two hours rain has fallen
almost continuously over the northwest
and all streams are running bank FULL
In many places the Willamette river has
broken over its banks and has Hooded
low lands. The river at this city at
o'clock tonight stood fifteen feet above
low water and is rising at the rate OF
two inches an hour. The lower docks
have been abandoned and merchants
along the water front are at work to-
night moving goods from their cellars
to higher ground. About o'clock to-
night snow began falling, but soon
turned to rain. Railroad lines have suf-
fered from washouts. and Seattle to-
night is entirely shut off from the out
side world except by means of boat to
Tacoma. Trains on the Northern Pa
cific and Oregon Railway and Naviga-
ti0n companies roads We're all delayed
by the storm and arrived several hours
lnte. The Southern Pacific was delayed
several hours by a washout few miles
south of Salem, and was compelled to
transfer passengers and mails which
came in this evening.
IN WASHINGTON
SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. ia spec
~ to the t-Inteligencer from Everett
says: The Snohomish river has broken
all records, and is now about two feet
higher than the top high water mark of
previos years Disregarding the regu
lar channel 1t has broken over the banks
and dykes and is taking a short cut
across country on it's mad race to the
sound and the water is still raising. The
ranchers in the bottom lands are only
partially prepared for the flood. While
their loss must be considerable in the ag
gregate. 1t is impossible to get details.
Mr.. Powers, who keeps dairy on the
Bast place, is reported to have lost all
his cows. The steamer Florence Henry
has gone out on the bottom lands east
ana south of town, and is now gather
ing up the ranchers' families from their
submerged dwellings, some of them miles
from the river.
The Monte Cristo track between Ev-
orett and Lowell is all under water The
wharf at the foot of Hewitt avenue in
this oity is partially submerged. At
Lowell the water has washed out the
tracks of both the Great Northern and
Monte Cristo roads. The lower floor
= cEthe paper mill here is flooded and the
fires have been put out in the furnaces.
The Monte Cristo train of yesterday was
not able to get through the canyon, the
track being covered with water most
OF the time and water filled the tunnels
to the depth of several feet.
TRAFFIC ABANDONED
!, TACOMA, Wash, Nov 15.-The Puy-
1eyS between Tacoma and Seattle are
Hooded, causing such danger to traffic
that the Northern Pacific today aban-
doned its entire service on the Seattle
branch. Tonight only one telegraph
wire out of seven is working between
Tacoma and Seattle, making particulars
OF the Mood hard to get, as the railroad
fs using the single wire. Early this
evening log jam was rapidly forming
in the White river at Kent, and it was
reported that the railroad bridge would
have to be blown out to prevent an in
undatioO of the town and valley. A
later report says that the bridge has
gone out. 1t win probably be several
days before trains to Seattle can be
resumed. Failing trees this afternoon
Frustrated wires in all directions. The
Postal company lost all it's wires north
and the Western Union all but the one
mentioned. The Western Unions east
ern circuit, comprising nine wires, went
down between Meeker Junction and
Orting, and but one wire south is in use
Long distance telephone lines are down
in all directions.
The rain changed to snow at II o'clock
this morning. 1t continued falling all
day, and this evening the ground is
covered with from one to two inches of
snow, though most of it melted as fast
as it fell
The storm reached its height in Port
land before midnight, and according to
reports received by the weather bureau,
is now rapidly moving eastward. Port
land was directly in the storm center
today, and the temperature fell during
the day to "a degrees, an almost unprec-
edentedly low temperature for this time
of the year.
The rainfall during the "a hours ending
1T o'clock tonight was 2.66 inches.
There are a number of washouts re-
ported on the line of the Northern Pa
cific-between this city and Tacoma, Pas
senger train No. 1, which was due Sat
urday noon, was delayed by a break in
the track this side of Linnton, and did
not reich Portland until this morning at
o'clock. AS the rain has evidently
abated, no further trouble along the
line is looked for as the result of the
present storm.
The Oregon Railway and Navigation
passenger train, due in Portland yester-
day at p. M, was delayed two miles
above Cascade Locks, where the bridge
across Herman creek, a small mountain
stream, now swollen beyond it's bounds,
was carried away. The passengers were
transferred to a train sent up from
Portland, and arrived at 2:15
In Portland the storm did considera BILE
damage. Sewers and cutters proved en-
tirely inadequate to carry the great vol
umes OF water which swept down from
the hills back Of the city and poured
The several street car lines were Sc
riously interfered with in many places.
where the water surged over their
tracks, clogging the ties and rails with
wreckage, but all lines managed to
maintain moderately regular service
throughout the city.
Balch creek, which formerly supplied
the city with water. went out of its
banks last night and furrowed a new
channel to Guilds lake, directly across
the large Chinese vegetable garden
which lies at the foot of the canyon The
garden was completely ruined In Mar
guam gulch, at the other end of town,
the big brick sewer was unable to carry
the water which poured through it, and
burst at the lower end at noon, spouting
stream like geyser the balance of the
day.
Several landslides occurred on the hills
during the day, large mass of dirt and
stones coming down from one of the
hills in South Portland, with noise that
was heard all over that part of town.
The telephone companies kept their
linemen out all day untangling the jum-
bic into which the wind blew their wires.
The tunnels which carry the wires un-
derneath the streets became filled with
water and required the constant services
OF men with pumps to keep them clear.
FOR FIFTY YEARS
! Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup has been
used for children's teething. 1t soothes
the child, softens the gums, allays All
grcHn ind <,<x1t1 n t.