The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-11-18

Scores OF Houses Floating About In the
Devastated Districts Many Head OF
Stock Drowned aud the Loss to Farmers
WIN BE Very Heavy-Rafiroads Block
sded and business at n standstiii-Cop-
siderable Damage In Portland.
Tacoma, Wash. Nov. lS.-Never be-
fore has western Washington had sucn
a visitation of floods. There Is water
everywhere. The Great Northern
Northern Pacific. and Canadian Pa
cific railroads are blockaded. and IL
will be several days before trade can
be resumed The total damage to GATE
is estimated at s2,OO0,OOO. Business has
not suffered alone. for scores OF houses
are floating about in the devastated
fields. Many families have barely es-
capped with their lives by means Oh
boats Steamers have been sent out In
Snohomish. Columbia and Cowlitz val
ieys to rescue persons who would oth-
| erwise have drowned. The steamer
| Florence Henry went down Snohomish
river Sunday and rescued twenty-five
| families living on marsh and low lanos.
Monday she started again on siul-
lar mission. In Snohomish county the
damage is estimated at s4cOOOO.
Entire Family Drowned.
A Snohomish special says the river
there is now twenty-one feet above
regular water mark at high tide. henry
Johns. a rancher, was crossing IN rlN-
| er near Monroe with his wife and three
| children when their canoe upset arc al
were drowned. Peter Jackson, cS en-
| fell from the boom at CHEEKY Naiiey
and was drowned. Many families nave
| remained In the upper stories OF thelr
| homes and are safe for the present.
Monday morning seveYal houses went
| whirling down Snohonish river ana
were destroyed by crashing into the
bridge near Snohomish City. Al Lowsi
both the Great Northern and Monte
| Cristo roads were washed cut. Maiiy
, log booms have been broken and the
. | logs are being swept into the SOUND
, | Retween Snohomish and Everett the
| river is six miles wide. being two zee
, higher tnan ever before. A Mount Yer
non spec' =. says Skagit river is te'
: inches his &r than ever before in tn
1 history OF this county. Dykes below
: here are nearly all washed away. Avol
0 is under water Men were working a.
!, day and all night making dykes I
e ken the town here from being over
= flowed.
8 No Trains Running.
r Beaver and Olympia marshes are IN
t undated. No trains are running IN
track being under water from mere
stanwood. The Great Northern ran
road bridge Is in a precarious conoluoi
e West Mount Vernon Is flooded. ram
'f lies are fleeing to the hills TO escape u
" water. Many head Of stock are crowns
n and the farmers will suner untol
Ie losses. The Cowlitz. Chehalis, Wnit
rs Nooksack, Stillaguamish and Snonon
10 ish rivers are all from half mile
+ two miles wider than usual. Hundred
e. of heads Of cattle and horses "a
ty drowned. Millions of feet Of logs ha'
II. been lost through the breaking of jan
ne at Kelso, on the Cowlitz river. Nv
ne million feet Of logs and 5000 cords
shingle bolts are missing. The hous
and buildings of August Julesburg
or Stockport are gone, and thirteen he
:. of cattle are drowned there. The moo
=. have been caused by the four days
IIs most continuous rain. together WI
10 the chinook winds. which have melt
10. the heavy snowfalls In the foothiliis
n storm Center at Portland.
nd Portland was directly in the sto'
Ike center Monday, and the temporary
he fell during the day to "a degrees. an
os- most unprecedented temperature
Ter this time of the year. The rainfall d'
md inc the twenty-four hours ended a.
to o'clock was 266 inches. In Portla
ie- the storm did considerable dana
at Sewers and gutter proved entirey
adequate to carry the great volumes
water which swept down from the
hack of the city and passed thro'
op- every street, The several street
tist limos were seriously interfered win
lis many places where water surgeo
cen the tracks, clogging the ties ana n
wi with wreckage. but all lines mana
ION to maintain a moderately regular sc
ins. Co.. throughout the city. The teleph
Dur oornan,es kept their linemen out
wn. day untangling the tumble into WI
our the wind blew their wires. Tne
be- na,s which carry the wires underne
ex- the streets became filed with wa
'uid and required the constant services
en- men with pumps to keep them cieal
Chang Orders steel Rails.
Rraddock. Pa, Nov. 1S.-Li II
and chang has sent Andrew Carnegie
IL order for lO. 900 tons of steel rails.
: OF the Edgar Thompson plant resu
-and ,,ons Monday morning II sta
nell; ro,, these rails. The company
lica- e,,,,aa a biy order from Japan.
s Of - 600 tons of r rails, which al
an he used In level country districts
den. 49,, ,rae,c IL Is said the freight
,uis; ~ pacific would be more thar
h OF cost of the order. and for this re
alter thew will be sent around by water
New York.
strike Threatened at Kansas c"'
inual Kansas City. Nov. ia s.r'h'
con- lockout Of all the union PRIMERS. Y