The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-19
SUFFERING IN THE STORM.
One Man Made IA Maniac by His Ter
| ribIe Experience,

NAG
Seattle. Wash, Nov. 1s-Residents of
Seattle and vicinity. who, by reason of
floods and snow, have been virtually pris-
oners in the Businesses Of the Cascade
mountains since Friday last, are coming
in, some on gravel trains, some afoot and
others by boat. They tell narrowing
tales of suffering. devastation and de-
struction.
The situation as described in these dis
patches from day to day has not been ex-
aggerated in the least, If indeed, the fury
and fierceness of the storm has been fully
portrayed. There has been human suffer-
ing, and no doubt many miners and pros
pectors in the Cascades have been either
drowned or have met death from snow
slides.
Four prospectors, headed by Joseph Mich
olson, operating claim on the Snoqualmi
Pass, arrived this afternoon. One Of the
men is raving maniac by reason of the
suffering and hardships endured in their
effort to get out of the mountains Satur-
day night to prevent being swept down the
mountains by snow slides they dashed
themselves to trees where they remained
in the drenching rain for six or eight hours.
Meanwhile, great boulders of earth and
hugo sections of snow kept sliding down
into the canyons and gulches below. Trees
were torn UP by the roots and carried
away by the avalanche, and the noise was
| indescribably horrifying. AT daybreak on
Sunday the prospectors tore away
the lashings and began their peril
GUS journey out of the noun
tains. They followed Gold Creek
to Lake Keechsler, tramping through
snow four or five feet deep, crossing
small streams on logs, finally finding
their way to the point where the North
ern Pacific crosses the Cascades and
thence they proceeded down the railroad
track to this city.
Two Seattle business men were caught
at Index Thursday. They were three
days walking thirty-five miles TO Snoho-
mish, crossing small streams by means
of driftwood and the larger ones In row.
boats. They report that the Great North
ern west bound overland passenger train,
with forty-one passengers, due here last
Friday morning, is stalled between Well
ington and Madison, owing to great
washouts on both sides. When last heard
from twelve first-class passengers on the
train were being supplied with half RAJ
tions from tho dining car, while the day
coach and second-class passengers in
GLIDING twenty-four Chinese, managed TO
procure scant food supplies from Well
ington. The gentlemen giving this in
Il
outs on the Great Northern between In
dex and Sultan, a distance of fourteen
miles, that on the Upper Falls of the
Skyhomish river two bridges are gone,
together with 1900 feet of track
When the food was at its hight, the
Great Northern line between Monroe and
SlSyhomish. a distance of seven miles, was
inundated to a depth or from six to fif-
teen feet To-day's advices, however, are
TO the effect that the waters of all the
rivers have receded except at Snohomish.
In the flats and bottoms water covered
thousands of acres Of rich farm land
! leaving nothing but wreck and ruin be-
hind. The Great Northern is making no
attempt to run trains save on the coast
line north to Stanwood. Large forces OF
men are now at work on the coast and
main line, but there is little prospect OF
an early resumption of traffic. On Sun
day night. three minutes after the North
ern Pacific passenger train from Portland
had passed Ainslee half a mile Of track
and roadbed near that place slid into the
Cowlitz river. The eastern mails due here
Saturday and Sunday were received to-
day, but there has been none from San
Francisco and the south since last Fri
day. The Northern Pacific. by transfer
ring, is now running overland trains east
from Tacoma and Is also making steamer
( connections from this city to Portland.