The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-19

Manager Blake Of the Postal company.
said that the line over the Canadian Pacific
was interrupted near Victoria, but that
messages were being sent east via San
| Francisco without any tro1ble.
Three Day. and Nights.
The present storm began on the morn
/ Ing OF November is. Since then Il has
rained almost continuously. The wind has
vibrated from a pleasant breeze to the
stiffness OF a gale. Soon after midnight
Wednesday the clouds iet out torrents OF
rain. This continued ali night long ana
people who awoke during me night might
. ha9a nkeued the pattering of the rain
drops to the beas Of a snare drum. Wnen
dawn broke yesterday the storm was at
its height and the Thermometer registered
~ degrees above Zero.
During the forenoon the storm Increased
In violence and at tho same time the taer-
mometer rose 20 81 degrees above zero at
8 O'Clock.
This temperature was TWO degrees higher
than the Chinook Of last November. when.
blowing four days from the sea. caused
one Of the greatest floods In the history or
Washington. Not until nearly noon yes
terday did the clouds break, and then a
lively wind straight from the south sent
the gray banks, that seemed 10 have spent
themselves IN their moist assaults on the
earth, scattering over the horizon. For
trief hour the sidewalks In the lower part
of the city were dry. It had changed to
cooler and the rain seemed TO be over. At
O'Clock the storm was renewed, until
walking along the business thoroughfares
OF the city was decidedly uncomfortable.
On the Crenf Northern.
Train NO. 9 the westbound overland On
the Great Northern, due here at 1879 in
the morning, was stalled somewhere down
the line and would not likely reach here
for several hours. The telegraph line be-
tween this city and Leavenworth. the
headquarters OF Division Superintendent
J. W. Donovan. of-fhe Great Northern,
was down and no information was 10 be
Rad from any source concerning the nature
OF the interruption on the railroad. II was
decided TO abandon the east-bound over
land on the Great Northern. known as
No 4. II was held TO be useless to send
that train out. seeing that the west-bound
had not succeeded In reaching the city.
A storm signal was early displayed at
the Offices OF the Great Northern. One of
the employees appeared In pair of new
rubber boots that reached TO his thighs.
No tickets were sold aud people who came
into the Office iaquiring how soon they
could get out OF town were told that every
thing possible was being done To get the
line clear aud resume the operation OF
trains.
II was not the pleasantess task In the
worid to meet the inquiring passenger who
was eager To get to his home somewhere
en- the line out of the city. Nearly all OF
them registered a strong kick. Said one
Of the employees: THE people who want
10 travel on a lay like this seem to blame
the railroad men for the storm They do
not consider that only Providence can
stop down pour like this" and he pointed
TO a rivuiet Of water running of the siicker
hat Of q passing longshoreman. THE
worst kicker IL the man who has pass.
II by chance he IL caught In town by
storm like this he Immediately PUSHES 20
s1e railroad Office TO lay out the whole
force. To him. the necessary cessation OF
travel is personal insult and he wants to
wreak vengeance on every .ne connected
with the railroads
THE travellers who have purchased
round trip tickets view matters In the
same light They seem 10 think that the
storm was gotten up for their especial
injury and that the railroad men are In
the scheme. You can't talk to such people
as these"
On the Northern Pacific.
At the Northern Pacific offices IL was
stated that trains on the main line be-
tween Seattle and Portland were running
on time. The westbound overland reached
this city ct l o'clock yesterday afternoon,
about one hour late.
General Agent Na,ieau said that while
the water was high In the Black and
White rivers. no danger was apprehended
from that source, as the company had
placed new steel bridges over these
streams and had protected the track so
that washouts would not cause any trout
ble The Northern Pacific wires to Port
land were working. and that from the
East was causing but little trouble.
A grain shipper from Eastern Washing
ton, who arrived here yesterday, said that
there was but little snow in the noun
y;tins on the line Of tho Northern Paciac,
rnd no great Hood was anticipated,
bottom Lands submerged,
At the Seattle & International every
thing appeared 20 be running smoothly.
The Snohomtsh. Skaglt and Stiiineuamsh
rivers were reported very hieh during the
day. hut nj O'clock last nigh, Il WAS
said that the waters were at StapdstlH
The White river started on \ rampage.
after its usual style, Wednesday after
no0n. BY morning IL had risen nine feet
aud was climbing up its banks az the rate
az four inches an hour. mile above
Sumner the water had broken oQt of the
river banks and overswer. the iowiands
The stuck river was reported yesterday
afternoon going up IA the rate Of ten
ieet for every twenty-four hours. All boz
tom lands on both streams were reported
as submerged eus no less os stock Was
reported.
AZ Lowell 1t Was reported last night
;bst The wharf Of the paper mill was sub
n1eTSed, and that the river was rising
rapidly. Other reports from the lower
! Sound country confirmed the statements
i thar the S;iliag uaEish. SnohouiiSs ard
Sxagit rivers had nearly reached tho mark
set by the floods last November.
! New REGARD.
! The rainfall for the twenty four hours
ending at ; o'clock Yesterday was heavier
{ TRAN In any similar time IN the history
or tue Seattle weather bureau. The storm
! was ret a record breaker IN velocity 81
wind. although The Gaie shat blew Wxdues-
day night and Yesterday murnns vas nn
Eephyr A. Its highest ghs wtnd only
registered velocity OF thirty miles an
hour an t}ae Apparatus tn this city. That
speed ~as attained soma sssae during
Wednesday night. But in the matter III
rainfall for tweuty -fonT hours the pres
snt ticwHgss establishes u navy record on
t8e tsokS 81 the ioCai observer These
( sbow that : 3 inches % rain fell fTara 8
p ~. Wednesday untn the same hour
yesterday Tae highest rainfall fof a
similar psrte9 before yesterday WaS q
Inches. THIS record Was established on
. January L. iSat Thirteen hundred hS Of
aH i8ch or water IL rof very aach but
scattered over the entire watershed az
The Cascade mountains IN Western Wash.
{ Ing1an Il means a gfeat deal - water, /,
/ Is enough 10 establish reroFa. ana sho~
hew nne distinctions are drawn AZ the
weather ogIice.
ItuFing Wednesday night, whe- the
+ Chinook was az tts h@lshf, the thernesa-
: eter registered nothing below sc degrees.