The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-20
COLD CHECKS THE FLOOD.
DUT TRAFFIC. ON THE RAILROADS
II STILL DELAYED.
The Greatest Inconvenience 70 the
Public Ii Ca.eea by the Monde
livery of Mxl-ReIief Promised
Teaay-Great FAN in Temperature.

The greatest inconvenience that the gen
erai public has suffered in relation to the
recent storms has been in respect 20 malls.
The changed conditions in the tempera-
ture and the consequence OF subSiding wa
tiers has led the railroads 10 promise that
there viii be a general movement Of trains
today and that trafie operations will be
conducted with but a limited departure
from regular schedules.
Yesterday there was a positive standstill
SO far as train movements were concerned
and reports from up and down the various
lines, such as could be obtained by Grip
pied tefegrap hic service, were discourage
ing until the afternoon. II has rarely been
the case that communication has been cut
OF from the south. but the past few days
have been marked by an absence Of mail
and express transfer that has been greatly
20 the disadvantage of business people and
private citizens alike. The trouble ex-
perisnced by the Northern Pacific, east of
Puyaliup, has been an injured bridge at
Buckley, On the White river. The cause
was log jam against one OF the piers that
threw the structure out OF perpendicular,
making the passage of trains over il un-
safe. Superintendent McCabe was out
with repair train aud two gangs of men
and reported that the injury was being re-
paired by filing of stones and boulders
around the piles. The current was said
to be SO swift that driving new piles would
be impossible until the water receded.
The filling in. however. was intended to
protect the work already in place.
Later In the afternoon the White river
was reported 70 be rapidly falling. South
OF Tacoma the Cowiitz river was said to
have cut OF the movement of trains, but
in the afternoon the food had receded SO
that trains could pass without interrupt
ton. Under instructions the city and de-
pot ticket Offices sold transportation after
3 o'clock without conditions. East-bound
business to Spokane and points farther
along the lire was tieketed via Portland.
The connection was made at Portland with
the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com
pany to Spokane, at which point the
Northern Pacific tracks were again used.
There seems to be little doubt that gen.
eral traffic will be resumed again today,
unless the conditions to reports are
again reversed The Great Northern did
not send out its o'clock overland yester-
day, although the coast line was reported
clear. The main line difficulty has been at
Sultan and Index, caused by high water.
and occurred at points that are always af-
fected by an unusual rise In the Skykom-
ish river. No trains were moved yester-
day on the Great Northern either way.
The road Is said 10 have d great deal Of
west-bound freight on IL destined for the
Orient, much of which Is cotton for the
Nippon Yusen kaisha.
The Seattle & International closed for
business yesterday. the only movement
being that of repair and construction
trains, of which there were four out, to
repair the damage to the roadbed. The
loss of time was oceasioned by high water
at Snohomish and a small washout at Ar
lington. The rise in the Skagit river was
largely responsible for softening Of new
work which.was said yesterday to be 9TH
erwise uninjured. General Freight and
Passenger Agent Fred Allen stated that
the reported fan In the river of five feet
would allow a resumption Of traffic today,
although ii could hardly be expected to be
according TO time tables. The local pass
enger business has suffered but the freight
business has not. The bulk of the COM
modify handled at this time OF year is
shingles for the Eastern market and
delay In delivery is of small Importance. as
orders are to be held until the spring de-
mand. The Seattle q International ship
ments are for delivery to other roads. the
Northern Pacific. Great Northern and Bur-
lington.
The Mails.
At the postoffice last evening Assistant
Postmaster Colkett stated that mail is
being delivered to the roads and that the
larger number OF east-bound pouches have
been sent around by Portland. The long
distance telephone service has been much
interfcred with and the lines have been
down In all directions. Communications
with Tacoma was resumed yesterday aft
ernoon. but Portland wires were still down
at a late hour last night. North of Ever
EFT the service was unsatisfactory. SUI
perintendent Armstrong was north yester-
day looking after repairs and new con-
struction work. The local service has not
been interfered with 10 any extent and all
lines were said TO be working yesterday.
4 Battle of Air Currents.
In the Office OF the United States weather
bureau there was an interesting record OF
Il battle of air currents against which
rust be charged the storms of the week.
The earlier days saw the approach from
the south ana southwest OF warm winds,
which brought with them the tlrst rain Of
Tuesday morning. These warm winds
swept over the western part OF the state
and not until 10 o'clock yesterday morning
Was The injury they created checked by
encountering colder winds from the
northeast. that passed over the noun
tains and. mixing, changed the tempera
ture. The baronletric differences were not
great taken a a whole. although the pen
recorded several rapid changes of a tenn
porary character. The lowest barometer
on Thursday was 1906 at Q o'clock In the
morning II rose 70 2993 81 Q o'clock az
night. Yesterday IL was stationary for
five hours. The thermometTic differences
were those marked by a falling mercury
Of from 81 at Q o'clock Thursday morning
Ia "a at s o'clock Yesterday morning The
most notable feature Of the weeks storms
Ia the unusual fall of rain. The average
for the entire month. according to the
records. is 5.4s inches while from Tuesday
morning until yesterday morning the fall
was As inches or q fraction more than
x-tenths NJ the entire months average.
zfs.tN4< Ia ~ sfs,s,ys -
rain today. although possible at mospheTie
changes. from Tatoosh and points below
Port Augeles we're not recorded yesterday
owing 10 the fact that the wires were
down.