East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1906-05-30


All the flat in the vicinity of the race track east of the city is
flooded and horses could swimming among trees on
the flat Drftwood of imaginable vaencing parts of
houses signs bill boards railroad bers logs and trees filled the
river and lodged in immense quantities above the R n bridge
lhe o. T. n switch engine and employed in removing
the debris from the bridge but slow headway made of
the Lack OF equipment all the wecng and being unable
to reach the city
DEAD MAN SEEN
What doubtless of drowned man was seen floating
down the between and O'Clock last evening At the time
crowd gathered the Main bridge and the
ral parties attracted hat which oated down stream
moment later the body of distinguished in the muddy
ead OF the man were plainly different times he floated
Kimmery day clerk at the Hotel St George and compap
followed along the evee hundred wards and hey de-
clare there doubt of the object being dead man.
above Pendeton and nothing known regarding the identity of
the floater.
SITUATION IN THE WEST END -s<
The first real alarm that felt by the west end
Ct town was late yesterday afternoon when the rising below
the end of the ve caused family to take some Of
atoc grove They took but few things and this morning
time they realized that the house itself actual danger was
oaed down stream and went to pieces among the of the grove
and with the household goods it contained total loss
The next stage of the exodus the end began about o'clock
this morning when the Bowers family the end of Star
by the end of the evee had flee and had but few
effects The water rising rapidly that time and the house
off its foundation and floating few after being deserted It,
too floated away and lodged but did not go pieces
From O'Clock it hustle the of the denzens of the
safety In fact along Alta and Court for several blocks
board walks and crossings afoa 1t than astonishing
that household goods taken places safety but tho
people seemed be pevaded with the idea that after all the flood
By o'clock 1900 residents the territory described had
taken either to the hills in the southern part of town.
tered with neghbors ay property blocks farther
up town west of the O. R. N grade seemed promise inn
LEvEE SECURING OFF AT WEST END.
o'clock the end of the levec Star securing off
and by noon nearly all the evee from Star to Calvin block east had
been cut away and by that me too the first floors probably 300
from the O. R grade other vantage points were here and
there and horses and chickens deserted and marooned
the being high reached by preventing spread the
wider territory at the same time protected many blocks of homes
the main line of the O. R. N and the beyond the W. R.
depot The acted as DAM and in short time the east of
the Y as inside of it
BRIDGE GRADE DAMAGED
o'clock grade of the O. R. n bridge west
of town succumbe the and the tear of the water and be-
out By 10 o'clock 80 feet had out beneath the track
but the long steel rails supported the ties and gang
spot railroad pile driver and with appi
G other % uppo are '' Ts @ % and aRs s
approaches hardly quvered from the of the yellow flood
which at that time about four feet beneath the floor
The condition of affairs the end described the
breaking of the evee the Laow place. close to Le street.
oR&N OFFICIALS ARRIVE
Today Chief Dispatcher Buckley and Roadmaser Pete
Grant of the R. ~ arrived foot from Meacham having
They walked through the hills most of the way wadng swollen
streams climbing fallen and making progress toward PEN
don every possible under the navorabe circumstances
They found number of small bridges in the vicinity of Meacham
washed and the track covered up with mud and debris many
places
Yesterday evening the Meacham burst flood of
rushed down the and through Meacam carrying away
oubudngs fences and hundreds of logs and About five feet
of poured through the tunnel Meacham and Meacam creek
wild for hour while the water
was passing.
Chief Dispatcher Buckley Immediately ordered the pile driver
with freight engine which caught here and all afternoon
force of has been busy repairing and protecting the railroad
bridges.
The damage the Cayuse bridge is not first
ported wooden of the bridge have washed awav but
the steel damaged This is coaatvey light dam
age, as the two bens can be easily repaired |
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