The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-16
FLOODS ON
 THE RAMPAGE High Water Deluged Washington Towns.
IMMENSE DAMAGE TO CROPS
eS of Railroads Have Been Swept Away.
Worst storm in History Raises Streams, Carrying Away Bridges and Driving Farmers from
 ThefS Homes.

Portland. Ore, Nov. 15.--As the re- suit of the unprecedented floods, Seat sle and Tacoma are cut off from rail- road and telegraph communication with the outside world.
 An avalanche of mud prevents the Great Northern from running trains. Moro than dozen small towns in the White, Stuck ana Green Valleys are flooded.
 Steel bridges on the Northern Pa scific arc carried away over the Green band stuck rivers. The town of, Kent lss the center of White river. now two miles wide.
 Immense damage has been done to erops. and farmers are being driven from their homes. The loss to farm Esrs is put at ssso.Ooo: Northern Pa lcinc. s25o.oOO; King County. $1oo.ooo; electric roads. $76.ooO.
 The Clearwater river. at Lewiston.
  timber and shingles and the raise work on the oregon Railroad and Navigation Company'e bridge, under construction. is carried away.
 The residence district of Auburn Is entirely flooded, and in many parts or the city the water has risen so rapidly that the people have fled to the htlls. several empty two-story farm houses have floated down both the Green and White rivers Huge bonfires light up the hills in the farming country, and about them are huddled poor families driven from their homes while others are lighting desperately to save some of their possessions. Danger of loss of life will be greater tonight when, | in inc darkness, 1t would be impossi- ] hle .nY reseaers to find the people l hudhsed along the river baIfN. PracticaI1y the last dispatch re l nelved from Seattle before all eomInu 1 nication with the north was lost wa to The Morning Oregoniar. The dis patch in part is as follows RallrOads swept Away. Floods in the White. Stuck ant Green Rivers which began Last night ! have swept away miles of railroad, in undated all tho valley towns. rendered hundreds of farmers homeless and cost three lives up to date.
 Presidents of O'Brien were compelled at noon today to abandon their homes and flee to the hils. At Kent rag ing torrent is running through the town, and Auburn will suffer extensive damage unless the waters recede-
 Scores of farmers were saved by q narrow margin, but there may be some loss of life in the outlying districts that cannot now be reached. The Northern Paciac's loss will be enorm. ous and the complete tic up of that road has stalled all trains here since midnight. The Great Northern la un- able to send out any trains. Com munication by boat to Tacoma enables the Northern Pacific to send passengers South in that manner.
 Information has been received here that forty farmers are marooned on an island situated al che junction of the Cowlltz and Columbia rivers. The flood waters are sweeping around them and they are in danger of drowning The steamer Burton has been sent to the scene.
 Another report which has reached here is that the town of Catlin. just opposite Kelso on the Cowlitz River, has ben washed away.
 Worst in History.
 Never since the white men came has the State of Washington suffered from such a storm as ragged last night and early this morning.
 Railroads out of Tacoma and Seattle are demoralized: train service to Port land only from the latter city being maintained,
 On Puget Sound the towns of Sno- homigh, Sumner and Auburn are under water.
 Although nothing has been heard from Wallawalla, 1t is only fair 10 pre- sume that with floods east and west of these. the rivers in that part of the State are still on a rampage. The rail- ways across the State are prostrated.