Yellowstone monitor. [volume] (Glendive, Mont.) 1905-1928, 1908-06-11
MONTANA IN
GRASP OF FLOODS
Railroad Traffic Temporarily at Standstill.
Loss Will Run into the Millions.

and also many from Butte and
Helena, including the Knights of
Columbus who went to Spokane
Sunday.
The Tacoma league baseball team,
which was on it's way to play at
Butte, is also in the ill-fated train,
and last night was in hopes of get
ting back to Spokane and then reach
Butte via the Great Northern by
way of Helena. The train cannot
possibly be got through to Missoula
before tomorrow morning.
The Big Blackfoot company at
Bonner is fighting the flood at the
old dam and has a large force Of
men and teams hauling rock to
strengthen the structure. Above
the dam are millions of logs held
back by piers and booms and every
thing possible is being done to hold
them from breaking away.
He'll Gate canyon from Misseula
| to Garrison has been badly torn up
by the flood and the recent railway
construction work done by both the
Northern Pacific and St. Paul COM
panies is ruined. The whole map of
the canyon has been changed, and il
the flood gets no worse and does no
more harm it is estimated it; will
take so days to repair the damage
done to the new grades.
There is some improvement in
railroad traffic so far as Butte is
concerned. The Northern Pacific
road is open between Butte and st.
Paul, or was, at last reports last
night, and the Short Line trains
were running again about on time
yesterday afternoon. The Great
Northern, however, is still in trou-
BILE.
| The washout between Basin and
Bernice has not been repaired, be-
cause of high water and continued
downpour of rain yesterday no work
could be done on it. Two Great
Northern trains from the east came
as far as the washout Wednesday
night and yesterday and train was
sent out of Butte at 8 o'clock last
night to make tranfer at Bernice
and bring in the passengers from
the belated trains. The transfer
was not made, however, as it was
found to be too dangerous to attempt
lit in the night. The train was or
Ldered held at Bernice until this
morning, when, an effort will be
made to transfer all the passengers.
The Butte, Anaconda & Pacific.
which was out of commission for a
few hours Wednesday night, was in
good working condition again yes
terday. Three Northern Pacific
trains arrived in Butte from the
east yesterday. The first one got
in at 7 o'clock in the morning. the
second at | O'Clock in the afternoon
and the third at 11:15 last night.
Two trains were made up at Butte
for the east, making connections at
Logan with the Helena train for st.
Paul. One left at 9 o'clock in the
morning and the other at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon. Another will
leave for the east at 7:30 this MORN
ing, unless later trouble develops.
So far as the western line is con-
cerned, there is no improvement.
and there is no prospect that the
road will be open before Saturday
or Sunday, and some of the passen-
gers who have seen the damage in
the vicinity of Drummond say the
Northern Pacific will be in luck If it
can get trains over the road in a
week.
The trouble on the Oregon Short
Lire was due to water and washouts
near Silver Bow on the Northern
! Pacific tracks, and yesterday the
Short Line trains went over the
Rutte, Anaconda & Pacific tracks