The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-11-24
Storms in Northwest Are the Most Destructive
in YearS===Wilanette Valley Is Sea
Of Water=== Damage Is Great

Portland Orc. Nov. 2i-The storm
that has prevailed in the Pacific north
west for two days past shows no signs
of abating, Another night of heavy
rain occurred in the western parts of
Washington and Oregon and a chinook
wind blows In the Cascade noun
tains In eastern Oregon and east
ern Washington the rain is of sccon-
Diary Importance 10 windstorm,
which causes considerable financial
loss. SO far as reported, no lives have
been lost
No damage to shipping is reported
except the stranding OF the schoon-
or Mary Winkleman near Port Town
send
The storm. so far as can be ascer-
tanned, is unprecedented for this time
of the wear, and is exceeded in Ore
gon only by the January thaw" of
1890, which still stands as a record
for winter floods.
In northwestern Washington the
Nooksack river, after temporary fall
late yesterday. began to rise again.
The ranches on tho lowlands continue
flooded and the railroads have lost Il
number of bridges.
Train schedules in this part of the
state are demoralized with no asSur-
ance as TO when they will be resum.
ed.
Along lower Puget Sound the
streams are all out OF their banks, and
flooding tho lowlands and bridges,
both county and railroad, have been
carried ont in number of instances.
The Great Northern railroad, which
crosses tho Cascades east Of Everett.
is tied up, several trains being stall
ed in these mountains. The North
ern Pacific railroad, however, which
comes through the mountains cast Of
Tacoma and Seattle. has experienced
little trouble and It's trains are prac-
tically on schedule time.
In the Gray's Harbor country, the
principal loss has been occasioned
from the loss of logs, one raft alone.
which broke loose yesterday, was val
ued at 100000. The logs were swept
-ott TO sea --
The Cowlitz river. In the southwest
ern part of Washington. is within five
feet Of the stage reached in 1906 when
railroad traffic was tied up for three
days because of floods In and about
Castle Rock and Kelso.
In southern Washington the Spo
kane Portland and Seattle railroad.
is having trouble along the bank of
the Columbia river by reason of land
slides The same condition prevails
on the south bank of this river whore
the Oregon Railroad and Navigation
company has It's tracks.
In the Willamette valley all riv-
ers. big and little, are torrents.
In and about Springfield the coun-
try is flooded and many ranchers have
taken to the high land. There were
several narrow escapes in this vicin-
ity, In one instance a woman and her
child were compelled to spend the
night in the limbs of a tree.
At Oregon City the water. which Is
siXty-three feet above low water mark,
has compelled the closing OF the locks
and shutting down OF all the mills on
the east side of the river.
Below Oregon City the falsework to
the new Southern Pacific railroad
bridge at Oswego has gone ont and at
Portland the water is over the lower
decks and still rising.
In the upper Rogue valley floods
have forced residents 10 higher ground
and the pumping station near Grants
Pass has heen damaged The South
ern Pacific main line is tied up at
Sardine creek. II miles south of here,
by a washodt of both approaches to
the bridge over Sardine creek.
In Umntilla county in eastern Ore
gOn, terrific wIndstorm late yester-
day unroofed several buildings and at
Athena the end OF large warehouse
was blown in in front of a passenger
train The train was travelling slow
~ and came to stop before the OBJ
struction was reached.
In eastern Washington. at North
Yakima. the Yakima river has reach
cd a flood stage, and has carried out
a dam.