Los Angeles herald., 1909-11-25
RAGING
IN NORTHWEST
OREGON CENTER OF TERRIFIC
D0WNP0UR
HEAVY RAINFALL ACCOMPANIED
BY HIGH WIND
Unprecedented DeIuge Does Consider
able Damage and lmperiIs Lives.
Washington Also Hit
by Gale
Associated Pressl

PORTLAND, NOV. 2A.-Ine SloIii
that has prevailed in the Pacific north
west for two days shows no signs or
abating. Another night of heavy ram
occurred in the western parts of wash
ington and Oregon and Chinook Wlnd
blows in the Cascade mountains.
In eastern Oregon and eastern Wash-
ington the rain is of secondary impor-
tance to a wind storm which caused
considerable financial loss. So FAR as
reported, no lives have been lost
though in several instances persons
have been in perilous positions. NO
damage to shipping is reported, except
the stranding of the schooner Mary
Winkelmann near Port Townsend.
The storm so far as can be ascer-
tanned. is unprecedented for this time
of the year, and is exceeded in oregon
only by the January thaw of 1880,
which still stands as record for WIN
ter floods.
In northwestern Washington the
Hooksack river, after temporary fall
late yesterday, began to rise again as
a result of the renewed rains and
Chinook in the mountains.
The ranches on the lowlands continue
flooded and the railroads have lost
number of bridges. Train schedules in
this part of the state are demoralized.
with no assurance as to when they
will be resumed.
Along Puget Sound
Along lower Puget sound the streams
all are out of their banks and floods
in the lowlands and bridges, both
county and railroad, have been carried
out in a number of instances The
Great Northern railroad, which crosses
the Cascades east of Everett, is tied
up, several trains being stalled in these
mountains.
! The Northern Pacific railroad, how
ever which comes through the noun
| tains east of Tacoma and Seattle, has
experienced little trouble and its trains
are practically on schedule time.
In the Grays Harbor country the
principal loss has been occasioned from
| loss of logs. one raft alone which
| broke loose yesterday being valued at
/ 100000. The logs were swept out to
sea
Along the Chehalis and Humptulips
rivers many farmers have devoted
nearly all their energies to logging. and
their loss will be very heavy and dis
astrous. as many of them have mort
| gagged their property to cary on their
! logging operations. In some instances
the logs which have been lost had been
mortga ged.
The Cowlitz river, in southwestern
| Washington, is bank full, but so far
! has done no considerable damage, al
| though the river is within five feet OF
/ the stage reached in 1905, when rail-
road traffic was tied up for three days
| because of floods in and about Castle
Rock and Kelso.
Railroad Handicapped
In southern Washington the Spokane
| Portland & Seattle railroad is having
not a little trouble along the bank Of
I - .E 1nNa
| slides. The same condition prevails on
the south bank of this river, where the
Oregon Railroad and Navigation COM
pany has it's tracks. This company
| late yesterday reported conditions i'm
proving and stated that trains were
moving with but little delay.
/ In the Willamette valley, all rivers,
/ big and little, are torrents. At the
/ headwaters of the Willamette river and
its larger tributaries, latest reports are
/ that the water is falling, but from AL
/ bany north the river is rising rapidly.
/ No cessation of the rains is chronicled
anywhere.
In and about Springfield the country
! is flooded and many ranchers have
! taken to the high land. There were
several narrow escapes in this vicinity.
| 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
/ SO 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.
Light Plant Intact
The big electric generating plant of
! the Portland Railway, Light & Power
| company, which furnishes large part
of the light and power for Portland,
! has not so far been affected,
! Below Oregon City the false work TO
! the new Southern Pacific railroad
bridge at Oswego has gone out and at
| Portland the water is over the lower
! docks and still rising.
| In the upper Rogue river valley floods
/ have driven residents to higher ground
and the pumping station near Grants
/ Pass has been damaged.
/ The Southern Pacific main line is tied
up at Sardine Creek twelve miles south
! of here, by washout of both APP
| proaches to the bridge over Sardine
| Creek
In Umatilla county in eastern Ore
! gon terrific Windstorm late yesterday
unroofed several buildings and at Ath-
| ena the end of a large warehouse was
/ blown i'm front of a passenger train.
/ The train was moving slowly and came
to stop before the obstruction was
reached.
In Eastern Washington, at North
| Yakima, the Yakima river has reached
1 0ODd and has carried ont n