Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-28
Associated Pressl

l1A9oOSAN'S0N
WALLA WALLA, Wash, Feb. 28.-I
1t is reported the village of Gem,
across the canon from Mace, Is also
buried in the landslides.
SPOKANE, Wash, Feb. 2S.-At 1:3O
this morning telegraphic reports to the
Spokesman Review from Wallace say
three bodies have been recovered from
the landslide at the Standard mine at
Mace. One of these was a son of Mr..
Pascoe a we'll known mining man.
The men, who went from Wallace
are digging with pick and shovel in the
mass of boulders, earth and snow.
Seven hundred men on two relief
trains left Wallace, Idaho, for Mace,
five miles from Wallace, and where
snowslide has buried 25 families, at
1916 and / O'Clock this morning Tel
ephone connections with Mace are
broken.
Twenty years ago yesterday the
famous Burke snowslide buried 30 men
at another of the little mining towns
in the canon
IIillsides are precipitous and the
chinook wind and rain yesterday ana
Saturn Nshad loosened the snow which
has tSaA winter been the heaviest
since 1ss3
~ EATTLE, Feb. 27.-The worst storm
n that has struck the Pacific north-
~ west in the last six years is raging
over Western Washington and BRUSH
Columbia.
In Seattle the wind, blowing from the
southwest, reached maximum Velocl-
ty of forty miles an hour, and mann
tained an average of thirty-six miles,
while rain fell in torrents, increasing
the danger from floods made imminent
by the melting of snow on the western
slope of the Cascade mountains.
At S o'clock this evening the temper
ature was rising, and the weather bu-
reau sent out new flood warnings.
The storm center is now Off the coast
of northern British Columbia. II Is
moving south and will center cn Puget
sound within the next twenty-tour
hours, according to the local Weather
bureau.
The flood warning sent out by the
weather bureau tonight advises that
there is grave danger of floods in the
Puyallup, White, Duwamish, Snoho-
mish and Skagit river valleys. All OIL
these streams have their sources IN
the mountains. They are bank tull
from the heavy rains that have failed
in the last four days, and it is feared
that the water from the melting snow
in the hills will cause general HOODS III
the lowlands.
Seattle Rainfall Great
The rainfall in Seattle today was an
inch in twelve hours. Since Wednesday
the rainfall has amounted to 1856 inches,
equal to the normal precipitation for
the whole month of February.
The railroads are still hampered with
snowslides in the Cascades. The Great
Northern and the Milwaukee lines are
hopelessly blocked, and the Northern
Pacific is operating through the noun
tains with difficulty. Northern Pacific
train No. Z, from ST. Paul, arrived in
Seattle this afternoon, twenty-four
hours late, having been detained at
Eaton by a snowslide. All other North
ern Pacific trains are running from ten
to twenty hours late. All trains using
the Northern Pacific tracks between
Tacoma and Portland are being de-
toured by way of Olympia. The main
line is blocked at Rainier, Thurston
county, by the wreck of the north
bound Portland-Vancouver limited
which ran into a slide. No one is re-
ported injured
The Great Northern is sending addi-
tional men to the mountain division to
help open the line
REPORTS from Everett tonight say
that snow is falling in the mountains,
and there is little prospect of getting
the Great Northern line open WITHIN
the next twenty -four hours.
TELEGRAPH wires are down and the
details of the storm in the mountains
are meager The Great Northern is
operating it's st. Paul and Chicago
overland trains via Vancouver, Wash,
and the North Bank roads. The east
bound Kansas City express has been
annulled.
Marine interests on Puget sound suf-
fered little from today's storm. Storm
warnings were sent out yesterday and
ample preparations had been made to
weather the gale. No reports have been
received today from the observatory on
Tatoosh island, at the entrance to the
Strait of Juan de Fuca, all wires lead
ing to the island having been carried