Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1910-03-18
v,uITMAN'S LOSS WILL
REACH THAT FIGURE
BRIDGES ARE ALL OUT
,,errNATE OF DAMAGE DONE IN
THIS COUNTY ALONE NOW BE
,urVED TO REACH AN ENOR-
NOUS SUM.

rho final estimates of the damage
dome to property in Whitman county
Is now placed at two million dollars
,nd the estimate is believed to be CON
aoryative. ColfaX lost more than half
million and the loss in Pullman, as
announced in last weeks issue Of The
Herald. which placed it at a quarter
- . million dollars, is believed to be
conservative. Whitman county's loss
&c placed at between quarter and
half million dollars, and the rail
roads lost fully half million. Not
farm, road district or town in the
county escaped without some loss. In
many places it was slight. In others
II was heavy. ColfaX is the heaviest
loser among the towns and Pullman
q close second. Palouse probably suf-
fered less than any town in the
county.
bridges washed away or damaged On
Union fiat it is said that 2 bridges
were entirely lost and many others
damaged Not bridge is left unin-
iured on the Palouse river below
Colfax. The big new steel bridge at
Winona, which was supposed to be
al, Il
lure it, was washed away and carried
down the stream several hundred
Yards. The joint bridge built between
Whitman and Adams counties at an
equal expense to both counties, near
Hooper, is gone. This bridge stood
so high that no one ever thought a
flood would reach it. Hangman creek.
Pine creek, North Pine, Rock creek,
and nearly all other creeks and little
streams in the county are swept al
most clean of bridges.
The Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Co. is the heaviest loser Of the rail
roads in this county, with the Inland
Electric close second. The North
ern Pacific got off lightly and the
Milwaukee road, being built high
tie damage. The O. r. & N. track be
tween Pullman and ColfaX are gone
in many places and nearly every
bridge between these towns is in bad
condition, while more than half of
them are entirely gone. Bets are be
ing made that trains will not be run
ming from ColfaX to Pullman in two
weeks, and F. A. Brownell, station
agent for the o. r. & N. at this place,
is taking all of these bets offered
The only way to reach ColfaX from
Pullman is to go to Garfield on the
evening train of the Northern Pacific
and catch the O. r. & n. train there,
or to drive, and the roads are in bad
condition, but getting better fast.
Conservative business men say the
estimate made by The Herald of the
loss in Pullman is conservative. A. b.
Baker said: Il would not place the
loss one cent below The Herald's es-
innate. | mean the loss inside the
city limits of Pullman, counting in
diyidual, corporation, city, county
and railroad losses inside the town.
A number of farmers lost quite heay-
lily on wheat and other grain stored in
the Pullman Union Warehouse COM
pany's warehouse on both railroads in
the east part of town. The flood wa
ters got up into the warehouses, COW
ering five sacks of grain in the bot
tom of the piles in the warehouse.
Klemgard & Price were the heaviest
losers and their loss was placed at
$1,000 but they have sold the dam
aged wheat for so cents per sack and
realized about $1,000, bringing the
total Of their loss down to about ST.
600, l.. w. Robinson, the Palouse
Electric Flour Mills and numerous
farmers were also losers by damage
to grain In this warehouse. The dam
aged grain Is being sold for feed to
farmers who have hogs.
The citizens OF Pullman have raj
e DID nobly from the shock Of the