The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-02-25
Floods Feared Over This State
|Chinooks Turning Blanket of Snow Into Raging
Torrents in the Cascades-Through Trains
From East and West Annulled and
Mail Service Badly Crippled

The snow blockade in the Cas-
cades still continues and it is safi
by the Great Northern officials here
that there is little likelihood of 1t
being broken until tomorrow. Snow
has been falling at the rate of two
inches per hour since last Saturday.
and though number of rotaries have
been at work yet 1t has been impos-
sible to clear the tracks. There will
be no through trains either way to-
day. As has been the case for the
past several days, there will be a
local train in from Spokane during
the night, but the through trains are
tied up in Montana and the Dakotas.
There has also been trouble this
week on the Wenatchee-M
branch. The train due here at IL
o'clock will not be in until late this
afternoon. There have been no pa
pers or mail from Seattle reach this
city since early Wednesday morn
Ing. There are number of passen-
ger trains stalled on the summit, but
nothing definite is known as to the
number OF trains or of the passen-
gers.
It has been reported here that No.
A ran into steam rotary on the
summit and was considerably lam
aged, but no help can be given the
disabled engine until the track is
cleared.
The weather bureau in Portland
and Spokane report rains and CHI
hooks and the residents are warned
to prepare for the rapid melting of
the snow, accompanied by consider
able precipitation. There has already
been general rise in temperature
In much Of the district on the Pacific
coast and the Rockies. With the
great amount Of snow that has fallen
and the dangers of chinooks and
rains the railroad companies are fear
ing additional trouble in moving the
trains.
Seattle, Feb. 25.-The railroads,
which have been fighting huge snow
drifts in the Cascade mountains for
two days, are just beginning to get
the passes through the mountains
open when they are threatened with
foods In the 1owlands on the west
side of the range.
The sudden rise in temperature has
melted the snow on the land border
ing Puget Sound and is rapidly de-
creasing the amount of snow in the
foothills.
The mountain streams are rising
rapidly and it is feared that the floods
will equal those of last fall, when
great damage was done to railroad
property.
Drifts Piling Up.
Snow is still falling heavily in the
Cascade mountains and on the lower
levels of the Puget Sound country
rain Is descending. with no prospec.
of an early cessation of the storm.
The Northern Pacific, Great Northern
and Milwaukee are moving passenger
trains as well as they can, with nc
| attention to schedules, and travellers
have weary waits while snowplows at
tack the drifts.
Trains Still Blocked.
The Louis James company played
1.-THE Merchant of Venice" on a STALL
ed train near Ellensburg last night
to amuse the passengers. At the
crest Of the Cascades the snowfall is
at the rate of nearly two inches an
hour. Freight service on the rail-
roads was practically abandoned a
week ago. There will be great dam
ger Of floods in the lower country in
two days. when the water reaches the
larger channels.