Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1911-01-20
. SNOW TO FLOOD
b OF RAIN CAUSES GREAT
AGE THROUGH VALLEY.
Escapes Disasters That Have
|sed Serious Loss In Other
Towns.

one extreme TO the OlHeI
Fizes the weather condition
|ring the past week. The cold
|iauciye weather and heavy fal
quickly gave place to sooth
Eherly Chinook and a drench
|finued downpour of rain tina
| the streets of the town, ant
teln look like the morning af
Tune floods in Venice. Th'
|ng to destroy the Illusion wal
fnce of gondolas.
|elnge of water quickly chok,
sewers and spread over the
Iea and along the sides of the
At various points the side
|gere afioat, and pedestrians
difficult to get about with dry
|urface water found an en-
b the basement of the Public
and the youngsters
Epelled to abandon their play
The water drowned out the
HE furnaces, and school was
i yesterday morning for lack
|prtland passenger train, due
fdnesday night at 7:25, was
lat Oswego by a washout on
cutoff on this side of there,
not. reach Dallas until 1925
morning, five hours late.
Small Damage Here.
|hstanding the great quantity
which fell, little if any dam
|done here, while from every
the valley, press dispatches
|orts of bridges having been
but, streams overfiowed, and
|other serious distinctions.
no means of knowing just
amount of rainfall was in
|1t if dishpans and washtubs,
|in the back yard, are to be
|pn, it must have been great
|Acording to the Govern
|ather Bureau in Portland,
precipitation from the time
bll started, at $3.50 Tuesday
|until 7:40 Wednesday night,
hour the Portland weather
box it's last sounding, was
Is.
Record Rainfall.
la hours ended at 5 p. m.
the fall in Portland, was
es. This is the heaviest "a
fall since January and 6,
pa a fall of 6.86 inches oc-
Dn December IL and 13,
~hour rainfall of 1866 inches
He'd and with these two ex-
HE rainfall for the 24-hour
He'd at 5 o'clock last night
heaviest since the weather
Is established in that city in
btest rainfall in two consec-
also was December II and
he precipitation from IL p.
Der II, to IL p. M, Decem-
ing 1875 inches.
by, 3.92 inches of water fell
rs, the greatest amount re-
IS years.
m was especially disastrous
md the country Immediately
| & it, and one life is report
a result of the high water.
is supposed to be Joshua
old and respected resident
", who was en- route from
|an home on the Turner
who guided his horse off I
Bing flood where the Winter l
BE was supposed to be.
pc Loss of Property. I
says the Statesman, homes /
devastated, livestock killed, |
Fous narrow escapes from
have occurred. All the j
Salem, with the exception l.
three concrete structures, |
before the onslaught of n
scores of families have /
|ff from water, light, and +
|otection. All funerals have +
|oned there, as the water n
raves as fast as the earth L
tied. T
4 hour Thursday morning A
I the water at Salem, with N
|Of over five inches in 48 +
Greatest in years for a like
16 feet, a rise of three feet ,
Purs, and it is still rising.
Hons are that the record of Il
ft above low water mark,
i year. will be broken.
|ther Valley towns have felt
t the storm, and in many
railroad tracks have been d
|safe. Wednesday through
|he Southern Pacific main =,
verted at Albany and sent ~
|nd via Corvallis and the q,
line. -