Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-11-30
RAILROADS ALL BL0CkEDlBY
TRACkS:AND BRIDGES
WASHED OUT.
City of Seattle Water Supply Cut Of,
Also Part of Electric Lighting Sys-
Washington All Suffer Great Damage
-Renton Two Feet Under Water

supply cut off, the municipal light
plant out of commission, railroad ser
vice demoralized, bridges washed out
and valley towns and farms under wa.
ter represent the damage done by the
foods in western Washington, caused
by the heavy rains in the lowlands and
the sudden melting of six feet of snow
in the Cascade mountains. Reports re-
ceived by the railroads from their sta
tions high up in the mountains say the
rivers are beginning to fall, but the
water continues to rise at an alarming
rate in the lowlands, and it is feared
that further damage will be done.
Water Supply Cut Off.
The most serious aspect of the flood
here is the cutting off of Seattle g wa
ter supply, which is obtained from
Cedar lake, 35 miles east of here, and
is brought into the city reservoirs by
two big pipe lines, one SIS feet in
diameter. A bridge 16 miles west of
Moncton, where the Seattle municipal
power plant is situated that carries the
pipe lines across Cedar river, was wash
ed out.
A large portion of the residence sec
ton of the city is already without wa
ter. The waterless portion consists of
the northern residential hillsides, which
are served directly from the mountain
pipelines and have no connection with
the mains leading from the service res
ervoirs and standpipes.
The streets of Seattle are only partly
lighted. The city is obtaining cur
rent for some of its circuits from the
power companies that supply the street
car system and the industrial plants.
The loss of the pipe lines will work
no serious hardship on the people of the
city if the river subsidies soon enough
to permit pipe line repairs to be made
within a week.
The city has reserve supply of 100,-
100000 gallons in the service reser-
voirs.
Renton People Flooded.
Water swept down the valley with a
rush, carrying logs and debris before it.
Fifteen miles below the origin the wa
ter rose five feet in 10 minutes. At
Renton, a town of 1000 people, the
water swept through the streets and
the citizens took to the hills. The down
town portion of Renton is under two
feet of water.
Transcontinental Lines Blocked.
The Great Northern coast line was
blocked between Everett and Belling-
ham.
The Northern Pacific g transconti-
mental line was tied up by landslides
in the mountains.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound is making no effort to send out
its transcontinental trains.
The big steel bridge east of Renton,
on the main line of the Columbia road,
is eight inches out of line.
Saving Storage Dam.
Five hundred government employees
are working to control the food waters
that are rushing over the storage dam
at the mouth of Lake Kaches, near
Easton, and tonight it is feared that
to save the dam it will be necessary at
any moment to release the flood waters
stored back Of it. If the water has to
be released the damage in Yakima val
ley will be enormous.
Snohomish in Darkness
The little town of Snohomish, 30
miles east of Everett, was in darkness
Monday night. The electric lights fail
ed when the pole line from the Sno-