The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-12-12
HERE'S MORE ABOUT
FLOOD FLASHES
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More than $50 business houses and
dwellings ar. submerged In the flood.
which covers 20 city blocks.
Fire engines were used in this dis
trici 20 pump out walter ut nth ave.
". r., saving about 20 homes.
Rainier valley IN In worse condition
than ever before In history.
The flood extends from Columbia
city 10 the ball park. a distance Of
more than q mile.
The sewers are No flooded that they
arc forcing of the tops u the man.
holes.
Most of the damage IL being done
on the east side Of Rainier ave.
on Nickerson ~. from Sixth ave.
W. 20 nth ave. W.. the earth ~
sliding.
One house Is about TO be- washed
out and four other buildings are un.
derrnined
There are three small slides on
Weetiake ave. and one slide on Der.
ter ave.
Another slide occurred at Rainier
ave and iionbury ut
Slides are occurring thruout the
city wherever there are re grades or
cuts.
According 10 city engineers the con
dition IL due 20 the rains. which have
Thanksgiving.
Every available man In the street
department has been called out and
the crews have bern at work coniinu.
oualy since ~ O'Clock Saturday night
The office Is being flooded with re-
quests for help from ali parts Of the
city.
At noon Monday water In the main
streets Of Kent was reported two fee,
higher than at It's peak during the
flood 10 days ago. and s'lii rising.
This means from four 70 six feet
deep
Street car service 70 Fort fa~ton
II partly interrupted. The advance
TO the bridge at ssth ave. is washed
out and cars are unable 20 cross.
Passengers are being Transferred.
however. 10 cars on the other side Of
the street car bridge.
A slide on the Lake Burien line
threatens 10 enRuif the tracks. but
10 far service has not been stopped.
Two houses on the bluff south of
I.e.chi park have tumbled over the
hni.
The basement ~ the city water
d~pa irnent shop. az Fremont are
flooded 10 a depth Of four feet
Eight feet Of water IN iumbling
over the tpiil~ay al the new
masonry dam at Cedar river and the
water u rising AT The rate 81 one
and one half feet an hour. This Is
the greatest amount Of water ever
socn In the river.
pipe lines % the municipal sys-
tenn from swan lake to the intake
at tho dam are being patroiled Mon
day.
pour and n half feet of snow IL stu
reported in the Cascades. County
Engineer Bccman predicts a sul
greater flood.
At Lake Forest Park n slide blocks
the Botheli highway.
A slide IL reported between DIVA
uahh AuU fAft4N@'9 W. Ae' 1850" 80"
way.
AZ rs.aauah a i.foot eonerete cnl-
vert Is washed out.
A big slide between Auburn and
Tacoma. on the Tacomaseattle in
,erurban. was expected 10 be cleared
today.
Completely blocking the Ren,on
highway near Taylors mill south Of
Seattle. a huge landslide was report.
ed as having shut of all traffic be
tween Renton and Seattle Monday.
A flood 81 water three feet deep Is
said TO be flowing over the highway
and pouring on the Rainier Valley
railway tracks. and u believed 10
have washed away the road
The Columbia City public library
was reported in danger from floods
washing away sanitary fin In the
rear Of the building. which had cut
a channel thru a newly graded street
The Columbia City Undertaking Co.
reported seven feet OF water in their
basement and four feet Of water COW
ering their garden.
As the result OF the storm Satur-
day. Sunday and Monday. IS auto
accidents were reported to police.
Mrs w II. Ferris suffered bad cuts
about the head when she was thrown
thru the windshield OF her husbands
auto az FIFTH ave. y. y. and r. tbth
st, Sunday night in a collision with
an auto driven by r. n. Cooley, 23tT
Harvard ave. y. The accident was
due 10 the heavy rain and slippery