The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1921-03-19
Floods SUBs|D|NG
WEATHER IS COOLER
UNPRECEDENTED RAINFALL
THROUGHOUT INLAND EN-
PIRE-TWO MEN DROWNED.

With sudden turn in the weather.
and heavy drop in temperature the
rains ceased and it is believed the
worst of the flood conditions are
over. Reports coming in from every
direction show unprecedented rain
fall on ground so full of water it
could hold no more, resulting in
flooding lowlands and high water in
all streams. Snake river raised 31h
feet in one day and small streams
overflowed their banks.
Northern Pacific trains are again
running between Moscow and Lewis
ton on regular schedule. Lewiston
reports normal conditions being re-
sumed in that section, with the re-
sumption of railroad traffic. The
Lewiston-Spokane stage line used
three big automobiles to carry pas
sengers out of Lewiston to Spokane
Friday morning.
Colfax Fears The Flood
Colfax, Wash, Friday Night
North Colfax is experiencing high
water, many residents having been
obliged to vacate their homes The
Russian colony is the worst sufferer,
as that section is at the confluence of
the North and South Palouse rivers,
and some homes there are already
surrounded by water, while Morton
street, one of the best residence
streets in town, has stream running
down it.
The Martha Washington school, in
the flood district, was dismissed this
afternoon so the children could get
to their homes before cut off by the
flood waters.
Elberton Under Water
ELBERTON, Wash, March 18-
The entire town is under water to- .
night, stream two feet deep flow
ing in the main street The Elberton
Trading company's store is flooded 1
and the damage will be not less than
$4,000 to the stock. Many residences
are invaded and it is estimated that
the loss to citizens will reach $4,000.
A highway fill in the center of the
town, built last summer, is causing
the water to back up and this will
be blown up tonight by order of city
officials, unless the water recedes.
The North Palouse river, which flows
through the town, is steadily rising
tonight
Palouse River Highest in History
PALOUSE, Wash, March 18-FoY-
lowing four days of almost continu-
Gus rain, which ceased last night, the
Pa1ouse river is higher than for many
years and old timers claim it is car
rying more water than ever before.
No damage is resulting here, but
ION the flats a few miles east hum
,dreds of acres of meadow land are
covered, farm houses and barns are
surrounded and wood piles are being
washed away. Leon Brown, a farmer
living one mile east of town, had FL
cords of 16-inch wood, recently cut,
piled near the river bank and lost
it all.
Dam Goes Out at Potlatch
AT Potlatch the condition is more
serious. The Potlatch Lumber COM
pany's upper dam went out at an
early hour this morning, throwing
greater strain on the dam at the saw
mill and flooding the mill and the
wards. 1t is. reported that water is
running over the big lumber yard to
depth of five feet and that the engine
rooms are flooded. Fearing that the
log boom at the Potlatch mill, in
which are thousands Of feet of logs,
might break, a crew is throwing
boom across the river above the Pa
louise Milling company's dam, just
above town, to stop the logs, in case
they might break away at Potlatch.
Two Drown At Huntsville.
Walla Walla, Wash.-(By A. P.)-
John Claes, and E. C. Carmony,
members of Northern Pacific bridge
crew, were drowned in the Touchet
river near Huntsville, last night
when they fell from the bridge they
were repairing near Huntsville.