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Show SWEPT BY A FLOOD. Washington Mining Camp Sadly Damaged Dam-aged by Water. The town of Wilkeson, Wash., was swept by high water Monday. A jam of logs and driftwood formed in the creek and an angry torrent was turned through the streets of the town, leaving leav-ing great trees eighty feet long and four or five feet in diameter on the main thoroughfare of the mining village. vil-lage. A wall of water came down the mountain about 7 o'clock in the morning, morn-ing, carrying everything before it. The miners on the day shift had not yet gone to work in the mines, or there' must have been loss of life. As it was the water is said to have flooded the tunnel of the mine for half a mile or more, and it is expected much time will be required to pump it out. Several Sev-eral buildings near the bank of the stream were moved from their foundations. founda-tions. About 1,200 feet of track is gone near Crocker. |