Show WESTERN OREGON BURIED IN SNOW Portland Almost isolated by In Interruption Interruption Interruption In- In of Telegraph and Telephone Service Portland Ore Jan IS The Tho The snow now which has played ha havoc oC oc with transportation transportation tation in the Puget Pu-et Sound country and tho the Cas Cascades aos for tor tho the past four few weeks ln last t night swept down don upon Portland and through tho the Columbia and Willamette Willa Willa- metto mette valleys alles the tho earth with witha a depth of ot snow of ot fr from m sK six to fourteen four four- teen teem Inches In the cH city amid n to n a greater granter depth In pose c exposed places In ha n tho time val nl al lc hey ley Portland was almost Isolated Isol today tolla telegraph and telephone communication to tho the outside world My fl ly kc being helm eliminated Both Doth tIme the raph companies com coin panics maintained Intermittent service to Puget ct Sound and a a. single wire to Salt Lake via Ja Puget Sound gave e 1 an unsteady unsteady un un- un steady stend outlet to and from tho cast Telegraphic service to the tire Willamette valley was entirely lacking ani man many towns in all directions were eo entirely cut out off orf from n with this city In Portland from 1500 to 2000 tel telephones PhoneR are out of or commission and amid practically all long distance communication communication cation was shut off ocr rho Tho railroads wore were severe Sc sufferers from the tho unusual visitation of or the snow V noVIn in this section and Incoming trains on all rOa roads s toda today are behind their ules San Ban Francisco Jan 18 Winter Winter gales Rales acs and blinding snowstorms landslides and s blocked bockel travel to today lay between California and tho the east cast and between California and tho the north The Southern Pacific and tho tim Western estern Pacific both lost their wires In the Sierras Trains were ero late Rte they knew but how ho lato late th they had no means of 01 learning At Cal on the tho Shasta route eighty eIght feet of oC track was as buried landslide At five ty-five feet teet deep b by a n. Anderson Cal a a. church was unroofed b by the tho wind Two vo Inches of ot rain fell feU felland an anti and the river rose roso nine nino feet seven se Inches over o night at I Kennett Blockade In Sl Sierra Nevada Sacramento Cal Jan 18 Snow Snow Snow- slides in the Sierra a Nevadas a late to today ay blocked 1 traffic on the tho overland routes of the Southern Pacific and Western estern Pacific railroads Tho The latter cancelled cancelled can can- celled all Its t trains rat s. s transferring passengers passengers pas pas- to the Southern Pacific hero and at Winnemucca Nev e where the thc two roads meet It was Vas thought toni tonight to tonight to- to ni night ht that tho the Southern Pacific would be able to move o trains through the tho Sierra snow he s tomorrow |