Show CASCA lOCK ARE A I ill T DANGER Fear That the Bulkhead May Go Out L 1 A MOUNTAIN BEING RAPIDLY EATEN AWAY WATER HAS REACHED ITS 3IAXI MUM HEIGHT NPWH from Down the Columbia Shows n Most Deplorable Condition Condi-tion of Affairs Sufferijjr and i I ant Prevail Among Hrl cds of Families Railway Still in Bad Condition Higli Water Near Pueblo I i Pu-eblo Receding f Portland Ore June 6Latest reports from the Cascade locks are that the government works are still in great danger The bulkhead which keeps the Columbia out of the upper end of the locks is almost submerged Should I 1 go out all the riprap work and possibly pos-sibly the entire works will be destroyed de-stroyed entailing a Joss of over a million mil-lion dollars The Union Pacific is in very bad shape near the locks Where the cur xenfj > tries the bank alongside the railroad a mountain I s injin resembling re-sembling a huge glacier while masses of bluff are continually falling into the river Big fir trees as they tumble over the bank hang a little white downward down-ward and then plunge into the torrent below The river has ut into the mountain for a quarter f a mU The I bluff where the railroad formally ran presents a face 300 fee in liilit The weather buraau predicts that the river in this city win ICIMI its maximum maxi-mum height at mdaihr and remain stationary till Thais lay with a tend tTjcy to fall VVaen it oomnunrcs to fall it will bo very slow ut vor lour inches a day for 3 least ten days At Ripada nil Smite river has fal len ten inches in tne Itt twentyfour Soars The Columbia is alo reported as fall la < at about tne sania iati l Lliiatilla StrengtJieniDg the Locks A telephone message receive late this afternoon from the locks says that the contractors have Ihat < tor succeeded in strengthening the bulkhead so that it will not go wt They have had i arge gigs of men working for six 1 days and nights and immense tas night quanti ties of gravel brush and stone hsve i been used I is not believed thst all danger is pas I News from down the Columbia river I shows a most deplorable condition of affairs Fishing has been suspended i and the great stream has flooded the whole country n both side Houses toave been carried away and farms in i oindated and crops destroyed I There ha been great loss of stock Anything approximating an estimate estmate of the damage is utterly impossible I Suavifrs Islamd is entirely submerged and crops destroyed The loss is very heavy and will leave a great many ve destitute circumstances Suffering and 8 nt prevails among the families of Ifaasiy ranchers i 1 To Relieve Distrcss I At police headquarters this morning I C aef of Police Hunt detailed several officers to visit the northern part of i the cily in boats to seek out families I i ne or in distress The poor however how-ever are mostly being cared for in various pMt of the city by friends and charitably disposed people 1 I Ttee suspension of operations on 311 IthJf stet car lines excepting the 1 SfrcOiid street road is growing t be a ebnous inconvenience to the thousands of people and particularly those living on the eat side suburbs The companies will directly and in dir tly suffer a loss of many thousands thou-sands of doLars Chief Engineer Buchtel this Engneer morning caused another engine to be placed on a barge This makes three engines now so situated that they can reach nearly every part of the flooded district Tlis morning the Southern Pacific overland brought a heavy load of passengers pas-sengers and mail The Union Pacific j mail was sent in over the Southerns Jffine and there was fully ten tons of letters and papers from the east which have beer delayed several days The condition of both the Madison an3 Mgrrison street bridges is serious T pfeisure of the water from underneath under-neath has broken up the approaches oiither 1 side j |