Show STORM ON THE COAST Seattle Shut off From the Outside World r FRONT STREET IN PORT UNDER UN-DER WATER I Columbia River Hai Spread Beyond Its Bunks niiiL Is Sweeping Everything Every-thing Before Fiftytwo Miles of the Great Northern Will Have tO Be Rebuilt Villajres nml FarmHouses Farm-Houses Under Water One Hundred Hun-dred Allies of Canadian Pacific IHsahlert Schooner Puritan Sunk Off Vancouver Portland Ore Nov 16The damage by wind and high water as a result of the storm which has been raging in this vicinity for the past four days is widespread The property loss already amounts to thousands of dollars and is likely to be much greater a all the upcountry streams are steadily rising Front street in this city is partly flooded and considerable damage has been done to goods in storage and wholesale houses In the Willamette valley snow has been falling heavily for the past six hours and still continues Below Portland Port-land the Columbia river has spread far beyond its banks and is sweeping everything before i All overland trains are greatly delayed by washouts J wash-outs which are reported to be general throughout this section 4 Seattle Nov lSThe storm which has swept northwestern Washington I and British Columbia for the past 48 1 hours is the most severe in the history of the country I is estimated that the damage to railroads alone in western west-ern Washington will exceed 500000 and the loss to private property will 1 be fully as great While atmospheric conditions have improved slightly the railroad situation is worse than ever The city is absolutely shut off from 4 communication by rail with the outside world and from midnight last night until about 4 oclock this afternoon all Z the telegraph lines were paralyzed j The Northern Pacific overland express ex-press which left Tacoma last night encountered en-countered a huge landslide near Aston on the eastern slope of the Cascades and returned to Tacoma this afternoon A few miles beyond Aston the Yakima river bridge is washed away The damage dam-age beyond that point is not known I communication being interrupted The Portland branch of the Northern > Pacific is likewise disabled by a big landslide in Cowlitz vale 50 miles 1 4 south of Tacoma The Great Northern railway is the heaviest sufferer and all its lines on 1 this side of the Cascades are in a deplorable de-plorable condition From Sribwhomish to Skyhomish in the Cascade mountains mount-ains a distance of 52 miles the road will practically have to be rebuilt a the roadbed has been nearly all swept away and the bridges washed out I At Index the big railroad bridge was swept from its piers and carried down 1 t the Skyhomish river for a distance of i half a mile At Snowhomish City the river is higher than ever known before being from six to ten miles wide in places The water is over a foot deep in the Great Northern depot which stands eight feet above the level of the track l ftv and tociiy Ftes ors have I been cruising about over farm lands lcfvirvj L i ione iers aLl sk j Mount Vernon in Skagvt county is I in a sad ptgh the SkarrJT river belcwj j unprecedentsdly high ana the dykes are a cOlt to give away Avon a village near by is under I wafer and the Beaver and Olympia marshes are inundated In many of I the farmhouses the water is several feet deep f The SnOThomish river at Everett is seven mKes wide and the Seattle International raElroad bridge has been rfTlPTfd unsafe by vCie great jam I of driftwood Near Lowell the river 1k two fEt t above high wocer mark and the rail road track has been washed away for mTles Three feet C water is standing 1 stand-ing in the Everett and Momte Crisco I tunnel fo the entire length of 700 feet I New Whaieccn is shut out from communication entirely no trains having hav-ing arrived or departed from there I fa four days The Ncosak river has overflowed its banks fiocdng hundreds of acres of I I valuable ranging property in tiidtish Columbia th Canadian I Pacific for a distance of 100 miles east f of Vancouver ha been seriously I dacnagrsd Many bridges are washed l out and telegraphic common teafcion with the east ha > i been Interrupted for II 36 hours i |