Show TRAINS STUCK UP IN MONTANA Traffic East and West of Butte Demoralized by High HighWater HighWater HighWater Water RAIN STILL POURING DOWN SITUATION DISCOURAGING TO RAILROAD OFFICIALS I I Butte Mont June 2 Northern Pa Pacific officials tonight are hopeful of getting trains through east sometime tomorrow From the west there is lit little little littIe tle tIe probability of a train being gotten across the washout until some timo time Thursday Tonight nine overland Northern Pa Pacific Pacific Pacific and Burlington passenger trains are tied up at Livingston Mont miles east of Butte Also stalled in the Livingston yards are ten freight trains and about 3 5 freight cars The pas pan passengers passengers on the stalled trains at Liv Livingston LivI ingston I number more than At Drummond Mont about ninety I miles west of Butte four passenger trains arc are tied up by b washouts be between between between tween Drummond and this thin city while at Missoula about forty fort miles west of ot Drummond three more passenger trains together with a number of or freight trains are ale stalled Situation at Billings At Billings Mont 21 miles west of Butte 1000 passengers are arc tied up several Burlington and Northern Pa Pacific title trains being held up In that city The Montana railroad succeeded to tonight tonight tonight night in getting trains through from Lombard to Lewiston Mont the first train since Saturday night arriving late tonight Reports from the tho Gallatin valley to tonight toi tonight i night state that cattle are standing j t in water on the ranges anti and andin antiI in I the fields The damage to crops will willbe willbe willbe be heavy In the Beaverhead valley south of Butte numerous grain fields have been inundated Several wagon bridges have gone out and the ranch ranchers ers are making efforts to save others Fatal Wreck Frank Meyers Ie ers of Spokane a bridge superintendent of the Northern Paci Pacific fic s Idaho division in charge of a acre crew cre ordered to Bonita Mont to strengthen a bridge was killed this morning the pile driver turning turtle as it was passing over oer a soft piece of track Several cars were wore ditched I blinking further efforts for the day to save the threatened structure The big construction camp at Nimrod Mont lont f of f Winston inston Brothers St Paul con eon contractors tractors is two feet under water ex extinguishing the fires under the boilers bona and causing a suspension of further work Clarks Dam Safe Eight feet of water is going over the spillway spilla of Senator Clarks new dam Ht at Bonner Bouner Mont the time flow of water amounting to t cubic feet a sec see second ond onri The dam damn has shown not the slightest indication lon of weakening The water will have hae to rise rl e three feet further on the big dam damn of the time Blackfoot company compan before any an impression Impression sion can be made on that structure According to General Gentral Northern Pa Pacific Pacific Pacific Passenger Agent W H Merriam it is costing that road about a Ii aday aday day to feed the passengers stalled In lii Montana Tonight it is raining again in this city with weather indications for a shower tomorrow |