Show MINES INES CLOSED DOWN DOViN AND CITY IN DARKNESS Eight Inches of Snow at Butte Completes Havoc Wrought by the Rain FLOOD SITUATION IN MONTANA ALARMING KANSAS TOWN UNDER WATER ALBERTA IN SE SEe SERIOUS i iO RIOUS DANGER O rJ Butte Mont io t June june 5 li Bight Inches of ot snow on the level washed Into slush by a driving rain that set In at daylight da cut cutoff cutoff off oft Butte from the tho world today Telegraphic communication was not restored until noon j t Overhead power wires are aro so son n badly tangled with light wires that Mayor Corby Cor b will allow neither street car nor light power to be turned on tonight hence henc the city will wUl be dark again and the street streetcars streetcars cars ars may not run tomorrow The mines minus are also closed down The report from U ula that the Moulton dam above Butte had burst is i unfounded The damIs dam damIs Is in no danger and despite the great groot amount of ot precipitation here hero the damage has been very cr slight sight HElena Helen and Butte Mont are tl ally cut off ort from the outside world this morning Rain Is still falling failing he heU Ih liv U throughout that part of Montana and traffic on the railroads already df moralized by b washouts following a weeks almost almo t continuous rain will fIll be bet tied t ed up for several days Every lit little little tle trout stream and brook in central Montana is a raging torrent while the Big rig Hole Clarks Fork Pork and Missoula MISS ula rivers are twice and three times their usual width and overflowing the low lowlands lowlands lowlands lands threatening railroad bridges and causing serious washouts on the rail railroads railroads roads in dozens dozena of ot places All Over the State East and west of or Helena on Oft the Northern Pacific north and south of oC Helena fI on n the Great Northern and also alson on n the Oregon Short Line north and south of ot Dillon pas passenger nger trains are aref f stalled with no hope of getting through until the waters go down arid and a a work of repairing the tracks can be taken up upI iut l I t of Butte both the Northern Pa Pai i if ic and the Great Oret Northern are i V lP p by washouts houts The Postal Telegraph I la lad ad a wire Into IRto Butte this morning ng enough to learn that the power louse i use supplying the electric lighting ani telegraph power was threatened by byth th floods Wires Are Down C The wire tailed failed a moment later and Butte therefore is probably without or power All of ot the Western Un UnI I f n wires failed early this tilli morning north rrth of ot Dillon Mont aa as a result eith either etther er of th the failure of ot the power house at it Butte or along the Big Hole Holp river The latter stream is seri serf c threatening the big bridge a mile and o half north of Dillon and Oregon Line passenger paa ener trains are tied up tip F on either r side BIde with no prospect of ot the blockade being belne broken for at least tt hours Hundreds of ot men are at work dump dumping dumpIng dumpIng ing rock along the river banks near he hp bridge in the hope of ot saving S the structure from destruction de and the theral ral road officials this morning expressed th as confident of success a It Iti Iti i still raining heavily h however around and probably therefore all over overt the t he region north Gloomy Picture Drawn A V telephone message received tonight Butte Mont gives a gloomy pie i lc j t lire of jt f the Hood flood situation In central and nd k iem Montana fontana No o trains no tele telegraph telegraph graph wires no electric lights Itch no street ar set ser ce and continually tailing falling rain rains is s the subsume tant of the report retOrt The rest reat denes eMs and offices tonight see ate lighted by Three feet of or water in IR the low tr tT t r i part of the city t has bi forced the fur tur furnaces naces Tates at the Butte Reduction ft works to draw their tires tire The rail line 11 to Arm Ana is out of commission Great Damage at Helena Since S e tonight the sole tele tale telegraph graph wire wits available during durin tb the day has kas been down and the only connecting link with th outside world is i the copper thread of the telephone company For a II jw minutes in th the afternoon telephone c was Wall open to Helena It Jt Ita nas as a then reported that thousands of ot dol dot dollar dollar lar worth of ot damage had been bt en ores occa occasioned in that immediate vicinity within th h he last l st t wen i four hours In the Gal Gallatin latin of the crops crop It Itis WaS is ue are ar e ruined The East Hel Hal Helena Helena Halena ena smelt r stands Mauds in water three feet jeep Jop and lAnd h s i ifon n forced forted to suspend oper opere traffic is at a stand litand standstill stilt still sti Interruption of ot all forms of has prevented tho situation at other oIlier Montana points from being learned There Continued on Page 2 MINES CITY IN DARKNESS Continued From Page 1 are rumors of ot stalled trains in every eer di dl direction direction and it is apprehended that the last leet few tow hours of rain have added enor enormously to the damage already alread sustained by the railroads and other industrial in terest |