Show SERIOUS FLOOD NEAR SEATTLE People Awakened From Their Slumber by the Water tw S S NORTHERN NO PACIFIC AND GREAT NORTHERN HAVE TROUBLE TROUBLES 4 r EAT LE E Wash Jan 4 The White Whiteriver Whiteriver SEATTLE S 3 river overflowed its banks near OBrien station fourteen miles mites be 00 below below low Jow Seattle at 3 this morning The people of or the town not fearing fe ring disaster had retired d last night but were awakened by the water which in many cases easeS crept into their th lr beds I a town on the White river two miles above OBrien was also flooded but tout the people were warned and many of them theta left their homes and ands secured cured s places of safety before the madly rushing waters had surrounded their th lr homes At OBrien however little children women women and men were imprisoned In III their heir houses h uses with eight and ten feet of or 1 water about them A relief train was WaG ordered order d from Seattle and on arriving 1 with boats the rescuing party art found several families the women and chil children dren of which were huddled on on chairs and aad tables In hi order to keep kC P from the water that was more than two feet deep on the floors All Alt persons were taken to places of safety No lives are lost but much damage has been n done to property Tonight the floods are subsiding and no further danger dang is feared f red Not since 1869 has there been such floods S in the White River valley The rhe present p t one pe caused by the recent r nt I ou on Pose Pate 24 2 r SERIOUS FLOOD NEAR N EAR SEATTLE E V s Continued from treat P Page Patte e 1 nine days rain and the chinook winds V which melted the heavy meows s in the Cascade C de mountains discharging the waters into the tributaries of the White Whiteriver Whiteriver river V Railroads Are Blockaded Announcement ement was Was made by bJ the Great Northern this afternoon that tin the V Madison bridge would be repaired Mon day da evening and the first break m In h the traffic blockade would be made during durin the night by the arrival of an overland V train Pour Four days mail will be on it There is no telling when the Northern Pacific main line will III be open but Dot probably not for several days das Tonight the Portland division was cleared and the first train from the south in ill two days came in AU All the coast lines Jines from Seattle north with the exception of oC the Whatcom line have been cleared and this latter will ill not be in operation until some time tomorrow Large forces of men are at work on the line between Seattle and The announcement is made tonight that it will be opened at noon tomor tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow row in a temporary way wa Northern Pacifies Troubles At Martin on the east side of the Northern Pacific tunnel there ie Js a washout of nearly fe feet t white while ser sev several eral places between the tM tunnel and assi Ellensburg are under water or the tracks covered deep in mud To sum up the difficulties with which the Northern Pacific is now struggling there are five washouts on the main line between the Castle Rock Bock and anti Kel ICed Kelso Kelso so There are innumerable slides all aU the way from mom Cosmopolis to the ter ten terminus terminus minus on the Grays Harbor branch The Auburn cutoff cutE is under water for forone forone forone one mile Nearly a mile of track is gone in one place on Green river dver Five Fhe or six other and minor washouts are reported between Lester and Palmer The big washout at Martin Is followed by a succession of washouts and land landslides landslides landslides slides all aU the way to Ellensburg The South Bend branch is under water and I covered with slides from Willapa to the terminus V Passengers Are Stalled The company has two passenger trains tied up at Maywood and is taking taking tak ink inking ing the best care possible of the pas passengers passengers There Thre are slides ahead and washouts behind and arrangements are being made to get more supplies to the trains as needed One passenger train is bound up at Lester where the passengers are also being cared for by the railroad No NoI communication is possible either way I until the water nater shall have abated |