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Show t r HIGH WATERS TIES ti UP OREGON LINES I DRallway Traffic Seriously .Affected by Swollen Streams Pnssengers J l Laid Out. ffl PORTLAND, Or., April 15. High f . waters In the rivers of eastern Oregon TW- tho Blue mountains havo so se- l JbC rlouBly affected railroad trafflo on the A ft Huntington branch of the Oregon Rails' Rail-s' ' ' way & Navigation road tbat no trains I j can be run over that division of the -"il road for several ' days. Bridges have l been washed out In several localities f ' and tracks built on soft earth have t ." .been so undermined and threatened as b 1 to render their use for railroad purposes pur-poses dangerous. . , t r Almost parallel conditions exist on the Southern Pacific system south of i Ashland, where landslides have bo cov-" cov-" ered the tracks as to render traffic prohibitive. Hair a score of trains are detained on either side of the ob- structivc masses and nearly 1000 pas-A pas-A y sengers are waiting for the tracks to be cleared so that they can proceed to tbrlr destinations. Southern Pacific officials of-ficials are unable to state with any decree de-cree of certainty when the troubles in lit - tho Siskiyous will bo conquered, but ' hone is expressed that traffic will be restored to some degree- of regularity rJKr by tomorrow night. Vlt-X On the Northern Pacific better con-i( con-i( ii ( dltlons exist, traffic on that system be-' be-' '5V ine practically normal. |