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Show GYGL0N6G WINDS IN . PORTLAND AND NORTHWEST, Heaviest Windstorm for Quarter Quar-ter of a Contury Raids Towns and Cltlos, Doing Enormous Damage Telegraph Tele-graph Lines Prostrated. WIND ATTAINED A VELOCITY OF UPWARD OF SIXTY MILES AN HOURAT PORTLAND, AND IT ' IS FEARED GREAT DAMAGE TO SHIPPING INTERESTS HAS RESULTED RE-SULTED IN THE HARBOR, AND MANY VESSELS LOST AT SEA. PORTLAND, Or., March 10. The severest se-verest wind and rain storm In nearly a quarter of a century broke over the North PaclHc coast late this afternoon The storm-swept district extends from the northern California coast through Oregon and Washington Into In-to British Columbia, west of the Cascade Cas-cade mountains. Wild rumors of damage In this city bocamo current during the evening, among which was one that the exposition expo-sition building, probably the largesrt. frame structure on this coast north of San Francisco, had been blown over. Theso rumors wero for tho most part groundless, the damage being confined to the unroofing 'of some .uncompleted dwellings in the more exposed portions of the city. Pedestrians who were forced to venture ven-ture out of doors met rough treatment, and in aoveral Instances suffered minor injuries from being buffeted about by sudden gusts of wind. The telegraph and telephone wires are down to the south and west of here and no reports of possible damage to coast towns or to shipping can- be received re-ceived here before morning. It Is eBtlmated the wind reached a velocity ve-locity of from sixty to seventy miles an hour. |