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Show SEfliOuH FLOOD il liMl WASHINGTON Bridges Swept Away: Miles of Track Washed Ouf ; Loss Is Heavy. B'EIjUNGIIAM, Wash.. Nov. 29. Two steel railway and throo Avagun bridges across tlio Nooksack river have been carried away within tho last twenty-four liours, entailing $100,0ii loss. Tho J3ellinghani Hay ami British Columbia bridge at Eversolc is said to bo undermined and swaying. When it goes out it will carry a wagon bridge 250 feet down Iho river with it. A jam is forming against tho Great North era railway bridge at Fornndnlo. Dining Din-ing the last forty-eight hours the rainfall rain-fall has been 2.S7 incites. ' Kailway Ira flic, is almost completely blocked by slides and washouts. Bel-lingham Bel-lingham has had but one train todav, that from the son I h at noon. Tfi Northern Pacific, and the Bellinghain Bay and British Columbia roads are completely tied up. More lhan five miles of the Northern Pacific, track, is under water. The Skagit branch of tho Great Northern js out of commission. commis-sion. Binklcr, Hamilton and Lyman are under water. Two miles of "track are gone. Tho I'uget Sound & Baker River railway tracks aro washed out. There is no hopn that tho Skagit river dykes will hold. If they break the Groat Norlheru main line will be covered and tho whole Skagit del I it will be under water. |