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Show Millions im 11 . pfflWiST FLOOD Large Portion of Washington Practically Cut Off From tbe Outside World. BELLING! LAM, Wash., Doc. 2. For thrco days northwest Washinelou has been cut from quick communication with the outsido world, boat service alonofurnisliiiijr a connecting link. Np trains are inovinc except between this city and Burlington, twenty miles south, and sorvico cannot bo rendered inside of a wenc. Telegraph wires were restored today. to-day. - Twenly miles of railway track in Skagit and Whatcom counties have been destroyed. The loss to railwavs will exceed $1. nno,000. Whatcom county coun-ty lost $J 00,000 in bridges alone. Feru-diilc's Feru-diilc's losses aggregate $90,000. There two mills, a school house and eleven residences were destroyed. Miles of Track Gone. Five miles of Northern Pacific track in this county has disappeared, even the era do being obliterated. Tbo steel drawbridge on the Great Northern at Ferndale must be replaced, youth of Mount Vernon twenty miles of track is still under water. The Anaeorlcs branch of the Great Northern has lost half a mile of grade at Avon, while a mile of track has been washed awav at Whitney. About forty miles of the Roc.kporr. branch of the Great' Northern must be reconstructed. The right of way between Lyman and Hamilton .must be relocated for a distance dis-tance of five miles. ; Lacouner is under seven feet of water. The town's loss is placed at ,ln0.o0o in stocks of goods destroyed and two warehouses filled with grain and hay. which collapsed and slipped into the. flood. In the country north of Lacnnuor 1,000 head of cattle were drowned, while -100.000 sacks of oats and S.000 tons of . baled-hay are a total Joss. .Sloughs and bavs for miles from Lacouner La-couner are covered with drifting hav and sacks of oats. A barn tilled with bay was found floating in Paget sound bv a northbound steamer vesterday. The loss to ihe farmers is estimated at iplitiO.OOO in livestock, hav aud grain. |