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Show REPORT STORMS IN NORTHWEST PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 6 (P.EI Storm warnings flew today along the Pacific coast from upper California Cali-fornia to Alaska as torrential rains, high winds and snow left a trail of destruction and discom-ort discom-ort in the Paciic northwest. Winds ranging rom 60 to 90 miles an hour in velocity endangered endang-ered shipping in the area. The temperature fell in many places. Snow blocked passes in the Cas I cade mountains beyond Bend. Ore., I and shut off connecting links between be-tween the eastern and western 1 sides of the state of Washington. Several small boats were swamped at the Columbia river mouth. The steamer Este tore away - a section of its dick aften of Astoria. Dispatches from Dutch Harbor, Alaska, said that the breaking from moorings at Port Japanese motorship Hakushika Mary had weathered a 90-mile hurricane. |