Show SA SAVA VA t RIVERS VS fLOOD NORT J WESTERN STATS STATES PORTLAND ND Or March 16 Not Not in inmany inmany many a u year leave ave so many points in in the Pacific e northwest al all at lt the same time faced such inch serious damage from Hood flood floodas I as t they ue do o this morning From last I Frida until now heavy rains have HIve fallen o over or r tho the whole of tho northwest and every cen rivulet is iR n u i raging aging torrent an and every lr e r river river r a n Inko Enka Bridges have lIao I been washed out or dynamited railroad tracks arc are under water said and w wl iten en traffic is not delayed by hy these those disasters hULl hues landslides block 1101 the way nv The Tho most serious reports come from Walla Walla Mill creek which flows Hows lo through that city Next in point of seriousness is is the situation at Pendleton Although h the theIr Ir levees built huilt after last ast years year's Hoo Hoods floods s arc are still holding there thero is fear far that they aro ara Incoming becoming undermined In this thas ens case the toW towi will suffer serious dam damage age In the tho l I Ida Irla country railroad railroad rail rail- road tracks ks are aro reported under water bri bridges s 's washed out omit and fears are on- on that the waterworks which supply the thc city dh w will be flooded and the supply of drinking water shut f off Many Iran families have havo been driven en from tho the lowlands Tho The Touchet and 1111 tit Path rivers rivers have havena washed na hod out the city dike at Dayton 14 Wash In we western Va Washington 1 tho r rivers around Tacoma and Seattle arc still rising but Lilt little damage amage fortunate fortunately hit has resulted so far The river ri and its tribu tribu- Caries taril'S are running liko a millrace above e Salem Sak-m. but no 1111 1 ha has resulted As is is usual tl during flood conditions the railroads are numbered among the principal sufferers The Tho worl worst of these is the Or Oregon on Railroad Navigation Navigation- Union Pacific system which has not been ablo to send c n Ii train through for tho the past palt thirty six hours This rIds road is blocked d principally b by heavy landslides landslides land land- slides sUrles east cast and west of Pendleton Train service service in in the time nci neighborhood of Walla Walla and from rom Lewiston north is at a 1 standstill The Northern Pacific and Great Northern are arc almost entirely out of the tho flood districts though the tho Northern 1 Pacific Pa Pa- n- n cil chile c to some tomo extent from landslides land land- landslides sli slides es in iu the western part of Washing Washing- ton |