Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-01-08 | Page 2 | Salt Lake Rail Connection to North Broken

SALT Al T lAKE RAIL I CONNECTION N TO NORTH BROKEN Floods in Northwest Area Wash Out Bridges and End Train Service Over Over the Union Pacific With the loss or or one life recorded I thus far and property damage and I loss estimated in excess of Salt Lakes Lake's physical connections with Portland Ore an and 8 Seattle attle Wash were practically severed today on ac account account account ac- ac I count of ot th the flood nood situation which has grown steadily worse In the Northwest for several days Communication by telegraph was reported pot not seriously I affected by way of or Boise and Nampa I Idaho However Howe the the lines to the Northwest by way of ot San Francisco were prostrated Railroad communication with the territory was practically suspended The Union Pacific system reported op operation operation operation op- op of stub trains out of Huntington Hunting- Hunting ton Ore east Huntington Is the division di dl vision point of the Oregon Oregon- Washington Oregon Washington Railway and Navigation company and I the Oregon Short Line The next trains which might possibly carry any connection connection connection con con- from Portland were reported d to arrive here at and 1040 o'clock tonight These It Jt Is reported both have stub connections from Hunting- Hunting ton It is doubtful however that they I will carry any passengers from west of ot that point I According to news dispatches flood floodwaters I waters In northwestern Oregon were believed to have reached their peak at dawn today and signs of or subsidence were ere reported from headwaters in the Cascade water shed Loss to farm property of ot which there are hundreds of ot acres Inundated highways and railroads railroads railroads rail rail- roads is estimated to be in excess of or ofa ofa ora a million dollars In the Willamette WIlla-mette river valley alley where Portland is located railroads were blocked in scores of ot place important highway bridges were washed out and wire communication has been interI interrupted inter inter- I according to reports received I here Eugene Ore Is suffering from froma l a milk shortage Kent Auburn Thomas and other towns in the White river valley valley- near Seattle Seattle- are either elther partly or wholly under water Seattle was reported as being completely out of l communication with Tacoma The TheL L I white river had overflowed d Its I from three to five tive feet There was doubt that the legislature l I at t Salem Ore Ores w would ld convene today z n as sch d led bbc se of of ti the i failure I ilu ot of the lawmakers from outlying districts to reach the capital A large number of the members from both houses were reported as unable to reach the state ho house sL