Show I STORM AND I fLOOD SWEEP NORTHWEST Oregon and Washington Have Heaviest Hea November Rain in History i. 4 4 4 4 1 14 4 44 4 4 44 4 or 4 4 4 SEATTLE Wash Nov 2 2 4 4 v Clear and nd cool weather a a. l 4 lor 4 or change chanse from that of yesterday 4 4 4 which melted tho the snow on the tho 4 4 41 4 1 mountains and gorged tho the 4 or 4 streams is brin bringing in tho the rivers 4 oj 4 4 back to their normal stage a 4 v 4 Except to tho the railroads tho the 4 or 4 4 principal damage in tho ru Puget et 4 t. 4 Sound country has bas not not- been becu 4 a 4 heavy Tho Great Northern is 4 t. 4 sending seDdin its tr trains ins to and from 4 4 eastern Washington ton over the ther 4 r 4 to 4 Northern Pacific Its line may orto 4 or to 4 bo be t tied ed up for t two o weeks The 4 4 4 4 Chicago Milwaukee Pil Puget t 41 4 4 4 Sound suffered from slides in oj 4 4 to the Cascades but tho the line is 4 4 4 D now 1 o open e t 4 4 4 4 i 44 4 4 4 4 i 4 44 4 1 i 44 14 4 4 4 v 4 44 4 4 41 1 4 4 1444 41 r 4 I. 4 4 PORTLAND Or No Nov Nob 24 24 Tile THc storm that has prevailed d in the Pacific northwest north north- west vest f for r two day past shows 10 no lie signs of abating oth-er oth r night of If ne v rain Iain oc occurred in the time western estern parts o of Washington and anel Oregon ri and a chinook wind blows jn in thc the Casca Cascade e mountains Tn Tu Tue e eastern tein Oregon on a and d c eastern stern Washington ton ho the lJ rain min is of secondary condary importance to a n windstorm which caused considerable financial Ios loss So far as reported no lives ies have becu lost The storm so far as can bo be ascertained ascer ascer- taine 1 is unprecedented for this time of thc tc car and IS ii is exceeded ded in Oregon on only by bi the tho January thaw of 1800 which still stands as a record for winter floods In northwestern Washington ton th time the Nooksack riv river r. r after fter a temporary fall faIl late hate est dRY he began tn to rise rilie again The Th ranches on the lowlands continue flooded flooded flood flood- ed the and railroads have havo lost a number r of If bridges e Train schedules in this part of the state ne are demoralized Hh no rio assurance as to to when they will willbe be be resumed Groat Northern n Tied Up Along Io e lower Pu et sound the streams are n all o ti-it ti it of th jr banks and flooding the lowlands lowlands- and brid bridges both bolh county md ard O ja cad have e a been carried oat nit in ina int a t number number- of instances Time The Gr Great Groat t Northern Northum railroad which crosses s the Cascades les east of Everett rett is up imp several sev seu e era eral hein being stalled in these moun thins The Northern Pacific raiJa howe cr which comes through h the tho mountains cast of T Tacoma eoma and ci attl tans uns as tr trouble anti and its Hs trails trail's art ure on schedule Below Oregon C City t the false work to the new Southern Pacific railroad bridge e et nt at t Oswego O has gono out and at Port Por Portland Port Port- land lauti the water ator is 15 over 1 the lower decks and nd still rising |