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Show ' POBTLAND, Ore Nov. 15.-rPracti: 1 c'ally 'the last .dispatch received from ' Seattle before all commnnicatioat witlj the north was lost, was a long special to the1 Oregonian, ; telling of the flood conditions prevailing in that section' of Washington.: The -dispatch was ' filed early last night and relates conditions existing since Tuesday night, when, the first intimations of the real extent and possibilities of the flood were realized. The dispatch, in part, is as follows: -"Floods in the White,-Stuck and Green rivers, which began 'last night, have swept away, miles of railroad, inundated all' the valley towns, rendered ren-dered hundreds of farmers homeless and cost three lives up to date. ."The -three men lost in the floods were drowned while fighting to break OP log jams that threatened railroad and eounty bridges. Fv W Kalmer of k Auburn was drgwnea in the hite river. , and two loggers employed by ; the Decker Lumber company lost their Uvea while working in the Green river above. Auburn. . . ' . . . , "It will be two 'weeks before the Northern Pacific will be able to resume re-sume regular train operations. The .Great Northern is tied up for a shorter period,-for the trouble on that road is due to an avalanche of mud that; gwept jout a portion of the track. ' "Auburn, Kent, Obrien, .Benton, Orillia and half a dozen smaller towns In the valleys of the. three rivers -are under water. ' Residents of Obrien were compelled at noon today to abandon aban-don their homes and fly to the hills." A dispatch filed later in the night says: - - - "The waters of all the rivefs in this county are still rising. Since nightfall the anxious watchers in the valleys have kept ' up a patrol in the larger communities to give warning if the rise of the streams becQmea threatening. threaten-ing. "A torrential rain is falling and a high wind prevails. "White river. Ordinarily less than 100 feet in width, is now more than four miles wide, and the waters are sweeping relentlessly ' toward the sound and Tacoma." |