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Show IKIEVMiBlKW SEATTLE - mam, mm am in toothlls Severe Storm Prevails, following Downpour Down-pour of Rain, and Homeless Victims Suffer from Hunger and Exposure; Six Deaths Thus far Reported. i ' BSanweannaanaaM.aBaaaaaaaaaaaa . VANCOUVER, B. C, Nov. 16. A windstorm which v one time during the last twenty-four hours reached. a velocity of-fifty miles an hour, did much damage at Vancouver, Van-couver, but created havoc at Puget sound ports. Railway service out of Ta coma and Seattle is demoralized, bridges have been swept away by mountain torrents and much ''. property has been destroyed. 'Six persons are reported drowned. , feet. Railroad communication has been cut and the-towns cannot be. reached exefpt by message over the long distance dis-tance telephone wires. With ; the water .already, standing on the streets at such a depth that it is no longer safe for residents to remain in the first stories of their houses, the men are organizing in each town and either removing the helpless ones to the second sec-ond stories or carryiag them away to places of safety. The rains of the past few davs have ceased, the chinook has turned" colder and the water in the upper part of the White River valley are siowly receding. South Park in Danger.' The greatest danger point at present is at South Park, a suhurb of Seattle, near the mouth xf the Duwamish river. As the flood sweeps down the valley to Paget Sound, "the water is steadily rising ris-ing at this point. Wednesday night the dyke protecting the lowlands 'atffffutb' Park was carried away and the town, with a population of a Bout 2 TOO people, is at the mercy of the waters.. Last night residents were preparing to flee to higher ground.. Fr6m Yellowstone Parky a-small- tract joa the north" side of . Du-wamish, Du-wamish, just- opposite --South ; Park, comes the report that a, house containing contain-ing several persona was swept down the river yesterday afternoon. SEATTLE,' Wash., Nov. 16. Home-and Home-and suffering from hunger and ex-T7'rfnd ex-T7'rfnd in hourly dread that the ris-x ris-x infVateri will overwhelm them, thou-' thou-' sarM of residents of the fertile valleys lying between Seattle t.nd Taeom.a are camping today in the foothills near by, with, what few provisions and effects they could carry in a hnnied flight. Six deaths have been thus far chronicled chron-icled as due to the floods which have followed the rapid risa cl the river in King and Pierce counties. Three of the men who met death in the floods were trying their utmost to prevent log jams that would endanger the residents of the towns further down the river. TF. W. Killmer of Auburn was the first to lose hit life while working on a i jam in the White river. Two other loggers log-gers who wrer working tor theekr- Lumber ompa4r". -w rr tfvine break Jog jams, were drowned ,1b Green river, .three miles -from Auburn. . Fast felsing Streams. . -v. - -1 Blaciv White.. Oreen, Cedar, Stock, fenoQoalmie and other stream having their s6nrce 4n the foothills of the Cascade Cas-cade mountains have risen -over night and have flooded thousands of acres of land, causing incalculable damage. How many' farmers familier have lost some member throagh the rjpid advance of the treacherous wat-it will not be , known nntil the waters subside. Eight to Twenty Feet. All the valley towns are under water, the depth ranging from right to twenty |