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Show WATERS SUBSIDING ABOUT PORTLAND PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 16. Streams throughout the State which have been swollen by the recent rainstorms and the chinook wind in the mountains are thought to have reached their highest point. Somei have commenced to fall and the Willamette was stationary last night. It is probable that the river at Portland will commence to fall today. Except along the lower Columbia, the danger from high water is thought to be over in Oregon. The colder weather yesterday seems to have checked the melting of the snow in the mountains and-with' the lessening of the rainfall, the streams immediately responded and the floods began to subside. Trains are again running over the Oregon Railroad & Navagition line to the East. The Northern Pacific has its surveyors survey-ors out ascertaining the damage and planning for repairs " and is doing all that is possible to maintain traffic and to provide for the future, but it is almost al-most a discouraging task. The Oregon Railroad & Navigation company is moving train east and west, having succeeded in cutting a road around the big slide near Bonneville, Bonne-ville, passengers, mail and light baggage bag-gage being transferred around the obstruction. ob-struction. It will be several days before be-fore regular traffic will oe restored. Telegraphic communication north of Castle Rock this morning is out of the question. Both the Western Union and the Postal companies have large forces in the field making repairs, but owing to scope of the storm it will be several days at least before'the telegraph companies com-panies .will establish reliable communication. communi-cation. Thousands of telegraph poles are down and in the vicinity of Puget Sound the telegraph companies have suffered inestimable damage. |