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Show ems nm mmm c? SNOW- IN H0UNTA1NS !S CHUSE OF GREAT "FLOOD knows of the exact state of affairs and; o serious la the outloook that it is possible pos-sible that the expectation may not be. realized. . - . TACOMA, Wash Nov. 14. Swamped by a succession of warm rains, the snows on the western slopes of the Cascade Cas-cade mountains have melted, flowed into in-to the rivers at the base, thereby resulting re-sulting in what looks like one of the worst floods this section of the country has seen for years. , Bridget have been washed away, tele graph and telephone wires are down, the train service of the' Northern Pacific Pa-cific is completely disarranged, and np to the present one life lost. The whole country between .Auburn and the Cascade Cas-cade mountains is reported to be in flood. Every river and' creek between these points has reached marks as high as known to the memory of men who have lived -there for years past. The full extent of the danger and damage is difficult to ascertain. ! Ail wires being down, the information received re-ceived is but meager. Telephone communications com-munications received at the offices of the Northern Pacific railroad in this city indicate that unless the water subside sub-side soon all the country along the shores of the Green, White, Greenwa ter. Black and Stuck rivers and those through which the innumerable creeks and feeders to the large rivers flow will be flooded, causing thousands of dollars worth of damage. In three hours yesterday afternoon the White river rose three feet, and a telephone message to the Ledger said that it was still rising. Reports received by the Ledger from Hot Springs and Lester state that the railroad bridges at both these points, and one at Fairfax, Fair-fax, have been carried away by the onrush of the waters. The Northern Pacific expects to get into communication with the flooded eoontrv bv noon todav.but so little is |