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Show WEISER RIVER FLOOD DID tREAT DAMAGE WEISER, Ida March IL The high water wa-ter In the Wetser river Is receding, a coU snap being the cause. The damage by flood In the vicinity 01 the city is heavy. Fences are washed away, slaughter-houses and corrals wipe . out. Icehouses and contents swept awa and many cattle, horses and sheet drowned. , Many families were compelled to mow out of their houses. Every small brldgi ? on the Weiser river above the city haj been swept away and sixty feet of th " approach to the steel wagon bridge ova the Weiser wa washed out. One of th approaches to the bridge at Midvale hai been washed out and the bridge stands iJ the middle of the stream. ' The Pacific & Idaho Northern passen ger train that went to Council Tuesda; has not yet returned. Mall is being car ried on a handcar to the break in Uk track and is then transferred. No passengers are being carried. A work train Is filling up the breaks S) rapidly as possible, and it is hoped to haw the line opened by tomorrow. At one point in weiser canyon the gradi was washed out for a distance of E0 feet |