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Show PORTLAND, OR., IN PERIL OF GENUINE 'FEBRUARY FLOOD" PORTLAND. Or. Feb R--A rls of poveral degrees In temper.! ''ire. following an average snowfall of two or three Inches. In the Wllamefte vallev, and perhaps per-haps a, many feer in 'he foothills, has causeri . floo.i rondi'tons In all s're.ims In the WiUametfe water shed Monday nlph1 the Big ?anlam left t hanks at .Tefferpon. flooloi tr!- lowlands and rar- i rled out the te!epraph wire A ront itvia t ion of the prnt warm rains for another twenrv-fr.ur hours t Is feared will cause a de'-lied "Fehruarv flood." similar to that of lH". when the wa'er entered the fr' of For'and and the current threatened to carry out hridgeg and docks ' j The Oregon Rallwav and Navigation I company's !in has 1 en Mocked since Saturday bv s-nows'r.rms Th Portland , Pallas Pn'ithe-n road got n train i throunh Mond.iv niirht. hut 'lends threat- I j en to wash out the line r'',n here and Salem today. Rail communication is un-I un-I In'errupreJ fmm here to the ?oj'V and I railroad officials pronounce the conditions I the worst hi twenty vatf |