Show J TRAINS AIN HELD I IN MOUNTAINS BY lANn UD 7 Two Railways S- S Sin in Mont Montana lIa- lIa Block a Cloudburst Hit 7 Lowlands LO dS BUTTE BUPTE Mont May 12 Trains Trains on 1 the the Northern Northern Pacific and Milwaukee 1 ee I railroads were blockaded east of Butte Butt 1 toddy today as the result of several landslides Northern Pacific passenger train No 2 was penned in approximately eight miles mUes east of ot here when a twenty twenty five five ton boulder bringing a slide of ot smaller rocks and gravel struck the fr front nt of the tle engine rendering It useless None I of the passengers or crew was injured but the d descending earth blocked the train both ways The MI Milwaukee waukee tr tracks four tour miles from the Northern Pacific I line also were covered bV bY slides to a considerable depth i I Northern Pacific officials said their tracks could be cleared t today y and it I I was expected that eastbound Milwaukee l kee trains will be detoured over oyer the Pacific system Northern Pacific train No o. o 92 w was l held eld In Butte today I until th tracks were cleared CLOUDBURST TOO BILLINGS Mont May tay 12 Thop 12 Thou Thousands II sands o of dollars worth of ot prop property damage is believed to have resulted from Monday nights night's cloudburst over I the area known as as' as the Billings bench I northeast of ot this city Persons p rons who i i came cam In from the district reported that practically the whole countryside was still sun under water today r rNo rNo No loss of stock wa was but Irrigation ditches ditches' were washed out bridges swept away and newly plowed lowed and seeded fields were b badly damaged It was r reported ported 1 I IN IN N NEBRASKA BRASKA i LINCOLN Neb NeL May 12 l Heavy rains J in Nebraska last night flight and to today today to- to day r resulted in a 8 that drove twenty families from J heir homes at Homer Neb and washed out railroad railroad railroad rail rail- road tracks in s some some me according accord ing to reports re received here An electrical electrical elec dec storm accompanied the toe rainfall lightning causing the h death of William Maughn aged 18 he Was vas at t work on a farm arm near ar Lincoln ln |