| Show waters OREGON RIVER RISES TO TWENTY FIVE FEET ABOVE NORMAL AT PORTLAND DOCKS upper valley presents aspect of great inland sea ai As current creep creeps up to thresholds of home homes portland ore driving with resist ices less power the Wll VIl lamette river at lit portland fort land tuesday had risen to more than twenty tire fIre feet above normal flooding the docas and lover lower streets alone along the water front and causing Z creat r 0 at damage the huge volume of water pouring down tho the willamette Wll lamette i alley and fed by a hundred tributary streams running tankful and 01 er bore immense quantities of logs logo and drift ot of nil till kinds which lodged against the pleni of the brid es and rendered ren dired red at least two of them unsafe tor for traffic tr they were closed by city officials ite ports from points southward through the willamette Wll lamette valley were that many MAIV of the rivers tributary co to the Wilid willamette mette had begun to tall fall and it was wits hoped that the creat crest of the the wont worst experienced in west ern oregon in thirty years hotd be reached here tuesday official weather forecast gave promise of a mod emylon of the flood but a continuation of rain which began monday with a warning from rom North orth hend head at the columbia rivers entrance of the approach of a new now southerly sale gale cave gave rise to apprehension the upper valley presented pm the aspect of f a great gmt inland sea its flitters lapped the thresholds of hundreds of homes in both city and country tar far flung throughout the level valley lands cities and hamlets between eugene a and portland a distance of miles reported extensive damage from the waters |
