| Show r FLOODS THREATEN PERIL TO ENTRE NORTHWEST I ICile Cities Cile Under Water After Ceaseless Rains Rain Supply of 1 Waterworks System May be Cut off at Any Moment l Washouts and Land Slides Block All AU Railroad Systems f Danger of Breaking Dikes and Dams Causes Much t Apprehension for the Safety of Lives and Property Properly VAMA ll nn ft Walla Wash fh March 16 y 1 Not for years imas this tills city X 4 faced so serious a I situation as ns It It X does docs oel tills this morning from tho the X j loomiS Hoods which have hao come omo down l 1 jl from room the tile Blue mue mountains anti and 11 J i have hn made Mill Im creek u II roaring torrent At 4 a o m ni so far faras farlS x as ts lS can be bt learned the time following JJ Y YI m mis Is I n a n resume of ot tile the nights darn dam clamY X Y 1 age alc X Y Tho iio he Fourth street bridge ha haX X 1 been washed out Olt part of tho th X 1 y Third street bridge has been X 1 blasted i out time the tJ gas works lots has X 1 been flooded ind Is lit closed down J X 1 1 Main lain street street from above abo Sixth 1 i m 1 1 street to tu time tho O 0 R ri N passenger X 1 gel ger depot IH In reported to bo ho un 11 X 1 I I I Is x s der dier water wael In the thE ills II y 1 1 I tho water aleI is ix rapidly fillIng X 1 t Outside of IC I tho tIlo city el y ns n within l conditions aro X Xi x i 1 apparent In lU all I parts parIs I of tho y I Wall voile valley X XV V W Portland Or March Not in manya I a year ear have havo so many points In lul II time the Pacific northwest t all on at lt tho tIme annie samo faced aced such eh serious damage from front flood food an as n they Ule do tb this morning From lat last Friday until row 1 01 heavy lIen rains have fallen over Old oel the tile whole of oC the time northwest west and ad every rivulet is js a roaring torrent and alit every Co river liver a u lake Bridges have been washed a hed out 01 or dynamited rail railroad road tracks are IN under water and anti when traffic is not rot delayed by II these disasters huge block hi bi ocr ck the way tray The Tho most serious reports rome caine from Vula Walla Vall Mill 11 creek crek which flow IU through ugh that city cl nearly every CC winter In goes on Ol a rampage ralpl hut but at Qt present It ItIs Is iii II outdoing records and has caused wholesale destruction of busi bul business ness fleas nel In ill li general and destroying several houses F AI TOWNS TOWN SAFETY Next ext In point of oC seriousness Is the Iho situation at lt although the Iho levees Icee built hult after last years Hoods floods leot am l still sUI holding there theia Is fear feax tea that thit they I are aro becoming undermined In II this case tho time town will wi surfer serious damage In time tho Idaho country railroad tracks Irack are aro reported under underwater water bridges out fled and can canare are entertained d that the waterworks which supply that city will be ime Hooded and the supply of at drinking water shut shutoff oft off Many Inn families have havo been driven 1 from the lowlands The Thu anti rivers have washed out ont time the city dike at al Dayton Washington In ill western Washington tho the rivers around Seattle Scuttle and amI Tacoma are oro still sUII J I but lIttle damage fortunately has resulted so far tar Tho Time Willamette river lIer and amId its tribu tributaries f are running a n mill maul race above aho Salem but no fill damage has re Ie resulted suIted TRAINS AT A STANDSTILL As A Is usual u ual during tho the flood condition the railroads are 10 numbered rell among the principal sufferers Tile The wOrst of those these is lii tho the Oregon Navigation UnIon system which has bait not been boen to t send a train through for tor fo tho tIm past 16 It hours Title This road Is IH block hInck blocked ed cd principally by heavy landslides east unit and west of ot Train service Ilce In lum the 1110 neighborhood ot of Walla Walla alla alia and from front LouIs ton north northis is at a standstill Time The Northern Pacific and Great Northern aro are almost entirely I out HIt ot 0 the time Hood flood districts though tho the Northern Pacific suffered puttered to lo some extent from slides in lit tIme the western part hart of Washing Washington ton The rile prospects this thin morning are arc that thaI conditions throughout the tho three state tats will wIH be ha worse instead of better hetter Ac Ar According c cording to the tili last forecast a 11 new ne storm which made e Its II appearance oft off Vancouver Island Sunday morning is isnow Isnow isnow now moving across the Pacific north northwest northwest west vest will causo general rains throughout tho tile district |
