Show MINES ms ARE clus aclus N AND 1 IN MESS MOM heavy snowfall at butte causes al most total suspend on of business flood S tuat on alarming butte mont eight inches of snow on the level washed into slush by a driving rain that set in at daylight cut off butte froin from the outside world on friday telegraphic com munica tion was not restored until noon overhead power wires were so bad ly tangled with light wires that mayor corby would not allow either street car or light power to be turned on hence the city was in darkness and no cars were running on friday night the mines are also closed down the railway situation east ot of mis soula is serious the Northern pacific has not moved a train between mis soula and helena or butte since mon day and it probably will be weeks be fore the damage ta the track can be fully repaired miles of the new road bed of the st paul road east cast of here have been away and it Is esti estl mated that it will require more than a month to repair the damage from this source the northern pacific has assembled on this divi division ion all of the pile dav ers from tha the west that it can get it has taken irom its own western divi and has borrowed from other roads the fight against the waters is being carried on by ten thousand men but the water Is gaining steadily and the ram rain continues to fall in torrents |