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Show NORTHWEST FLOODS LARGE PORTION OF WASHING-TON WASHING-TON PRACTICALLY CUT OFF FROM OUTSIDE WORLD. School Houses and Homes Washed Away, Stock Drowned and Miles of Railway Destroyed by Raging Torents. Belllngham, Wash. For thrco days northwest Washington has been cut from quick communication with the' outside world, boat sorvlco alono furnishing fur-nishing a connecting link. No trains nro moving except between be-tween this city nnd Burlington, twenty twen-ty miles south, and sorvlco cannot bo rendered Insldo of a week. Telegraph wires wero restored on Thursday. Twenty miles of railway track in Skagit and Whatcom counties havo been destroyed. Tho loss to railways will oxceed $1,000,000. Whatcom county lost $100,000 In bridges alone. Ferndale's losses aggregate $90,000. There two mills, a, school houso and olevon residences wore destroyed. Flvo miles of Northern Pacific track In this county has disappeared, even tho grade being obliterated. Laconner is under seven foot of water. The town's loss Is placed at $150,000 In stocks and goods destroyed destroy-ed and two warehouses filled with grain and hay, which collapsed and slipped Into the flood. In tho country north of Laconner 1,000 head of cattle wero drowned, while 400.000 sacks of oats and 8,000 tons of baled hay aro a total loss. Sloughs and "bays for miles from Laconner La-conner are covered with drifting hay and sacks of oats. A barn filled witli hay was found floating in Puget Sound by a northbound steamer Wednesday Tho loss to tho farmers Is estimated at $G00,000 in live stock, hay and grain. |