| Show r f. BUTTE IS CUT GUT OFF ai- ai i BY STEADY mm STORMS I Short Line Finds I It t I Impossible 1 I to Run Trains Into I J 1 fa I Smelter City f V RAINS CAUSING DAMAGE r t. t I I y fl Many Passengers Stalled anc and andr andt t r 1 in Danger Throughout J 1 Montana J If It you OU want to KO go o to Butte you cant ani ha lias a little fl n ht o ohis on p.- p. his han hands up Ut In Montana and m f it Isn't isn r with iu Jim Hill IWI either Just Tun no now no th the tho 1 foe loe has the tho upper han hand liand and anif Mr 11 liar r. r simply Isn't running all any trains train from Crom a Il short distance f north of Dillon p into Butte In Montana fontana i la tied up b I floods and ana It was stated in lii p of J. J M. M Davis I acting general superIntendent super super- t 0 of the thc Oregon ln Short Shon Line Lino yesterday a- a that It I is not expected that tha f tho lie lino line will be bo clear for fOI two or 01 three thief days ays yet ct In the thc lie meantime me Mr 11 Davis has haJ pone gone to tho lie scene of or the trouble and possible will he lie done donelo j to lo to set Ct the tho line in operation again as quickly as po possible l 1 V 1 j i Western Union wire lost ost Butte Hutto yesterday ay afternoon Before that time simply press pies messages had section Corni Com Com- been coming from that I with Dillon Mont was still possible la last t night and tho the re report report re- re I i port from flom there thel-c was wa that It was still stil I raining raining- and snowing in arlous vallous parts mountains Xo Xu Train Train- c. Cat t. t t If fJ Press dispatches from Missoula fP i state stale that communication by bL rail ral wiLh with I t l points east ast of there is cut Ot Ott entirely and that er very little can be he learned d b by n. n 1 wire S Several cral power dams on oai the thep p Missoula an and Blackfoot rivers ers Including hiS ing that o of AV Yo A. A Clark at nL Garrison Q- Q the thc rhe rivers II are mo e threatened nn and are aro k in hug ing stead steadily I The dam lain has broken and the tho oil ef- above c Butte Bulle s j net of the tho rush of waters vaters from It on R. R the dam dam at t Garrison on was waK feared Carett t S Many trains are stalled stalle tome some of i J. J them between washouts mid and among J In Is V. V the tho parties reported I t one o of Harriman railroad o z C. C which was on Its way to Seattle over o the Northern Pacific This Included e 1 t- t I- I Superintendent Mun l on of the lie Utah l C division and General Superintendent I W. W L. L Park ParI ty- ty j Thero have been beet no through trainst trains t t on tho the Northern since sinco SunI Sunday Sun Sun- I day and about CUO passengers are arc on p trains that thal arc urs stalled far from largo large cities cities' t i I In Itself lt the river I Is at already already al- al t ready y near neal the record water high V i. i mark and Is still rising Bridges es are arc I being guarded gual as carefully as possible pos io sible nn and watch is I kept l lest st anyone should attempt attempt- to lo cross croos the th structures which are considered to be in extreme danger nSe 1 |
