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Show WINDS CAUSE FLU ID CHINOOK AND DOWNPOUR OF RAIN MELTS SIX FEET OF SNOW IN CASCADES. Farms and Valley Towns in Western Washington Flooded, Bridge Washed Out and Railway Ser-vice Ser-vice Demoralised as Result Seattle, Wash.- The warm chlnook winds Of the past few days, bringing ju heavy downpour of rain in the low-la low-la mis and melting the six feet of our-ly our-ly snow In the ( MH u.l- mountains, flooded the rivets c)f wt stern Washington Wash-ington n Sunday, broke the dam of the Municipal Kh'i'trlr plant, cut off Seattle" water supply, demoralized. I railroad , service, washed out brldgt j irid flooded mniiy farms anil valley it wns. No lives have been reported j lof, but the property damage will he j t Humous The Impounded waters curried oway the five foot crest of the 1 municipal power plant nt Mcnctoti. letting the municipal electric Unlit plant there ul of coiiiimUmIoii, und Seattle's Hire t me claik. except fur jwhut power the city ha been able t) jb.irrow f:i.n oth-r sources. Tim water Phased by the breaking of the dam swept down the canyon In u wall thirteen feet hi h. al,d sixteen miles below , , Ik toil cutried awny the bridge supporting the two conduits con-duits whl ) bring the city's waler supply from Cedar Luke, thirty-five J inilcg east of the city. The water' swept through the streets of llenioii, n town of 2.000 in habitants, driving the people to the hills nnd leaving two feet of water In the town. |