Show FLOOD MS WATE S INVADE RIVER RISES TO TWENTY FIVE FEET ABOVE NORMAL AT PORTLAND DOCKS upper valley presents aspect of great inland sea As current creeps up to thresholds of homes portland ore driving with resistless power the willamette Wll lamette river at portland tuesday had risen to more than twenty five feet above normal flooding the docks and lower streets along the water front and causing great damage the huge huga volume of 0 water pouting down tha willamette Wll lamette valley and fed by a hundred tributary streams running baneful and over bore immense quantities of 0 logs and drift of all kinds which lodged against the piers ol of the cites bridges and rendered at least two of 0 them unsafe tor for traffic they were closed by city officials deports ite ports from points southward through the willamette Wll lamette valley were that many of the ahers tributary to the willamette Wll lamette had begun to tall fall and it was hoped that tile the crest of the flood tho the worst experienced in western oregon in thirty years would be reached here tuesday official weather forecast gave promise ot of a moderation of 0 the flood but a continuation of 0 rain which began monday with a warning from orth North head at the columbia rivers entrance of the approach of a new southerly pale gale gave rise to apprehension the upper willamette Wll lamette valley presented the aspect of 0 a great inland sea its waters lapped the thresholds of hundreds of homes in both city and country tar far flung throughout the level valley lands cities and hamlets between eugene and portland a distance ot of miles reported extensive damage from the waters |