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Show oo COTTAGES SLIDE DOWNA SLOPE Great Landslide Starts in the Mission District in San Francisco. San Francisco, Jan. 7. Seven cottages cot-tages on a hill in the Mission district are being slowly carried down a steep slope on tho crest of a great V shap ed landslide. Heavy rains are supposed sup-posed to have started the slide Occupants of the houses have fled the dwellings. Gas and water pipes and sowers have been broken and in one cottage the breaking of the con- rnectlons permitted gas to escape and three children of J. D. Townsend were partially overcome by the fumes. The sides of the triangle mass of earth, which began to move Sunday night, are clearly marked by a fissure fis-sure at one point nine feet deep. Fear Is felt for two score of homes within the possible path of the slide and many of tho dwellers have moved to the homes of neighbors. A general warning has been given the families endangered. Seattle Homes Wrecked. Seattle, WaBh., Jan. 7. Two houses were wrecked by mud slides tonight on the steep hillside of West Seattle. In one of them that of Simon Booth a baby was killed and six other members of the family were injured. The occupants of the other house es caped injury. The rainfall for the present storm, which began last Friday, totals nearly near-ly five inches. So far the flood damage dam-age has not been serious. High Water Overwhelms Resort. Tacoma, Wash., Jan. 7. High water wat-er has overwhelmed Moclips, a summer sum-mer resort on the coast, due west of 9 V here, according to advices received J last night. A train which reached the place 4. yesterday came back with word that the old hotel was falling down, the new pavilion surely would follow, water was in many cottages and the bridge over the Moclips river was down. Overland Trafflo Resumed. Sacramento, Calif., Jan. 6. Overland traffic on the Western Pacific Railroad, Rail-road, which was suspended ten days ago because of landslides in the Feather River canyon, will be resumed re-sumed on regular schedule today. Freight traffic was started yesterday. High Winds Stop Rains. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 7. A high wind early today put an end, for a time at least, to the heavy rains which have flooded the low lands in western Washington the last five days, giving giv-ing the swollen rivers a chance to discharge the storm water into tho sea. The wind had tore down telephone tele-phone and telegraph lines, adding to the troubles of the railroad companies, com-panies, and mud slides have been interfering in-terfering with tho prompt handling of traffic. Reports recehed at the offices of S all the railroads showed conditions In tho mountains such as to cause no fear of snow trouble for the present. |