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Show l-loo Is In WkShlnf loa, I Tacoma, Wasltr. Janr Ir Tha fAe-l halls valley Itn dreary waslo of water. That It all that confront the eye In ) every direction. I-arm and Mghwtji nllkc under aoveiflt fiel of water and men go from one po'"1 nolb" In I boata. llsh Commltsloner Little. when ho left the fish hatihcry on the Chchalls river, rowcil nciws'arm sad up tho country road, now burled under ten fool of water. Mr Little arrived from the flooded district todaj on the first train that bad succinic! In gi tllng through lis aaya tho loss will not bo very extensive, but the prospect Is not nt all encouraging encourag-ing Some of tho farmer will lose a largo part of their grain nnd hay stored on tho farm, and othire mai loo some atock Tho Hood ore the highest cvet known In tho valley. Tho smaller streams, many of them tributary to o Chi halls, nre out of their bank and the usually placid creeks liavoj Income raging torrent. Tlio hachct It four feet higher than It has over been and tho Wjnoocho Is over the rnllrnad tracks Al Oakvlllo tho branch Una la under threo feet of water It Is not probnhlo that much atock will lie lost. If tho water aubsldc aoon Tho farmers will lose heaviest on their stores nf grain nnd liny, which were In the grnnnrlea or In stacks. |