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Show FAMILIES DRIYEN FROM THEIR HOMES Spokane, Jan. 19. Fifty families have been driven from their homes in the eastern part of the city by hign water and the flood is still rising. The McKinloy school building Is, probably marooned aud Saint Anne's Catholic church in Union Park may float away at auy hour. A dozen other oth-er homes on North Division street are leported surrounded by water. One child is leported missing and it is feared may have been drowned, Colfax, Wash, Jan. 19. Water in the South Palouse river passed the previous high water mark tonight and is rising. As the river flows through the main business district of town, ureal damage is feared. The court bouse is surrounded by water and the Ktveet is covered from there to the Oregon Railroad & Naigalion depot, four blocks south. The Hood came so tu-ldenly thit many had to be carried from their homes. One family sick with diphtheria, was removed several Mocks by boat. Many of the best residences resi-dences in the middle section of town have one to three feet of water on the ground floors. Bellingham. Wash., Jan. 19. Immense Im-mense quantities of dynamite are being be-ing used to blow up the ice in Nook-sack Nook-sack river at Ferndale today. A jam has formed four miles above that city and the river bed is practically dry below the jam. With the breaking cf 1 the jam It is feared the railway and highway bridges at Ferndale will go out. The leo is being Mown up so the jam will have free passeage beneath be-neath the bridges. |