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Show SEVERE FLOODS It) NORIHKT SMfo, Wart , Mr , 'J Kightea fret j( snow on the wet slope of tho C;icado mifl vlglif, f. ot on th ror.t slope j5 being changed Into water by a warm win. I from the rea. The rivers cannot carry away the dolus", rnd the Washington valleys are overflowed, over-flowed, ralfc-oada compelled to .surpend huamesa and bridge wathd away hT ' t lie nwni widrpoad-flood in0. irs Wlih railroad comnjuiiraUvn to,P.orl-land to,P.orl-land tit off by (-wahet J falf today to-day ha only!on'o djrrct rnuVondout-1 rnuVondout-1 t. Iwwevrr. may bo Hosed at ny time by th turbulent grr-cn river. hlii j already threatening the Northern Irjck". ' Thu far the financial lojo? Vty' tb" flood has been i-ruall and Ihe dtxeom-fort dtxeom-fort of the. evicted dw ollertmloua; th-sv.ollcn th-sv.ollcn fttr'nis Is larger than hi for-liter for-liter incrflowK,' There U no storrn-ln sight arrd con-t. con-t. nuance of Ihe preso ni, jnjld,.. jioudy weather, with occasional showers and high temperature in the mountains is (predicted. A ehnnsce to freezing la m the C'acades would, sooji end the r.nrV .1h( w.vj ii Ayi . contlnvi V rl'o tonlcht ih'i tomorrow,' th" Wcathcc h'ircau' j.jedlct.-', . , , I'rndloton. Ore.. Mar,' .The 1,'tuuitllla rler ha reached tbe. flood tKe but Ilttjo dujoag Js anticipated beyond the demoralization of railroad i r m c . rentrallft. - Wa'sh. - Mar,, 2-Tbje business, nation -ot this city 'was5 lis nndated today -by tb worst-flood -r rl-nfc In yars. ' Railroad Hnei in both directions ar blocked by land-sillies. land-sillies. The country between On-tralla On-tralla and Ch'.halls Is covered by a thcet of water. r. rtland. Ore., Mar.. 2 Doth the Willamette and Columbia rivers are rMnp htadlly". ' tbe former bavins; rr ached the lower docks at this polnt, nllroad hMieduW have been abandoned aband-oned and Ihe railroad situation Id the vorwt in 20 yearn. |