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Show Seattle.'.' Wh-, Mar 'l.-NVarui wind nnd rain caused rapid melting of the. pnow in the Cascade mountains tod .-lv bringing slides of snow, earth and "rock down on the railroad track3 and turning the mountain stream into torrents. The Northern Pacific cancelled two trains each way and itR other trains Ignored the time tables and crept cnutloush past points where danger threatened over head. The Great Northern whose main line is burled for ten miles, and which Is operating operat-ing only one transcontinental train each vsay via Vancouver, Wash, was further mbarrased jy a washout on the north bank road. In the Puget Sound - country the streams are already al-ready at the danger point. The rain-fell rain-fell here today was. light, but heavy precipitation along lie coast was felt, and points to a considerable down pour tomorrow. The floods may not cause large properly loss or be long continued, but- conditions tonight are favorable for inundation of all the lowlands. The railroads tonight ha.c wrecking trains ready and settlers In the valleys are preparing to move. On the eastern tb'po of the Cascades Cas-cades colder weather is checking the thaw. Cedar River which supplies Seattle's drinking water, is. rapidly rising and threatens to carry out the city's Intake In-take pipe. 30 miles, up in the rooun tains. The water department has sent a force of men up the river . to ptotect the pipe line fiom the rising water. Waters lsolte Town. Spokane. Wa6h..' Mar., 1. Colfax, the principal town cf the Palouz country Is cut off by floods today. Railroad and electric lines are blockaded. block-aded. Bridges havG been washed out and water is standing from two to five feet deep In the business streets of the town. No lives have been lost. Caldwell In Danger. Walla Walla. Waeh.t, Mar., 1. Advices Ad-vices from Caldw'll, Idaho, say that city Is In danger of bclDg swept away tonight by the rising waters of Indian Creek, which has suddenly overflowed over-flowed its banks and inundated the entire city. Already damage estimated esti-mated at $200,000 has been done and unless the weather quickly turns colder the loss to property will be doubled. Main street, the principal business thoroughfare. Is three feet tinder water, while Arthur Is a rushing rush-ing river, ten feet In depth. .. Many residents are leaving the city tonight and seeking the. hills for1 safety, while hundreds of persohs arc using the second stories of their houses, the lower floors being under water. The entire country around Caldwell is under water and great Icps to stock men seems lneltablc. Death Like Silence. Spokane, Wash, Mar., 1. Silence like death reigns throughout the district today, . .where .19 lives arc known to have been crushed out beneath be-neath ice and snow that swept the mountainside upon the little villages of Maco and Burke One woman died today and another Is dying. So far thirty men, women and children have been rescued from tbe Mace slide and the men arc working desperately In an effort to succor thoso who may possibly be nllve. At Burke, five are known to be, dead and two badly injured. Such Is the chaotic condition In the small mining town, however,' that the list is not thought to bo complete. At Carbondale Hill, where the slide occurred, two 'are dead , and half a dozen men are Injured. |