Show THE OREGON FLOODS I 1 general belief that present danbur is passed I 1 A TALE OF I 1 I 1 I 1 bridges gone roads and houses swept I 1 aawar etc etc I 1 I 1 AND amace A iceie OF onside S armb rn E ID 1 1 xo no estimate ol 01 the hi damage comma bleat log I 1 la all DI rec tient shot off 01 xo no sells ens broin ardin the interior laan bior 7 I 1 I 1 I 1 THE OREGON holts I 1 I 1 the are falling filling sl sliwa bwy oni fe f ra cf 11 leal the enormous Enon damage done I 1 CHICAGO feb fl 6 advises advices via the western union from rom the tar far n northwest 0 rth I 1 indicate but little improvement in tho the telegraphic situation after t the wires had bad been broken down by 1 the snow slides on tile regular route to portland the company managed to I 1 get through to tacoma over the cascade division of the northern pacific I 1 then thence ceto to portland this was held 1 only a short time reports thia this morning are to the effect that a heavy windstorm on the cascade division I 1 blew do down r many large pines breaking the vi ires the hood flood in the ilia io li amette river at portland has carried away the cable lad across it making its break in tle the connection more serious I 1 details received in portland ot of the accident to a construction train on oil the union pacific near cascade locks on I 1 sunday morning states that the train I 1 consisted of engine tender and caboose the latter having on board I 1 thirty five men the engine had almost cleared the trestle when the 4 under spanning of the second arid and third bents which had bad baen been weakened I 1 by the flood gave wa way y the engineer felt it and pulled the throttle wide open ifer he just 08 managed to cear the u weak eak part w with ith the engine but the caboose and ter berder der went do down forty feet below eight ig it t men were killed instantly one inan jr an named cole 4 was buried beneath the debris and his body could not be gotten out until yesterday when hen it vi wag as released rele aed wilh with ropes eighteen other men I 1 I 1 were viere mora more or less lees seriously hurt and some of them are expected to die 1 PORTLAND fob feb 0 6 this morning 1 the river is stationary at this point and it is thought thern will ha no further arse se the reloris re orts bom fi om corballis colv allis wallis and oregon city say it is falling one I 1 inch an hour there feb 6 the river river is higher than for twenty years past many of hie file bridges are threatened and there bas been great damage dono done in the entire valley the revenue cutter lluis v with ith the northern I 1 mull mail from san sart francisco was unable I 1 to cross the tile columbia river bar came hack back to tacoma and has taken aken the ther mails nalls back to ban san francieco I 1 PORTLAND feb 6 the water readied its highest point 28 feet 4 indies inches at 6 i this morn morning ing sines I 1 ali lien o it lias has fallen four I 1 inched ches in the lie cba aba nel this is the ilia highest water in the history of the city the waterfalls water falls lowly in the streets and ia is nut na percept bly fower lower but is I 1 s running through the with less rapid current aud is is free from the heavy leavy 11 drift in the tile channel the tile bridges are believed bli eved safe and there is no evidence of any serious damage to buildings the tile only loss in the business di brict will ba be from the presence of water on tho ground floors or a of buildings which will bo be trifling reports from points on the willamette river indicate that the river is falling very rapidly detailed reports of the damage above will be slow to come in on account of the interruption to t communication the tile most s arious loss will ba be the destruction st of bridges which seem to have been swept away everywhere tile largest towns in ili the a va valley ley are well above high water wate r an and I 1 only unimportant buildings bail b dings have h ive teen carriel carriel away the interruption to travel still continue but the oregon railroad navigation company has es steamer service to cascade locks above which trains aro are run ning between cascade locks and here there ia a succession ot of landslides entirely eni irely obliterating the track in some places the f lie southern pacific sent out a train on the branch line N west abt of there bit bat got no further than mcminnville ir fifty miles from here no trails have bare been sent out on the main line tho the northern pacific are running to tota ta enma and ae carrying the mails it is expected that the railroad blockade to 0 o cascade lucks locks will continue some das daya and that tat between here and san bail francisco for weeks as the track and roadway have been enair entirely t ly destroyed for a considerable distance meager advice s from ashland state that the southern pacific railroad bridge across the umpqua river has lips been washed wished out and in cow creek canyon the railroad track has bas been virtually wiped ou oil many smaller rall railei read ad bridges between here and ashland are washed away and the company docs does not attempt to send out trains oi on the tile west side ride of tile willamette Wil lametto r rier lver trani are as far as mcminnville mca A Minn 1 i n n ville T e qs bitle is blockaded 1 e d b by aravy a liy lall ides beti between veen thia this city and dilles D files aad and no trains are fire ex exi pecked to bs be running for reveral several days the northern pacific is still running at shlem sixty houses have been wept aft ay and many persona persons driven from their home homes though as tar far as known no lives were lost along the river bottoms considerable livestock live stock has been drowned and large quantities of drain grain and hay destroyed the damace to this c city t w ill mt nt be so great us as at first anticipated tile doks docks and wharves which were submerged have all stood tile strain of the and mw nw that the water is decreasing it Is thought that hat the danger ia is over the columbia river at vancouver washington ia is falling at eugene oregon the largo waon wagon b heilge r age near springfield went ant over today to day daiy alao also part of the I 1 ridge near that city causing ft loss lots of about A few low small smal buildings and farge urge amounts of cordwood fe fencing icing and other material were washed away a ay and the aggregate losses images will toot foot up many thousands ands of dot dollars at Rs roseburg eburg oregon no trains have arrived since friday and a shot tage of provisions is feared unless communication is restored soon the bridge across greer creek and the tile woolen mills there have been totally destroyed by the flood additional Teley raps ort fulth aage la 1 I 1 |