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6 THE 5IOR3TING OEEGONIAN. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1909. TRAFFIC SUFFERS BY RAGING FLOODS Grays Harbor Is Still Iso lated From Outside Worjd ; Through Washouts. HIGH TIDE SWEEPS CITY During November, Rainfall la Over Two Feet, Breaking All Known, Records 20 Miles or Track Gone In Chebalis County. FLOODS IS NORTHWEST WASH OVT RAILROAD TRACKS AND DKLAY TRAFKIC. Hoquiam High tide iubmrgu part of city. Grays Harbor Isolated by washouts. Tacoma Branch tin traffic de moralised by washouts. Rivera high est ever known. Kelso "Work camps flooded. North ern Pacific double-tracking; stopped. Vancouver, Wash. Great Northern trains detourcd over North Bank. Olympla Union Pacific lays off 2O00 mon. .Thousands of dollars worth of construction destroyed. : Woodland Lewis River rises to flood stage four times in 3 days. Everett On rjaxringrton branch. Northern Pacific, 700 feet of track sons. Astoria On Illwaco road 1100 feet of track washed out. HOQUIAM, Wash., Nov. 30. (Special.) The entire Grays Harbor country la suf fering from the tremendous rains and floods of the past few days. The district Is still cut off fr6m the outside world, so far as railroad connection is" concerned: Today telegraph connection was resumed for a time, but the wires soon went down again. Yesterday the entire business part of the city was . submerged by a phenom enally high tide, which was measured at 16 feet and is said to be the highest in 20 years. Though flooding basements and causing damage to stocks in -the stores, no lasting damage resulted. The railroad situation is the most crit ical. In Chehalls County about 20 miles of Northern Pacific track is washed out or covered with landslides. It Is not known how long traffic will be suspended. During November the rainfall in this section has been oer two feet, breaking all known records. STORM WORST EVER KXOWN High Tide Floods Raymond, Rail road Bridges and Track Gone. SOUTH BEND. Wash., Nov. 30. (Spe cial.) Here la the, record of a 48 hours' storm of wind and rain surpassing: in violence any hitherto known in recent years: At South Bend a landslide struck and demolished a large dry kiln recently built by the South Bend Mills & Tim ber Company.' At Raymond a natural tide of 9.7 feet, reinforced by a howling gale from the northwest and a monster freshet in the Wlllapa River, submerged the entire business district and a large portion of the residence district -to a. depth of about two feet, entirely covering the railroad tracks and -damaging a large amount of merchandise in stores and carpets and furniture in residences. A few miles above Raymond the track was washed out for 400 feet. At Menlo and Holcomb the steel rail road bridges, the two largest on the t'hehalis-South Bend branch, were car ried away; near Pluvius a landslide has covered the track for a distance of 500 feet. Every- stream in the' county is out of its banks, but.what damage has been or is now being- done cannot be ascertained, as the telegraph and long distance wires wen down some hours ago. The tide was the highest known in recent years, and the storm of wind and rain was rile most severe within the memory of any person now residing in this vicinity. track yesterday," and officials eay it will probably take 36 hours to clear it. Be tween Hoquiam and Moclipa a heavy washout occurred. There is a washout 100 feet long west of Montesano. It will probably take two or three days to get -the line through to Hoquiam. Telegraphic communication was resumed this afternoon as far as Elm a and this wUl probably reach Ho quia by tonight. The Satsop, Wynoochee and "Wiliapa riv er, in the southwest, are all at flood stage and higher than ever before known. On the South Bend line there has been much trouble with many slides and wash outs. It will require probably a week, and possibly ten days, to get the ,llhe open for traffic. The situation Is so bad and the slides so numerous that no at tempt to run trains by making trans fers is practicable. The worst washout was at Wlllapa, where 400 feet of trek was swept away. On the main line of the Northern Pacific between Portland, Tacoma and Seattle, there is no Interruption to traffic. The water in the rivers was generally reported falling today. 7 00 FEET OF TRACK ARE GOXE St&nvrood Streets Still Under Water, Though Rivers Subside. EVERETT, Wash., Nov. 30. Colder weather is causing the . flooded river slowly to subside, but all are still far out of their banks. The streets of Stan wood, at the mouth of the Stillagaumish, are under water and the first floors of many business buildings are flooded. Arlington reports that 700 feet of the Darrington branch of the Northern Pa cific has been washed out. FLOOD AND GALE TWIST ELM A Bridges Washed "Away, Landslides Wreck Several buildings. ELMA, Wash., Nov. 30. (Special.) . Flood waters here are receding and nd further damage is expected. Two bridges on the Cloquallum are gone and several smaller ones have been washed away. A large barn on the Gleason ranch was washed Into the Satsop River and a roundhouse, a warehouse and several small buildings of the S. B. Slade Lum ber Company were destroyed at Its camps by a landslide. Farmers in the bottoms have suffered severe loss by buildings be ing flooded. -All the' south side-of the river Is cut off from Elma and the North ern Pacific tracks have been damaged , by landslides. The dam of the Electric Light & Power Company, was twisted and bent but withstood the heaviest flood ever known here., Today . the weather . is clear and the storm seems to be over. FOUR BIG . RISES IX SO BAYS lewts -River Floods-Part - of Town ," ' of Woodland. WOODLAND, Wash., Nov. 30. (Spe cial.) After a continued fall for several days of the Lewis River, a warm wind arose Sunday morning and the melting mows from the headwaters started an other rise. At midnight last night the gauge showed 23 feet, the highest of the season. This is the fourth heavy rise in 30 days. So far no damage has been reported, but it is feared some .of the roads' ex posed to the current below town may be seriously damaged, for they are in undated at several places1, and the over flow has backed up to a .considerable depth in the iower part of town near the depot. The river is now falling rapidly, for the weather has turned considerably cooler. ' TACOMA " LINES IX TROUBLE Washouts and Landslides . Delay Traffic All Ways. TACOMA.'' Wash., Nov. 30. Heavy rains of the past two days, coming on a ground already saturated to its capacity from the excessive downpour of the month.- has re sulted in many washouts and landslides. All the lines operated out of Tacoma having trouble. On the ; Grays : Harbor branch of the Northern.' Pacific, between Porter and Uma, a bad slide of earth, oovered the DOUBLE-TRACK WORK STOPS Construction Camps Are Flooded Xear Kelso. KELSO, Wash., Nov. 30. (Special.).' Owing to the continued high water, which is overflowing the land south of Kelso, work on the Northern Paclfle double track south of this place has "been abandoned for the present. Ditches are full of water and the camps Inun dated. Above Kelso only the tunnel work is going ahead at present. The Cowlitz River is again up to fiood stage. UXIOX PACIFIC LAYS OFF 2 00 0 Floods Destroy Thousands of Dollars of Construction Work. OLTMPIA, Wash., Nov. 30-. (Special.) Because floods have destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of construction work between here and Grays Harbor it is re ported here tonight the Union Pacific has indefinitely laid off 2000 men, stopping all construction. C. B., R. & E. Still Stormbound. MARSH FIELD, Or.,- Nov. 30. The Coos Bay, Roseburg & Eastern, running from Marshfield to Myrtle Point, is still blocked by washouts and drift on the track, although a train got through as far as Johnson's Mill, just beyond Coqullle, yesterday. . This was a 19 mlle run. Rains continue in the Coos Bay country, but not so heavy as for the past 10 days. 110 0 Feet of Track Gone. ASTORIA. Or., Nov. 30. (Special.) Re ports received from the north side of the Columbia are to the effeet that about 1100 feet of the Ilwaco Railway & Navi gation Company's , railway track, be tween McGowan and Point Ellis, was washed out as a result of the high tides and rains on Sunday and it will be sev eral days before trains will be able to run over the line. . Castle Rock Has Ice. CASTLE ROCK. Wash., Nov. 30. (Spe cial.) The Cowlitz River is at a height of 11 feet this morning, owing to the heavy, warm rain of the past few days. Last night, however, it stopped raining. The weather this morning is clear and balmy, although there was ice on the sidewalks in the early morning hours. Road Uses Another's Tracks. VANCOUVER, Wash., Nov. 30. (Spe cial.) Great Northern trains are being run from Pasco over the North Bank I toad and through Vancouver into Port land. They use the Northern Pacific tracks from Spokane to Pasco. Two trains passed through the city tints morning. Kelso Preacher Quits Business. KELSO. Wash., Nov. 30. (Special.) At a special meeting of the Kelso Elec tric Company last evening Rev. S. A. George resigned as president of the com pany. Rev. Mr. George was last week released by the Presbytery from his pas torate of the Presbyterian Church at Kelso. He will go to California in a day or so. Andrew Carlson, formerly vice president of the company, was elected president, and John L. Haines, elected vice-president. OUR ANNUAL PRE-HOLJDA Y MONEY-SAVING SALE OF rosrapliv an do g Outfits $2.75 Outfit at $1.49- order and guaranteed to be right. 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CHARIVARI PARTY FATAL Ueath of James Lawrence Last Sep tember Is Recalled in Evidence Introduced in Trial at McMinnville. M'MISNVILLE, Or.. Nov. 30. (Spe cial.) In the case of State vs. Jessa Townsend, the jufy returned a ver dict of manslaughter, as charged in the indictment. The case went to the. jury early this afternoon. Testimony of witnesses was in sub stance that a party of women and men, neighbors of the defendant, assembled at his house on the night of September 26, bringing with them an accordion, some cowbells, horns and instruments by which a noise could be made. De fendant had married, for the second time, a couple of months before, and had recently moved with his wife to their home, the crowd being bent upon giving them a charivari. Townsend's son-in-law, Dietrich Oliver, invited the; women into the FOUR GENERATIONS IN CENTRAL WASHINGTON FAMILY, : " - v i W. 4 v ' 3 3 I r f f t v ci t ii if ft i uui i i ) r A vtt -! 4 HEADING FROM RIGHT TO LEFT MRS. CHRISTINA CHAMBER LAIN, MRS. CHRISTINA SEEKS, MRS. iSERICA J. HAMILTON ."AND MA3TER CLIFFORp SEEKS. house, and shortly thereafter the men and boys followed, and went upstairs to the bedroom of Townsend and his wife. He ordered them down, and emphasized his order with a chair, with which he pushed them along, and threw out at the front door after them. Ho then returned to the house and secured a rifle. Defendant testifio.l that he thought to frighten them away, and worked the lever of the gun; that some person grabbed the muzzle of the weapon and it was discharged. The endeavor of the District Attorney w.js to prove that Townsend deliberately ejected a shell Into the gun from the magazine and voluntarily fired It, James Lawrence being Instantly killed L-y the bullet. . Judge Burnett's instructions to the jury were alon the line th i: killing mother in self-defense could oiiiy be justified in a case where bo:l!ly harm was Imminent, and that in case of proved guilt previous good character should be no bar to them rendering a verdict of guilty. Both Townsenl and Lawrence were well-known residents of this county. The man who was killed left a wife and 10 children. Both of the families resided in the foothill sec tion west of town. The jury in the case was composed of C. G. Scott, J. I. Webster, T. N. Grohe, F. A. Morris, V. A. Shires, G-:o 'go Ful ler, Milton Henry, George O'.dhara. James Martin, W. B. Magness, William Schmidt and A. J. Bewley. FOUR GENERATIONS HERE Central Washington family Repre sented by 6 and 7 7 Years: GOLDENDALE, Wash.. Nov. 30. (Special.) Four generations are repre sented in a. 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