The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 15, 1906, Page 1

LAST EDITION —————$——————— — The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News NOE WATER Being Washed Away and Lives May Be «Waters in White River Valley Subside “gnd Danger Is Over at Auburn and Kent, Phe flood situation is more serious this afternoon than " wious time during the present trouble. In the A b bi Diver valley the danger is past, but in the Duwamish the water 's ng and threatens great destruction. Phis afternoon the low portions of South Park are cov- ed with water and with the high tides from Elliott bay gon the river water will be forced back and the im the dykes will be enlarged and the entire dis ee # o'clock this afternoon a telephone message from announced the fact that the Duwamish river at Riverton, Meadow Gardens and Foster was a rent and houses were being carried from their foun- ‘and buried into the stream. People were being pe @ in their houses. and for lack of boats, it was said, t be drowned. Three calls were received by The 30 minutes imploring that boats, especially gaso- c be sent to the assistance of the flood sufferers. Georgetown men are patrolling the hastily construct- jon the west of the town to prevent water from that place ig entirely surrounded by water and cut off from tion with Seattle tributary to South Park, is under water and 200 homes are surrounded with water, and if a further houses will collapse. communications with all points south and north nterurban is not operating any cars and : ¢ is also tied up. On the north train fs interrupted on account of slides, also washouts. fhe Northern Pacific has ceased operation between Ta- fee rectiand. Stuck river is slowly rising and the fate of the nine gut off from all seemingly possible rescue can only Several launches are attempting to force their the rescue, among them being a powerful launch sent the Tacoma Times. rd was rece from at the river rose two and one-half feet ses were collapsing anr being carried aters w in moving to places of saf ived were ty THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FORECAST SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, jad WATERS R RENTON IS CUT OFF BY WATER es BY WALTER C. TYLER, tthe heat containing the men was leanght and went down the rapids Stat! Correspondent of The Star | For several minut to those RENTON, Nov. 15—The city is! watching from the shore, It looked today surrounded by seething wat-jas if thetr lives would be snuffed lere. Shortly after midnight a Jamjout. Stordity working at the oars was formed at the foot of Williams|the boat was pushed to the shore and pushed the water back and wilitng hands pulled the mon to an outlet, spread | eafety oo in seeking . 1 ent lower po ¢ the}. The six men in the boat were Ed £ their lives. Within ten minutes three calls | eative lower portions i ge ge ‘ gates Shanty towa” te completely in-| Woods, Ralph Gharp, M. Bunsten in danger undated. The residents wore|Jt. and M. Terry 1 with water and y gathered their There Sdow.Gardens is completely cover . “hd threatened. Families hast eer er and made a rush to the higher lands feet of water Gardens ‘ is entirely cut off. Pi are hide iling on the BS Of the road, that beir sort jam formed at and it was broker er is threatened nly safe 5 ut dynamite was used rising water and residents h is still in place and scores of preventing jams from forming ; xck this afternoon three men sent to The Star fr Maple Vall ley asking that aid be the three cities ve mentioned and which are at the of the raging One man, T. 1. Collins, said Cannot realize the + tion of those poor people. The fos suddenly f me unknown reason. Many absolutely cut There were no boats available in the shape of launches. I have walked in from Over the tracks of the interurban, the only means of here. Men, women, children and live stock are tle together on prominent hillhocks, which are sur in most cases will Water. A rise of one foot ae in the re atest possible danger the time of yx > press three launches were mak- Perilous trip up ‘t ¢ Duwamish to those in need Renton Cut Off. brought to the central part of Ren | ton and housed in places: availabl in over is entirely oft trom The interurban tracks are to all In the Mooded sect Renton Seattle Probably Rain Tonight and Friday THURS DUWAMISH VALLEY RESIDENTS _---APPEALS COME FOR RESCUE BOATS Frost to Briek Southeast Wind. SDAY, NOVEMBER 15 1906 HING THROUGH TO THE SOUTH PARK LOWMANDS. $0 A BREAK IN THE DYKE AT SOUTH PARK, UTH PARK RESIDENTS FIGHT FOR THEIR vhbeesvoonis —————— BY J. BRUCE KELLY. jtoday on the south side of ¢ Stall Correspondent of The Star, | Hit the ih widened © tow mo SOUTH PARK, Nov. 15.—Dikes | M*O"* — the int ah threatening and Pom ne Their) Sadar deride Doar lag Aeon side offMouth Park, and the waters | CB 4 level With the nis denitt eto are righing im surrounding bun-| S0\el dreda & homes located on the low-| The tide, which was full at 3 fends. |The Business section of the | o'clock this afternoon ing an town Will probably not be touched additional danger to the situation, by tha pratern, but the people in the |** the Duwamish at this point tn Rivetaile section are working with | 4" estuary and the water Is being feverish haste, carrying household | freed back to a height of between second stories of rest-| four and five fe As a result of the flood alone, the river te rising dences or removing them altogeth er to Lie safer portions of town ‘The Bike along the Dawamtsh river, Which protected South Park at @ rate of one afternoon. Men are being offered wage: inch an hour this * of PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR” YOUR CHANGE PER MONT ag CENTS FLOODED STREET IN RENTON HINDUS COMING went to work along cha | men bout two and a half miles of dikes on the| Three hundred and eighty Hindus, riverside of this property at part of a band of 700 who arrived o'eh yesterday afternoon and|@*! ria on the steamer Tartar have not been relieved since. The Hongkong, this morning are | men worked all morning desperate 4 for Seattle. ly tm order to prepare the levee for people of Vancouver bi the strain to result from this after-| ‘Tied everything in their power to noon's tide, but it fe feared that the |®*clude them from that city, even combination of tide and the rising | £°!"s to the extent of patrolling the water will prove too much for th eves This ban it is under- weak banks. Several places are in numbers among its members a critical condition, and the ener- | %™* of the le type of that race, gies of the men are being centered . cn y land here, will upon strengthening these. P a oy pects ng ren “ } sd te h subjects, however, Several Ruadred men a — b Hindus are not barred from the ing along the lower part of the river 1 States as long as they pass 64 families are sufferers by the\covered with water from two Garing ail the earlier hours of the | $5 and $6 a day to asnist In protect:| keeping bridges free from jams ‘ olnea My: Roig Dh ET freahel, broke suddenly at 7 o'clock |ing the dikes, and none can be | cle aring the Duwamish bridge equired examination. role efforts on the part of pan , fanaa wae wee this maraing at the corner of| hired. It is an impossibility to get) which is already jammed, and in|* wae & & Pra aa es 2 a a miners tn wating dynamite the | tn Seventh at. aod Duwamish av, and | boats at any price general preparing for a strenuous | ® ige across the Cedar river was| The old Renton line te three mile {the raters are rushing in and cov-| Van de Vanter & McGloughlin have| night. The weakened conditions of | * O'BRIEN CUT OFF. * the + ant pemeeed ceacis wan {taretak af welen ‘between this city for, Bs oe og - the rte of two) a force of eee {patroling the the banks makes the situation seri * at & ccleek, thie “afternoon * tne ee dows towards, the Du-|and Bryn Mawr. The track ts eov- |‘? ERE Ruin Kir ceurred at noon | property in the bend of the river.or not ight, whether the river tnlla|® whe Ganeee as a wamish lered with about three feet of water, | i |* pany announce: that the of- * stow dams. Permet There is no suffering except that | <a secre =<uma|* fice at O'Brien and other *& ow Jam Fo caused by cramped quarters Stock | Py err ee ees e ! places in that vicinity could © At noon today « jam started to/ has been driven to safe places. T * *| not be raised, and much appre- & form at the bridge two blocks! stores ere well stocked and there & RiGING AT SOUTH PARK. w|% henslow te fon. Ht seks north of the town. Uniess imme-| wii be plenty of provisions toy # At 3 o'clock this afternoon | % Knawn \sowmemnct the fleed 0a * Ginte action was taken the entire! stand a week's sloge should the oe- ote. a Shorpy, The Otare Ope * |x sane, Wromeees Me velly fs basiness section would be flooded.|casion demand % cial correspondent at South *|* — bad “yo — od rie 4 Six mon came forward declaring Glide at Newoastle. # Park, phoned that the water #|% Cratore have left thelr stations # thomselves in readiness to do all in| A land slide occurred at, Newcns &® there was rising at the rate of * | & exhausted. thelr power to save the city. Dy-|te early this morning but gangs of * four Inches an hour. Many of ®ly peek kk eee tk ek namite was procured and leaving| men are at work cleafing the * the merchants in the busine: *| in a small boat, the six men went| tracks of the C. & P. & * section are preparing to move #| OTTAWA, Nov. 16—The Grand to the water side of the jam and cores of men are patroling the & their stocks, feeling certain *| Trunk Pacific route has been ap- began placing “loads.” Fifteen! banks of the Cedar fiver, piling # that by nightfall the flood will # | proved [4 miles west of Edmonton, sticks were placed ip the jam and) brush along the quickly raised dyke e- — ® have reached their locality. & | The grade is about 21 feet to the set off. to prevent, as far as possible, « ‘Thorp, has also gone out. Mails OSes eS SSS Loge re hurled In the air and| further rise of water POLICE CLAIM TO HAVE DIS: are not expected for several days SUFFERERS WILL BE HELPED The Natches bri idge, b tween El COVERED EVIDENCE WHICH | onsburg and North Yakima has PUTS A DIFFERENT COM. | Also been swept away sheep and Five thous. o the ranch of James PCEXION ON SHOOTING OF | Wright are endangered and it is tho: be Jost in the flood EUGENE GETZENBERGER, bt that the entire Word From Green River, number will COAL SCARCE IN SEATTLE TODAY —_——— ] —— The Northern Pacific ratiroad this! geattle will suffer from lack of}road, which has been put out of O MEN LOS 3 d " A @iiftous sequel to the shooting} morning obtained the first com-| 441 owing to the ratlroads being |Commission by the floods. The Charity Association of Seat- ciation’s attention immediate rellef | of Bagime Getzenberger, of George munteation with the Green River a The Carbonado Coal company tle to rendy to render all possible | Will be extended. Mise Murray, at |towm, was. furnished in the alleged | district, in an official diapatch from |out of commission, The floods have | 11, declares that it has mo coal of assistance to the flood sufferers. No a of the Joca! association, In- | disceweny by the police today that|Kanasket, where two bridges have |temporarily placed a n on thi# hend and does not know when 1t sabia deb eesteanias bas bawn #5s| ctascusolue do take e trip oe te tee “robber” who wounded Getzen-| been washed away. Floods are still | srticle and when the officials at the | will be able to get any. Their coal seul cas lea Maaian b-paaree haar oo un te be on nana eee robber at all, but his raging mt at district Be ee ing '" | punkers of the Pacific Coast com: |from the Carbonado mines comes ra - Cones The. alleged disclosure involves) ioe) © on e vg! “1 hoon and asked how much coal they lines bridges have been washed out. terd afternoon in @ one-sented the os Aver ee a ee could furnish, replied We are The supply of coal from Issaquah | towm maiden, whose home, the po jentirely out of coal. We have a lit-/is limited boga fraw by two horses. Short J t Sark last right the men| lice say, Getzenberger | ts Neggtbee Slide on the Chiwaukum. tle anthracite on hand but it 1s too} Renton being cut off no coal can fa . ' to be making thelr way | | whew eaortes fa ra remy Pe CHIWAUKUM, Nov, 16—The|hard for ordinary use be eived from there. BS Be flooded district when a} |path. The charged finding of the) coon food in the mountaine is| The Pactfic Coast company se-| Conditions will | um joubtedly r ‘1 ane of loge and driftwood | | police are in direct variance with) fi iret on record and a8 on {cures its coal from the Black Dia-| shape themselves so that within 48 s . them square, The smen| the story told by the wounded man| (Moi oe csterday which endan-|mond and Newcastle mines over hours, or 60 at the outside, ship. elt he horses in some after the shooting, who claimed he) a Orient in No 1 whict the Columbia_& Puget Sound rail ments of coal can_be_re elved then : anner broke | from | had been robbed by a highwayman, | ered Oriental tran ne chiwatt. |= : Fe suppos . hed " | whose description he glibly gav 1 a aeereees te their itves inet os i reached shore in] bear toned Og - one x tyen-| Kum river bridge, just a few mo Pw torrents. The : ee er ea sed | saatuinet the shoot te al ments before the embankment was a and Ki: thelr bodies | P j berger after shooting, 1s alle ob J : 4 ing, resi of tne harman | ‘The floods which have been rag-|90 gallons today from the northern! to have. pinned him down to some| Washed awa ia: started tor am aht by W. Cravill ing.the past 48 hours in t Du-| part of the country, but declare }eontusing statements, and hi aus: | Sten: cold Flooded Wtheaa ss renee eens | wamish and White river valleys has|they do not expect another ship-| Piclons mire further confirmed, he ; ieliti a nen i a a ! ’ ‘ said, when a young lady, who had] wranwe 15.—The tt Bt thcom A carcold girl baby, with) entirely cut off the milk supply of | ment for several days. bees odaie behing the bed, tum-| Pd hago Bano 'e A, Nov. 15.—At noon face and’ blackened eyes,!Senttle and milkmen are unable to| R. Kristoferson, who supplies) pied out mpon the floor with nolse| tg food ‘ ' saat 4 % served as the mute witness to &lgupply any of their retail trade to-;many fam and local ice cream) enough 2o make her presence | pry tg fear eee : MP Betele were coer & ‘beatin ; establishments, had no tilk on| known. Getzonberger's mother de- | hat f the ai ' * esuited in the 8 da , hand this morning and did not send ejarea her son's wife shot him be-! ana ‘ , The f ir { the Olymple Foun-; huge ecrar b we ed + Gown the Puyallup * warrant bef Attorney Mack jhe Seattle dairy received out wagons (eause of jealousy and out of a de) soot sing r en | a ituated east of Had 8 oeen en r * sh for the arrest of Arthur! gallons this morning from I. Sar ay { the Seattle dairy, sire for venge thr hout th at | Georgetow the base of the bluff, | utes be t as the OM A raft, crying for help. * ra of 6110 Meridian av tori, who has a ranch at South park| says that per cent. of the milk] Site eitinens ping ho |W ‘ demolished last | V en buried be Tithe é tere was brought to the police|and Renton. The milk was brought |conaumed in the city, comes from Three Bridges Out at Ellensburg.! | : : nig er 6 o'clock nea boats were handy and they * tion this morning by bis sister) to the city in wage the C. & the White river valley and declares {LLENSBURG, Nov 5.—The | » e t Fu ns of earth loosened four was completed and q * \ locked up. The charge includes | P. 8. was out of comminston that until the interurban {# in oper|county bridge at Thorp, known a8| The towr bat ffor a\by th vy rains, without a warn 11 c nm only 30 days Wpponed to be jovt ® wif sting. Officer Humphreys) This will be the last shipment to | ation and the farmers able to ship|the Haywood bridge has on | hea pr ' Y ing wn from the top of the as 1 th va ‘6 Waeny natable Klein made the ar- be received until the water recedes milk none of his trade will be sup-|gwept away, and it ts rumored awe 1 ape ‘bluff an ly covered the f " the plant waa Pee ennnn The Meadowbrook dairy received | plied |the ratiroad bridge, Klensburg and y ! Iry p r. Qnly the office an anette alli tttcaden