Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1894 — A FLOOD INCIDENT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

A FLOOD INCIDENT.

Indian* Restrlng Telegraph Wire* at Five Dollar* an Hoar. The recent overflow of the Frazer River in British Columbia, which destroyed millions of dollars' worth of property, cut off all communication in many of the towns with the outside

world, the telegraph lines being down and the rail roads inundated. In Sumas Prairie Indians were sent out in canoes, under contract ot *5 an hour, and in a dangerous section where no white man dat e go, to fix the telegraph wires. They nailed scantlings to 14-foot poles a d rest ung wires over the prairie. The waves, which rose with frightful rapidity, soon washed over the elevated wires, and the Indians were again sent out. They nailed another piece of scantling to the poles, and elevated wires two feet more.

INDIANS ACTING AS LINEMEN.