People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1893 — FLOODS IN WASHINGTON. [ARTICLE]

FLOODS IN WASHINGTON.

.Many Resident* of Colfax Rescued in Roats—Ebberton Inundated. Colfax. Wash., Dec. 13.—The North .Palouse river has overflowed, its borders •and flooded the north end of Colfax. Bunday night about 10 o’clock word was received from Palouse that the dam there had washed out, releasing a flood of water. By midnight the water •was rising rapidly and by 3 o’clock mad risen 10 feet, overflowing the flat jin which were 100 residences in the north end, taking out a heavy wagon {bridge and boom by which 1,000,000 |feet of logs were held. The water invaded the houses, the residents of which had to be taken but in boats. Outhouses, fences and small bridges were washed away. The city water works, supply iand pumping station are inundated, Reports from down the river are that a -number have been lost