Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1890 — THE WESTERN FLOODS. [ARTICLE]

THE WESTERN FLOODS.

The extend of the damage by the late rains to the Oregon & California Railroad between Ashland, Ore., and Roseburg, 150 miles north of here, can not be estimated, ever approximately, but is very heavy. The railroad from Grant’s Pass to Roseburg is reported one continuation of slides. The streams all over Southern Oregan are reported as high as, if not higher than, in 1861. A report reached there Thursday night from Glendale of an immense slide on the railroad half a mile south of West Fork, in Cow Creek Canyon. The slide eame from a high mountain down to the bottom of the canyon, a distance of 800 or 1,000 feet, covering the track and filling the canyon. The report says trees are standing on the slide the same as they were then it „ started from the summit. The water backed up in the canyon for a distance of three miles and five hundred feet wide and from fifty to seventy-five feet deep. Tunnol No. 3 is completely buried in water. The creek is trying to cut through the side, but the earth is jammed so tight that so far it has not given away. Telegraph iine men built a raft, and will try to get a line across the lake that has been formed.