The Daily News
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2019-09-29
issued: 1909-06-04
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note: SPages—Subscribe for FA The Newt. Ptr Month \j\)ij /OL. 8 *— PROVINCIAL LIBRARY laifo The Dally News Classified Ads. i are Winners. Try One, per word |(J 5?» Nt'LSON B. C, FRIDAY MORNING. JUNE 4, 1909 NO. 38 DEEP WATERS Kootenay's Swollen Streams Cause Damage RAILWAY IS DEMORALIZED 8L0CAN RIVER VALLEY BRANCH TORN AWAY FOR LONG SPACE —REPORTS SHOW ALL PART8 OF DISTRICT EAST AND WEST ARE AFFLICTED. The annual rise ol the waters tn Kootenay's lakes and rivers has been long delayed this year, with results that are already serious and may yet grow worse. The water in Kootenay lake Ib still nearly five feet below the high level reached last year, but the rise has only begun and the proportion ot tne snows that have melted to what remains is very small. It is not the height that the water has reached tat has wrought the damage reported now trom every direction, but the euddeness of the rise due to the heavy and warm rains of Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, which bave converted harmless looking hill «ide streams into 'dangerous torrents carrying everything from their paths and threatening their banks adn all adjacent land. The damage wrought within 48 hours by a cause aparently so inadequate would be impossible in any part of Canada but British Columbia and incredible to anyone who has never seen a mountain stream, in action. The damage most Immediately felt is the interruption of train and telegraphic service. The railways are practically compelled to follow the luier courses with their tracks and , wires and it Ib along the courses that the damage is done by the tributary streams. In the district ot south west Kootenay four services of the C. P. R. company are temporarily rendered Impossible, those of the Lardeau branch, the Bandon to Roseberry line, the Nelson to Proctor and the Slocan river branch . In addition to these word comes from Cranbrook and Fernle that the main line of the Crow's Nest branch is rendered impassible in several places. The Great Northern line…
note: The Nelson Daily Miner was purchased by F.J. Deane in April of 1902 and renamed The Daily News. It changed hands again in May 1908 when it began to be printed by the News Publishing Co. managed by W.G. McMorris.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0383896
language: English
lat: 49.493333
long: -117.295833
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : News Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text