A, - Kenney Gots: Meenteycand” Forester" od, - work a large nunber~ - : NEW HAZELTON, B.C. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1936 3 ee ee we NO. 50 Property I Loss - Lower Skeena: Usk and Remo Wiped out _ By Flood--Terrace Bridge Now Out Owlng to the ‘kindness of Austin Condenough our correspondent at Ter- race was able to get a letter through ziving the story of the fleod on the lower part of the river. ae 8 Terrace, June 4—The rising waters wf the Skeena assumed a threatening nature on Saturday and by Sunday jroperty damage began to be serious. Refore noon the river flooded sections of the railway between Terrace and Vanarsdol and Vanarsdol saw mill, and all the mill property was under water |All residents along the river frontnge here Bad moved out Satur- day night, the Hagen family of Van- arsdol spening the hours of darkness in the family sedan which they kept moving ‘up the rond as the waters crept up behind them Word from Usk on Sunday indicated uv serious condition there. On Tuesday morning George Moody .and Ralph Skinner arrived with further reports and seeking help. The next day E. tT, . Sid Cooper went up.to Usk with food tents and medical supplies. They got throuch and found the pecple gathered rom the school away up on the hii A committee was appointed to. handle the situation untli a special constable cunld be sent in. Mrs, N. Sherwood, RN. oof Terrance, alsa a big looser by the flood. went to Usk to loak after’ the lealth af the people. The water rose rapidly al day Sun- doyvoand late in the afternoon, BE. T. Kenney, Cans,, MeKenney and Ranger Tne MeTanen went by speeder te Remo mel brought out sume of the settlers. Those who clected to stand pat were unable te ret out an Monday ‘ AIL sot Tors moved off Brauys island aed oon Suuday Inorning it wrs flood- The wewsbe idge to the ishind, heveyer, lnéked- the: flood. successfully, Sunday also saw the heginnings of gerioug Land erosiins all along = the riyer chinnels, and Saturday night the Takelse. Valley approach to the — big steel * bridge, began to weaken and two hents went ‘ant, Monday. The serions jwhile other railway of Commission the town people were about as busy ms they could be right here. - Wednesday morning the river was down, a foot and the people began to breathe more easily. Kuown Tosses at this writing in- elide the Leen house, Sherwond’s barn aid six aeres of land from the Alex. Kerr & Son's farm, several acres from the Sherwood. place, nine acres from the Franks Bros. farm, and alse con- siderable Iand from the W. Godwin farm. J , oy The waiting room at Remo has gone’ and the Yanarsdol pump house’ went, buildings there are undermined, Railway damage is very serious both east and west, but the extent cannot yet he estimated. Refugees are being taken care of by friends, or ave using government tents or the Légion Hall. -An nneconfirmed report from Usk is that on Monday or Tuesday two men were seen holding to a roof of a house going down: the. riv ; But as nothing |), wid’ seer AE the “habe hie inén oF honse, it fs ‘presumed that’ the house was wrecked in little canyon nnd that the men -perished. “On Friday, June 5th the water had continued to drop and the situation wrs well in-hand- There was no panic at any tine, On Monday morning the stares opened and began to ration out supplies of food, ” Cn Monday morning . Terrace was rompletely cut aff from the, out side aud then began heroie effarts hy the government telegraphs ta connect 1p the various broken lines and. finally a and Stewart. , | My. Zeger who lives on the south side at, Rema arrived An. town on- horse hack | seeking assistiince, Te and his horse had toe swim three ‘creeks from whith bridges: had heen washed ont. sitnation continued to become more -sa all day Monday and ‘Tuesday and the district was being cut off from the out side more and more.as tine went on. ° Monday night families: on the low lands south of Terrace had. to get out and they furniture and belongings | were brought to town. and atored. in Swain'’s new stornge Doure. and in this of . volunteers did good work. John Loen lost his home in’ ainlte of gvent efforts of -volunters to hold it, Along with, the - home. iy large, “part of. the pr operty. Ww ent’ ‘dow 1 the-river, . a Noxt the “workers: went to the ‘Sher | w wood home and nll doors, windows ond moveable fittings were moved :to town Henderson and Stevens, a couple. of | Maneotiver, travellers maraoned:. here, | rushed north. Cannot “pve Railway Losses | Still U Unknown Specat to “Omineen Herald ¥aneouver, June $—Supt. W. H. Toby of the Canadian National Rail- ways. Is now in the floated qreas and to date not in. tonch with headquarters and has. made no report. In the moun time all-inaterinl for repairs are belng definite late. ‘of opening: the Hne until Mr. To- by and his engineers have covered ihe lamhged. sections» thoroughly, {The. above. lespateh” is ftomd. J. ‘Dhorntoii,. publicity’ agent forthe O.N. R. at Vancouver, And was In reply to ain enqubty front this: pape Be ae “re active in ‘entéhing pnd : “sacking . “nova s hens cand ehicks, 380 TLeg- ; Taser Dense and: three indred 1 as toon an i rain ¥ at ‘rey Fone iia? at the road along’ the north side of the’ Skeenn were taken |a Houat and: . aniall inidge ‘across. Q alough er “either [: comneetion was made w ith Alice Arn (| wis a long way from’ the houses. Freighting On -Skeena Again. . Ein. Bode of South Hazelton left on Tuesday aé noon from Hazelton with a ton of freight in his old freight- ing canoe for Pacific. Although Ein has been living in re- tirement for years, he showed a lot of the old time pep when he sized up the Skeena flood, got out his ok] freight canoe which lad been in Storage for a quarter of a century, made it sea- worthy, and placed himself, his boat and his crew at the disposal of the C. N. R, Yo the credit of that raikway the canoeman and cance were quickly eligaged.. ‘The railway company has several extra. gangs at Pacific and the flood left them ‘ov an island, and with pra- ctically no grub. Ein Boden took 2 tén of girub to them Tyesday and will freight from Witwanga to Pacifie un- til the line is opened again. He has a crew of three skugum yeung Indians with him and they kiiow how to han- dle a hoat, and of course Ein is more at home in a canoe on fast water than on dry land farming or milking goats. ae Wednesday morning word was re- ceived that Ein Boden had reached Kitwanga Tuesday evening safely. A couple of times they shipped water, but they saved the cargo. On Wednesday morning they started for Pacific. BIG FIRE AT ANYOX THIS. WEEK A Dig Dish and ground fire at Any- ox, according to reports Tuesday, is mining enip as well as doing a x00 deal of dninage otherwise. The fire when’ the last, word was received. It is thought that the wires have been brrnef down ‘as n0 word has come in By Big Canoe) buraing,.. UB; : the, whole, ‘tow find the; ood | though the: death of Mr. “Phintett- started, Monday. and was still raging. Old Timers are - Sorry at Fate The old stone color of the H. E Co. ‘at Hazelton which was demolished by the flond waters of the Skeena ‘last ‘}week, came to an inglorious end,. and a few of the old timers: who are left in the country feel that the building was entitled toon hetter end. There ere unt many Jofi here who really knew the celler in its best days. It could tell many things were it able to talk, Many, many weighty problems were scttled there. nany Illnesses were enred and many headaches created. It was part of the original fort of the compiiy and was built in ‘1860 when the Indians were not as friendly as at present. -Probably the oldest timer in Hazelton new is I. &, Sargent who ar- rived in 1891. then there is “Buckskin” Wavy Martin, for years now a patient in the Hospital,. Dr. H. C. Weinch, W. J, Larkwarthy, Geo. Biernes, Rux Cox all-of whom were here when “Dutch” now Sret. 8. Cline ‘of the provincial police and in charge of all the polide in the Interior as far east as Burns Take, arrived in 1908. Yim Hodder curt be numbered among the old tim- ers although he was farther inland. By the above pioneers the rest of us who have only been here twenty-five ar thirty years. we are regarded as tenderfeet. HON. DR. TOLMIE ELECTED Probably the*elosest three cornered political battle. ever fought was the by-election in Victoria. last week to fill the. House of Commons Seat left vacant Dr.'S. F.’Tolmie, who held that ‘seat for years before. leaving the Dominion House to lead the Conservatives in the )* province, was given a majority of 96 over the C. C, F, candidate, King Gor- since Tuesday, I¢-is that fire which cuased the benvy sereen of smoke all through this district. ‘As far as the Tocal for stty -oftielals could learn no fires ave known of in this part of the country, . INDIANS TO GO FISHING Word bas heen received that the In- diuns from around ‘Here will go to the | salmon ennneries tis season: as usual The canneries, it is said,vare molking | arrangements for transportation, - bnt send ek bont up the river for them or chnrter a special train to go around by. to the canneries. The Indians will be leaving any day uow. ‘This is import- aut to the Indinns as the summer fish- ine usnily goes: along way to. keep them through the winter, ’ INDIANS GETTING SETTLED - ‘Phe Glen Vowell Indians are all on their reserve ‘again, Their land is, covereil with inches of silt, but even now it is said that.the grass ‘ds growing ap through it, The Hazelton. Indians who lived on the flat. and. had to move, are mostly it work getting out logs’ to build new homes, ‘on the. u upper. ‘bench. A. few are fixing ‘up. thete: ‘ald: y placés: ‘temporarily. From Kitwanga. it ia: reported that the big loss was exaggerated, ‘The’ river eut pretty: deep into the bank, but it At Itis not” khipwit- yet whether ‘they’ willy: Jasper te Vancouver and ‘up the coast |- ‘They lost no homes. |. don and something over two hundred ever the Liberal candidate, McDowell. The result of the contest was not sure [ mtil the last ballot box was counted. At .varjous times each candidate was in the lead. But Dr, Tolmie is a real foverite in Vietoria and although Pre- micr Pattullo. made a public. plea to the electors to vote Liberal and show their confidence in his provincial gov- ernment, That plew may have effected the political leaders of the civil sev- ivice, but apparently had no effect on the rest of the voters. tebe an us woe vege ay OLD CHARLIE’S RESTAURANT IS NO MORE—TAKEN DOWN - Among the old land marks in New Hazelton was Old Charile’s restaurant’ where for may yenrs travellers: and others found shelter and food—the best fool any place in the province, The building is no more. It was taken. down und it is expected Peter Smiti | will errect a home on the site, Olid Charlie was known. far’ and wide, so was his restaurant. But the building like the cook, leached the retiring ‘age. HOPING FOR NEW CROP OF GOLD |, Od sourdoughs and placer men are doing a lot of. ‘fieuring | ‘and callelin’ since the ‘fleod om the Skeena. Many | YCArs. of: labpr. have: been B in-on the ‘travel and! ins,” ani frore by. the flood, has done . more work: ‘for, them - than they - ‘gould , hive done in‘ fifty. ‘years, All the ola bars. have been : ‘disturbed | era believe. Aidt i remit Eispiox. ‘the: ‘natives: are getting . settled agnin, Sonie‘five inhabtted homes are gone as well a * \ . ny: other buildings. (bars. havo. .boen forme: and probably washed: way,. ‘while new “Tt Tueaen Goodenough on of Stone Celler| : € {on Eriday it will als Trip Through ~ -Flooded. Areas ‘Austin Goodenough got hack to town Mitidhy afternoon after making a trip fo Terrace and back during the hixh- est perk ofthe “ftood. ~ We had seme importart business at Terrace and he fieured he could make ft, just how. he did not know. He left on Friday ane ty using autos, hand cars, speeders. a ennoe and a ghod many miles on foot, he reached ferrace,, did his business and got ont, ia he found the folk thers did not weleome transients who would eit grub. Terres was in a serions position, being eut off from all sonzees uf supplies and having very little food om hand. Austin had taken food along with him as he did not know where or for how long he might be hung up. Mr, Goodenough says that it is quire impoxsthle to describe the wreck that has been made of the Skeena country. Whole villages and settlements have been wiped ont and large chunks of furm lands have been washed awezy. while at Ed. Hodkins place near Ced- arvale, there are six feet of sand on, his crop. Many others farmers have lost lund and crops'as well as homes and other buildings. The town of Usk was probably the hardest hit. The waters rose so fast nud so high that it was almost: impos- sible to salvage house hold effects and in some cases the house and all effects went down the river. The water flood ed the danee hall over Lee Bethurem’s store aud the store is a wreck with a heavy loss of stock. The water was up to the reof of the station and on the second floor: of the hotel, while in front-of theofel“a nizing river. flow- ed, und a are t log jam formed close by, containing ‘trees, logs, “household foods And parts of buildings. Only tour buildings are left on the fluts at Usk, viz.. Mrs. Whitlow, Chas. of Perey. Skinner, Mrs. Whitlow, Chas, Durham -and the Community church. There was hardly any. place along the river that did not suffer heavily. As for the damage -to the. ‘railw ay Mr. Goodenough said ‘it was: ‘impossible to estimate until the water. ° had gone down a good deal moré. than. when hé saw it. He thought that some work in the way of repairs might get under way by, Tuesday of this week, /Many miles of the pubtie highway nlong the Skeena has been washed out and before anything can be done pro- bably a new route will have ‘to be se- Heeted nda ‘new ‘vote passed through the house. In the meantime the people -lwill have to do the best- they can. THE NEW TRAIN SERVICE Starting last- Monday the C.WR, is running three trains: Q week from Smithers to Kitwanta- and return ta connect with the main train going to and fromthe; east... The train - will leave... Smithers ‘at. Nine o'clock in the morning on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, arriving -at New Hazelton at about 11 o'clock. Returning from Kit- wanga it awill leave ‘there at two o’elock in the afternoon-and arrive in New . Hazelton between four and five o'clock. (The train will carry passen- gers, baggage, mail ind express, aud = . * There will be another. time table out.” . nest week.” Wayfreleht..