Disastrous Moods caused widespread damage both in the interior and along the coastline of British Colum~ Dia, as the winter's snows melted with unusual rapidity from the many inland mountain slopes. Two sec-tons of the province have suffered most severely.
In the Prince Rupert district the Skeona River has been on its worst rampage in thirty years. As a heat wave spread over the interior the melting snows rushed downwards into the river valley, carrying. with them all manner of mud and aébris. 'At a number of points the railway) me' was washed "out or seriously endangered, and after a day or two of strenuous efforts to maintain service the C.N.R. officials announced that It would be one or two weeks before communication could be re-established. The Skeena River fowed down the main street of Hazelton, one of the northern towns, and several small Indian villages were practically swept away by the waters.
In the southern districts the flooa damage did not come as quickly, the rivers there have high banks 1 stretches, and itis usually nol until the freshets nour the coast that trouble begins. However, Revelstoke citizens had to use rowboats in part of the town as the Columbia River broke its bounds. And in the Kamloops district great Giculties were presented to" the CPR. train crews as the lines were strewn with rocks dislodged by the waters.
The Fraser River valley felt the force of the flood as the - melted snows surged towards the sea. Thou sands of acres of rich farm lands have been inundated despite desperate ¢fforts to maintain the dykes by building extra barriers of sandbags.
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