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MaDSr actually tasted the WBter to ascertam wfaedier or not liie tea Ikad broken duoagh its mountain barrier. Homes were demoliahed, lives were lost, and the tom <»f OileaiM» nvhich etood on the bank of the Willamette River opposite Coivailis* was bo completely eirept away that its name alone remains in history.

Grand Rande Valley Floods The dements enacted a smilar tragedy in Union Connty during the same year. Fol* lowing this unprecedented vrinter, the flood gates of Indian Valley vreie closed by ddbris and floating ice. Th^ he(d back the water until Grand Ronde Vallcy became a lake with only a winding line of trees above the surface to indicate the course of the river. Digitized by epcx: