WHERE THE VALLEY WAS A HILL IS.
From the Chicago Record.
Seattle, Wash., April 6.—A tremendous upheaval, accompanied by wonderful changes, occurred in the Mount Baker district March 27. What had once been a valley and the bed of a river is now a hill seventy feet high. The noise of the upheaval was heard at Hamilton, ten miles away. A report of the occurrence was brought to the city by D. P. Simons, Jr.
Simons says the noise of the upheaval sounded like heavy thunder. He and his party, who were examining timber lands, journeyed in the direction from which the sound came, and were astonished to see a huge mound of earth, nearly a quarter of a mile square, where formerly there had been a valley. In places the mound was seventy feet high. The Nooksachk River had been turned from its course, and ran around one side of a hill. Nearly in the center of this high bank of earth was a large lake. A forest had formerly occupied the ground, and trees which had escaped destruction rose above the water. There were cracks here and there in the mound large enough to ingulf a horse and wagon. There was a smell of sulphur in the air, and it is Mr. Simons’s impression that the disturbance was caused by gases underneath the mountain.
William Hadley, a trapper, whose wrecked cabin now stands in the center of the huge mound, was absent at the time of the upheaval, and thus escaped death. His cabin was split in two.