_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.