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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:
