I RESERVOIR BREfl KS I a PAWGUITCH. I II THIS STATE The highest dam hro,ik by far in the I liistory of 1 tah occurred at S o'clock ! ecterd&y afternoon, when the ;oeat II Hatbtown dam, in Garfield county, w ont out Thp hrpak ocenned on tlie j north side of the dam and i under-1 l ctood to hnve been caused by a lan.l-j lan.l-j Flid although definite information had not been received at a late hour last ntcht. The bronking of the dam let loose I a small oean, as the reservoir, which I wa? protrtPd by the dam. contained, approximately 14,000 acre fppt of wa-I wa-I ter. The reservoir, which is situated I on the Sevier river in Sevier canyon 1 Is one and one half miles in length. I Thp water at some pluses reaches a j dppth of fort to fifty feet. The res ervoir was fed from Mammoth and I A Bay creeks, tributaries to the Sevier At a late hour last night thp wrtr was running thirty feet deep between 1 thp resprvoir and Pan$ltitCD cicntpenl miles distant. It was reported at mid I night that the water had rpached the I vicinity of Pangultch, bat as the town I is forty feet higher than Iho crest of j! the flood, no damage is pxpect?d In that I Damage Will Be Heavy. I Owing to the fact that the brc ih I war miickly discovered and that the rlan. went out gradually no lives are 1 believed to have ben lost, but the , lropert damage "fill be heavy s I soon as the break was discovered j couriers were spnt out and telephones $ b; ought into requisite with the re- ,J suit that all persons in 'ho pathwaj .j of thp flood were notified 1n time to '3 n'.ikc their escape ro hie1! ground and Rf vp their lives, altho'.izli it is be-"fM. be-"fM. lieved that many will be homeless vl as a result of the break As soon as the dam went out and Vl the great flood of imprisoned water Vl was set freo the Sevier oerflowed its banks and for a considerable distance 1 on each side thp water averaged a H depth ol thirty feet. Between Panguitch and the dam there are between fifteen and twenty 1 -fit homes, which are presumed to have '4 been washed awav The total of the '" M inhabitants Is estimated at between '..;,t seventy-five and one hundred WHj It is also understood that the dam- age will be heavy from Panguitch ;-5jfl down to the Piute reservoir, but "it 'M wa said last night that the danger 'riM would doubtless cease when the Piute CjS reservoir is reached, as that reservoir pan take care of a large amount of the t?Sl water. HcW Phone Line Is Down. jH The oles of the United States Tele- H iihoue & Telegraph company were I washed out by earl pvrning. but mes- ! sages were gotten through from Fan I xuitrh by private wire. The opinion was expressed last nipht that the breaking of thp dam will result In damages that will amount into the hundreds of thous ands of dollars, as. In addition to the loss of homes and otner buildings, big areas oi farm lands will be flooded flood-ed to such an extent that it will be Impossible to raise crop upon them this year The Hatchtown project is a state Institution and work upon the system was begun parly In 1907. The work on the svstem. which Includes the big dam which went out csterday. the diversion dam, two miles south of Panguitch, and the can;il constructed by the state, cost approximately $lT.r.,-nnn. $lT.r.,-nnn. The syste-n was practically fin ishod about a year ago although it is understood that some work was still to he done The water stored In the reservoir, which was protected until yesrorda bj the big dam. was sufficient for the Irrigation of 7000 acres of land, abo-it 5000 of which has been contracted for. The dam that went out esterday is approximately sixty to sixty-fix e feet high and 300 feet long, and is of earthwork earth-work with a riprap face. It was esti-mafed esti-mafed last night that the water In the resprolr ould cover about seventy sev-enty five city blocks of Ogden to a depth of twentv to twenty-five feet.