AH SETTLERS FLEE FOR THEIR LIVES J Jit it oS WHEN THE c HATCHTOWN HA DAM BREAKS OPE NO NOW RESTS ON PIUTE WALL MANTI 1 p. p m. m President m-President President Candland Cand Cand- land of ot the state land board hurrying to to io Junction Bays saya he does believe from reports Pluto dam can hold f JUNCTION p p. p ra Water m.-Water Water has rilen to twelve feet foet above bridge Three h homes ures but no bodies have floated by Belle lull full ull force Is now against Pluto JH r r d It seems to hola hold P. P M. M I Our correspondent has hu Just gotten a wire out ot of the flooded district He re re- orts that the loss of life lite will probably C be none nono or negligible that the flood hows no signs of abating but is Ics les- f tug 1 its ita force torce as It spreads pre that the Pluto Plute reservoir will undoubtedly hold but I that 1 t the property loss has hie been comand com com- comp p et ete and that 4 persons persona are arc affected I. I JUNCTION TOWN TO 2 p. p m. m The m.-The The third bird flood gate aate into the Plute reservoir R I Ii op n Tho The water W is IB now one mile ratio W id d hero here b but bt b ha s reduced In d t vo ve feet tut six Inches I ICE CE 10 p. p m. m n. m. The r zut dam dain shows hows no po sign of or weakening I the is steadily rising KINGSTON f 1 p. p The Thc m. m The water Will not reach Kingston The town is lite ife iafe no matter what happens Couriers Courier's rom from rein tho the upper valley vall y report property lOJ complete No lives are known to tobe toi i bp be lost p. p AL 22 1 p. p p m A Ul-A A courier has reached here from t the upper val val- ey Y The property loss loos will bo be co com The settlers settlors depended on the Hatchtown dam darn for tor irrigation of their crops ops Over homeless Probably 1 r Hatchtown Reservoir Which Broke I S' S 1 r o r. r 1 tJ y J 1 t 2 1 I t r. r J 5 ti 1 i. i z I. I i 1 i 1 ti 1 lir Io 7 j t s d. d 4 i 4 ii w i.- i. f. f i tJ f 4 4 1 T J t v r S 'S S S jS S 'S 4 5 5 tx k S 5 S- S 5 S S 5 5 S c 5 5 1 r 4 r This photograph was taken by J. J Cecil Alter in August 1913 from the so south uth of the reservoir looking northeast toward the tho town o of or Hatchtown The arrows indicate No 1 point of the break No 2 regulating tower No 3 town of ot Hatch one half mile mil away No 4 direction of Pluto Flute reservoir forty ort miles mUes away some lives lost among the unwarned Phone communication beyond Junction is absolutely nonexistent JUNCTION Ut Utah May 26 Tile Tho Tho groat great flood met met up with a a. real man It will be stayed if tho the Pluto Piute dam holds The men who built It say the tho Piute Pluto dam will hold Upon their building depends the lives of persons in the valle valley It doesn't depend upon tho the courage of Syral Munson who through the day has been pouring the waters which from the Hatchtown Batchtown reservoir into tho the Pluto Piute reservoir forty n miles down tho the valley That courage go has been tested and found real gold At 2 o'clock this on m-on morning Syral Mun Muli- eon who is the foreman of the Pluto Plute project with his own hands saved tho the valley of the from tho the m mad d devil dovil of fl lj floo i Wt toward d it from roin the tho il co eu 1 t din dam Hanson Munson nn and f his his' reservoir wore aU all that was in its I way Alone in the pitch dark stagger stagger- staggering ing lug over the slippery cement coping with ith a pickax for his weapon he sprung tho the first of the flood gates The Tile water breasting four feet high against the tho wall rushed In lu lashing swirling bubbling bub bulJ- bling bUng laughing through the one gate It continued to rise And continued to bubble and laugh It took a fow minutes to open tho the first gate ate Flood Milo Mile Wide Vide There It took him bim one hour to o open n the Tho The water still rose Through h the tite day lt ho bo has been trying on a a. third I Tho water here bere is ei eight ht feet hi high h hand and a mile milo wide wille The entire town turned out at daylight to help I lIe He san he ho will got cot tho the third irate gate open by 03 r 3 0 o'clock clock this after after- I noon loll His Ills problem is to pour reservoir riser without I reservoir into Piute breaking the thc Piute containing wall by too much pressure Engineers say that sar be can Munson unson says that ho will wil reservoir lies seventy miles ao as the crow flies files up In III the tho above he che Pluto Plute project The COI connection until outlet the recently was waB a forty foot I beginning of ot the Below the Pluto I reservoir reser the th Sf river liver continues Into the valley vattey 0 of Utah That portion of or the Senor Se valley which lies ties between the thc two reservoirs Is la today a 1 raging torrent filled with wreckage Tho The valley atto below Io la le saie as long Ions as the Plute Pluto dam holds hold About one halt tho the contents of Hatchtown Hatch- Hatch Hatchtown town reservoir reser Is no now at S 3 o'clock In Inthe tho the flute reservoir the tho other half hasn't arrived arroo Junction in h afraid of what whet it will show c v I u It arrives arrive Lp to now no bodies ha have haC C shown l In tho the flotsam Did AU All Settlers Escape It Il seems eem Inconceivable however that ever every one Olle of the 1500 OO settlers Inthe lu In luthe luthe the upper tipper valley alte was able to escape cape The warning however was vas bravely given Early Karly larl Sunday Sunda afternoon Jim Huntington Hunting- Hunting ton foreman of oC the tho Hatchtown reservoir walked over from Hatch to make mako his hla dally daily Inspection of tho the dam His caretaker called his hiS' attention to a small trickle through tho the coping Ho ji had noticed no more Helow It some sonic feet Hunt- Hunt tr eye ere aw W a little tittle ooze between between between be be- tween the inc stones It might MCbeen have M been dripping from the green scum mOH moss It Tt It widened before beCore hie hiM eyes ees Bt Below low It another crack sprung Then th LII coping began hcan to crumble as sugar crumbles not stone A stone omm l with concrete fell over oer the tIC sixty t e feet teet with abound a 0 stow lito bound hound down the slope llop It struck In the runway with a l wicked little Another r followed devilishly methodIcallY Already Alread Huntington was at the gates them open a section of or AR A ho hf ripped the front protection wall fell with an n crash and a wicked ton tongue c of ot The walls watts jumped through rown late The Th too IB JI li ho hp admits admit 11 were sprung lam l was Wa gone Gon but not n t Its 5 masters master a e lc Since the nf safe The tO town of or Hatch was as Continued on o 16 S SI r S l dL l' l r jl b i I i i u. u L IN Il fI i i S S The flume at Hatchtown that was supposed t to carry off tho tons of water now flow dumped into the valley S iW I 4 r 7 5 rf n Ni 5 oj tr l i l rII 3 C 1 l 1 i I y l tr t Jt r c r i M I 10 O rr e. V t t c f Jt i t i CiR 11 Yh r t t This spillway at Hatchtown is now c a a crumbled bled mass ma- ma of f runs ruins under a young young ocean I FIVE HUNDRED UTAH SETTlERS RUN Continued from pa page c 1 Johnstown flood tho thin government o engineers enl engi ners dont don't let them build towns rl right ht under dams but for mile mile- of ot winding valley settlers settlors d dotted the area In front of thousands of or tons of ot water with their farms The Vater Water Is Coming Every phone In tho the valley ran rang at once Run for your lives shouted a 1 voice the water I Is coming It U made a fine fino hell out of ot a a. quiet uit Sunday Sunday Sun Sunday day afternoon In th the valley were 1 eighty phones switched Sn either from the Panguitch Pan- Pan gultch or Junction exchanges That th the phone system stood true to totts Its Job job- that half hal a n hund hundred red mad riders sped through the dusk to the outlying cottages which hod hind no telephones that above all that lint the this lIam darn didn't break but i was WIH due the tue fact If IC It Is a fact that no lives were lo lost t. t Mrs Scott Reynolds chief operator hero herot at t t Junction ha has haB now been bOtn at her post forty hours She was Just coming on the thc afternoon relief when the wild message Jo came caine from the tho dam darn superintendent fort forty miles milts above She Site plugged every evory lint line In inthe the tho alle valley and then got ot a n line Into l Pan Pan- gultch The livery stable a at l the la latter place was as tl Riders rs sent out met riders from and Kingston Kington ton There was 11 no sign of n a flood It n took tho the sluggish creeping water three hours hour to go 10 the first four miles Then with a rush the water ater came camo on following the tho night The flood Is now one half mile wide 0 and eight feet deep deeD over the bridge l' and shows no sign n of lowering as It falls Into the reservoir through h the flood gates Mrs 1 Reynolds Reynold reported at 2 o o'clock clock that there was waft no longer loner tel thone communication communication cation callon up either r valley junction C town Is IA tho the last point of communication We e have no more news At Richfield Below tho the Plute Piute dam darn lie the towns of Richfield ld l a and nd The river Is swirling by In flood nood fa fashion c carrying r ln the release le from the mute Plute dam The Tho towns are safe afo while the Pluto Piute r er v ir holds None doubts ts that It will hold In the meantime measures measure are arc being in instituted In- In for the relief of the farmers farmers In Inthe Inthe Inthe the upper all valley 3 Dam Will Hold Rolet Say Engineers That the Plute Pluto dam clam will withstand tho the onslaught of the thc waters of ti lh the n project Is the tho confident belief of local slate state officials acquainted with the tho construction con con- of th the dam clam It was wan built hullt for or that purpose It It Is th the emer emergency ency dam of the Sevier Seler river which Is Ig dotted with Irrl Irrigation dams and projects from rom the project down don to Eerier lake Tho The Pluto project was visited b by Gov Coy William Spry Attorney General A. A R. R Barnes arnes and members of the state land board less than two weeks n ago go o. o They were vere amazed at the solidity of or the structure structure structure ture holding back hack the waters of the thc river and today firmly believe that the Pluto dam will bear the tue added strain According to Mr Barnes the Plute reservoir rc at nt the tho time of or their visit was capable of holding acre feet more water waler or double the amount rel released ed from the n reservoir Only an unknown flaw in tho the construction o 0 of the Pluto Pint dam In the tho opinion of Mr tr Barnes will let the water go farther down the valley 8 lie The The breaking of the dam In his opinion opinion ion would mea mean n the wiping out of ever every Irrigation project on the lie river at ata a n. cost to the lie state o of three or four million million mil mu- lion dollars In addition to this th there rc would ho bo the lie lo loss los o of private Interests and I the endangering o of the lives of or the thousands thousands thou thou- sands of Inhabitants of ot the lie settlements aton along the river Break However Was Vas Predicted J. J D. D Ullrich assistant state engineer likewise l feels eels that the tho Plute dam dati wilt will will withstand tho ho rush of waters from Crom the project According to lo Mr 1 Ullrich the capacity of the Flute Piute reservoir reser reser- er- er volt voir Is 18 aCre atro feet At the time o of the lie br breaking of the Hatchtown dam dan Plute Pluto contained only acre feet Tho The nl reservoir ac according according ac- ac I cording to Mr Mi h Ullrich has haM a a. capacity of I JOI 4 acre feet and anI contained acre fo feet a when the thc dam dan broke brok W. W D. D Candland president of oC the tho state land hand board and W. W D D. Beers state en engineer en- en I gincer left Mt PI Pleasant Lant for the lie scene scent this thin morning according to a telephone Jnes message Je received re at the office of the sta state te land board Members of the state tate land board boar express themselves as all confident that the Flute Plute reservoir will hold all nil of the water from rot the Hatchtown project The danger cr In their opinion Is lEI that too much water will bo be let out of oC the tho Plute Pluto project wal washing out the SevIer river rl bridge dam darn farther Carther down the river Tho The Pluto Plute dam dan Is 00 feet set wile wide and ninety feet high It banks tilt the waters of oC the evier river for a distance of or six she lx miles mileR Its HM value to the state was foreseen foreseen fore fore- seen Been when Caleb Tanner state engineer n cr made malle his report to the thc governor IO In lOS 1908 Outlining the tho possibility of a break In Inthe Inthe Inthe the up upper tipper cr clam clam the report says as Quinton Quint-on Foresaw Dam Dun Break Tho The extract x tract which 1 l MW saw the poo possibility of or a break In the upper r dam darn Is taken from ron a special report made marJe b by J J. J H. H Quinton consulting en engineer MI Mr QuInton Quinton QuIn- QuIn ton was employed to ma make ke a L RUne survey of tho the proposed project arid and the dan dam proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed for Cor tho the Pluto Plute project The Tho extract follows Suppose Suppo e the ho upper imam dam should fall all what effect ml might ht It have hac on the lie Plute Pluto dam To guard against this contingency the state slate engineer has baa Iak taken a aery ery very wl wise slid and n precaution precaution making making the top of the Plute dam when finished fifteen n feet fet higher than the tho high water waltr level lepi of the lie reservoir This not onh gives a i regulating capacity 0 of about acre Rere feet fact but a depth o of fifteen fe feet fett t of water in the spillway whirl which would permit of an outflow of about cubic feet per second acting In conjunction with the regulating power of tho the reservoir This would In all al probability take talce care are of ot the flood flod waters from a n failure of or the lie upper tipper dan dam lIal but It might ho Ia possible le to 10 make tho tim Pluto dam still I s-ifer s I hy making the thc lower lower 10 low low- er Cr pa part rt of It I of ot loose loos rock wh In case cape cale ot or wa water ter rising over 1 0 the lie top or of the ca dam m would not wash ash awa away so 14 e as 31 cart earth and ami gravel glI hi In n fact act 3 a small mal amount of water might run over the top Oh o of a loose rock dam dant for a i hort short time tiie without clout doing serious damage or endangering hc the sta ta of tho Ito structure h The overtopping o of of au an earthen dan dam dO b by the water valor In tie llio tle reservoir would woul probably moan mean Instant Ip destruction Such uch a catastrophic catastrophe as aR might follow would be guarded d against by ly r means mean In your our pO power cr Another notier nothel great R advantage o of of or ofa a A loose rock ilam ilan as 88 compared with a purely dam is that It Is not necessary to take so man many precautions n against l leakage underneath it It I. I a as an any water which might leak It-ak Ilk the dam will wil drain aWo away naturally through h th the loose lock tOck without carrying with It an am any othe o cf the darn dam dar whereas water leading on an earth dam clan Is liable lalle to tv curry urr tte the material ma inn of oC the Jam data with It and thus cause caule a break brek which with wih a full tull reservoir might end In iii disaster bastel It It- Ill Itis Is possible that hat sufficient ro rock of ot n a suitable nature m mc nib bo le tumid found within reasonable distance of the Plute Piute dam llam site silo silt to tl construct a n adim dim datti dati of this thiN type lype for a I reasonable cost and I o will wil M bim to the sl state te engineer r a 3 pl sketch