Show I 1 SOUTH WEBER ITEMS I 1 about seven last sunday mottling Dio ruing the hie weber and davis conty conly coun 1 iron bridge at the I 1 lie mouth of wei ber can candon on washed out and dilip L feared in tile the angry waters of tile hie weber river it il was the abutment on the north side of the river abst gave visy ay the one on the south after the remains uli ling undamaged bridge fell there was nothing to be seen been except occasionally occasion ully a loose plank or two floating doating down stream road supervisor C A fernelius was up in the canyon on saturday afternoon ider noon about 5 and examined the bridge and the two abutments but saw nothing that I 1 ed that the bridge na v being undermined by the water uter however that must have bave been the case on sunday hundreds of people came town down to the river to see that exceptionally large flow of water and to watch the men st it work on both tides sides of the river who were trying to live give the bridge that leads over to Uin tall during the time that the road supervisor and lis ills men were buy busy with the uintah bridge selectman k nalder kalder also had a force of men I 1 and teams at work in the canyon near the flume of the davis and weber counties canal putting in brush and rocks to save the road at that point however about three rods of it went and it if the high water continues very long or should rise still more there will be further damage done the river has not been so high as it Is at present since the bridge at flintall washed out twelve years ago he ie of last may the he be adgate of the weber avia cocaual Coca ual is in danger and men ere seen at work there yesterday nd ind also today the head bead gates on lie several water ditches dit clies keep men ausy watching them today only about three years have pas ed since this iron bridge was built nd its wrecking means a big loss or tile two counties word has been received from riv to the effect that the town is boded with water for as much as a bif lt a mile from the river Y A we wet it bound passenger on the U train informed your correspond nt that men u were ere working on all along the river to save the ridges 0 and the railroad company ad men out looking af after ter theirs Yoom boo south weber june 1896 |