Show RAGING WATERS the mountain canyons send forth their torrents the deluge i is s hero tho the floodgates flood gates in tho the mountain gorges have been opened and groat great tora ton hits ats are tearing down the canyons roaring on their riotous career the swollen mountain streams on their mad march to the great salt lako lake ure are tearing rocks for their beds plowing furrows in the clay and carrying train loads of sand in their swift descent t city creek is on a rampage and has already broken broleen out of the flume tho torrent at tho the dams near tho the tower is frightful and last night it looked as if it would carry those these away and come toa tearing iriz down in ono one great wave that would sweep houses and everything that stood in its track the conduit on north temple io ia taxed to its full capacity at times and any riso rise to the stream must result in in a serious overflow that will do much da damage inage tuesday about midnight V the water escaped out of the flume between sixth cind and E eighth Eighth West streets and two blocks were inundated this was tha result of sheer negligence on tho the part of the ci city alty street supervisor who vh 0 had failed to fill earth on the outside of the flume which stands up out of tho the ground it has boon left in this way and the water before rising half way up the flume began pouring out between the planks councilman rich bich was drowned out and he raised a storm even bigger and moro more intense than tho the flood and supervisor hines put on a big fore force 0 oi 01 men an and d teams to haul dirt to make the necos necessary sary embankment or fill in the afternoon he succeeded in confining the water to the flume but thero there is another danger for on sixth west the flume crisses pusses under the rio bio grando westerns We sterns bridge and at times the water was choked and surging the sleepers of the bridge A rise of only a few inches will force the water out of its channel and it may by its force sweep the bridge away tho the 0 overflow verclo w alon along g C i ty crook is not n ot a marker compared with that of big cottonwood roper street from second to eighth yest is inundated and tho the entire country suffering 0 great loss both to crops and to buildings tho the lazy jordan is surging and grumbling and growling and the channel was filled to the brim last night and breaking over in places borth salt lako lake is said to be partially inundated and tho the water was reported to havo bava broken through the levee and covered the copper smelter grounds S L herald |