Show FLOOD SWEEPS THE STREETS water system gets ill smelling waters sevier valley canal bank gives give S way and lets volume of red water into city the worst flood of this season and perhaps the wort wor t in several seasons struck richfield and vicinity on tuesday afternoon between 2 and 3 belock the clouds gathered swiftly from the couth and west and anen the storm the rain fell in sheets it took but a few minutes for the streets to become streams of water the storm about half an all hour nd then cle cleared artil away the heavy rain was as but a shadow hadow of what came after the rain had been heavy in rich held but in the hills to the west it hd been much heavier and shortly after 4 the eM ej dences of the floods of water which fell in the hills were vere seen upon the street as from the west down north street came a alume of water that submerged the streets and made rivers of them main street was a racing flood and down street in the city poured the red waters from the went hills to add to thel flood the immense body of water nater which had bad fallen along the west hills gathered in the quiches alche ul che and went down in tor orients Lents upon the sevier valley canal this wat arway soon wa running bank full and the hanks banks were not prep prepared ired for such a flood in fear south and west of richfield the banks gave w way ay and the firul flo waters aters poured oi over er feilds and ro roads ad 8 one of the breaks in the canal bank occurred near the spring where the city gets its water supply the spi spring ng is con covered eyed with a rock and brick ure but the water came in such ioui e fram the broken canal bank anat ohp houe hone hou hon e over the spring was nag almo almot t submerged the muddy water got into the mains and in a veri ver short time the entire katr system was polluted with the ill smelling writers waters the flood waters continued to flow down the str st rits ats until dirk and the muddy waters in th thi mains did not clear until late yesterday the fire hydrants were ere by marshal jensen jenen in ordel cordei that the mud would not settle in the mains and block the sj system stem these were kept open until I 1 tuesday night this deprived the city of w iter and aid as a consequence sc the steam plant of the electie le ie light company was put out of commission the water power at glen v was unable to carry the lighting load and the city was in darkness for some time during the evening rhe damage to the canal will amount to many hundreds of dollars and the city ity water s system stem tem has been damaged to some extent it is alleged by b sonje some that the strata of rock through which the city water rises is very ver porous and the water from the canal seeps through occasionally the city should see to it that the caral bottom is cemented at that point the pollution of the water nater system by the ill smelling waters IC is bound to bring the deadly typhoid cypho I 1 d gernis germs into the water system and disease dise ae is liable to result the water system cannot be tuo too jealously guarded |