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Show CALIENTE FLOODED I I ONE FATHOM DEEP II Town Is Practically in Ruins mil H and People Are in Need of H Food aud Fuel. K H DAMAGE TO RAILROAD i I LESS THAX EXPECTED Water Three-Quarters of Mile. i I Wide and Six Feet Higher H H Than Ever Known. j Is H Special to The Tribune. Jj It MODENA. Utah (via cotfrW from Cali-' . $5 7 1 eutej, Jan. r. First authentic news con- IsulP'i cernlng flood-stricken Callonte was today w'tlll brought here by Benjamin Wadsworth Uliiit IHI front Par.aca. .Nov.. where he left Editor tll If 1 Graham of the Callonte Times, who ar- jlf rived at Panaca on horseback the night j turn of January 3, after a dangerous ride : jff from Callente. One of the horses Gra- ' jjjfij ham used-wss drowned while swimming j the swollen river trying to get out of ' lijHi' Callonte for help. ; fH !! H Graham staled to Wads worth that Oil- will li j 'H lenle was badly datniged. and flint help iSII n !( was needed, especially food. Ho "icport- iijli1! 'IH ed that the Salt Lake Route depot was IjKjIff-. iH undermined by the waters and tbt there iBlHI'' 'IH was three feet of mud and Hand In the ' "fH roundhouse. At one time the water had jn ' hi H been higher hi the roundhouse than the f , driving u-h'-els of the. engines. ,.f" 'HI .Many buildings w-tc wrecked, sorn f 'Htl them floated off down stream like house- kjfl ' jHil bo.its. and the water had at t.!m3 poured ;HI Into the houses over the window sills. m I HJ Every House Damaged. Mi Eveiy house In the place that remains. 'XI ',' H standing has fully one foot of inud ou Jjm l HJ Its ground floor. Bvery wagon and rail- B3' 'I road bridge in Ihr: vhlnlty of Calient m ' is gone and practically all modern mean. Qj Mf of c'mminiieatlon are destroyed. rur- IBi 1 ' ( lng the worst of the flood the people had ffl. i j i to desert their homes, many In scant Mi I t 1 clothing, and fly to the hills for safetv. wj I I I At the Mot Springs of Callente the 55 1 l 1 flood water.i poured over the transoms of lfS J 1 the bathroom doors. The full extant of H I - the .damage Is not known at litis time. 'iji; I . either in Caliente or-fariiter down Hie ,JJ f v valley, but according to host reports the V!' 1 town Is pnictically n v.-reek. Jijlj ' h At Big Springs, nine miles from Call- jsSfj ? r ente, iho section house Is gone, accord- I Ing to reports of parties -tent to investi- ffii j" gale the condition of the railroad bed ' If f and the track Is badly washed out. ' iln 'Ji 1 No word has been received from Muddy ifl !s river section and heavy loss Is expected l' K t there, possibly In human Hf. No word Ssf u ) has been received foi ttve days. tBj t" 1 Editor Gniham telephoned the shcrlit a)?'. jS t of Tincoln county from Panaca. asking Ifa i l immediate help for Callonte. Tin; ?l'i3 M weather is IS -flegticfts below zero In Mo- m,'U I dona tonight, and other sections report (ffit ) similar w-eatiier conditions. The extent Ml, ' of the disaster Is. as vCt unknown. :-( A Damage Not So' Gveat as SuppoEcd. ra t Wednesday night General Manager K. IfTi I'i'l C. Wells left for Modena to take p?r- &s 5; sonal charge of affairs, tfefore leaving m y, , he said; titi. M "The posse.ngr;rs fitm the delayed ji ' train, nine in number, are well on their rap ' way by wagon to RarcJay. where they Kj k i arc expected to arrive Thursday after- d II noon. The train will be held till they If arrive and they will bo brought on at nil oueo lo Salt Lake, where they will ar- tj' '( I rlvo Friday morning. B j' , "Wo expected lo gel them Into Salt ffi'-'tr ' Lake Thursday morning, innklug the ride l 'l 1' across country In the wagon In" one day. WI'U but the weather has been too cold aud Wim ' they had to lay over. They will no doubt ll'i'tly start late In the forenoon after Iho wc:ith- ' er warms 'up somewhat, us there Is no IwlD I especial need of haste. They arc being W5.-II cared for at the expense of the road. t M I and everything possible Is being done if''' I for their comfort. All are well. There W j i Is not the slightest occasion to worry over Jtl.'li their position from the point of personal ta.h , safety. m 1 "Investigations aro being made con- ( , corning the extent of the damage to the KZ ' ,( road Itself. Just what the damage Is we jol I 1 ! do not know, but It looks as if we could W 1 be In fair shape In a couple of months. " 2 The datuago will not he as great as jai: -it , might be expected from such a flood. ill;?' ( The road is well built, and althougli fliti'i ' washed out in part, much of it remains nftiffi In place. fjl'joi Beyond Human Powejr. Wlfil 1 "The Hood was somothinj: no human Iflflfl i wisdom could foresee. It reached higher i&Uv ' bv far than the highest known water iwifb , mark, and we had our road well above 'ffiu i the line where the water had ever como iMUj ' before. . , , , Wl ' "So far as we know fonigbl only one Wifir ' railroad lifo is lost, a track walker nour m t! Cnllente. Wo have not yet received aity m8G 1 details about It and as the wires are .n rW,rA I such bad shape wo cannot find out any Jlcjfti more about him. Except tin's one we IF look for no moro loss of humuti life. 1 n: ,1 1 fS ' loss lo the railroad Is severe, but, is far I U less than It might have been, especially J rff l If tho line had not been so eolldly built ) A in the worst places. In many place. tfh i where the rnodbed did go out the whole 4, ffl side Of the hill went with it. so thai, was j beyond human power to prevent. l!Ke an fi 3 ' Ca"Al? "rains In Utah ar running as U3ttal i Slffi ff and will continue to do so. e will have fj .5 a through train over tbo line w thin a ,9 MiM couple of months at the most. The d!s- E 5M .3 aster might have been far worse than j m ji, It Is. Fortunately no lives were lost ex- ( H trt ctnit that one. and that Is what we on re .a til : the most about, the sJifcty of our pas- ! Hj , sengers." js' (jj ,J( Many Wild Humors. fl? Tho country where the flood occurred W i ' New Year's pvc Is thinly settled or the , j jr loss of life might have been appalllug. m-X J Although iipparontly the Hood Is one of SU if the gtatOKt ever known In the ic-st. 8 if jf even the loss in property will bo com- HI JV j oaratlvely small as the country; Is but Bl tB i little improved and the towns damaged BmS 1- or destroyed are small with no cxpcnjlyo JR ,M hulldlngs. except thoso 01 tho railroad in til Q jj There were many wild rumors on the jE5 streets of Salt La ce yesterday that tc.c W'Ji l' foss of life was vry grea.t d that the M 3 1 railroad had been practically destroyed- Is ffll for over 100 miles and would have, to be ffl fl I relocated, but official reports trpm tbo 1 l 1 end Sr the line show that these ; reports Kffl 9. arc without foundation, bolng evldcr.il JB W t spontaneous street rumors. ,M M J |