Show the terrors of the castle valley floods editor enquirer I 1 mr J V lei of Cent centerville erville nr br rived hole tills morning horn springs in cmela valley the tha of tile disaster of tile 14 hill it dinst same particulars of which havo already appeared appen red in your columns nir mr goodrich reports t that hill lie he was amat at bards cam camp p about lilt ore of a mile irnia from Jt it coa ole store ator a at t the time 1 bo be first flood cloud buest on oi I 1 th ahn as bench which brought down devin 4 tent feet depth of water extending 4 ora or 6 miles ivi decar crying along elih jib it 11 flood oaland a oa ag dand and urual brush two hours houra art afterward erward iio tf in Ws cos store together mili n lib eleven men one ona woman and three children lien lei I 1 lie ho still M was given hint chat a second lood wnm coming conil ng A rush ditl made fur the deard slid and everybody every tiothy was its thron into tile excitement and nd confusion the water ait to be rolling tov ards them in the distance dia lanca to be about 10 leet high all inked on oil to lo higher groulik mounil ro unil to rave their liven ilven leaving evely everything thing behind tile tha father of the be children beer ried to lo entirely forget himself tot for he to tan inn mild left his family bamily bea behind and air goodrich however seized two a ir r I 1 ilie ile children in I 1 ilia he store stora a and lid curried carried iliew lou 0 o the door and handed them to lo burns boma other oilier person permon wilo who conveyed them to a sure safe PI place 1 I while he i returned to sen see after afier tha ilia chit a child it seemed mca nc arcely reely a moment bu be tore lore bagans were ee seen been carried along with the tha flood one ona wagon con call tallied a couple of women oman and bit it lip proa cheil point the botnan vio iii u clambered out anil got up tip on to the tha rising ground while clio wagn dilfer along with the ibe tide lide carrein carry liiK away cloth ilig bedding harness and ai all 11 else elre leaving the ibe poor women destitute of Is all they ley 1 bad I poa beaded d except the I 1 he 11 wore aa N mr t r goodrich further states that five sago n a belonging to lo dillo reft t per person soni who a on the grade gade r and which contained pr harness und and gener kiral a I 1 supplies bup plies 11 also so scraper e r of coo cooking 1 I ng meu tila is 1 elc I were all u ached avo away my ironi cos store with it its s several abou nd or dollars dol doll lira irs wort worth it of site co handhen books paper ends thou mind dollars dollar in ili cash 1 I aich they had bad anway in a camp kellly went ent oly oil in one int ly some home of the cou lOnt n of athe ilie store and alother property property pro gerty party belonging belong lne parties con I 1 of lor flour grain or of wg ag ons etc v vero ere round scattered over the country tor twenty ini lei a ed A anch of hurley barley u as round fount irk in a tree la 12 feet high claties s were ore found lounging to ta tren mild and brueh as s though hung out to lo dry the ille grade lit in many places xui wasll washed away i and large larga cul calvero vero several till hundred odred foot feet I 1 alonxi on go were veto curried carried away and it not a rock all aa left to tile the place kocka as ai much as ai live five ton here ore carried over ever file beaches trees cunia cents do down n W arith the flood that measured from 2 to lo 3 reet feet jn in diameter indeed so abundant I 1 as the quani ity of rock bi mil jan and dand and other dowls that hat cottonwood springs vere gutfre I 1 y burld and now ceab to ti run mr air good goodrich rich liati erts that language falls fall to dei describe cribe the ilia terr ers 0 of f till ibn catastrophe J it 11 Bon ABD chat creek aug 28 ISSI |