Show ORTH PORTION OF STATE FLOODED t WATER SWEEPS SWEEPS' WEBER CANYON AND LOWLANDS Ci City ty Str Streets ets Inundated When Irrigation Gates Open and Release Flow V All MI Streams Are Bank F Full Il He Heavy vy rains caused by the redevelopment redevelopment o of tho the storm which passe passed assed eastward over the state two days ago last night threatened Immense da damage dam dam- age ago to property by b overflowing tha tue streams and rivers Conditions will grow worse In stead of ot better for tor the next tent tv four tour hours hours- was as the thc prediction of or J J 1 Cecil Alter local weather forecaster last night The streams of the tho state he said being already full must accept the tha water deposited by the heavy rains but this condition will not occur for Cor forat forat at least twelve t elve hours If It the rains continue floods are ara almost certain because the rivers ar are already alread a at their danger points Town Iown Threatened Heavy rains throughout the day da yesterday threatened several towns throughout tho the state and em emergency crews battled with Ith overflow water in innumerous innumerous innumerous numerous places to prevent total Inundation in inundation In- In of ot residential and business properties according to reports re received received re re- cel celd d here Reports from Ogden last night stated staged I that Me tie water in the Weber river there had reached tho the six foot level The embankments of ot the river were report reported ell to be bo standing well wen under the enormous pressure to which they were subjected although considerable fear tear was displayed that the b k would go out Railway In DanGer Dancer C. C H. H Martin supervisor of t str streets street i In Ogden Is leading an emergency crew of seventy five men in the battle battlo bat bat bat- tb tle to tho the river from oyer- oyer over oyer- flowing Three hundred sacks of oC dirt were ere piled near the bridge of the Oregon Short Line at Thirtieth street to prevent tho overflow of ot water from flooding flooding- the district The barricade was ma made e necessary on account o of a huge Jam collecting near the brid bridge e causing causing- the back- back flow of ot water Sullivan avenue be between between be- be tween Thirtieth and Thirty-first Thirty streets was partially flooded yesterday yesterday yester yester- da day morning but the waters were finally controlled b by the city emergency emergency emergency ency crews Supervisor Martin larUn stated early last hut evening that the peak of the flood had been reached In Ogden but the continued rains throughout tho the night damage ma may cause additional The West Weber and Marriott districts are reported to be veritable lakes L A Warren reports water and ICO acres of his land under sixty-six sixty acres under cultivation by C. C E. E Reed need are also overflowed Track Patrolled Section crews of ot tho the Union Pacific system are carefully patrolling the c company's tracks but little danger is expected by 0 officials of ot tho the company compan hundreds of ot tons of ot rock having been dumped near the tho weak points in the to the railroad rail jail riv river r banks in proximity road tracks before the tho water had level gained an any considerable Reports from Morgan organ indicate East Canyon Canon creek Lost creek and the Weber Wo- Wo ber bel river beyond control there and flooding the tho country country- i A crew of ot sev- sev enty fc citizens of the town have for tho the past been fighting the floods twenty four Cour hours to prevent th tho spread of the waters Dykes have been thrown up ditches dug but despite this reports received that between and 1000 here say acres of or land In the Morgan an vall valley C bottomlands have been flooded Heroic work on the part of the volunteer vol vol- sandbags cre crews s 's In placing around the supports of ot the bridge conI connecting connecting con con- con con- I the two sections of ot the tho city cit separated by by- bytho tho the river prevented prevented pre pre- vented the tho washout of oC the bridge earh early ear ear- tho the hours For or several ly Jy yesterday ester a water ater overflowed the abutments of ot Continued on Pa Page 14 H. |