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Show LETTER FROM AMERICAN FORK Coiiiiltloii of tli Ciiyon ronrt. Harrow cicapc from ileallt Sew j itlacovery. Amfriham Fork Cantov, j June 4th, 1ST2. j Etlitar llaalil: ! To thoso who with stocks of goods j stored on tho rooks and hills at the i mouth of tho canyon, aro solaciDg i them? elves with tho assurance that the ' 1 river had reached its bight, I wish to 1 hay that there has been little in the i I events of the last few days from which ! i to draw consolation. The creek, or let j us now dignity it by tho name of river; I and if we conld attach his satanic majesty's name or realm to it, in a style so peculiar to our earlier western explorers, a little familiarity with the doiDfls of this foamiog.roaring irresista-ble irresista-ble water-courso would exempt our distasteful dis-tasteful expression from unfavorable criticism. A RIVER ON TIIE RAMPAGE. Huge boulders displaced by the resistless re-sistless volume, rumble and thump along on the bed of the stream, the uoiso of these grating movements being audiblo above that of the surging water. Largo trees prostrated by the current are hurried down at a rate of speed almost incredible, until lodging at somo sharp curvo they are snapped like slivers by 6ome floating body of ; tics or accumulation of driltwood, which finding a temporary obstacle backs tho water to a distance of sometimes some-times a hundred yards in as many seconds, until the obstruction giving way, with augmented volume and in-, creased rapidity, the water again resumes re-sumes itscour?e with a momentum and commotion at once terrible and grand. Portions of the wagon road, apparently appar-ently hard as adamant, crumble and fill with a splash, as the foundations arc swept from under them. Willows and underbrush droop gradually with tho disappearing banks, until undor contact with some floating substance ! they snap with a report like a whip, and disappear in a sheet of foam. Pedestrians make scrambling progress over an improvised pack trail, which at points ia elevated fifty feet above the water. CLOSE TO. ETERNITY. One of the narrowest escapes from drowning that it has ever been my lot to chronicle occurred here yesterday. ; A young man from Provo, in the em-' em-' ploy of the railroad company, desiring j to cross the stream, brought into requisition a tree which had just fallen aud was reaching from bank to bank. A swaying motion, which he had not anticipated, threw him from his ; balance, nod with a shriek and ! a plungo he struck the water and ! shot out of sirht around a 1 curve, with the speed of ao arrow. 1 His comrades shouted to some men on 1 the bank below, two of whom with an i intrepidity and willingness impossible ! to overrate, sprang into a dangerous : position on some whirling driftwood, i held in place by an eddy. Their own i position was perilous in the extreme, i but a human life was at stake, and they seemed tho men for the emer-i emer-i jeney. On comes the drowning man, his hards blcediug fiom fruitless efforts tn catch the overhanging shrubbery as lie is thrown from bank to bank with ! the winding current. Powerless to : guide his movements, he is thrown i with relentless fury against the reck. ! only to be hurled backward aud rolled ; airainst another. Never did human condition appear more desperate. A , sense of his condition is depicted on his features, as with the rolling motion ot his body they are upturned to view. The question of his existence is to be decided by his WiDg thrown iuto the eddy, where stands his anxious would-be would-be rescuers, or kept in the centre ot the stream, livery freDzied shout of his comrades w hushed, as before reaching the division of the water he sinks from their sight. One of the tie-tloat-ars grasping the band of his comradc,drops to hit waist in the water, , in the hopo that he may bare taken ; the eddy. A lacerated hand appears . above the driftwood, tho fiocers of the , aanng raftsman are cluu-bod in a mat i ot floating hair, and Wilibrd Carroll, ! unconscious of his condition, insensible j of his delivery, is drawn from the threshold of" eternity. ; NEW Pl5C0Tftr. i ; AgangofbandsundcrthesupervisioD j : of Mr. Kobioson, the energetic euper- i intendent of the toll road, have nearly j completed the repairs on the road and ' j bridges above the shingle mill, and we i are in expectation of a resumption of i wheel communication at an early dav. ! ! Major Kvans' prospecting party moved 1 up the canyon yesterday. The Maior ; has secured the services of some excel-lent excel-lent prospectors. A bip thioi; is reported aa having been struck about tiirpe mil:s above the mouth ot" iho canyon. 'I he txys seem determined to Weep it s-hidy. lti located in a quartruo torination, and ; specimens from U indicate : the esi.-ioaw ot the stiffet lead yet discovered id ' i American t"rk' J. A. B. |