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Show Serious Inundation. The southwestern part of the city is under water, eight or niue blocks being submerged. Numerous bouses in that quarter are surrounded with water, wuich is a foot or eighteen inches deep in several of them. After the Saturday night etoi ra all the cafnn streams were greatly increased in volume. Tne canals in the 5th and 6th wards were broken aud the water poured out in a genera! flood, overflowing fields and submerging gardens, several hundred acres of land being now under water. Tne rise was so sudden that a number of people who left their house- on Sunday Sun-day were unable to reach them in the evening, being obliged to sect shelter elsewhere. Numerous bridges have been swept away, and it seems impossible to stay the washing out of the State road, over which the water has been flowing for several houra. The mountain Btreams seemed to be decreasing somewhat yesterday, yet a season of hot weather seems to have set in, in which case we may conclude that the flood has not leached ita highest point. No-1 thing can be done to prevent it, and there iB no way of stopping the destruction. de-struction. The damage already done is very great, and there is much suflering. Unfortunately those upon whom the disaster falls most severe ar" chiefly poor people, who can ill afford to lose anything, much less to be driven from their houses and forced to see their all swept from them. The prospect is indeed anything but cheering to the inhabitants inhab-itants ic the lower part of the 5th and 6th wards. City Creek was much lower yesterday yester-day than on Sunday. |