Show FLOODS IN WYOMING One Life Lost and Great Damage Done in Vicinity of Douglas Douglas Dougla Wyo June 3 One life Ufe has been lost loet and heavy property damage been caused by floods in the North Platte river and its tributaries The North Platte is at record flood stage and continues to rise at the rate of half an inch In h an hour Bridges have been Moen carried away liwa and roads In many man places are impassable While attempting to crow cross a II bridge spanning a gully near the Esmay ranch on creek Ben his sister and her ber 4 child who were driving In a R wagon were precipitated Into the water by the breaking of the bridge The child was drowned The horses hor ee and wagon werE wert swept away by the tM raging torrent and the animals animate were drowned also all Ordinarily the gulch ever which the bridge runs is a dry dr bed From all sec ace sections sections come reports of ot Irrigation ditches being wrecked by floods and great dam damage damage age in this respect has been done Two hundred and fifty thousand pounds of ot cement stored In a warehouse of the Le Prete Ditch and Reservoir company were destroyed de troyed by water I |