Show BIG AREA STill SUBMERGED BY flOOD FLOODWATERS WATERS I Large Force FOIce Is Employed in inS inI I S Draining District Along the Tenth South Canal MANY HOMES STILL SURROUNDED BY WATER POULTRY AND CATTLE ARE MA MAROONED MAROONED MAROONED WITHOUT FOOD CROPS ARE DESTROYED The floodwater from the Tenth canal still aWl submerges a large Ia area Mi sa the southwestern part of the UM city eky awl and the only change from front the et Wednesday when more than a tan desist n families had to abandon their t jT h hns m g gis is that the level of the water is abut ab itt six inches lower The nIe break brt ak in n r fe le canal cenal embankment was t cany yesterday morning and a large f t r f e of men is now at work draining f t te e flooded district As the land lani j 11 is 1 lv s the progress in draining the i to the river is ta slow alow and it will be b f T 4 11 days before some IOme of the homes ar a r f The people who were dm driven en fi m their homes have been Men sheltered li by y the Ute neighbors nel in the district and arid mon min 1 ive ie 8 piled plied up the furniture ot ui 0 tat f nd n boxes so that It will win receivE no Injury from the water at 1 Temp Tomp r y bridges have hae been constructed to tr r TuY of the isolated houses and anI buggea ar are aNS aNSu used u ed as a II i us a of approach to t t It i rs Planks were placed along alone Eighth Wt t street and the worst wont places in th Uk vad rad ad tilled filled up so that traffic is Ie bi c a ning ing i ng this street The houses along IM t l t K Kare are still surrounded by bT a foot toot rr r n i re of water Poultry and Cattle Marooned Moet Moat of the chicken pew pens and anU h in lit inthe the flooded district II submerge ard many cf of the fowls fowl perished shed during the first night of the flood The tew ur are confined to the small of the coops The TIle cattle have hae had hM little feed since Tuesday Tue day n night t All the pas pasture pasture ture tune land is under water and the HIt nilS vt and horses are staying on a few islands st stands ands where it is impossible to gee gec feed fetid to them The most serious erious loss will be In t tie tle ie gardens and AcIds In the places es whre the thi flood has hu subsided It has lias left Teft f fur ur inches of slit silt and sediment which ho hut completely covered the garden pr lu tb The deepest deepe t water Is In the ln lw lu urn n fields tt dB and when the area is drain 1 ff I these fields will m be under sever several in hM of mud In other gardens the loose lorse s I 41 and wH lI J jit q were ere aha Wasi away a L by the rush of water The territory south of Tenth South Suh II which was flooded Ilo ded by the Mill eri T r water when It washed out the th theof of the Tenth South canal a similar situation As Aa fewer PI e re reside 1 reside side here the damage is 18 not so sex sevErely f rely felt but the water 18 than in m tie file section n farther north The es esin S Sin in the vicinity of the George Q c nr nn n farm are surrounded by a vat a t formed by the water backed up fr front nn Jordan riv The Cannon warl warf meet meeting meetIng ing house is I In three th feet of n water ate and arid Bishop Lewis M Cannon ra sayi that it will be Im to bold hold eri s in It nut next Sunday As AU this te is a ri rich h farm farming farmIng farming ing district the farmers will a heavy loss lo s sTrolley Trolley Line Tied Up Rudely constructed boats boU and Lugg offered the only f 1 ties in this neighborhood Mai Many f Is have hae been beest floated and the t funo tie ivi washed away way from barns win h tHe tte owners are saving by props prop Thc Th West WestSide ft eat Side Rapid Transit runs wt w st at ston ston aton on Tenth South to the river is rut out rf at commission and the roadbed ha be IH been n R washed out for long teng stretches The only optimists in the entin d t a are the children and for it itis ItIs ItIs is the gala time of their lives Youth Yuth Youthful Y ful swimmers are de developIng eloping their powers power in the deep places lacEs and thy th have discovered pla pia plaes es Cs eight f feet et t lip lipIn t tin P PIn in sonic some pastures C art ah alt alton ut itt uton on rafts and wade i t the shallow shaDow marshes The v who hunt fro frog legs leg are having r rous ous OUtil days claya The floods have extent t the h territory for their operations ani an ti tuy tiey oy are finding this tate pastime a pi f a io Ie bu Canal Break Is Closed A force of men under und 8 u peri r b i i it rat of Streets Street J T Raleigh worked the greater greatel part of the night anI MI u I l led ed In closing the break in th the ic meats ments of o the Tenth canal and As Vs th they y were surrounded on all au shies Rides 1 v wu Ji fl several feet of ot water this w was s an all ex OX exceptionally difficult task At tb si ie time the county had men at work vork s a sIng aing ing the break in Mill creek which af at affected affected the district to the south This was wae also atH completed last night Tr Tb o t ak that remains is II to drain the water wat r tuto to the river Ditches have haTe been J Jg ag through the banks of the river south f t Tenth South which are proving ex fX exceedingly effective Th The water In the Continued on Page 2 BIG AERA JERA STILL SUBMERGED BY FLOOD WATERS Continued from Page 1 area are between Ninth and anth South streets streeta is being drained Into the river r er through a 8 ditch that has been built along the Salt sIt Lake Route Routs tracks on Ninth South Houth street treet A large vou vo v iii n water Is la flowing into the river and by this channel the level of the water was lowered six inches Inch yesterday It Is Ie ex cx expected expected ported that this ditch will drain most of the area rea but the water in the lower portions v ill III have to be left to late zate The experiences of the last few da days lay 1 will probably result in a determined ef of effort effort fort on the part of the people pe in this district to bring about the cleaning out of the surplus canal which seems MemS to be bethe bethe bethe the solution of ot the flood problem This canal can t bo made to take nearly a sixth of the water from the river at a point below Twelfth South and carry it to the lake and thus relieve the condi condl condition tion Uon from that point to the mouth of the river by lowering the level of the water in th the river Men tn I n whose w olle pp erty has been damaged by the t e recent r rec nt disaster dl declare that they will start tart a campaign at once and that t at they th hope o 0 have ba 1 this remedy in UI service before similar conditions s arise aMae next year yer |