Show VIOLENT VIOL NT RAIN C RUIN THE ROAD TEST WEST OF LAKE LAKI Dell Utah August 27 1029 1023 19 Editor Clipper Clipper- 1 I 1 thought thought perhaps an account of the oft t e cloudburst and Hood flood at Dell DeIl west of the great Salt Lake would prove interesting to your readers so Ishall I shall attempt to send sand you a few lines concerning concerning- the same R-me R Last Saturday we ex experienced one of the heaviest rains ever er known in these parts I happ happened to 10 be in Bountiful that evening About 7 o'clock I received a t telegram ram from James S Gray one of my mJ men stating that bad flood had occurred and suggested that I bring hrin- hrina a gang cane an of oi men out with me In meIn fifteen en minutes I was in mv my car car- rushing toward the scene scene However I stopped over at the home heme of sister Mrs IrS II my Hannah ham Burning ham in Salt Lake Cit City to 10 get set her to phone m my gan gang to go to Dell at once When I arrived Cd early carl in the ni night ht I found Mr Hammond fromI the road man from I Grantsville with his gang gan of men on the job and Mr Bacon from Tooele with his crew preparing to get the traffic through h Later in the night rt my district distri men and S L Cates the dis- dis dis tri e engineer appeared Farmington Hr telegraphed to Farming Farming- F ton for some timbers t which were soon on the 0 spot spot- These Thc nV e timbers numbered y 0 four and were cre by 30 feet We IVe draped dragged them three miles and placed them across the washout which was almost thirty et feet wide at the side of the road and where it cut through the road it was from front 30 to 10 feet wide and about 20 feet deep this hole being full of water The stream was 1000 feet wide and 18 inches deep where c it crossed the highway Before daylight daylight we transported transporte 1 17 cars that had accumulated on ont t I andI the west side of the washout and likewise a lar large e number that had been held back at Knolls Two Y Yellow way 3 sta stages es were there but but we did not dare let them cross i as crossas soWe owe they ther weighed about ten tons tons so We hauled passengers und and nd IU luggage gage v for three miles as the they could not turn on the highway highway- Mr Ir Cates took tok the ladies in in his car and the themen them m men n and luggage lug lup c as-c were f trans trans transported on the trucks We completed today the side bridge ridge 30 feet wide Eight big bir buses have have- passed over the bridge Tues Tues- day dar Tuesday ray only the two to Yellow way stages had to be turned back We will be very ery bus busy for some time sometime to come replacing a bridge and building up the sides of the road One culvert was washed out on the c side of the road but material was hat hauled cd and that trouble was soon overcome q One mile of the Western Pacific road bedwas bed d was washed out so the they could not run trains over oer the same They rushed out two train loads of gravel from Salt Lake which they unload unloaded thereby reby d witha with th tha a steam shovel there thre th re- re by raising the track so that they were dayto able b by 10 o'clock the next da day to resume re regular lar train service N No one was hurt and everything is gin going along nicely at present pr p ent THOMAS SESSIONS |