| Show 1 FLOOD MOST WELCOME storm pleased the people of salt lake DUCKING WAS pleasurable clouds had bern been so deceptive tor for weeks that people camo came out without umbrellas and nany many got wet but they mind it streets wora were flooded so as to be ispass able ableE race aca tor for watermelons Water melons street car lines cereo I 1 briod up effect on the water supply when a man gets wet good humored I 1 ly and a woman smiles over it wrenched drenched bonnet it may be taken for granted that unusual conditions obtain this as tho ilia case in salt lake yesterday during the hardest shower ot of tho the season or of any other season within the tha memory 0 at some really old inhabitants In halit with it a fatalism born of frequent disappointments disappointment many salt lakers camo came down town yesterday without hout laa as or mackintosh es rion lising clouds had gathered before buforo daylight dayl leht they acre v ere even more than promising tor for at 3 56 a rn it a smart shower of rain fell it lasted only IL a few minutes however and those who knew about it thought the precipitation T as over the morning was waa well adva advanced need or according to weather toreather observer smiths figures it was 10 03 when another I 1 shower came it lasted tw twenty e it Y minutes and the th thirsty lawns and streets drank it up as ast as it ell then there was a lull hill until I 1 1315 when it a tow sizeable hall hailstones stones fell ell with the hood of r rain the abo lint hall lasted five minutes hardest shower began sit at I 1 the drops were a as i big biff as gooseberries goose berries and mixed up in sheets while it lasted the downpour was tremendous mor idous people who aho were out in it were soaked in less lima than it takes to tell about IL 11 STREETS WERE FLOODED the gutters that had been working overtime to carry oft off the earlier showers gave up in despair and allowed thom themselves delves to t be swallowed swallow e d up ln in the rivers river that flowed I 1 down the 0 treats streets boiling bubbling foaming and ing the water rushed down the grades carrying all kinds of light debris and I 1 considerable 0 of a heavy boavy character in its course A pile of luscious watermelons water melons lay on tho the pavement near the gutter in fro front tit of a slain main street grocery when tho the rains descended and the floods carne came the watermelons water melons began tor tar get restless perhaps they flirted tor for escape from the carving knife at any rate when the water vater rose around them they concluded to take an excursion down the street they went bobbing bobbin like great creat green corks with a score of small boys in hot pursuit the lads lade mind the wetting any more than the melons and most of tho the truants wore were captured they were not all ie ic turned to the grocery however even before the shower ceased groups of emall dinall boys might have been seen scon in various secluded alleys bo banqueting on the juicy fruit at many street intersections the rain made tile the need of boats more of an actuality than a dream tin th crossings were flooded and the water backed up on the streets to a depth of several inches this was true at the corner of state street lit at the corners of first second and third south streets it was also true of Miln Slain street and west temple street intersections STREET CARS STOPPED all ot of the tha streets running runo inc southward from the north bench were flooded rocks and deris debris were curried carried do down wn and piled on the car tracks on F first i t street until the roadbed was out of sight As a result the service of both the sixth street line and first street line was stopped for an hour or more 0 each line had bait a couple of cars delm derailed by effort to proceed over the r rock OC k bad den roadbed the water in the waste pipes in the city and county building came up through the wash basins in each office and tor for a few moments it looked inched as if consi considerable considers derm ible injury would be the result the carpets in the offices of some 0 ot the officials were badly drenched but no further damage was done BENEFIT OF THE STORM the practical benefit of the rain Is b hard ard t to a estimate there Is no question 1 l on but that it was worth a good deal to the city its effect on the water i ater supply except as regards the saying saving of irrigation water Is not a of f much consequence according to cit city Y engineer kelsey mr Kel reports from the cites v various arlo a sources of supply indicate that n no a rain at all tell fell in the canyons during the morning ml lit of thorn them caught some rain during tile the afternoon but its only effect was as to disturb and muddy the supply A large amount of water was turned into parleys creek canal at the city engineers order ond and t tha he surplus n N holcli could not be retained was utilized in this way sir mr kelsey sal sold d it wag not by any means certain that the rain of 0 yesterday yeste Yest iday elday would avert all possibility of a water nater famine tills ills season he believes the tha same old shortage will be heard within a ten few days in figures weather observer smith elves yesterdays rainfall as 80 90 inches during the heavy shower that began at I 1 and lasted seventeen minutes thirty one hundredths of an inch of rain fell |
