| Show EXGEEDEU FOUR INCHES All Records Broken by the Recent Storm ONEFOURTH ANNUAL FALL Davis County Got Even More Than Salt Lake Fall Was General Over tho State Will Probably Cause a Great Rise of tho Lake Landslides in Canyons Mean Muddy Watef for a Week Trains Delayed in Parleys Canyon by Slides Valley Is Covered With Small Lakes I That th storm Just passing over asa as-a deluge Is evidenced by the figures given out yesterday by the weather of flc6 In this city making the tothl precipitation pre-cipitation LOS inches for the storm beginning be-ginning in this city at 820 a m Thursday Thurs-day May 2nd and ending at 750 a m Saturday May Ith Thorpe were a few light showers subsequently but they were not enough to cut much figure In the aggregate All past local records pale before this performance and a record has been established both for continuous storm and for a twentyfourhours precipitation precipita-tion of 2C5 Inches that will be referred to In a comparative way In all probability proba-bility for a long time to come I Is also of Interest to note that the new record is onequarter of the annual normal rainfall 1019 Inches But great as the fall was at this point It was greater at Farmington In Davis county the fall there having been 461 Inches 01 over half an inch in excess of the Salt Lake measurement However the precipitation there is always greater than in Salt Lake because of the local topography I HEAVY THROUGHOUT STATE 1 The railway reports of yesterday r showed rain in the morning through the valleys and later clearing and cloudy skies along the lines Parties from Tlntic yesterday reported heavy snows In the hills with rain on the lowlands and from Deseret Samuel W Western writes that on the 3rd of the month that part of the State had one of the greatest rainstorms it ever experienced ex-perienced From G a m on the 2nd to 6 p m on the next day it rained steadily with a record then of two inches Mr Western says the benefit to the country cannot be overestimated I as water had been scarce and the crops dry Passengers coming in from dif ferent directions report heavy rains but the fall seems to have been so gradual that the damage has been light Prof M E Jones estimates that one inch of rainfall means a rise of a foot In the lake so that there ought to be I a great rise this spring I is a fact of interest that the storm entered Utah from the southwest and that tho skies cleared up first In that part of the State no precipitation being reported from Modena yesterday TRAIN DELAYED BY SLIDES Landslides in the different canyons near the city were the most noticeable nolceah1e features following the storm yesterday The most serious ones were In Parleys canyon where two occurred during the forenoon blocking the uptrain of he Utah Central for a while The obstructions ob-structions were removed after slight I delay and the track was reported clear last night The first slide was about I COO feet above the reservoir reser or near the weir and the second one was near Shale about four miles further up the nr canyon City creek was booming again yester day and was six or seven inches higher than the flume at the Intake about two miles up the canyon Several small slides occurred up the canyon and helped to make the water roily DIRTY WATER FOR DAYS Water consumers generally may expect ex-pect nothing but muddy water for a week to come yet said Superintendent of Waterworks nines The slides in the canyons will keep the water dirty for that length of time anyway and perhaps longer I expect these small slides to occur at Intervals for several days yet The rain has loosened up the frost on the mountain sides and has also melted a lot of snow which is pouring down the creeks I I have had twomen up Emigration Emlgrlon canyon for the past two days continued contin-ued Mr Ilines and they reported tome to-me this afternoon that everything was all right there The only clear water coming into the city now Is coming from Emigration and supplying people pp1ylnSpeople on the east side south of First South The men up there aye merely keeping the driftwood out of the creek and preventing J pre-venting it from obstructing flow of water I LAKES ALL THROUGH VALLEY u A good Idea of the amount of water wnicn nas poureu down into the val icy during the storm may be gained from a view of the valley from Fort Douglas The change in the aspect of the country is marked The entire bottom of the valley la dotted with dote lakes extending from Murray ar wih north as the vision extends |
