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Show MOST SEVERE STORM IN 11 ' YEARSSTRIKES Thousands of dollars in property pro-perty damage was one result of the 3.64 inches rainfall, most of the fall in two cloudbursts at noon and 9 p. m., within the 24 hours of August 9. Light rains Sunday and early ' Monday brought .17 inch of moisture, accounting ac-counting for little damage in Bingham. A heavy rainfall in Highland Boy Sunday afternoon damaged roads and private and business property in that community. com-munity. Precipitation figures are from records kept at Utah Power Pow-er and Light company substation. The downpour was not as violent vio-lent as the most severe rain storm on record in Bingham Can-yon, Can-yon, a cloudburst which began ! at 11:30 a- m. on August 11, 1930, ' when damage was set at $75,000, , city water mains were washed - , out and streets were filled in some sections with silt reaching to 15 feet in depth. To the big majority of residents resi-dents in Bingham district the flood meant the inconvenience of stormy weather, mud tracked into homes and delayed traffic. In widely scattered sections individual in-dividual buildings and homes in the pathway of the wash of muck and water from hillsides were seriously damaged. Heaviest damage Saturday was reported to the Utah Copper company hospital. X-ray and diathermy machines, a medical library, furnishings and fixtures on the first floor were completely complete-ly ruined when the flood roared down the wash behind the hospital, hos-pital, smashed through windows and filled the interior with muck, rock and mud. Equipment lost was valued at $9,000. Temporary offices have been set up by Dr. R. G. Frazier and Dr. H. C. Jenkins at No. 3 Princess Prin-cess apartment, 492 Main street, while repairs are being made at the hospital. At 118 Carr Fork the home of Mr. and Mrs. Antone Smith was caved in by' pressure of muck at the rear of the house and filled fill-ed with mud and water. The Carl E. Mattson home at 120 Carr Fork was damaged by the same slide of earth that wrecked havoc at the Smith residence. In Markham the residences of Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Archibald, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. LeClaire, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fisher and Mr. and Mrs. Elvin Neuffer and the Elmerton apartments were damaged dam-aged by wash of rock and silt. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Leland Le-land Timothy in lower Bingham was extensively damaged by rock and earth which caved in the rear of the residence, completely com-pletely filling the bathroom and overflowing into other sections. An apartment at 75 Railroad avenue, av-enue, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Carl Miller, was damaged by rain, which flooded into the house through basement win- , dows. Loss was chiefly to fur-' nishings. The rain at noon brought down several slides which blocked block-ed the highway just outside of town. Telephone wires were out of order, so City Patrolman R. R. Marriott drove to Hogan's dairy and phoned for Salt Lake county road equipment. A long string of automobiles was blocked block-ed for more than an hour. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bentley at 272 Main street returned home from an absence during the storm to find mud and water from the hillside behind the house had covered rugs and furnishings fur-nishings from a depth of several inches to three feet. An adjoining adjoin-ing apartment, that of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Jarred, was also damaged. The second story of the Bour-gard Bour-gard apartments, occupied by Ross Cushing, George Evanko-vich Evanko-vich and John Stampfel and families were damaged. The Bingham mortuary chapel on the lower floor of the same building had furnishings damaged by flood waters. Mayor Ed W. Johnson estimated esti-mated expense to the city in damaged and clogged sewer lines and in extra labor for clean-up crews at several thousand, dollars. dol-lars. Mud slides at Markham and at 425 Main blocked the highway high-way at those points for a short time. Ross Miner of Midvale, electrician elec-trician for the Utah Copper company, com-pany, brushed a 5000-volt wire while repairing storm damage to the electrical circuit and suffered suf-fered severe shock. His condition condi-tion was "good" at St Mark's hospital next day. William Swain-ston, Swain-ston, repairman, was struck by lightning during the storm Sunday. Sun-day. His condition was also "good" next day. The residence of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Crane at U. S. Mine was extensively damaged. Furnishings, Fur-nishings, clothing and books were reported ruined. The basement of the Bruno apartments was partially filled with water. Fire department equipment was used in pumping. (Continued on caes.eJffhtt ing company's hospital. A basement base-ment apartment in the building occupied by Mrs. Sarah Taylor and family was badly damaged The bulldozer which cleared the state highway after the storm Saturday morning belonged to the Utah Construction company, part of the equipment being used on construction at the mouth of Dry Fork canyon. MOST SEVERE STORM IN 11 YEARS STRIKES (Continued from page one) The home of Mr. and Mrs. John L. Johnsen on the lower floor ot the Bungalow apartments at W Main street was damaged extensively. ex-tensively. Crews from the Utah Copper company the first five days ot the week removed 1100 tons of rock and muck from the lower floor, rear and sides of the min-J |