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Show I WORST FLOOD III I HISTORVJF ZlflN iM! City Creek a Raging, Frothy, IB 'Yellow Stream, Full of -9k, Debris. Ik , LARGE FORCES OF MEN H building embankments Everything Possible Being Done H to Hold the Damage to lilt ' Minimum. jfjfl City creek, along Xortli Temple street zWfc ' from 'Fifth West to Ninth West, is a rapiDfr, froth- yellow stream, carrying ttaKI Jill manner of tlebris, from slumps of !ffl 1rccs to boulders one foot in diameter. tUWfi ' 'Tho roaring of the stream ean be hoard kH- ior a (stancc ot" T'cet from iis tawf banks. Tlie worst floods in tho history fflK I of the city were yesterday ravaging the street along North Temple, between ijjK' Fifth West and the Jordan river, on jM Eleventh West. ml"- J. T. "Raleigh, superintendent of $jfl streets and alleys, had a large force of men at work on Frida- and Friday iwKi night doing everything possible to pre-W pre-W vent the flood from getting out of con- trol. A large number oT tenuis were uflf employed hauling material for ombank-mml ombank-mml meats which wero thrown up along tho Hl sidewalks on North Temple to prevent OEf' the water from damaging the property iflf' of the residents in that section of the jS& city, Afc 0 o'clock Friday night, these '.jHfr embankments, had been raised to wo fcef al)0Ve tne street, with tho water nfll rapidly creeping up to their top. ( nB Embankments Baised. IB &v 12 o'clock Friday night, the cm-'rtK cm-'rtK baukments bad been raised three feet, Sf with the water flowing over in a few Sf ilaees. Superintendent Raleigh said riBf that tho floods were the worst he hud 0"v er seen in his Jong experience. Due tfjXr to the fact that it takes from twelve tfra to fifteen hours for tho water from iflf molting snow in ihc mountains to Teach tfBf the c.itv. the floods reach their highest point between tho hours of 2 and 4 yml o'clock in tho morning. Everything (Bf- possible is being done to prevent further gKf 'dninnge. and a large force of men was Xjj out all last, night patroling the banks K of the streams. am The grade of the street and the car iM) linf between Eighth and Ninth West, IwL and between Ninth and Eleventh West. Bft lias "been ruined, the entire street be- ing covered with water from eight to MUl- ten inches in depth. Where the ear SKI turns at the fairgrounds, the embank- i 9v- incuts thrown up on either side of the Sif. street are at least four feet high and j Six the car company had to abandon the i U' use of the loop, running the cars back 2k on tho amc track they came on. S Racetrack Threatened, ijflfe Kridav night, the water again broke : into tho" racetrack aud was only stopped lK from ruining the track by the combined MK- efforts of the entire force of men. At t lie Oregon Short Line depot, the water K flooded 'the street, in front of the depot IK and also the vards of tho railroad. By Jmfo constructing 'a heavy dam. the water laflr was prevented from doing any further damage at this point. On West Temple street, the men em- ployed in grading the street were .driven away from the work by the water flood-vXI- ing 'that street. With the present hot -flfll weather continuing, the outlook for 'JBmk greater floods than have ever been 3f known in Salt Lake has become scrious. "Sflj? Those who have the situation in hand TfS report that thev have tho water under coutrol at present and anticipate no l2ll great damage from the floods. The .gSlar 51i t est reports of the other streams m sSflSr the citv are to the effect that, al-MJI al-MJI 1 hough "tho water is rising, there is notb 'gjfj ing to fear from these sources. |