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Show Mammoth Reservoir Endangering En-dangering Great Section Sec-tion in Populous Community; Com-munity; Warning Is Sounded arid Residents Are Making Way to Places of Safety. PHONE OPERATOR GIVES THE ALARM Castlegate, Helper and Other Towns in Path of Possible Sweep of Huge Wall of Water; Railroad Rail-road Trackage in Imminent Immi-nent Peril; Householders Household-ers Removing Effects. The crushing force of huudreds of millions of gallons of water, caused by the melting snow, flowing suddenly into the Mammoth reservoir which impounds the waters of the Price River Irrigation Irriga-tion company, twelve miles northeast of Fairview, Sanpete county, yesterday afternoon caused the concrete core of the immense dam to give way. At an early hour this morning the dam was reported to be rapidly crumbling and the 11,000 acre feet of water which had been stored is rushing down the Price river valley. Residents of Scofield, Helper, Castlegate Castle-gate and Colton have deserted their homes and goue to higher ground to escape es-cape the flood. All nope of saving the darn has beeu abandoned and it is said that forty miles of the main and branch ' lines of the Denver & Rio Grande railroad rail-road may be washed away. Officials were loath to give any estimate of the probable damage, but that it will probably prob-ably reach a huge sum was admitted. Th-' immediate effect of the flood, 1 aside from the damage to farms, bridges and railroad trackage, will be to tcm-1 tcm-1 porarily at least shut off the mines of Carbon county from receiving the supply sup-ply of cars on which they depend fur moving coal to the smelters supplied by the Utah Fuel company. Railroad Men Prepare. Officials of the Denver & Rio Grande at midnight sent out a wrecking crew from Helper and made up a bridgo crew at Halt Lake for instant service. P. K. Clarity, assistant geueral manager in charge of the Utah lines of the L. & R. G., is at Helper. The first break, in the concrete core carried away a section from forty to fifty feet wide and five feet high. Forestry For-estry officials stationed at Pairview wcut to the dam and tendered their services to the irrigation company. Hig trees were blasted and dragged to the reservoir in the hope that they would flow to the break and aid in staying the flow. They only tended to aid in breaking break-ing away more of the concrete. At 2 o'clock this morning the breach had widened to sixty feet for an estimated esti-mated depth of fifteen feet and all hope of paving any of the water has been entirely en-tirely abandoned. Dam Still Crumbling. Efforts to prevent a deluge by the sudden breaking of the entire structure is occupying all of the attention of the officials Several were hopeful that the release of millions of gallons through tho break might sufficiently reduce the pressure on the dam to save the balance bal-ance of the structure. Others, however, declare that from midnight to o'clock the crumbling increased rapidly and that nothing could be saved. Great dilficulty is ftlfo exprriciu-ed because of the necessity for working in the darkncFR and it is expected that with the coming of daylight better results re-sults may be obtained. Telephone Girl Gives Warning. So far no loss of life has been reported, re-ported, but immense damage to growing grow-ing crops are sure to result . The first notice of the flood wan telephoned to farmers by M iss A nnabH Priichct t telephone operator at Kairvicw, who gave warning of the break to ail limned and farms in the path of the flood. Miss I'ril.-lifri t alf-o nollfici H M. Ras-nius.sen. Ras-nius.sen. Mat ion a ;:ent of the Denver t H io Gra n'ie u Kairvicw, who sent tho unrnijif; 10 t i j c Ioi;il uffkrs ot the railroad rail-road compa ny. M. P. ('hfiH'?n.-"n. construction supertn-Icmlcnt supertn-Icmlcnt "f tho lrn;-.atinn company at thi Jam hUc. rcporW-r at an -nrly hour this morn 1 11'-' thai Ihe ouoak was vry crave and thfit he old not U;:Icvp, it would be poHi:'!'- i' f;;ii 1 11 d;im. A crew of men from the Hurrntmdjuir tovtiK wag Wiprcf seJ and si rove fr.-i 11! cally to ?.o t he leaks through PreikH with wks of Kitnd. Iate in tho afternoon the reservoir, (Continued on Pace Three. PRICE RIVER DI BREAKS; PEOPLE FLEE (Continued from Page One.) filled by the unexpected thaws of snow in the 'surrounding mountains, began to overflow. A portion of the earth fill washed away and soon a section of the concrete core forty to fifty feet wide and five feet deep had broken off. During the evening this break became wider and with the gradual washing away of the fill cracks began to appear in the concrete. con-crete. Residents of Scofield, Helper. Castle-gate Castle-gate and Colton were at once warned to move to higher ground. Several thousand thou-sand acres of prairie land at Scofield were flooded early in the evening and a perceptible rise In the' Price river at Colton Col-ton was noted. The water from the break Is rushing down Gooseberry creek into Fish creek and thence into the Price river at Colton. Receive Word of Break. The first notice of the break in the dam was received late yesterday afternoon by George Austin, president of the irrigation irriga-tion company, from the Denver & Rio Grande railroad. Mr. Austin at once prepared pre-pared to leave for the property. Accompanying Accom-panying him on the automobile trip which betran at 11 o'clock last night is John C. Wheelon, engineer of the project. They expect to reach the dam at an early hour today. Associated with Mr. Austin in the Price River Irrigation company are George A. Smith, secretary; John C. Wheelon, engineer, and the following directors: di-rectors: Thomas R. Cutler, Mark Austin, Aus-tin, Tra D. Wines, Thomas Austin and J. Lean to. The company has Its local offices of-fices in t!ie Vermont building., The project was started some nine years ago and was taken over three years later, .by the farmers who are served, the administrative offices being operate;! op-erate;! from tills city. The dam Is now about sixty feet in height and impounds 11.000 acre feet of water, a sufficient supply sup-ply for the irrigation of 10.000 acres of land in the Price river valley. Cost $150,000. Tt was planned to continue the height of the dam to 1 00 feet, so that sufficient! ! water could he stored for 21,000 acres of j land. To date the construction repre- j sents an expenditure o( a pproxiinate' v ' Sirm.ooo. The dam is of the latest approved ap-proved construction, having a center core I j of concrete two feet in thickness, rein-forced rein-forced at Intervals of twenty fct with j reinforced concrete buttresses. The dam at the top spans a reservoir 510 feet wide. The footing of the dam is 100 feet wide and is sunk in bedrock. Original plans for the mammoth dam were drawn by Frank C. KpIscv and A. F. DnremiiH in U"1 and on May ." were approved by Mr. Doromus as state engineer. engi-neer. The orlginn! plans called for h dirt I da m without a core Kn fee: hi eh, -jno ff-rt thu-k at the base, 51i feet wide find with a twpnty-fnnt crest. Later now plans wore suhmi t td and I lie rn;i5t ,)c-tkm ,)c-tkm of th" fonTfi? c'ire wall be cm. This dam villi l it chip whM had been con- R'mcted up to a heitrh! of s':.ly feet! when the hreak o'enrred. j For Storage Purposes. i T h1 rFervrii r was decjenrd to pt ore i I water t'- prvi'-cMit i be re-uiar food I VHir? of The F'rii'f rier ;ind we r ! i'-riiiunt info us genprn'b- during1 th' i ninili of .Inly each yer vbn t;e naVf I of th" n'" bfiinr too lo.- (o ti:r-vh 1 ! puT'-iem for i'r;.-nion purno.-es. Wititj ' n"'" "ir-o 'e- of wa:"- s'orace ;t ; the Tin" t -n i'T-rsfh in the da m o"urred ! thT'1 lrM--" I'i'ip'i 'n rem I nimnwF ! aoiiT .';.';,i.,',,h'"'1 cai!fns of ?-a:r, r I enonch t.- irra'--- in.iviu a -rt.p- fnr a pc- ' no i of r--hap 'o'lr T-pont'-o. T'"'? hr;i l in th- Mpmntli rlnn re- j ; i V.N s::ir!.i;- r-nk 'i e.'-.rl-.- s::n;m-r i in' 1 14. t h" 1 t r-h;n-,.vn rl.im hmk1, ! ! n'';'e 'nr. e:-!r."i h'e drtrrai:-- to -roj.s and I prnr":-:;-. tv Hr-nrciipr.'. bo - ! je'.-r. th s:a'-- 'V'd bop.rd us able to I ; jr"-Fh :'-e ; : -, s ' urdcr tir prni--. ! 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