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Show SBBBBBkBBsjr, IX SUMMIT COl'XTV. rolonta Watfr. Damage hr a btrjilen Frrslist, Watulilp, tlio former county seat of Summit Ccliuty, sltuiied at the man lh of Silver Creek t-t nytjr,-ttis to lKve lost !tf fclofr. there was a time when it was quite a business point, but it has become a quiet vil-Iige. vil-Iige. Its retrogression has been cauivU by the removal of the county seat, the stoHiai of the wagon re-ad travel by IhelMillJ'nttor Uieti'l-Uvl, and thepoisoulngof the war by Uie mills up at the Paik. The fouling foul-ing of this once beautiful stream should Le checked. These great mills shuli lie forced to Sittle the tailings from their mills and not allow al-low the vat stream of flllii lo lollow dow 11 the ehantiel of the creek, carrying car-rying death iu its volume. Tills water, when turned on the meadow, to poisotiB that It kills hursts thit cat It, and If ardmafe. driik the ttraler they gralually lt tiieirstrengtli v (hat, when driven, llieydrupiu the liamrs. ltangt horses that url uk ef it get o that they will take nu other water, but they get short winded and Io?e tlieir strength. Where it stand, in pools it cunts a fearfully bad smell, ai'd yet the officials Iiave Iikcii no action to pnitect the poor aglctiltui-ist aglctiltui-ist against Ins s trongtr utttibor. Hie si-op pnfpetis at V.Jiislnp, HoVtesville ami Coalville were nev'er lietler. Hojleavlllo expects to have a lostotttee ill a short lime, a titotmaster having been api-oiuted. Yt-terdsy lunda. the " nil )thii re-gioH wits vi-ited by .1 lieavy thunderstorm thun-derstorm mid ciouibur-is, the column col-umn of water striking in .-ring HolliwaUive t'10 workiiigsof Ihc Home Coal Coniuii 's inliie ami at tj'toii, on Chalk Creek, whieli pre.-duced pre.-duced a fre-het.tlid did considerable tlamagi. The force of the watir ua-hetlawav a great deal of the -tick dump anil carried it do.mover lie lit Ids ami into Hie river. The Weber at IM10 rose from ftur to live feet in one hour. Fields of I.i. erne v. ere entirely destroyed, rhe railrcad trail, vuls subnergeil lieiwecn lUho and Coalville and the 1 ridgesi d-imaisl so thst 1.0 trains have jossed over tlie road as vvt The county I ritlgc la Coatv ille came iuar Uuig ua.s11edaw.1y, tlie aliutiiieuts at tine end I eing gou- so that the bridge is not p-ctnWt. Wh lie this Ho-xl was in progre- people lift tluir In mes i- har, as 111 my of the lioUM were in liuniini nt danger dan-ger and the viater ent tesl theai. iardens wire covered with debris, and lud not the abutments of the riilroud bridge alve Coalville given waythewlulo seething mass of debris de-bris anl water wnulti Inve lesn driven through the tnwu. The ilio'i: is tstiinate.1 at several thou-aud tlolbrs. The t Herts of the lrt-1 et are reported even worse at L" tun than In t'ualville, and the r.al lielweeti there and hero is uastutl tKit, and every briJge in c ;halk Cret k Is gone. A tcni'tor it" mail is lieii g lili.dup tilts Iwrtli side or Chalk Creek. At HuytsviIL thti llooil was quite heavy aLso, but not much damage vvai Jont. ;t. t:. JiA'aiirirr. C0.M.VI i.i.r, July 21, lb9l. |