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Show j DAMAGE BV FLOOD. A Clond Hurst In ianptlc t'onnli- ?liH's Jxt; For the second time in the course of a year the residents of Manti are the suilVrer.s by a Hood. On the lbth of last August a flood destroyed about S2.300 worth of property, and now on Hund-i-, July Ktli, 1 Mmllar mtsror'une has befallen the people. The damage iSouk Is not so heavy, neithtr was the stream of water so great. For some hours on ruuJay morning morn-ing heavy black clouds had been floating up from the eoutll, Until about o.roc!t Jhtn. when the sky WAsVoVtreJ. TliB thunder Tept Up a ccrlimlous nJUtterlng, and at last cirue a heavy shower, which lasted but a few minutes. Three or four miles up Manti can j on a cloud burst and precipitated precipita-ted the large amount of mol-ture with w hlch the cloud was laden, ou UieliilK OuaccjiHntfr Vt rJifcep au.l cottle laving eaten oil all the vfallDn In the hills near tow n, I there is nothing to hold the water oriuany way arrest its flow. The e-onsetjuence is that a heavy rain in-4uad in-4uad of soaking into the ground "rushes do n the crw-k, flooding" the country lielow and Usually doing more harm thaU.uvpd. In th'j L-lse the Tatc r"th'ea doCn the canyon, carrying with It all the loose soil and trash iu its course. The road through the canyon &3 covered with rocks aud mud to such an extent ex-tent that travel was rendered wll-nlgh wll-nlgh impGulble, , A!onjrtb,rr-i He people had )u r'sS, piabKsand other things to ibrni dams for turning water into the ditehes. Thete are carried along down the stream. The props for the flumu c( Mr. Han-en's foundry were carried away, and the Hume left iu rather n bad condition. The wnler wheel Was thrown out of pf'lio I'J" "i" fof""f 'ist water, and mft of lift tbaadry flooded. A t.tn'i, uelow.the foot bridge was carried away and the street flooded ill eariou; pliers. The log laid across the e-rcek at the n-ar e-f the premises occupied by GuurguA. Iowe,caughtsomeof the floating bni"h aud debrK whleli immediately liegan to pile up In a Urge heap, blocking the lied of the stream ami sending the water out o neitiier side. I tut for tie lodging of the floating matti-r here, the bridge acruM Malll Street would undoubtedly un-doubtedly ha v. beet: Carried away. Alt watt tn" planks were lifted from tlieir positions by the force of the stream flowing under. A little j farther dow u a foot bridge was carries! car-ries! aw ay, and art of a fence. 1 Although the gon bridges are I all in their places, sumo of them are j pretty ladle washed, under the I piers, aud one at least is dangerous j to e Pss The plank" on one bridge ' had to be Hilled mi, to prevent its being earned away. Many of the I ditches are filled up. aonleof the 1 crops are buried up in the mud and 1 the creek is filled with large bould-e-rs. Altogether the damiges can- not lie li?s than a thtfucaiid dollars. .No doubt mueh more would hivb been done, but as so.ui a: it became known that there was work to do I tl'.iri) many willing liamls to assist iHthcworkof clearing out the obstructions ob-structions so that the- water might be kept in Its ehanne-1 as much as pus-ible. About an hour after the fiist rush, thu water liegan to lower aud liefore dark was flowing in the old channel, with but little more water than liefore the storm. Manti Sentinel. |
