| Show n 50 Believed O Dead in o Snow Slide at 0 O District Stop Flow of Streams Providing S Salt lt Lake Water Supply Power Plant Shut ShutDown ShutDown ShutDown Down Much Damage Damage Damage Dam Dam- age Is Done Giant in City Creek and Big Cottonwood canyons early Wednesday morning completely cut cutoff cutoff of off the flow of ot City creek for a time and so reduced the flow of ot Big Cottonwood that It was necessary for the city to open the gates of 01 Mountain Dell r reservoir and draw on the storage supply for several hours The reduction In flow of ot Big Cottonwood was such that the Utah Light and Power company Company had to shut down Its Cottonwood power plant during the morning At 10 o'clock in the morning I Iwas It was reported that City creek ha had broken through the slide that tha choked this stream and the flow In the high line Une service was re re- re stored From Big Cottonwood It was re reported reported re- re por ported ed that the water was was workIng working working work work- Ing its way through the snowdrift caused by the slide which occurred above the Stairs and It wag was expected expect expect- ed that the normal flow In that tha creek would be restored during the day EXCEEDS YEAR AGO Reports from Brighton Tuesday morning showed that there was an additional l fall tall of inches during during during dur dur- ing Tuesday and Tuesday night making a a. total of ot seventy one Inches on the sheds Wednesday morning or a little more In depth that lay on the sheds there a year ago However the aggregate wafer wafer wa wa- fer er of ot the accumulated accumulate slow this year is js less than that 6 of bf a year so that water value vallIe t this ls year y ar Is 1 still ill ill- below lastY last las last Y year yer w wr r f For r some re unexplained ii reason til the fall tall at Brighton was less than a at other points City creek high line reported a fall of ot sixteen Inches while hile at at the tile Twentieth ward tank the fall was vas fourteen inches At Mountain Dell the fall faU was eighteen Inches making a total depth there thereat at present of ot three feet The falat fall fal fallat fallat at the mouth of ot Big Cottonwood canyon was also reported as ns eighteen 1 Inches Sunnyside reservoir reservoir reservoir reser reser- voir reported a fall of 01 fourteen Inches HEAVY WATER CONTENT The new precipitation at Brighton ton registered a water content of or 78 inch which Is considered an exceptionally heavy water content The storm of 01 Tuesday and Tuesday night Is by far the best snowstorm snows of the winter thus far and water department officials feel that It gives assurance that there will not be any serious lack of water during the coming season The greatest fall of 01 snow for any hour 24 period in the history of 01 Salt Lake with o one one e exception resulted from rom the storm which started early early early ear ear- ly Tuesday morning according to data compiled by the local weather bureau The amount which fell during the twenty-four twenty hours was officially measured in the city and county building park and the measurement measurement meas meas- showed 1002 inches while the greatest previous snowfall in any twenty-four twenty hours was fourteen inches which fell In this section In November 1908 The storm accompanied by by a fairly high wind was general over the Intermountain section but was accompanied by freak frea conditions In various localities There was was' vas no new snow at t Park arl City while twentysix twentysix ty six Inches of 01 new snow fell over overa a small area between Lynndyl and Milford 1 with but five inches all allaround allaround around that area main highway will be Continued on page 8 8 section 2 18 Is Known Death Toll Toll I in Utah Disaster Emergency Emergency Emergency Emer Emer- gency Calls Sent to p. p f S. S L. L Hospitals h. h i Doctors Rushed tt I. I to D. D District BINGHAM IAM F Feb 1 17 It Itis Itis is M believed that more than fifty may be the death toll at the the- i j f in Sap and Doty j gulches at the head of Care Carf Fork Bingham ham at 9 o'clock this morning The total dead known numbers eighteen I About seven have been taken out put alive aliye some of them in in- in Among the dead who have been identified are Lloyd Nelson Ben Benson Thomas Thomas' s 1 Doback Mrs William J Roy Halliday Tommy Tibby Tibby- a small boy Among the h missing so far as' as known arc arc- Mrs J. J H. H Rent Rentz Rentz Mrs J. J T T. McDonald J. J A. A K Kaywood d. d Mr K Kay aywood's woods wood's wife was in injured n n- n seriously Mr Kaywood's mother is missing and also his liis little boy Mrs is missing miss and year 19 t daughter is out with a broken leg Mrs was burnet burnett in her house An unidentified Austrian has has' just been brought out burned so badly that he cannot be identified F. F A. A Wardlaw superintendent oJ of of- the Utah Delaware Mining company com corn pany Is apprehensive that the death toll might go to Eme Emergency genc calls were sent to Salt Lake hospitals hospitals' hos 1 1 Sot doctors and nurses and the- the Is being town r ransacked for blankets and medical medica supplies s. s The ruins ar are still burning from twelve tWel to fifteen buildings Including boarding boarding board board- ing houses Rooming louses houses and residences reside were destroyed and Jumbled up in a huge mass of ot wreckage which is burning Part of ot this is covered by thirty-five thirty feet of snow an and J. J the smoke coming from the wreckage overcomes some of 01 the rescue workers The entire Utah Delaware shift has been called out for the rescue work The bodies are being taken down to ODonnell O'Donnell undertaking parlors In Ia sleighs It Jt being impossible to get up by automobile automobile automobile auto auto- mobile on account of 01 the heavy snow Many people are moving out of Metals Gulch In fear of 01 another another another an an- other i iThe The great business of extracting ore from these famous mines has been forgotten In the effort to save save human lives The leaders of 01 the relief re- re re relief e- e lief work realize that all will be dead unless they are freed within a few more hours The sheriffs sheriff's deputies and th the the town police poUce force have found foun n no a l disorder and no disturbance Is is feared t Mining l officials have given the the f relief workers every tool that can can be used In rushing the removal o of 01 J l the huge wall of snow The fires that burst forth soon soon after alter the snow had spent Is force upon the helpless frame cabins were started by overturned heating heating- and cook stoves These have since died out The McDonald boarding house houlle was one of ot those crushed by the t fall The first three bodies were we're removed removed removed re- re moved at about 1030 when the workers reached the first house Carr Fork was practically Isolated ed Cd from fron Bingham by the snow and r the first pathway between the districts districts districts dis dis- was opened by horses Later the roadway was opened to permit trucks and automobiles to go to tho the disaster scene HUNDREDS TO RESCUE 1 Hundreds of ot workers from rom every l i mine In the gr greatest copper district I In the world were called to aid In the rescue work Miners liners were j called from their shifts shUts while hundreds hun- hun A who had Just quit work In I Ithe the night trick were rushed to the J I I snowbound area S The greatest snowfall In Bingham J In y years ars plied piled the snow white substance substance substance sub- sub stance high on the mountain side The tailings dump at the Highland Boy mine is believed to haye hare given way forcing the snow onward As the great slide d imp Impetus It added to its Us volume until as it neared leared the center o of the mountain It had attained a height of 01 50 1 I feet Down th mountain side It came as though some giant monster was rolling oiling a snowball The houses lj that hat had once in the gils- gils I 0 v morning caved in like a tissue Us- Us sue paper doll r r I IThe The cries of the prisoners could b be 59 heard by the first to arrive on on the scene 5 I Then a fire broke out Tho The smoking debris threw a a more mora ghastly shadow up i the dirt begrimed be- be bei i v grimed miners a as they feverishly worked with shovels and picks to reach their fellow workers and friends SCREAMS HEARD s 's Screams could be he heard from rom the little Ittle cabin of Mrs Sirs Rimby who has has long op Operated rated a boarding bouse house in inSap In InSap Sap gulch Then the flames ate their heir way around the house and there here was silence The workers Lear fear ear she soo was urn d to to death S 'S GIANT SLIDES CU CUT T OFF S. S L. L WATER SUPPLY From page 1 I section 1 kept open to travel said sald Gam Haward Hazard assistant highway engineer engineer engineer engi engi- neer when asked the condition of the highways Two truck plows and a caterpillar were early this morning p put j in operation on the Salt Ogden Lake-Ogden highway the caterpillar caterpillar caterpillar cat cat- being used on the Ogden end of the stretch Plows and caterpillars caterpillars cat cat- are at work north of f Ogden Ogden Ogden Og Og- Og- Og den so that you jou ou can say that the main artery of ot travel north will be kept open and the same applies south from Salt La Lake eThe e. e The road to Magna is being cared for by truck plows and il if the snow drifts badly a caterpillar will be brought from the point of ol the mountain From the point of ol the mountain southward into and through Utah county there is ample equipment to keep the roads clear Parleys canyon will be e blocked for at least two days while Weber canyon will also be bo blocked but for how long it canno cannot be said the detours detours de do- tours In Jn that canyon making it dif dlf- If- If to handle Spanish Fork canyon Is also blocked I But you can say one thing sure and that is that the highway from Logan to Cedar Cit City will be kept open as also the road from Nephi to o Panguitch REACHES PARK LINE The outer edges of the storm area include Yellowstone park on the north Denver and Cheyenne on the east Flagstaff Ariz on the south and Winnemucca Nev Nov on the west according to reports reaching here SNOWPLOWS AT WORK Snowplows were at work also on the Salt Magna Lake-Magna road it is said while the Park Heber City-Heber highway was passable only to sleds Highways are sloppy at Manti and muddy around Duchesne Telephonic advices advices' from St St. George Wednesday morning were to the effect that the rain there Tuesday had already had a marked effect on gardens and that garden truck was suddenly shooting out of the ground like weeds Street car service in Salt Lake Lako was maintained without a a. hitch by bythe bythe bythe the Utah Light and Traction company company company com com- pany and thereafter being kept on the Job throughout the night The depth of snow at Logan as measured measured measured meas meas- and reported by the Utah Power and Light company was eighteen inches FOURTEEN INCHES AT NEPHI S. S D. D Boswell local recorder of weather conditions at Richfield re reported reported reported re- re ported to his chief Mr Alter Altor five Inches of snow at that place with six inches at Monroe and one Inch at Koosharem J J. J R. R Bateman ob observer observer observer ob- ob server at Panguitch r reported two Inches of new snow v there Twelve to fourteen inches were reported at Nephi Tuesdays Tuesday's snow according to Mr Alter practically makes up the seasonal sea scar deficiency in IIi this vicinity and all danger of a water shortage next summer has has' been overcome Due to February being unusually stormy there has been Inches of precipitation during the month compared with the normal of Inches We Ve e are now above normal on the average precipitation since October 1 I Mr Alter said DEEP AT CLEAR LAKE There Is 26 inches es of new snow Between Salt Lake and Clear Lake a point between Lynndyl and nd MUford Milford Mil Mil- ford according to a W weather ather re report report resort re- re port sort given out Wednesday by the chief dispatcher for foi- the Los Angeles Angeles Angeles An An- geles Salt Lake railroad Beyond that hat point the snow Is much lighter ranging five inches Ind in ind d depth the report says Between Salt Lake and Ogden the depth of th new snow ranges from 10 to 14 inches according to a re report report report re- re port announced by by the dispatcher of ot th the Oregon Il Line railroad The storm prevailed at Cache Junction and over to Logan and Is from 10 to 14 inches deep at that point The report also said that the he storm was general front from Logan to Malad Idaho and fl from Cache Cachs Junction to Pocatello Ni Kew V snow at Preston is very verv lIght f. f from Brigham City to Malad Mala it from 8 to 10 inches J sty r r OGDEN OLDEN Feb 17 AP Snowfall AP-Snowfall Snowfall r-Snowfall Snowfall during the 24 hO hours houis ending at 6 o'clock this morning had a water content equal to the normal February February February Feb Feb- precipitation officials at the weather eather bur bureau au reported The precipitation pre II measured inches Snow was still falling after the heaviest fall faU of of- the winter |
