Salt Lake Telegram | 1917-06-28 | Page 6 | Flood Damage to Reach $1,000,000

FLOOD DAMAGE TO ecnji.000,000 Young Woman Loses Life When Auto Plunges Into Raging Waters. No further detail were received In Salt Lake City today of the damage caused by the breaking laat Vunday of the mammoth dam of the price Biver 1 meat Ion company, near s'alrvlew. Salt Lake frlenda learned with krlef that Mine Hattle Peacock, clerk In a etore at Price, had been drowned In the flood when the automobile In which he had been watching the torrent backed into the water. Her body u recovered. Information also wa received here to th effect that F. K. Clarity, assistant general manager of the Utah lines of the Denver Rio Orande. and Ira R. Browning. stte road engineer, narrowly nar-rowly escaped downing when the railway rail-way motor car In which they were making an Inspection of th damage done by the flood to the railroad, plunged Into the river. No official estimate of the daamsge to the railroad or to th districts-made, districts-made, but It Is generally stated that the loss will reach $1,000,000.