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Show i FIERCE STORM CAUSES HEAVY LOSSINPAYSDN Cloudburst at Goshen Pass Responsible for $15,000 Damage to Strawberry Canal Co. PATSON. Auc I. Th (rutMrt Iatorm In th hlMory of Pvmi oo-carr4 oo-carr4 Wdnvadajr venlnr, bclnnln at o'clock and continuing for aT-ral aT-ral hours, A cloudburat at Ooahan 1. M Paa vii raaponalbla for a loaa to ilia Ht ra aKarrv Miirh Ilna Canal com- y PanT of about .15.000. Individual r laaaea to landownara Juat waat of Parson will doubla this Amount. Tha board of director of tha canal company com-pany want over tttalr system Thura-day Thura-day and Sscratary Alfred R. Wilson reports condltlapo aa much woraa ; than rould be conceived without , paraonal visit to tha ecaoa. r CANAL PICLKO. - A Tha wataf raamd dawn tha im tain wherever there was a irully. carry car-ry tnir vraval and boulders, which ware cfump-rd Into tha canal. On tha waat aide of tha mountain lateral II waa undermined for a dletanoa of ft quarter quar-ter of ft mile. A quarter of a mile north of -Goshen pass tha canal waa completely filled for 1M) yarde, and the next quarter of ft mi la waa from on -half to full At lateral tl tha aplllway, ft cement lateral waa waahed out for 1200 feat. A quarter of a mile north of here at -lateral 84 the canal waa filled for 800 yards to threa feet above tha top of ae a true -turc. Tha first flume n lateral 84 waa (really damaged. The aecond flume waa undermined and elirht aeo-tlons aeo-tlons were down. Tha third flume wag down for a distance of thirty faat and tha canal filled at every point below a draw In tha mountain. On tha eaat aide of tha mountain, while tha damage was not qulta ao vreat tq, tha ayatem, tha canal and lateral were filled or partly fUlad over a rreat aactton. It was eetf-matad eetf-matad that 800 aecond feet of water waav'hlna; down each cully en tha mountain. AO AD IWAMPIO, Tha main county roa4 runntnc north and aoutb just west of Pay eon waa a run nine river. Thar was one cut made through several farms twenty feet Wide and from 400 to 700 feat -rang. Chickens, turkeys and , hojrt were drowned and tha water raiaed up past -the floora In many of tha farm homes. One farmer reports I that in a field of two acres of alfalfa, which was cured and bunched ready for hauling, not on fork full of bay remained on tha field. Grain which had baan cut waa f Wftfehed acroee tha field and tha bun-' bun-' J dlea heaped In a great dam. It Is J hard to eatlmate Juat what tkeae In. M dividual loaaes are. Tha water waa ordered out of the canal at tha flret I word of the flood, but It takes aav. I eral hours over tha great dlstanca for I . to drain. The water will ba out ' of tha entire ayatem for several days . and In mm parts it will take tha balance of tha aeaaon to maka tha repairs. |