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Show Davis County Fanners See Year's Work Swept Away and Destroyed By Streams Usually Benevolent By Harvey Hancock ur treacherous tnunt Rteki reek. t vie crmk. Sm crwk and 'acminaton canyon crack, which. rt death and destruction In theii an at Familnrton Monday, wera mer. meanderlnc brooks today. II ney had personality, on mls-ht aay that they war almoat repent. " ca-erly eeekln a chennel by which to undo all tha frlihtful ,m of one-half hour1 rampase. For yaara thoaa four little etream had resuscitated tha farmere- (rain when It wee eeorched. wetered tha tb vexetablee, tha pumpkin, and watermelona. An old Nomnun would hara called tham tha Friendly Friend-ly Powara which coma from tha hand of divinity. - " Tat Monday thoaa traan flalda that thay had kpt fruitful wara daalroyad. Hundrada of aeraa of farm land, with watarmalona rlpan- ln. pumpkin turnlnf yallow. hay rdy for tha mowar and (rain braaklna Into taaaala. wara covarad with mTra. bouldara. traaa and da-n da-n ranaln In dapth from ona to flva faat. If tha old Noraa phlloa-ophy phlloa-ophy of Ufa waa ballavad today ona mlKht aay that tha Jot una. thoaa nura, ahacry balnsa of damonlae rharaetar, had baan Tlctorloua In tha Intarnacln faud with tha frlandly iroda. vha- womrvAwisHE. Farmara from North Ccntarrllla to North Karmlnvton whoaa eropa wara daatroyad war In ona fall awtwp daprlvad of a Hfa'a aubalat-nce. aubalat-nce. Juat aa a ftnanclar may b rulnad by a "bear movamanf on tha atock market, mo hundreda of tlllara of tha aoll watched their year Income waahad away by ona eurre of water. Ona woman laet night, looklnc oyer tha damaee. aald. "They muat have had lota of fun out at Farmlnrton." It waa a etrlklnc example of one that did not know the eltuatlon that existed. on the camplnc trip, haa not been located, and many fear that It la burled under hundreda of feet of rock or carried out Into tha Great Salt lake. .Vli .mrchln Party, compoeed or 160 farmara af Davie county and Boy Soout (roup of 0dn. continued contin-ued the eearch uncaaalnciy all day. when the bottle were not found In tn canyon they turaed their ener-(lea ener-(lea toward the lake. bllevin( that the IKhtneaa of the wel(ht of the body would carry it Into the lake. Tha bodlee were rushed to the courthouse, where, before hundreds of bowed head, thay war waehed and cleaneed on the courthouse lawn. All day ajurlona mothers and father, slater and brother waded through the mud waist deep to aee them and look for loved onea wno were. missing from home. Shortly after noon Harrison Jackeon and his daughter, V lrs-lnl Jackson, arrived, ar-rived, after wading through the debris from Centervtlle. CANNOT IDENTIFY KIN. ' The little girl waa found sitting en the front atepe of the court-houee, court-houee, big tears welling In her eye. She looked lonesome and pathetic "la that your brother?" abe waa aaked. "I don't know I don't know! He Is too badly mutilated, but I think he U. I know , the other "boy Is Vern Rudy, though." aha aald without with-out shedding a tear. Many men who had looked on the battered bodies without a quiver turned away and tear came to their eyes at tha sight of the little girl. lee cream aodea and malted milk could not be procured at any of the drug etorea during the day. Dependent De-pendent upon carbonated water furnished by the power houee, which waa partially destroyed, none could be secured, and thoee looking for a dally refreahment war disappointed. IpU All mankind ! afforta of tha put to conquor and aubdu natur; dtaplt all th In rent ion a, man still finds hi ma if vary much puny orw'.ura, dependant upon tha work In of phyaical natura. A rray pall panadad, tha Itlfatad etty yaatarday. Kvary man dmpped hla customary tabor and joined tha rescua bands that wara searching for tha daad, Rallaf aoclaty workers, work-ers, woman of staunch character, dropped their sewlnc and their housework and flurui tocether an Improvlaad ktchenatta In tha shadow of tha red brick courthouse that housed tha dead. AU day hungry workers, as they came in from the hunt bespa 1 1 ered with mud from head to foot, wara fad hot coffee, pork and baana. and sandwiches, Tha work waa in chares of Mrs. Radio A. Clark ot tha Farming ton Relief society. SURVIVOR TILLS STORY. Not one of tha campers In the canyon lived to tall the story of the lllfated avalanche. Ona can aaslly imaajins them, however. sitting down to their steaminff supper, laugh Inn and eingtng and watching tha flashes of lightning; play tag With' ths mountain peaks. Then of BARN WASHED AWAY. Heroic deeds always prevail tn great case of emergency, and many wera evident yaatarday. Hyrum Ford, whoaa house waa In tha path of Rick's creek, was milking his cows In tha barn when of a sudden the water rushed Into that at rue -ture. With him waa hla hired man. Both men grasped tha ladder and reached the upper part of ths barn, only to find It of no avail, aa the barn crashed in. and tha men were carried one-half mile weat In ths deluge. Mrs. Ford was alone In tha house, f he went to tha rr of tha house and peered out, and between flashes of lightning could sea tha swirling, black water surging about tha houee. Ona can easily Imaa-ine tha agony of thoaa dark hours of ths night aa aha waited, fearing every minute that tha house would ha carried away and fearing for the aafety of her husband. Finally Ford, crawling waist deep in mire and mud. ragalned the house after three hours' struggle. Hundreda of other Incidents mads ths day one-of pat hoe and mourning, mourn-ing, and every village In tha atate this morning was eendinr aid and offer of aid to rarminfton. ' a eudden to be struck by a wall of water, bearing grinding rocks and huge cotton wooda. Death muat hav been Instantaneoue. The camp was entirely obliterated and pieces of ths tent were found ml lee from the acene where -tha camp was pitched. ' . Tha first object found by the rescua res-cua party at dawn yeeterday morning morn-ing waa a pair of overalls with the fishing license In the pocket bearing bear-ing the 'nam of Wilfred Langton. Boon after a body, tenibjy mutilated muti-lated and battered, was found ons snd one-half mile below the first crossing, where the camp was pitched. It was floating on a sea of mud. evidently buoyed to the eurfscs by Its light wslght. On hour later another body one mile further west than the flret was picked up in a field by another group of reecue workers. It waa later identified aa Vernon Rudy. jiler In the day another body was found, only a abort distance from where the flrt waa located. The leg waa protruding through the mud. - . WOMAN'S BODY MISSINfJ. During th search two legs, supposed sup-posed to be thoee of Mr. W. J. Wright of Ogden. wer found In the mire, separated from each other by a distance of more than a mile. Intensive eearch all day and last night failed to reveal any other parts of tha body. Tha body of W. .1 Wright, who was with hla wife |
