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Show FURTHER DETAILS ON FLOOD DISASTER; SEARCH FOR ONE BODY AT FARM1NGT0N WILLARD. Aug. U. National guardsman from troop F, On Hundred Sixteenth cavalry, stationed sta-tioned at Blighara City, under oomrsasd Pspnln Kami Fslsl son sr patrolling th ' flood devastated area her today. I Property damage estimated In exees of ISM.ao was wrought by th deluge which at : o'clock Monday night poured down over thla eettlement. burying seversl hundred acres under a msntl of mud and debrla, at placea reaching reach-ing a depth of mor than eight feet. Search I still going forward for trace of th automobile party which , Irvln Parry reported as seeing on tha bridge over Wlllard creek, revealed, by a flash of lightning Just befor th storm broke. Parry waa In tha yard of hla home whan ha saw the automobile auto-mobile In tha Inatant of Illumination. Illumina-tion. From tha ensuing darkness came oriee of women and children which he heard distinctly. The next lightning flash disclosed a twenty-foot wall of water towering tower-ing above th bridge but no ves-tlge ves-tlge of the automobile, PARTY MISSING. Farry' atatamenta hav been partially eorroborsted. according to Sheriff John H. Zundel of Box-elder Box-elder county. But a day long search by guardemen and volunteers volun-teers failed of discovering any trace of tha III fated party. This little town, claiming distinction dis-tinction aa tha first eettlement In Boxelder county, la In sorrowful ruin today. But tha work of restoration haa already commenced and volunteer workere from other sections of the county are assisting assist-ing th townspeople hare In repairing re-pairing a far aa poeelble the teniflo havoc wrought by the greatest torm In th history of th etate. - FARMIN'OTON, Aug. H. Searcher Search-er for th bodlee of flood victim her thla morning war cheered with th announcement that their number would )e augmented before be-fore night with nearly Sou worker from nearby towna In tha valley. The Oregon Short Liu sent fifty employe to aaalet In tha search, 8 perry's flour mill at Ogden fifteen, fif-teen, Ogden police department twenty, and cltlaens of Layto numbering num-bering 100 ar expected here In a few hours. Mora than S00 ettlxena of Farmlngton and vicinity have been engaged In th work since yesterday yes-terday morning. FARMINOTON. Aug. H. With the discovery early today of the upper up-per part of the body of Mrs. W. jr. Wright In a culvert under the state highway north of this town, and the finding of th body of George Jackson of Salt Lake, tha last of th quartet of boys who war camping camp-ing In the Farmlngton canyon whon ' Monday night's flood caused by a cloudburst near tha head of th canyon can-yon awept their camp wey nd carried all four to their deaths, all the missing persons reported have been accounted for except W, J, Wright of Ogden. 'The body of George Jackson was found In tha canyon by a searching party shortly after 11 o'clock. That of Mr a. Wright waa brought to light more than an hour befor nd both were Immediately taken to the Improvised morgu In th court-houaa court-houaa here. FATHER HEARS FATAL NEWS. Harrleon Jackeon, father of the drowned boy. waa In a nearby group when the word waa paeesd that his son's body had been unearthed. un-earthed. He rushed Immediately to the snot and trled-to do all the work of digging away tha debrla which still partly covered the body. .His grief waa pitiable. Bystsnder reasoned rea-soned with him lo permit the work era to gst the.body out and hav It debrla yeeterday and It I supposed , their wagon em crushed to spllnt-sr spllnt-sr In th flood. m THREE BOY SAVED. Information was received here today to-day that lues Anderson, who was reported aa missing In the flood. Is alive and well at Salt Lake. Telephonic -advlc from Morgan a4ae alsarad ue ae mreiacy oi tlareev boye from there who climbed the eastern alopa of the mountains and came down the Farmlngton canyon Monday. . Th boy got through befor th storm and ar bow sat at home. Slowly tha work of restoring th atat highway and th Bamberger Electric line to a eemblance of their normal eondltlona I progressing. Work of removing th last traces of mud and debrla from Lagoon r eort la aald to b nearly finished. Tha atat hlThwy department haa not aet any time aa yet for th opening- to traffic of th stats highway. high-way. Deputy Sheriff Horace Van Fleet, who la In charge of tha searching partlea, procured th aervteea of two motorboat thi morning for patrolling Great Salt lake. Sine th body of Mr. Wright waa carried car-ried all of three mile by th torrent. tor-rent. It I believed that If her bus-band's bus-band's body Is found It will be between be-tween her and Great Salt lake. It not In tha lake. Th bod fee of th three Salt Lake boy who were drowned tn the flood In Farmlngton canyon hav been brought In to Salt Lake and Identified by their mother or other relative Th bodlee were brought her oft tile special Oregon Ore-gon Short Line train last night. Tha body of Wllrord lsaao Laog-ton Laog-ton waa Identified by hla mother by a larva black mole on Ilia back and a cavity lis one of hla teeth. The fao waa eo badly torn and brulaed that hla mother ceuld net recognise him by cla features. She said, however, that aha waa quite sure eh could recognise him by hi Up and mouth. Howevei, they wer not sur tor some time ss to whether It waa th body of Ueorg Jackson or th Langtoa boy. The body of Oeorge- Jackson was found shortly after II o'clock today to-day ' In Varmlngion canyon west of th pViwerhouee' by a searching party. It waa taken In charge by hla rather, who was preaent at the time th discovery waa made. FUNERAL SERVICES FRIDAY. Funeral services for young Langton will be held Friday after-nnnn after-nnnn at 1 crclock in the Twenty- conveyed her. - It waa aom minutes min-utes befor he could control himself. him-self. The father Is an engineer on th Salt Lake Route. With the finding of the reet of Mre. Wrlrht'a body ao far from where ahe and her husband were supposed to have camped for tho night In their covered wagon, there Is much doubt her as to where It I beat te eeek the body of her husband. AU hop for finding him alive Is now given up. Spokes of wagon wheels wer noticed In the An area . of several hundred acre her. t North Wlllard and at Prry wer laid waate. burled under thousands of tons of mud. rock and timber torn from the steep hlllsldea and wrenched from tha heart of tha eettlement when the floodgates of the Wasatch rang opened wide and loosed great torrsnto 'that, racing down Perry and Wlllard - creeke. - debauched de-bauched on tha narrow etretch of plain neetled between the mountain moun-tain and tha Great Salt lake. TOWN DEMOLISHED. Both at Perry and North Wlllard a eonalderable property damage wae accomplished by the storm. Wlllard proper, however, stood the brunt of the disaster when Wlllard creek proved - sorrowfully Inadequate Inade-quate to tha runoff from the atorm and spewed Its overload wHh terrific ter-rific I force, laying waste great areas of fertile farm land and practically prac-tically deraollahlng; thi town. In respons to th proffer of Oovernor Mabey, county officials availed themeelve of th Brtgham City unit of the national guard. The governor, acoompenle-1 by Adjutant Ad-jutant Oeneral W. O. William, arrived ar-rived her early Tueeday afternoon, and after a brief Inspection of the ruins, assured th people of Wlllard that reeldenta In mor fortunate sections f th atat would aid aad auecor them. Appreciation of tha tender of as- slatsnce mede by President Woss eighth ward chapel, 7 SO Weet Third North stmt. Bishop A. P. A. Glad ot that ward will conduct th service. The body I at the Eddlngton undertaking establishment establish-ment at Sugarhouse. Th bodlee of Ted and Vernon Rudx were Identified by relatives of th family. Their bodies were ot brulaed badly and wer easily recognised, according to en aunt. The boy were th two oldest sons ot their widowed mother, Mrs. Delia Rudy. There are two other children, a boy IS year of eg and a daughter, 0. Kuneral eervlcee will b held Thursday afternoon at S o'clock from tha. Twenty-ninth ward dispel, between Ninth and Tenth Weet on Third North etreet-Biehop etreet-Biehop W. W. Emery will eonduet th eervlc. Th bodies ar at ths Josepi William Taylor undertaking undertak-ing establlahment. All Boy Scouts In Salt Lake are Beaaon of th Salt Lake chamber of . commsrc was telegraphed the chamber by Mayor Harvey Wood-yatt Wood-yatt last night. Mrs. Mary Ellen Ward and Mr. Ague Mason Ward Buffered death when tha Ward horn was pulverised pulver-ised under the chock of th ruehlng waters. Sylvia Ward. II, with her aunt and grandmother when death met them, experienced a miraculous eecap and waa picked up from a haystack whsr ahe landed after being earned a quarter of a mile In tha .torrent. - Dan Harding and Blahop J. Hubbard Hub-bard rescued tha little girl and H. B. Skinner of Ogden rushed her to the Dee hospital at that place, from where reports thla morning are ahe will recover. TORRENT CARRIES DEATH. . The torrent racing down Wlllard canyon, banked high by the preclpl-toue preclpl-toue eldes of ths narrow defile. asked n a general order Issued today to-day ts b en band at the Oregon bliort Lin depot at 7 o'clock tomorrow to-morrow morning to go t Fs.rm.lng-tce Fs.rm.lng-tce on a apeclal train and assist In the work of searching for the bvdlee of vlctlmc of the flood. Ac many aa Inland te go should report their Intention lo their reepectlve eeout masters a early a they can thi evening. At th Farrlngton garage It was announced today that tha wrecking car would be eent to th flood-swept flood-swept district to seal st In tb recovery re-covery of ll automobile still stuck In the mud or submerged In debrla Th eervtce of th wrecker will be free ot charge. spilt at the mouth of tbe gorge The couth arm of tha flood wiped out the residence and outbulldlngo at the Earl Ward home, drowned atock and poultry and burled the place elx feet under mud. The came flood wiped out the home of Mr. Mary El)n Ward and brought death to bereelf and Mra. Earl Ward, who was with her mother-in-law when the storm came. Property damage waa too cxtcn-civc cxtcn-civc end too general to permit of enumeration. Hardly a place in Wlllard proper but Buffered come censtderabl damage. Practically ell cropc wer destroyed and Investments Invest-ments In home. mchlnery, tock and lands wiped out by th flooding flood-ing water. A three-ton boulder hurtled through the cement walla ot the powor houee In Wlllard canyon, eompletoly wrecking- the valuable equipment. Several automobiles be Ufnging to reeldenta are burled In the mud and at leaet two machlnee from out of town are similarly burled bu-rled with no trace yet having been found of the occupenta who were apparently driving along the atate highway when the mountain of wa-i ter carried the machlnee eeveral hundred feet from the roadbed and tipped them over. HAVE NARROW EtARE. Morris Abrahameon.and daughter of Oar lend experienced a hairbreadth hair-breadth eecape from the fate believed be-lieved to have been visited on lesa fortunate autoUts caught tn the atorm. They heard the roar of the approaching flood and, jumplna from their auto took refuge on a store porch. A moment later the water rumbled over the highway carrying their machine onequarter mile before dumping It In a peach orchard and burying It with mud. Two homes . were aaved from wreckage br a hay-filled earn, which lodged In the treea la front and diverted the water to either side. - ' The roods at North Wlllard and rerrr did considerable damage te the field and the state ighwsy Is buried deep in mud tor aeveraJ hundred yaxde. ' ' i |
