Deseret Evening News | 1901-07-11 | Page 1 | Debris Piled Every Where

u Towns Made a n Scent of oi 01 Montana 1011 hum by b Waters Helena Mont Ion July Jul 11 Debris Is piled everywhere In he gulch In which are located t l Wickes and amid ald Corbin Great 10 damage to o property was wal done by the torrent of water which poured do down clown n the torrelt valley utter after the this cloudburst Tuesday narrow laro valey night The concentrator of f fh the h Peek Peck Montana company at of chose clote down because will have to wi eole six I damage to time the machinery A wave feet high and feet fet wide swept down downtime 20 mile of it time the gulch Within half hair a I mie Wickes toward Corbin a I till fill tl In iii on the Northern formed a damn Th Tb Great orther 11 of ot ota ofa water aster wan isac wal backed up imp for a 1 quarter a n nub mile mie before the embankment gave al with a roar away Mrs Charles Charle I Turner and lx small Irl Twin children were ivere werf In their homes home In Gulch The torrent of rain rin started a 1 sue sus suspected landslide and before the this occupants side of 1 11 danger this the entire the time house houle nearest the mountain was waa crushed In like an aim egg by I an enormous boulder That ik no 81 one wag by bT the tb of ot great n rocks rk and earth rth which kholer truck struck the thu house limine Kelni I miraculous lous us AH As a the great well wall WAi of ot water tore tor torn n the gulch It practically demo demoI I hed thed I ld the Northern Pacific 1 tracks track and amid ald h bridge 1 At t several great freIt see eo N of nt rails and tie t ties were Wt picked from tin thit road bed be and ad bent coil and ant twisted Into a I nn i of debris The 11 threat Great Northern only a it 1 of at the tbt nil fill fU near Wickel It Ui Li L impossible to tu estimate the lots loss I at IJ sent