Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 16 | Heavy Storm Visits Uintah

1 HEAVY fA Vl SI STORM RM t j vl ns I f p Grain rain and Alfalfa Beaten Into Ground by I Hailstones l c 1 t VERNAL ERL Sept A 12 resident of oft t r Pole creek and Farm creek section rth of Whiterocks twenty eIght west of Vernal was In town tc aay anc and stated that the iL in Ing hailstorm which pass passed d over 1 l that t section destroyed alt all vegetation i tion I n In fields lying In the storms storm's up f th Standing grain and alfaLfa c vere re beaten Into the ground so l they that are a com complete lete A s. s Along the two creeks the he rush and tre trees lining the banks w were re completely denuded of foliage ad on the flats some lome distance from fromI I lp streams even the sagebrush suf- suf The hailstorm endured forty I Y minutes and rt n many places the covered d the ground to a ro depth of more than two feet Old tl timers Old ers among the the whites and andr r Indians of the Whlter section I J state Mate that never neve before have the and Whiterocks rIvers been f as high at this season of the year as II they were Thursday and FrIday S-c S k The Whiterocks river flows into the 4 Uintah river about three mlles miles below below be- be low the Indian town of nd a a. vast amount of driftwood W wat waty y led cap by the tributary stream m Into the Hie Uintah river Many small brIdges crossing the two streams in inthe I the vicInity of Whiterocks above nd 1 below the town were washed rout out and telephone connections were 1 E severed evered with all other poInts of the basin hasin for a time still running streams Both are j j high and the l larger bridges spano span span- o 1 Ding the Uintah river rh farther to the r south are being closely watched The flood waters of Ashley creek north and east cast of Vernal have subsIded sub sub- sIded considerably The Green rIver rivera a and Saturday showed an and d- d abr pt rIse of several feet In the s of Its its- waters above Jensen fifteen miles southeast of Vernal A AfaT At t faT far higher stage of water Is re- re p. p from the rIver below the 1 i points where the tho Duchesne and andt t- t Uintah rivers empty their waters Into the larger stream