Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1908-04-24 | Page 3 | Hauser Lake Disaster Causes Loss of a Million

I 1 HAUSER lak CAUSES LOSS or OF A MILLI M Oil railroad tracks washed away and hundreds of head of stock drown by breaking of dam helena mont with general houses a L sti oyed in the little town ton ot of forty six miles coith of helena hundreds of head of cattle and livestock droAn drowned ed and the th e great dortheia Nor theia thein railroad tracks mashed ft am away ay tor for miles we ane loss from the flood caused by the breaking of the great seventy loot boot dam at hauser lake it Is conservatively serva ively estimated will mill be approximately 1000 which includes the damages to the dam great agent bt blew eart art ot of wolf creek that the track irom wolf creek east as far as ho be can see Is flooded to a depth of three feet and that for three miln miles or more it la Is completely washed out and in places overturned while the rails are twisted and bent into every shape by the foaming waters 1 kuwent I went eight miles of track are under water mater it Is figured conservatively th that at tor for at least twenty days daya no trains can go over the line and no work can be done until the water between wolf wo creek and cascade recedes in chestnut valley the water mater Is lion aiom I 1 a foot to fifteen feet deep over the ranches many small buildings have left their foundations and have been washed down the river alun dreda or of haystacks have been carided can led away and fences are obliterated