Show FLOOD PUTS ROAn ROAD OUT our Of BUSINESS I I DENVER e RIO GRANDE MAIN LINE MAY NOT PERFORM THROUGH v SERVICE FOR WEEKS coi Collapse a e of Dam of Reservoir Near Fairview Causes Damages in in of and the a Loss of One Life y Salt J Lake ke Cit City One CitOne One One fatality and damages conservatively estimated to fo be foe in excess of 7 OOOO represent the toll tal taken en by the Price Pric river as It care carried car car- ned ried away the flood w waters released e c by the collapse of the darn dam of the theT T reservoir of the Price River Irrigation 0 tion company near FaIrview on Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- da day June 24 Because of th the floods flood's the Denver Rio Grande railroad probably will be unable to perform through service b between twe 1 Den en Vcr ver and Salt Lake before the middle or next month and mId the Castle Valley branch will be out of commission about sixty days s Miss 1 Hattie Hattle Peacock of ot Orangeville the only victim of the flood so far reported re le- ie- ie ported was ns drowned near Price early Tuesday morning June 6 0 when the automobile In which she and her brother Warren and Mr 11 and Mrs Earl Edtl King of ot Price were riding Went into the river The party had been teen watching the rising waters since Monday evening and in starting home homo shortly after midnight the clutch on the he car failed to operate properly and the machine back buck Into the stream At that point close to the shore the stream was not deep and anti all four members mem mein- bers bels of ot the party sprang from the car iThe current caught the tle car and swung I I It U against Miss 1 Peacock throwing her hernto hernto nto deeper water water and and she was swept away By far the biggest sufferer from the flood Is the Denver Denyer Rio Grande railroad railroad rail rail- road whose whose- damage It is conservatively conserva conserva- lively estimated will exceed half a million dollars riot not taking into consideration consid consid- any further losses which may mayLe maybe maybe be Le suffered as the waters vaters recede The Utah Fuel company's damages In the vIcInity of Castle Gate tate probably Wilt reach State highways and bridges swept away can n not t be replaced replaced re reo re- re placed for tor less than and the damages suffered by farmers and others others others oth oth- ers it is believed will aggregate fully tully Parts of the towns of both Castle Castl CastleGate CastleGate Gate and Helper were sw swept pt away away- when the river practically abandoned the old bed through e each eich ch town and cut cuta a new channel nearly feet wide and from ten to twenty feet deep Only heroic heroic- methods and the free use m of ot giant powder and d dynamite nam te In in removing re ra- re- re moving debris and other obstructions saved caved a much heavier loss in each ench town sown In Castle Gate alone the darn dam age tige to property including that of the of-the the railroad and fuel company compan will be Inthe Inthe in inthe the neighborhood of The losses at Helper were principally dwellings and probably will not exceed OOOO At Castle Gate the railroad depot and all company buildings eight dwellings dwell dell lags ings and the barber shop near the depot were washed away awty The CastleGate CastleGate Castle Gate hotel escaped by a narrow margin margin mar mar- gin losing the front porch and collectIng collectIng collectIng collect- collect Ing instead two feet ot of mud in Ih the Tooms rooms of the ground floor when the waters vaters receded At Carbon about midway between Castle Gate and Helper three dwellIngs dwellings dwell dwell- lags ings were washed away awa and up to Wednesday night Helper had contributed ed a total of ot five with two more hangIng hangIng hanging hang- hang Ing over the bank of the stream ready to go with just a little more encourage encourage- ment meat The most serious damage in the vicinity of ot Price was suffered b by fields which were Inundated In some Instances instances instances in In- stances deep gullies were washed and the grain and other growing crops washed away but probably the coat of mud deposited will cause the biggest losses Between Kyune and Helper approximately approximately approximately two miles of the main line Une of the Denver Rio Grande rande Is washed away and approximately two miles more has been undermined requiring the cOnstruction of ot an entirely new fill for at least one and sometimes both tracks to put the road In operation Besides the washes in the fills which are never less than twenty feet high and more often nearer fort forty five fire bridges have been Washed out in the same district Of these four are steel and one Is is' wooden Approximately nine miles of the five on the Castle Valley branch must be replaced before trains can be operated to Scofield From two miles above Hales to within less than thana a Ii mile of ot Colton the entire roadbed has been carried away and two miles mlles of the track are mingled with the d debris which swept down the river On the entire branch between Colton and mile milepost milepost post 11 U about two miles above Hales only two out of ten en bridges have been left standing I |