Show 0 I f c.- c. f I TOWN WRECKED BY FLOOD I Many Buildings Float Foat Down Stream While Those That Were Left StandIng StandIng Stand- Stand Ing ng Are Badly Damaged Modena Utah AuthentiC Authentic news leWS has Deen received from Nevada of the tho results of a disastrous flood Hood at that place Editor Robert E. E Graham of or the Caliento Caliente Express has made his his' way from Caliento to Modena on horseback one of the tho two horses he was using having been drowned while swimming the swollen river tryIng trying try- try Ing lag to get out of Caliente for help Graham says that Caliente Caliento is badly damaged and that help is needed especially food He reported that the Salt Lake Route depot was undermined undermined under under- mined by the waters and that there thero was three feet of ot mud and sand In Inthe Inthe Inthe the roundhouse At one one time the water had been higher In the roundhouse roundhouse roundhouse round round- house than the driving wheels of the engines Many Nany buildings were wrecked some of them floated off oft down stream like houseboats and tho the water had at times Umes poured Into the houses over the tho sills Every very house In the place that remains remains remains re re- re- re mains standing has fUla one foot of at mud on its ground floor Every wagon and railroad bridge In the vicinity of ot Caliente is gone and practically practically all aJl modern means of or communication communication communication cation are destroyed During the worst of the flood the people had to desert their homes many in scant clothing and fly to the hills bills for safety At the Hot Spring of Caliente tho the flood waters poured over the transoms of the bathroom doors The full extent extent ex ex- tent of or the damage is is' not known at this time either in Caliente or farther farther far- far ther her down the valley but according to o the town is practically a wreck |