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Show wheat was layed flat to the ground. The storms continued one after an. other, but by vigilance some of the farmers , got their wheat put into stacks. Uut, oh!!! What shall we say of the night of the 14th? About eight o'clock in the evening the rain began be-gan to fall from the dense clouds that had gathered around the steamboat steam-boat and surrounding mountains, and the rain came down in torrents I for the space of thirty minutes, and I that produced one of the most destructive de-structive floods that was ever known in these parts, and it swept every thing before it, even rocks that will weigh many. tons. One or two I will make mention of. One measures meas-ures s feet wide, 10 feet long and 4 feet high and was landed on the east CORRESPONDENCE Taylor, Arizona, July 13, 1896. Editor Union: Thinking an item from this part tf the country would be interesting to your readers I thought I would Write a comical occurrence, which was the marriage of Wm. F. Butler and a lady by the name of Jewl. It is the largest wedding that has been in the territory, they being tie two largest people the territory is honored with, ane they reside at Pima, Graham Co. Wm. F. Butler is 72 years of age and his wife 61, and after their wedding they walked off as sprightly as though they were fifty years younger. Yours truly, Wm. F. Butler Jr. side of the wash near the meeting honse and is full 12 feet above the bottom of the wash. The water nearly ran into the windows, of the meetinghouse. Another rock lays in the bottom of the wash, a quarter of a mile below the one just mentioned men-tioned and measures 10x16 feet and lies 4 feet above ground and, judging judg-ing from the depth of the wash before be-fore the flood, it must lie 6 or 8 feet under the ground . This is only two of the mauy hundreds that swept over the land covering up lucern, wheat, &c, to the depth of from two ; to three feet. By the light of the lightning we could see the wheat shocks move off by the force of the flood. Fences, barrels, tubs, kettles, tables, farming implements and sundry sun-dry other articles were carried off before the terrific force of the rumbling rumb-ling mass. In fact the whole country coun-try was as a raging sea from mountain moun-tain to mountain, surrounding dwellings dwell-ings and depositing mud, rocks anu debris around them, and as far as ditches are concerned we have none. There was a mare tied to a pole with a chain, near the wash where the big rock is deposited. She was taken about three hundred yards through the main current of the flood, the chain broken loose from the pole and fastened among the rocks and debris, where she was found next morning without a scratch upon her body. It would be impossible to describe the horrible affair. Well, we do not wish to complain or despair, but it looks very gloomy, as we have a shower every day which makes a daily job to move our grain. We are just having another shower, and if it keeps up many days longer our grain will be entirely spoiled, but we hope the Lord will be merciful mer-ciful and spare what little we have left. The health of the people is generally gener-ally good. Elder S. K. GifTord has been sick a long time. Yours respectftlly, F. D. Gilford. llockville, Utah, July 16, 1896. Editor Union: On the eve of the 14th inst wo had one of the most terrific thunder thun-der storms that ever visited this Bection of country. In this city the water ditches are aP filled nearly full of mud and debris, the flumes are all taken away most of the dam is gone and the roads are in a very bad condition con-dition being considerably washed out and in some places not passable pas-sable with a wagon. Springdale is in still a worse condition, for the town was one 1 - mass of seathing, boiling waters, which run into several houses, carrying away such things as tubs, buckets, bedsteads, chairs, woodpiles, wood-piles, &c.y and one man lost two pigs. Their .fences are gone, some of which were rock wall and it was leveled to the earth. But the fences are a small loss beside the loss of some of the farms, which were buried with mud and rock, some of the rock weighing one or two ton. Thorn tan Hep-worth's Hep-worth's place is nearly ruined, he being the greatest looser, as far as I have been able to learn. There are eight or ten men who have from one half, to five acres, that is covered with mud and rock. I just learn that Shonesburg have also had a tremendous , flood, which took corrals, stock, &c. One calf went down four or five hundred yaxds and then got out. It is impossible to estimate the loss at this time. Stub. Springdale, Utah, July 17, 1896. Editor Union. After a long drouth of nearly two years duration, last winter being so cold and dry that many plants that were never known to winter kill before be-fore were entirely frozen out, and the spring continued cold and frosty until the frost killed all of "our stone fruit, (which it had nearly done last year,) and this cold continued until near the first summer month when there was a sudden change to almost unendurable heat and the earth seemed almost ready for the torch, this lasting until the 5th of July when the artilery of heaven burst in peal after peal of fearful sounds that shook the very earth, and the vivid lightning shot forth,:, striking v trees that were on the mountains near by, setting them on fire, and the rain came down in torrents. This st"rm commenced just in time to almost discourage the farmers as the small patches of wheat was nearly near-ly all cut, some shocked and some lying in the bundle. The rain came with such fury that the standing |