Utah County Democrat | 1908-12-01 | Three Thousand Homeless |

Type	issue
Date	1908-12-01
Paper	Utah County Democrat
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Publisher	Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title	Three Thousand Homeless
Type	article
Date	1908-12-01
Paper	Utah County Democrat
Page	4
OCR Text	Show THREE THOUSAND HOMELE8S. High Waters Drive Oklahomans From Their Homes. Guthrie, Okla. As u result of n orty-elghUiour downpour In tbo valley val-ley of tho Cottonwood river and Its tributaries, tho Cottonwood overflowed overflow-ed hero Sunday afternoon. Sovcrol hundred homes wero partly under wator'ln West Quthrio and 3, 000 persons wero homeless nt night. Tho rlVer at 0 o'clock was ono foot higher Minn, over boford In Its history. his-tory. So rapid was tho rtao In tho Cottonwood that twenty head of cattlo by tho aflected district wore drowned beforo thoy could bo gotten out of tho waters. Street car sorvlco waa soon complotoly nt a standstill. Tho city's wntor Tlnnt Is under water.
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