| Show CLOUD LLOUD BURST U ST I IN INTHE THE MOU MOUNTAINS T I S Heavy Deluge of Rain Loud Thun Thunder Thunder der Peals and Vivid Lightning WERE SOME NARROW ESCAPES Electric Bolt halt Shatters tinge Huge Boulder And Another lilts Hits a House Horses Away Country Hooded City It Cr Creek k canyon 1101 Ma tins visited d b bv by a i Cloudburst and Inri severe thunder and lightning storm yesterday about 4 pm p pm 1 m Tho rho hur burst t occurred 11 over line thi divide between this the watersheds of ot Pity Ity reek Creek ru I and the northeast h bench the ilia Mood Hood thus ihu running In III two to direction directions and but hul for tor this division much mote damage would probably h have e beer done donI penis lIell Heavy elude cloud massed up III from Crom ram th Ih northeast early In the afternoon with threatening aspect und sod Ht St the hour th this the rains rain descended lII and th Ilk floods clime came In III regular sheets U I p peal utter lifter peril pent of ot heu heavy thunder fol tol oh lowed blinding flashes of or lightning While the most of the flood came calli Ing down II the south louth side fide of ot City It freak tan umu un there was enough on en the other Hide side to nil fill a respectable lake lako Ii und and tic lit scene cene for tor th the few people caught up th lit canyon callon was wag not nut merely rel a and 1 startling but dangerous Helt cloud of uC large i hall hall I wept el ept t do dow down n II Alth AIth the rapt rain Jolla bolts of ut were striking Bulking right Hud and felt with shocking effect so o 0 that thai thaia thata 1 a member of oC the News New staff and aut four young youn men Wren who ho were wine orne 12 miles up the canyon cn un had hUIJ to run for fot I their lives The she hall hail l beat t down with nIth greut grout force lorr orre orreon on un their head heads and with the rain add added added ed almost knocked them down fh Th roadway became the bed of n fl torrent which ran tall Into the creek at hundred of points The four Cour our men mell ran breathless ii along through the rushing water rain and hall hail beating n Il regular war roll on their hacks hack The They N wore ure lIrt drenched to the skin in a It tel few sec second second ond JIlTS HITS nOCK LOCK HOCKA A t great 1 twit bolt olt of lightning struck i r I boulder ut tat the tho right hand haud of or the road tearing it Il to pieces piece and scattering fragments large and mall In Its all III direr dons for lor a considerable dl distance Tim The News representative 1 Ue was wae just out of or range and aud escaped this discharge of ot grape and canister The fhe usually clear and beautiful waters of oC CIty it creek swell lorl speedily converted Into a II torrent of ot flood nile and muddy water wader so 10 that th the tho gate piC keeper below helow hud had to clove the gates to keep heap tho the stuff out of ot th main mains The fhe storm continued for tor about an en hour thoroughly drenching trenching the en entire entire tire and badly washing the road all the way Ii down Into Inlo the city S SWEPT AWAY AVAT About halt half a mile up UI the this canyon A AJ Aa J Johnson 0 of u of ut 1 t was a getting e I Ia g a It load of ot sand near II II the trail down Into the rn canyon when he hc suddenly h heard hearda a It roar and ami dIll on looking up lip III saw w what ha I seemed to him sU six Ix lo to ten tell I feet f t of ot mil mud mui and amid water bearing down doan on Oil him front from above aboe He lie had hod Just time Ume to pull him bin himself self If up out of ot the pit when then It was filled up with the Hood flood and snit the team Lenin of ot horses were having the event or of of their liven 1155 in tar 11 trying to tu get out They kicked loose loom from their harness harneu end and were fi II finally W nall ally nally al l rescued further do down n nut hut e ono no won wax practically dead decd ant and t the other burel barely escaped drowning t On the north bench watershed hed the floods tote tore du duan n over the and t tInto Into the time c metel whore ron considerable damage was done clone In III the thc way tray of wash washing washing ing soil oll over graves giaves and washing out r roadways n le Some plots peta d w were rJ entirely Y obliterated though no grates were washed out omit The flood waters ran ai as asfar far 1111 east III t ns nM S street and mud from the hills was wall carried down dOln to Second street The pine line of oC the thus boulevard wan Nae u washed Hashed II In several places and much mud triad awes HS deposited lI south of Eleventh street t necessitating considerable le ditch cleaning n Ii CF lilT HIT Ill III town lon the action of oC the storm u was somewhat peculiar There was no rain at lit nil all In the fur tur eastern and southeast southeastern ern parts part sad and th the sun Iun wn was 18 shining atthe ut III the state prison during Ih the precipitation lion tion flirt further her away Iii Lightning Irli I the residence of tit Robert A II at I itS US north Sixth West street a one oue story mory frame house and partly dew de dl destroyed It limit Hut fortunately no nn one wa Willi homo home Several dees Nees II were aera lre struck am and torn a and 1111 m about the city buino but bui no nn special damage P 1 toile done 0 lit The r rainfall at al the weather office oars registered only I 15 of ot an at Inch for the afternoon storm but ul had hud ItI the register up liP the canyon been f n taken it h would have shown about at 11 tint Inch and a half |
