| Show LOWER BANKS LET LE WATER LOOSE Engineering in West Western Wester ern er em Part of City Results Disastrously MANY HOMES ARE FLOODED people Roused at Four a am am ain m in by b Rush of Water From Gravel Filled Fied Streetcar Track Abandoned und Hun Hundreds of Men at Ut Work ork tt II n Their t Jl condition tho nea neat eo pIe J in 11 fl tho western W portion of ot Salt gai Lake From jYom Sixth to Ninth West on Oil Fol orth Temple City cruel CI Is I boiling dons two feet tho the road level confined between banks of or loo dirt cUrt hastily sUly dumped this morning by the tho city street sl t department U At t 4 this morning people their homes to 10 lure or rc aroused d In III homel front th tb tM water pouring under their doors and flooding their yards to a 1 i t ot or several overal Inches Inches The Tho was thu tha bank bauk of or water vate r bing well along alons towards ho II fences toine bu bo wel tween Seventh and Ninth West cst and It was va to stop stol this Hood flood that hUt n r L hundred under Street Supervisor with teams men Ren Jake combined their efforts or re this ibis morning Car service west Wll ot or SIth West WoL sweet suel was wac abandoned Tho line lino Ino Is lic I II nu and the tho south track was I V a abandoned a I dyko of ot dirt being heln thrown up along alon tho ho lino 11 of oZ trolley troley poles tho two tracks ks and tn at u I to 10 run ron ears cara wore worl confined to t the tho north truck track The south track tr lck Is i under undera n a nort tool oat or more morl of ot water and ond it Il ban hae hat three inches since 4 this morning when hen the thc embankments first washed cd out o t by the Uio Ul flood Hood was ArsI OK oi OVERFLOW Behind the flood Is a most Ole ate tribute te to tho ho mid end lud crim criminal inal ual carlenO of or the tho with caring carin for tor the tho clY streets H IL HH HI wit I H decidedly a n l ease case of ot too tho much Hal ich rather than too to much water und md too much Incompetent engineering rot an 11 Inadequate muc channel if tf I the dma chan channel J nel vel vero prepared to curry crry anywhere Its ItH normal Hero is the way tho the ruin was I wrought A L grafting administration did tid dia not spare tho the money to t clean out outU U th City rity Cl creek channel either last la t fall fallor tl or this spring just dust us u it did not spars toe the Ve money to repair streets last sum summer sUI mer ner and fall fal and lot left let the people pl to toMY totY MY tY the ia cost in II tho thU II conditions beb prevailed all al winter A worm than grafting administration allowed i contractOr to haul mul gravel away from North orth Temple between Seventh i and Ind Ninth West nil all al last full fall fal to uso uco u o in 11 other localities ocle s This was wal against t protest prole t after protest from who know how has hac ba been heen tho taik of o keeping lie creek creele within bounds when it starts on o u rampage BLOCKED ED AND A ND LOWERED Th people now declare that they the will 11 hold the tho city responsible for this Hood flood and will plant III ant suits suite to recover for tor every evory bit of nf damage The Tho he open top lop wood ditch dich constructed years ago to carry cur city creek water was robbed of at two plan planks Us on 01 each Side for tor a I distance of at four tour blocks and it was wai wai right where wheN this removal occurred that the water Irl ft the creek and sought passage way WiY down tho the lowered road Tills This lumber was hauled away by 1 contractors anti and used Led in II making culverts and street bridges Old residents along llong the creek declare that the t bills bis were presented as If It new lumber had hod hll been heel used for tor this work and ll are now nov prepared to make maleo n a 1 searching investigation of or this fea feature ea eaI ture tire I f There h ro is no Hood flood lood in the tho old 01 rocked Z t channel from Main street to Sixth West but Lut the tha th debris of or many ln months neou accumulating below Sixth West Vest has blocked the Iho channel until It is IH II almost full tul of o mind and und gravel On many mal occasions much mich more loro water titan than at present hits has his down tho the old creek cleek bed letI and ald lias hns Um IK b n amply taken euro caro of but bul this line tho creek clee was In the poorest condition In Iii II years to lo receive an all n Increase In the tho How Ilow antI and nd that hint Is the ho solo cause causo of the tho trouble TEAMS AT Ar WORK teams vero in II service yesterday und and today tho number was WI Increased to 10 Notwithstanding their vigilance n a n break occurred at 4 o 0 clock this morning II H I T 1 Marcroft and a IL ILHan gang Han of ot f 14 It men from rom the street rail railway railway t way U company worn wore WOr close clos by b on tho tie now new north track and they thoy t I stopped steppe the tho breach But Dut presently there thoro was wal another antI and nd then another I until C 6 t when tho water wat r was WIS I again put Iut under control The rho water f ran l all al over North Temple street ani both hoth ways on the lie side sile streets threat threatening ening to Inundate nil nih 11 that ni of o othu tho thu city Ernest BreHL II U Rich living at I 71 wrist Vist North was Wil from sloop sleep by hy II 1 Power lowar n it I neigh neighbor her bor pounding on Oil his hil front door 1001 telling him to I get gt pel a 1 move on 01 him UH us UI ho wn I In danger of o being drowned out Mr lr 11 Rich o o lo to tutu Hud 1111 the walor lapping lie tho threshold of his Ills front door lie llo had started to tn tako tok up his carpets move bin hl when whan ho hn no noticed there thoro was VaN WOI no Ito 10 further rise 1150 II and ho he ht hastily holod a 1 t ranch In front of o 0 his bin 1111 l audi and 1111 stopped further In Inroads inroads roads from ruin the Iho water The Tho yard at No Nos 36 18 SrO Yr v terA ra Hooded while tho the of f MT n 7 to were II out nit off of from froni irPs tho lM t tho the II Jn n flot n o ic ot o the whole treet were sail excited irO daylight with foam that o a g drowning out nut wan OA l A cut In M nth In nor north hanl Immediately east of ot ho thai Lin yard ard conduit lot down rl tint Ihl Into Inlo th Ih mouth of ii Ih 1114 conduit quick work Mk l bv bY 10 railroad gang to tJ fur til ther T Thin Thu conduit lm 1111 n IL 1 l hf If t Ix rot twI to look ut ul It cute ouo Wl l n cc 1 up lP I In hut but bil the thA In nf nC Ir the tho mid i hl h would for or another foot font rl In iii II the there wes WAi tiny ciny AlY danger nf ot tha tIto out nut olt avar oter o or tile At noon POOn today over 1000 loads londs of has Ima the Iho J 1 Inoa voe oe end tl h was wal w wall 11 11 In The h t eru pan on not floe run runK 11 or w Olt until tile Ihn K trank In I up sip nail ami that Il 1111 of o the Iho rho Tho Wow t Ica from the lie Is IN l |
