Show 7 sa f NARROW ESCAPE bp abbott and charles hardy of mesquite have thrilling adventure battling with rio virgin J S huntleman Hunt feman of was city visitor alio latter part af laet week arriving saturday ho reports alie great flood that vent down the virgin nver last week ae having done damage at littlefield and other settlements down alie river taking out dams filling ditches etc at the land upon winch they biad their irrigation canal was washed entirely ariy and some people have had entire farming lands carried away huntsman relates a narrow cheape from drowning by bp wm abbott and hardy both of they cd w ord from littlefield that the threshing ma ahmo belonging to that place was on the side of tho nver near littlefield in danger of being washed away tho littlefield people daro not crosa alie raging stream so tried to but could only reach as the line between that ville had been carried away by the hood abbott and hardy attempted several times in different places to crogg tho nver to inform bunker villo people of the danger menacing the thresher belonging to a neighboring settlement but their horses were carried down stream and they failed to cross finally a last attempt to cross was made at a point higher up than had hitherto been tried they got about half dav over when they discovered eliat the main body of alio raging stream was before them their acro ew ept from under them and all had to swim for their lives the succeeded in reaching a bank where they staved from 10 a m until sundown when they managed to regain tho they had left in alie morning the two men also succeeded in reaching a bank after a desperate struggle and remained there five or six hours until alie nv cr changed its channel when saw an opportunity to regain alio they biad left and succeeded in swimming to it alio nver was fully three quarters of a mile avido where the adventure occur cd crops been vcr good this year said air huntsman but a great many people will loso their grapes on account of alio very heavy rains and flood hiram burgess of is with huntsman the latter left for his homo today and will leave for california soon after arriving homo to visit two daughters daugh tirs alio arc living there |