Show i I I. DAM GIVES WAY l COUNTRY d W MANY PEOPLE DRIVEN FR FROM M HOM HOMES WHEN TH THE HATCH TOWN D DAM M GOES OUT OUr v 4 Estimated That Damage by FI Flood d in Sout Southern ern Utah Will wil Reach Stock and Buildings I r J Bei Being D De Destroyed toYe f fr v Salt Lake City Under Under the pres pressure s' s si sure sure of high gh water ater r resulting ting froth rains rans unusually high water and fl melting snow now in the e I mountain c can canyons n nyOns Iy ns of the headwaters of of the Sevier river the the I Hatchtown atc dam dani seve seventy seventy- tr two m miles le south of Marysvale six sixty y miles so south th of Piute id dam idam m and adjacent ad ad- jac jacent nt to the little rs settlement nent of Hatch in Garfield county burst at t about 7 7 ocl o'clock ek Monday night re releasing rt leasing more than acre feet t u II x wa water er It is is' estimated d that the flood caused damage aggregating in the neighbor neighborhood hood of of The dam darn c cost st about in its it construction n Jy l 3 R Gei General ral destruction of or d dams dans bridges s s sections of Jr ig t canals canals nearly neaily f ci cro r fully hel head d df f hors horses s and dJ j 1 and hd as as' many swine an s sheep sheep- p districts t aIO aloe the Sevi e Viv arrived in Junction Tuesday AImy of these thes refugees r f gees were r fired f a i hausted austed c Th y told to of r ranchmen fro from Circleville 9 on l. l jip up ii the river as far as a's the H Hatchtown dam dam i i It If Ref gees say es ay th that the 1 j. j bf dr drove e te nearly 1000 people from the ted t- t ed farming districts to the hills where they they are encamped waiting for forthe the flood Caters ater t to subside heyl t port that there w was s no loss of of far far as they know Couriers d spa ed down Gown the the river several ho hours r before Ibe be be before fore the dam w went pt out gave farmers in the low districts districts' ample amble warning Between Panguitch and Circleville evi le n m I particular say the he refugees farm farmers rs when warned of th their ir danger sent fent their f families to the hills s and and andt turning rii g stock tock out of corr corrals s dr drove drova them th m into the highlands highlands Estimates s ima es of loss indicate that the loss of bf 2000 acres of crops in lii itself will fes result l in a fin financial n ial loss loss to f far farmers tar tar- r n mers ers of of The rhe loss o of stock is lis est estimated mated at at while e th the loss to fa far farm m bu buildings dings may reach All eleven bridges between en Hatchtown Hat da dam i and n rid i Jun Junction tion were swept away by t the e flood d Though hough the majority of these bridges were v ere wooden structures the loss less of the bridge bridge in Circleville e I Ic c canyon yon the bridge at Junction and an- an in other ther substantial bridge near Panguitch Pan g will rai raise raie the bridge los to J. J Z I That hat a most rigid investigation of bf the the c causes cause s for the tile f breaking r re king of the the Hat Hatchtown dam clam will b 13 be made II-ade by iy tl the e estate state was the statement made macl a by Gov Governor William Spry Epry The Hatchtown atc town pr project was was vas begun and c completed q under t the e r regime o of f Ca Caleb eb Tanner J nI as state engi engineer The plans and specifications for the work York were drawn under his supervisIon supervision r and the the contract for tor the construction of r the he the dam was enter entered d into by t the e state with D D. B. B Briton of B Holliday on on the he approval i of the former state engi engi x fr 4 neer ner c e |