| Show THE FLOOD AT OGDEN OGDEN CITY jan 1862 EDITOR deseret NEWS DEAR SIR we have been visited by the greatest flood that has ever been known in this part of the country since the settlement of our people here I 1 on friday last a warm south wind blew all day and with the warm rains the tha day before and during friday it melted the snow which had bad previously fallen on the mountains and in the valleys very rapidly insomuch that early ea my on saturday morning the ogden river had overflowed its banks and continued to rise all that day I 1 mayor farr had the citizens called out and from twenty to thirty teams and from seventy to one hundred men worked all day on saturday levying up the state road between the two bridges the water having risen above that and was doing considerable damage in in running across the tile road but the river rose so fast in ille ilie the afternoon that he considered it best to allow the water to take its course that way to keep it from breaking over the levy above and below the main maln bridge on the south side of the river for bad it been allowed to force a passage there a great portion of the city would have been submerged as it was several beveral f families annl anni lies lles were obliged to move as their houses were entirely surrounded by water from two to three feet deep toward night there was such an immense body of water coming down that fears were entertained for the safety of the main bridge as the bent at the north end had commenced to give a little but fo fortunately tuna tely about midnight it commenced freez ng and at 8 am sunday the river bad fallen about five inches and monday morning it had fallen to its usual height i i 1 n high water times the north east corner of the main bridge has sunk one foot and the i road between the bridges has been badly cut up the water hayn hayd having haying made dep gullies across and rendered it entirely impassible for teams on the north side of the river above the bridges the avy I 1 vy has also been badly injured and on the south side the water forced a passage down through the field above the bridge a doing much damage on sunday afternoon we learned that mr ferrins ferrina saw mill had been completely destroyed farra grist and saw mill dam is also destroyed the bridge at th I 1 mouth of O ogden oden den river kanyon has been swept away and i ta the road above and below it has been com out and it is considered that as this bridge was wag the most securely built of any in the kanyon the other three must have been carried away and also that west and wheelers mill and mill races at the i head of the kanyon must have been materially I 1 injured nithe dithe red if not entirely washed away the water was six feet above the top of the bridge at the mouth of the kanyon and about sixteen feet above low water mark the most I 1 of the kanyon road the mak making ing of which cost fourteen four t een d dollars has been totally destroyed all communication between ogden valley settlements and those at the headen header head f the kanyon and this place is cu off since writing the above it format on has been that the dam and mill and the head and tail races at the head of the kanyon have all been carried away the road up the ka kacyon nyon is completely destroyed and it will cos cob cost t more to repair IT thanet diato open and make it at first nothing has been heard beard from he the bottoms concerning the damages that have been or what the people there have suffered but they must have been in a deplorable co while the river was high for as seen from this kuppr martof part of the city the whole country between the webar weber river and mill creek was a comple complete e sea of water yours ac WALTER THOMPSON |
