| Show THE KANAB FLOOD MORE detains DETAILS OF THE DISASTER by courtesy of brothe brother L john nuttall pre ident of kanab stake we e ae enabled to rive give additional particulars of the flood that occurred last sunday at the town of that name taken from letters addressed add reseed to mra him BI bishope W D johnson wrote july slat on sunday afternoon after nom nohn while we were in meeting there came down the knab canyon the heaviest and worst flood we have ever had bad here when I 1 got down on the site of the only for nor the torrent of water in vol voi volume ime rapidity and noise resembled the whirlpool rapid bof niagara whole portions of soil eoll with willows standing erect came floating down the stream tome bome of these floating islands were several rods r od a in length by one or teo two wide it best beat everything I 1 ever saw it lasted for some 7 or 8 hours it covered tb the lower elower field with water and but little damage but the upper field was waa swep swept t clean of hay and grain the latten lattes was all eat cut and in shocks and ai a i but little had been hauled home we beloat lost almo aimo almost stour our oun entyre crop of wheat the canyon was cut out at the old oid city dam some 50 odd feet down and 16 rods wide the canyon is 19 so BO changed you yon would not know it the cutout out extends above the grist mill wills so we had to go 90 yesterday and ana ann lay jay out ont the city ditch up to the mill dam and hitch on to the mill race around the he point where the old dam was we will have to make a flume of 32 rods as there IS ia no place left for a ditch ditchy and it will be a ajl aji 11 we can do to get the water back hack into town before our lots iota all dry out ont the cutout cut out in the canyon in the long run will be a benefit I 1 as there have already a number of springs broken out ont that we did not have before and all feel it will in croas our water supply every one in town men and boys boye will work on the ditch until it is ia finished the loss cannot be estimated cor erectly as much land Is ia ruined 1 presume some 2000 bushels of wheat was washed away and an hundreds of tons orbay of bay hay our ditch will cost cot col us bome daya labor to get the water again in town several head of cattle were lost jost all th walona and mowers have been found below and in the field brother I 1 J nuttall jr wrote 1 I have been in the tha field most of the time this month cutting grain but did not get entirely through when the flood came washed away all we had bad cun cuc and saved us the trouble of cutting the rest we lost loat between aud mud bushels of wheat about 30 buttels of oats oata and barley about two tons of hay hays what 0 rn I 1 had in nod and four acres aeres of in a cern that was about ready to cut all was washed away so that you yon would not know that there had been anything on the lan ian landane land dand and all the land is 18 covered with sand but how much it is damaged I 1 could not bay say yet as aa it is too wet to get upon it now it has bas washed the canyon out so BO that you would hardly know the place there la Is not a bit of grass lett iett from one end to the other and where the town dam w was it has washed out about 30 feet brother james L bunting wrote aho niso ho he represents the stream that raed rolled down aa a filling the canyon from ClIff cliffton to cliff the only parties cliffie the who vrho had been fo fortunato fortunate una 0 enough ti A haul their wheat from the upper field were brother bunting and brother AD A D young the former had secured all of his hla his mules were turned into the enclosure by the tannery and came near being drowned they were rescued but one of them died the following mor ning the disaster la Is a sad blow to the people but they are not discouraged about forty hands handa were at work on the ditch and wagon road made nwe seary bythe by the flood the intention is to make the town water ditch by going up the canyon and commencing it at the tall race of the grist mill which prest preat nuttall had bad advised the people to do years before |
