| Show HIGH WATERS OGDEN CITY utah may alay 11 imm imn editor deseret the iong lonz ion lon cold and almost interminable winter came to an end suddenly the heat broke out oud with considerable violence the mercury standing EIGHTY LIGHTY elve eive AND NINETY DEGREES DEGRE Es in the shade summer burst upon us all at once and in about three days the fruit trees were in f ull full blossom dame nature is now decked in her rich livery vegetation which has hitherto been very backward now shoots upward f from rom the ground and augurs rich yields of aerials and fruits of all kinds except apricots and peaches the sudden hot summer weather has caused the rivers to rise as suddenly and the HIGH WATERS are greater ithan have bebenin this county for a number of years they have also thus far been very destructive the ogden catlon cation road is impassable all the bridges are now reported gone except the first one dams and blumes flumes are washed away and have gone down stream this morning major silva sent a team and hands to the electric light works to repair some damages that talat had been done there they reached the works and one person started back with the team and wagon he crossed from the north side of the canon canton all right and proceeded down towards the mouth but he had not traveled far when the waters being bein gover tover cover the embankment the team dropped into a break in the road and horses and wacon wagon went down downstream stream and the animals WERE DROWNED the teamster by some kind of a miracle escaped an unknown man was drowned and his body swept by the swift current towards salt Lake where doubtless it will find lodgment the large water ditches and the mill nim races are full of water in some places the former have broken out the roads above lynne and at harrietts marri marni otts are flooded and animals have to WADE BELLY DEEP to get through the waters have commenced to cover the road just north of the ogden river bridge and there is no telling how far it will spread by in orning morning as the river Is still rising at this writing alting 7 amit has also reached reamed to within a few inches of the top of the rocks of the wing dam the cellars of the breweries near the bride brida bridge are ii filling 1 1 up with water and doing much damage to the proprietors of those works tue the ROAD supervisor and a force of men and teams are at work hauling haulin grock rock and dirt h en the dam which in all probability would be swept away by the turbulent stream and in that event the waters would come rushin rushing into the city but I 1 believe the timi timely work now being done there will save the dam the weber river does not usually rise as early as the ogden but this season is an exception to ue the general rule and the sudden atmosphere change has brought this rive niver u up tile the extent of the damage T done ne in weber canon I 1 have not learned but 1 I am told it is considerable it Is reported that the blumes flumes which conduct the water to the central canal ARE WASHED AWAY which will be the cause of immense loss to the company financially y as well as cutting off their water for I 1 irrigating il ting purposes the present season the th e heat beat today to day has been becil immens cand if it continues which Is probable we may expect the floods to tone be very aes destructive tr truc tive besides there is a prospect of an early rainstorm which if it it comes may increase the disasters at river dale the river has spread considerably it runs nuns over oyer the road and a force of men are at work strengthening the new bridge to prevent its being siv swept t away and ana strengthening the approaches to it WEBER |
