Show destructive FRESHET IN THE TIIE SOUTH A FLOOD AT ORDER DESTROYS PROPERTY AND ENDANGERS LIFE s orderville OR DERVILLE august 26 1885 IW editor deseret netos metes not having seen anything in the NEWS from our place for some time and having avii just received A visitation FROM FLOODS I 1 will pen a few sew items on the night flight of the I 1 retired at 1030 the water a ai the eime rime in our fork of the rio luo virgin being 10 feet below a bridge I 1 had just completed and was awakened awken edthe the next morning by a roaring sound to td find the water tour four feet above where the bridge was within ten feet of my door and all around me the water if the mortar like substance sub stanco that rolled past could be called such swept every brid bridge e on the stream am except the 1 l one in front front of Or derville on the main road in what we maii uail 11 the cove field the flood dest fourteen acres of wheat belonging tb brother A F hea ton between one third and one half of which was swept entirely away and ana the balance damaged of six acres of corn carn a very small corner was left and his considerably damaged stake counselor chamberlain also lost heavily in oats barley potatoes and carrots my father auda and aud brother rother 0 N nand and 0 W carroll lost in potatoes and carrots of a five acre patch paten of potatoes potato es fully 60 50 bushels are in in sight being washed ou of the ground and many mare more must have washed la vay 1 had just justl my whit will wheat eat froba fro ma a field where the maln main malrio tody vody dy of the tha tb flood swept by it would not have left me roe a IL sheaf bro J H losee Is our bee man the flood swept through his hid apiary entirely destroying five stands of bees and filling tilling others with mud and sediment it albo aiho injured one of his bis team animals took his wagon down and ran the tongue ets Is a bank and securely staked it brother J S fackrell went to release his cow and calf and returned to tind find the water in and around hi shouse and had bad to carry his children waist deep through the angry raging flood two blind bilna boys s ons sons 3 ot t sister bister eunice brown attempted tn to t taye haye laye aye some sowe bar poles and were in much danger brother A F heaton hla hia grain lost a fine piece of seed beed lucern perhaps it will win be necessary to explain HOW HOM individuals IN orderville DERVILLE OR HAVE craps TO lose last spring aprin or winter the fa farm run rin was divided into mall small farms and leased to members of our organization III lit hitherto cherto we have sustained more or les less 8 damage esch each year by floods nut the loss lc loss ss was on a all ail lear and not so much felt leit sow now we fre are are brought to realize individually what a loss means I 1 hear bear that the dam of the mount carmel ditch lis its swept out and they will not be likely to have water in town this fall or winter floods came down on the and but it was like striking a man that had been knocked senseless the heal health th of the people Is good generally and when it dries up a little we will be as busy as bees again your brother in the gospel of christ WILLARD CARROLL |