Show A RESERVOIR BREAK CITY june 8 A all day yeste the ine street leading t three mile creek was wag lined with people OB bicycles bicy clee horses on toot foot and in vehicles on their way to witness the ter caused by the breaking of the three mile creek reservoir at fifteen minutes past five o sunday banday morning the farmers living about three miles south of cai chiy y were startled by an rumbling and roaring coming from the won mountains obtains east of the smal settlement cisly oisly about halt the people were up at that thai early hour and an eye wit witness nest said to your report ei upon cupon bearing the sound I 1 loosed looked towards the canyon and saw au an immense dust cloud rushing town the deep gorge about fifty or seventy five feet high at first I 1 could not make out what it was but soon BOOB I 1 saw a huge wave of water just juel behind the cust rolling before it large boulders trees and other debris 1 then zid the reservoir situa situates teu 2000 teet feet up to in the very tops of the mountains had pushed out its earth front sod and that a mighty volume 0 water was rushing down on OD UP I 1 started on od the run and notified three or of tour la families milies which were in the most danger the women and children seemed dazed sod and some bad to be hurried burbled and partly dragged out b to the she way onto high land jand in their heir night t Clot alot bae boo 31 3 1 As an eoon as aa the raging torrent reached the foot hills it spread out covering i a tract about a quarter oi 01 it a mile wide carrying ying destruction in its mad rush towards the lake it covered lucern fields and fine vegetable crop probably acres of first class and worth lOO pur per acre sod and about as much of interior inferior lands the upper halt half of the land Is covered with huge boulders and is now worth cortti loop leee toe remainder may la in time be vartia partially ily redeemed two houses be longing toll to it henferson were carried away and were totally destroyed with all their household goods richard thorn loses about two thousand dollars dol iare barnard white several thousand as do also jmes nelsen nelsea sins 8 JOB the thorns thorne had bad a very ii arrow escape they bey barricades barricade i doors aheu they saw the danger but the force of the water burst the doors la in and the f occupants escaped luto the orchard and saved themselves by climbing into the the water divi divided deJ making banking an ad island iland ot of the thorn thoin farm arm lilii e fatuity having escaped to the tbt highland except old lady thorn who aks thought to have been drowned until the ibe waters somewhat whorl when Is reso party forced their way to the orchard sino and lound mrs mire thorn up a tree where she had bad been lor for over two hour A fifteen year old daughter Y ot oi james nelson nelsen was only hai bei dressed when bhe saw the flood corn com i dinv inv ta she rushed to the granary when that began to KO ito down stream and then than obe was caught just ahead of the tream and rolle rolled dover lover ti t was wait rescued reseed by a mr hulton halton the utah sn northern was wa washed out which delayed the trains fur for nine hours bou it is thought the damage Is about the reservoir was wa agnace of earth and was probably dt lec tive but the road for six ix miles to Is BO at cathou out otts that no one eon can got get up the canyon it cost from to and was waa built three years yeara ago it I 1 covered five acres and was from 10 to 80 feet deep averaging 15 feet |