Show A STORMY DELUGE bunkerville Bun kerville nev june 24 1898 1899 our town was subjected to a stormy deluge yesterday afternoon the excess of which has not been known here fox for many years sixteen at least A cloudy morning on the followed follow edg an ex ces hot night and drenching shower fell in the afternoon Yester yesterday daV afternoon the clouds again amassed and literally poured down an over whelming whelmine wh elming deluge of water raisins raising a flood that drove some of the innab tants in the lower part ov of the town from their homes and caused causba them to seek shelter on higher gro ground 1 und some of at the houses were badly damaged and were with difficulty saved from entire destruction among the buildings which stood in most danger was oay dur new ward house which is not yet finished by a united effort the eutidin building but idin was saved from serious damage many mau cellars were filled with water destroying their contents and wany many gardens are ruined the crops in the field fielda suffered seriously much of the grain in the shock and hay uncut and tux grown being buried in mull mud and witter water three miles above the town also at about four k miles n 11 ex from fro M bunkerville Bun kerville hailstones as large many of them as a hens eggs fell in masse maaser stripping the trees of their foliage and ana bursting watermelons water melons mellons on the vines vine and doing much other damage these we ioa balls still lie in heaps in the boll colloy efti and gutters and the young boys of me town are hauling them home today in ft barrels and freezing ice C ream with them they make the first ice ever seft seen in bunkerville Bun kerville in june jame our ou r town dit ditch which is also the irrl gating canal is ito badly damaged that at least six wee will be restored required to repair it and q the gardens hech the flood arta spared will have to yield to the drout drenth that must follow the wrought wr 0 aught by the t h e rain r a in and hall came vew near being attended by A low loss of MO att wa that we have been saved froin such oft ti calamity fills hll severy every heart with lct tude to god for his intervention ww behalf we have been enjoying enjoy iny a VIM from sister cornelia COr nells H clayton ot oc provo prova who is traveling in the interest of the Y L M 1 I associations she left us on the just a little too soon to enjoy the cooling dish of ice cream for which she sighed while enduring the rays of our burning sun accompanying sister claytons claytona Clay tons visit was also one from two of our stake presidency brothers cannon and snow also sister rosina jarvis stake president of the young ladies we had an enjoyable time while they were with us the health of the people is good M C |