| Show A FATAL FLOOD the he mantl manti sentinel gives a detailed account of the flood in san pete county last week showing it to edlea be to the crops in chajt section mauti ephrain ephraine Eph raina sterling willow creek an and oter places auff suffered aufferey ered greatly in ohp logo of grain vegetables trees 40 mg M barns animate animals etc the Is estimated at not less than I 1 W of the flood at mayfield ag 74 A which was similar to that in other parts except that a child was drowned the sentinel has the following account A at t mayfield the water which did the most damage came down what is known as wood canyon which is about one and a half miles long froni from this canyon poured forth a stream of water six rods or bore more in width and fully five feet deep in the centre this torrent came down at a terrific rate the first place it reached was that of brother christian jorgensen where the water was divided by heavy out buildings stacks etc a third perhaps passing to the left but the main body pouring the full fuh force of its midstream mid stream directly against his dwelli dwelling Dg an adobe house sister jorgensen and six children were in the house hous when the father who saw the flood coming drove up and stopped his team and buggy on dry ground at the lee side of of a heavy log stable his oldest child a son came running to the door doer and called him to come and help his mother mr jorgensen gave the lines to the boy to care for the team and deeming him perfectly safe hastened to the assistance si of those in the house intending to bring them out once inside he found the other five children floating around on a lounge the water three feet deep and his wife holding on to a cu cupboard betseff partly to steady ber herself and partly to prevent it falling on to the children on the lounge As was the case in mantl mantil there were several parts to the flood and just as brother jorgensen mashed out a window to make an exit for the water the main body of the flood reached them he saw the stable swept from its foundations buggy and borms rolling over and aad over in the seething tide but did not see the gallant boy who stood at his post of duty to the death until some time after the flood when search march was made by almost people and his body found buried in mud and jammed under the wreck of a wagon a block below the cattle from the demolished pens went rolling over and avei like so many logs a stack of wheat containing about four hundred bushels was heaved and tossed about in every conceivable mariner manner and a mare that was in th the stable estable was killed A stack containing at least four tons of hay bay was separated from the rest of the stack as neatly as though it had bad been cut with a knife carried a block and a half aud left standing intact A mowing machine was carried several blocks and left in the street an indiscriminate nate heap brother lundgren one of the strongest men in town managed to get hold of a self binder that was going down and in attempting to guide it to a place of safety was d drawn rawn into the current and came near losing his life from the desolate home of brother jorgensen the implacable flood swept westward and fences were broken and twisted stables and corrals flooded sheds under minded cellars filled and orchards submerged and a self binder and mowing machine joined the jam of logs cattle etc which threatened with destruction a small email adobe house belonging to brother C B R nielson two blocks distant the lay of the ground there caused the full force of the stream to be directed agai nat I 1 he house a slight barrier being interposed by the corner of a rail MIJ fence against which the logs and trees were being hurled with a force that threatened it with instant destruction brother neilson viewed the scene from the south side of the tand being convinced that his wife and four children were in the house and that their fate was sealed was determined to ter mined to join them but was unable to make his his horse a fine young stamon stallion take to the water he rode around the flood and approached pro ached the house bouse from the northwest on a track where the water was somewhat less deep owing to the fence and house bouse having divided the stream the horse escaped when mr N went into the house where he was overjoyed to find that the two younger children were at their grandmothers in a place of safety consulting a moment with his wife and deciding that the house was unsafe he seized the two boys and followed by his wife they waded into the water trying to keep their feet till the broadening of the stream which below spread out over a considerable area but thy they th y had misjudged the force of the stream for it carried them right before it across several ten aero acro lots one of the boys had bad his head under water twice and the parents rents felt their power to combat with the soulless giant almost gone when help came in the shape ab of two horsemen chris tarson lareon and george A whitlock who rode out into unknown de depths and danger to the rescue we the mother was placed on one horse the youngest boy was caught and lifted to the back of the other and the other boy caught and was floated boated out by hanging on to the horses tall when they landed these safely and returned for brother nielson he said he be could not have kept his feet another three minutes he was so exhausted |
