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Show Mammoth Reservoir Breaks; Shuts County from World Railrbad Tracks, Auto Road, and Telegraph and Telephone Tele-phone Lines Taken Out by Flood .Waters of Price River. -Orangeville Girl Loses Life. Cul off from th outside world for nearly a week, Emery county had a lte'of the real thing In being mar-rooDod mar-rooDod Sunday night when the dam of ib ilarnmoth reservoir which holds tack the flood waters of the Price riv-(r. riv-(r. broke and carried out auto road, double tracking and grade of the D. r. G. railroad and all telephone and ltlrgraph wires at several points between be-tween Colton and Price, leaving the whole of Eastern UUih without communication com-munication with Salt Lake City and other points upstate for nearly a week. The latest estimates of the damage 1c the railroad company alone are over ov-er the million mark without considering consider-ing the traffic lost. Other Interests saffered in proportion, but it fell to ihe lot of an Emery county town to suffer the saddest part of the havoc irought the death of Miss Hattie Peacock of Orangeville. her'a being the only life to be lost, though there jre reported to have been several narrow nar-row escapes. The young lady. In company with her brother and his wife and Ear) King, an employee of her brothers', had motored to the bank near the old ford at Price in order to watch the a er raise. This was at about one o'clock Monday evening, the crest of Ihe flood only then rc;n lied that place. Upon deciding in lrave the scene, Mr. Kin?, who was driving the car in h:ch ih others rode, experenced tnmt diffii ulty in turning the car a-round, a-round, iind soon found himself on the Tcry Uiink of the river. All jumped from the car, but Miss Peacock, who was toward the front of the car and between it and the stream, was knocked knock-ed Into the turbulent water by the front wheels of the car and was swept Jffay before anything could be done to help her. Only the restraining hands f friends kept the unfortunate girl's brother, Gomer, from throwing him-elf him-elf into the river in an effort to render rend-er assistance. It was realized that uch an act would be almost madness is the dark and with the great amount of driftwood and debris steadily pouring pour-ing by. The body was found Wednesday, Wednes-day, caught in the crotch of a drifting Tee, some two miles below Price. Miss Peacock, though having made her home at Price for sometime past. as well and favorably known by a oost of friends throughout the county bo were greatly shocked to learn of Jer sad and untimely death. She was years of age and was born and raised in Orangeville, where the fun-era! fun-era! services were held Friday after-loon, after-loon, attended by a host of relatives MjJ friends. A particularly notice-Me notice-Me feature of the services was the fS!e attendance of Price people "lere the deceased had gathered a-wut a-wut her a large number of friends ,ough her connection with the Gold- iL store with whlch she has been "delated for the past two years. She m known everywhere for her uni-Dm uni-Dm Sod nature and patience. Bishop H. M. Reid and Archer B. '1 le "Poke at the funeral serviees a the ward choir and local musi-" musi-" 8 gave several beautiful selections. . "Wcctive Spiuway Cause of Disaster. A hurried report made by State En-nefcr En-nefcr Geo. F. McGonagle, gives the behf tne brak!ng of the dam as bumf, defectlve spillway which was hu y ,arge to take care of the br th al"onut of water brought down w' ne last few weeks of warm weath-Hne weath-Hne f e 8tretcn of flume on the Pricer lhe anal belonSlng to the howert " Irr'sation company also Slven f "P mlssin8 when orders were to st ,he ranche8 this side of Price atth !,What water couId be secured T but this is beir,K repaired w w' be ready for use In a day or small pUrpIus water stored in the nder rt8eberry re8erv" has been hos the unfrtunate farmers moth mainstay has been the Mam-the Mam-the u, wlth thls assistance and 1b- of hlSh water which is keep-at keep-at th PrCUy wel1' 11 18 not thought Will snffCrP8 f the section affected Wed M badly 518 was at firsl Prominent Men Interested Th dam w "tice of the break in the 'Widen? rceive(i by George Austin, from th t the 'rrigation company, r0ld Y Denver & Rio Grande rall-leave rall-leave f0 ' Austin at once prepared to him on "th prPerty- Accompanying ?an at aut0bile trip which be-John be-John c " o'clock Monday night was j,t " heclon, engineer of the pro- prteS0Cr!at,ea w'th Mr. Austin in 'the Ge,rge 'Ve" Jrrigaton company are - Smith, secretary; John C. Wheelon, engineer, and the following directors: Thorans R. Cutler, Mark Austin, Ira D. Wines, Thomas Austin and J. Leauto. The project was started some nine years ago and was taken over three ' years later, by the farmers who are served, tho administrative offices j being operated from Salt Lake Ciiy. The dam was about Bixty feet in ; height and impounded 11.000 acre feet , of water, a sufficient supply for the irrigation of 10,000 acres of land in the Price river valley. ('out $150,000 It was planned to continue the height of the dam to 100 feet, so that sufficient water could be stored for '20,000 acres of land. To date of ; breaking the constructing represented an expenditure of approximately J 1 50,-000. 50,-000. The dam was of the latestapprov-ed latestapprov-ed construction, having a center core of concrete two feet in thickness, reinforced rein-forced at intervals of twenty feet with j reinforced concrete buttresses. The dam at the top spanned a reservoir 610 ' feet wide. The footing of the dam was i400 feet wide and was 'sunk in bed-! bed-! rock. ! Original plans for the mammoth ' dam were drawn by Frank C. Kelsey and A. F. Doremus in 1903 and on May 6 were approved by Mr. Doremus as Estate engineer. The original plans j called for dirt dam without a core 100 feet high, 400 feet thick at the base, 510 feet wide and with a twenty- foot crest. Later new plans were ' submitted and the construction of the concrete core wall had been constructed con-structed up to a night of sixty feet when the break occured. For Storage Purposes The reservoir was designed to store water to supplement the regular flood waters of the Price river and were brought into use generally during the waters of the Prce river and were water of the river became too low to furnish sufficient for irrigation purposes. pur-poses. Wth 11,000 acre feet of water in storage at the time the breach in the dam occured there was impounded impound-ed in round numbers about 3,600,000,-000 3,600,000,-000 gallons of water, or enough to ir- i rigate 10,000 acres for a period of perhaps four months. As we belatedly go to press, there are rumors of passenger trains being put hrough the washed out section on temporary tracks within a few days but it will likely be a week or ten days more before traffic will be anything ' like normal. A wagon road going by j way of Willow creek from Castlegate ' to Colton has been opened up and all I mail, since and including Saturday, ! is coming direct from Salt Lake. Up until then, it was necessary to route our mail from the west by way of Cheyenne and Denver, with the result that no papers or anything else from the west and very little from the east were received from Tuesday until Friday. |