Show Terrible Flo Flood d at Manti Mantl On last Tuesday evening pant Manti r was was as visited by by- bythe the most destructive destruct destruct- ive flood ever known in this par parthe part t Jt the ho state The damage t to to o o property k pert is enormous Y T rr rf f fr i About 7 o o'clocK clock in in the he t evening evening some men rode down the canyon to spread the alarm but the i rushin rushing rush ush- ing in- torrent was almost at their r heels A crowd croud of men assembled d don on the bridge east of the Madsen house hous and for a short time the they y succeeded in keeping the driftwood driftwood driftwood drift drift- wood going under the bridge bu bua but buta t a dam darn soon boon formed and a part pait o othe of fe f the stream dashed against the th e Madsen hotel building filling th the o basement with mud and water The op Co-op basement was nex next t filled up and the tho torrent then the n rushed down Main ain street sheet strewing t that thoroughfare with mud an and d I driftwood for four blocks I While the north channel of th the e I creek was paying its r respects t to o the business part of town the theother theother I oth other r channel was creating havoc i in the south pai part palt t of town Dams were formed at all the the bridges brid bridges es and find I nearly all the streets were turned I into rivers of mud Driftwood and cobble rocks are piled up all I along the channel The Tho flume across Main street is raised up two feet completely blocking travel on the block I I I Ex Coun County Surveyor John IT II I Hougaard went ent all nIl along th the I creeks and streets which hail had been beci flooded and made a careful estimate estimate esti esti- mate mato of the damage e Ho He says ays that the damage to property I public and private will reach Other citizens place the damage e all the way from to Among the individual losers J.P. J.P. J.P. J. J P. P Madsen ladsen and L. L F. F Becker sustained sustained sustained sus sus- the greatest loss Their building the Madsen hotel and postoffice will boa bea total loss Already Already Al Al- Already ready the building is beginning to settle and all agree that it will willbe willbe willbe be a total wreck Superintendent Tennant of the op Co-op could not give an tan estimate of his loss The b basement is full of water and until that is gotten out he ho could not tell anything about it The basement which Bruce Brown BlOwn cover with a anew now new saloon building is filled with mud and water The rear of Christensen's saloon building is raised Several inches and Parrys Parry's office which is located in one ono corner of the tithing yard was raised on the flood and turned half round All An through tl a f la t taW 1 A l in n th the t r y yr t no 00 od il n r en find n d'- d' orchards are tiro covered with drift The channel of the creek which extends diagonally through the city from southeast to northwest had been thoroughly cleaned out this summer and for the greater part of the way was wa planked on both sides It has cost the city of Manti lanti to get et them in inthe inthe the condition they were in before the flood came and now the tho greater great great- er r part of the work will have tobe tobe to tobe be done over O again Several hundred men and boys are at work clearing away the tho debris Everything has lias been taken out of the Madsen laasen hotel building aud and postoffice has haa been located in his resi residence enc on Main Iain street by Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster Post Post- master Maden Madsen |