Gunnison Valley News | 1919-12-05 | Page 1 | Gunnisonites Camels Twenty-Four Hours

GUNNIS0NITES CAMELS TWENTY-FOUR HOURS Last Sunday the citizens of Gunnison Gunni-son were brought face to face with what the poor camels suffer when negotiating a long journey across the bleak and hot deserts. The Gunnison Gun-nison residents, however, were not compelled to travel and neither were hey able to quench a burning thirst that started early Saturday night and continued until nearly four o'clock Sunday afternoon. All because there was no water. The shortage was :aused by the breaking of a stave in ine oi the sections of the main line it Christenburg and from Saturday night until Sunday afternoon every ap in the city was dry and very few, if any, had been notified to prepare 'or the emergency. For some reason rea-son the storage tank which is supposed sup-posed to be. kept full, was dry, or at 'east water was not flowing and not ilone was the housewife greatly inconvenienced in-convenienced by being without water .'or culinary purposes, but there was ictual sufferirfg by man, as well as beast. Fortunately the snow had not all melted and the residents were saved by melting snow. j