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Show Clarion Visited By Cloud Burst Two cloud bursts coming simultaneously simul-taneously from Dastrup and Fir canyons can-yons on the west side yesterday afternoon af-ternoon about 4 o'clock did damage to crops and farms amounting to several thousand dollars. It is reported re-ported that several chickens and pigs dere swept down with the rushing waters and were lost-Eye lost-Eye witnesses who were close to the flood when it came from Dastrup canyon say the water was fully 75 feet wide and 6 feet high at the crest. The one from Fir canyon was not so large but proved damaging. When the waters gushed from Dastrup canyon it took everything in front of it. Fences, haystacks and everything went before it. On the Burge Frandsen farm three big stacks of hay were unjointed and turned half way round and carried for fully twenty feet. All the irrigating ditches were filled with rocks and debris and the State canal was jammed with huge boulders. It will require several days work to clear the big canal. |