Show u coiner today Hain or 01 Snow TERRIBLE FLOOD CONFRONTS OGDEN Ice and Water Press Heavily Against Power Dam in Canyon CITIZENS DESERT HOMES Streams Swollen Hanks Banks ln GI GI Awn Away unitS und Disaster I Threatens S Valley 0 Ogden 1111 Feb 0 O. has lias Just been ed I from Sheriff ZIt at t time the 1 O tin dam rim I In III mm O Ogden OIl After t It er u n heroic h IIA It 11 he lie with a n 1 party J of ot lII men n Ian lias succeeded In lit o opening h lIl- lIl Jat gnUs gnU's nho the e thus thins n mm portion of the time ers pre III ing upon the 1 resistance of the time dam tum Tin rh i is not mint yet Ht M tl d. d although h I the lie impend hl lug ing dl disaster nHI I Is it fort forestalled for COl on n U time Ihne ut jit ha least t There i if Is no nn hc help IJ III in I sight ht unless time the rains minus cn cease u ii and un cold 01 1 er J I put s u a stop I to I lie rapid immel melting ti mug of ot the lit fl Immense drifts drifts- of In III the tue S S Ogden Feb r. r Although r. the time com cornS S was gle greeted ted with Ith fair Calt skies and anti sunshine today Hie Ule tie flooded con con- S seems to have grown from Crom bad lint L to wor worse e. The situation has been de do e- e as serious although the story is not half hair told lh The Ilme angry anglY waters I In mi the Ogden and Weber r rivers lut nave nav rl risen tn with astounding astounding- rapidity an ami and I have o o the banks bank In iii many Instances t people from front their homes home to me other places of safety Even n in ip the Uw residence sections of oI the elt city people have havo vacated their thell homes The water In the city Is L LS S sweeping We west l and arid north to the rivers and anti down the time hills leading from Crom the bench There helo appears to b be no ito tellIng tell tell- ing where It will nd Should the time power durn n In tho thin can canyon On break out tIme HIE river rivet would rise to 10 twice Us its pr pros pres ent nt proportion I. I S Families Desert Homes At the Becker Br Brewing BrevIng company's i plant the river has imas I rj en so that timers there are are two feet of or water between the tho onico and the he brewery Home o oC of the time r families Stave have move moved out of or that neighborhood neighborhood neigh neigh- Dr Hyatt of oC the time weather bureau burp continues to tu be optimistIc U He lIe pre predicts more mort fair skies kleR for tOl at least two days with th the exception ot or the portion ot of tim thu state t tt which i Ull ne ray C over owr the tit city It I Ira fad irad th the downpour continued during time the day It Is lIt certain that several Je new channels would have been formed by the tho Ogden and amid Weber eber rivers lI bringing destruction to Lu property hying near the lie rJ r bunks Even ln though thu limo taint rain cc s d early tints this morning and rifts In thai tho heavy clouds cloud proclaimed a n r re respite re spite from fm-em time the wet wel time rivers rR continued to rI rise l' l rapidly m Cellars Cellan's IS I'S Flooded Residents on aim Park avenue u have havo deserted de do- sorted their homes expecting them to 10 be bo washed away b by the angry waters vat wat ers erg at an any time The water ran Inn over o th the banks bank cellars cellar's and amI barns and sW swept pt through the hi underbrush until it reached Beckers Becker's brewery where it made a n wide detour ami found a n CoUl coun-c coun C past Jast the main doors doOl's of oC that building Tho The Ogden Sanitarium company suffered suffered suf suf- last Jast night what Is K pet perhaps haps the till severest sc individual loss Joss up to date I I Two hun hundred 1 feet fet of or the pipe line which conveys eS the nbc hot water from flom tho thu hi springs to the time sanitarium were sere wa washed a away way by the Hood an and the time re resort resort re- re sort sari Is to today a without water It Is not miot known just when wh the time trouble occurred but Manager Lundy sal said today that It had taken place some som time Um bet between n twelve twel o'clock midnight and amid f. f o'clock this morning From appearances there ha had l e evidently been a small slide followed by an unusually unusually un un- usually heavy volume volum of water which the anchorage e of the Ito conduit could not stand It foil fell Ill Into Inlo the river an and 1 was carried awa away by the lime torrent Loss Toss is k Great Int The Tho loss to the time sanitarium is a most severe one ona not from rom tho the actual value of property destroyed but from th time the fact that hut It means a practical shut shutdown down of the institution pell pending the limo repairs repair's of ot the lIn line which on ont account of the serious conditions prevailing pre at the time present time will bo be somewhat delayed f Today about abouL noon two parties parliN who had hall made maLle tho tile trip over o the mountains Into the city clay said that the time weather was waa as turning colder when the they timey I left Ct and amid that Indications that a cold snap was tas about to lo set sel In which will check the wat waters rs The Time whole valley MS Is a S sea a of ot snow anti and slush and anti the time river rl and amid time the streams lowing Into it are doing great I damage among the time farming 1 properties Hunt Huntsville lIh I Is hi like hike a second Venice and I hip boots ate are time the staple article in the stores This afternoon Indications that the situation north of the river Is GrowIng growing grow grow- ing lug worse rather rathel than timan better Families are arc still HUll moving out of or the homes and andIn andIn andIn In some sonic places th the water is two feet feel on eli th the lie floor Hoor Luckily all have o been able to es escape In lit safety safely and anti so o far Cal am as ns known but little household goods have been Injured 1 or destroyed The Salt s. Lake Ogden Hallway Railway company compaU has Imas suffered severely Me from corn the flood In several places the grade has been washed away ana and In many others other It has Imas been seriously damaged 1 Tracks J Endangered n S There Is sonic some danger at the Southern South South- era ern rn Pacific bridge e but as yet yot no particular par pal damage has hiatt been ben done don Superintendent Super Super- Manson made mad a trip to th the scene toLla today and anti sal said that thul the water was wa as higher tIll this year pal than titan lat last Jast t at the bridge but that tin thin damage amage at that time caused ll b time the was by water breaking Into the Irrigating canal which runs along the time river II at that point He lie does docs not contemplate an any serious damage amage Today th time river Jl broke through Its Us banks into Shupe's ic ice pond flooding It in imi a n moment and softening the Icelo ice to lo such buch an arm extent that time the force of or time the current rent carried awa away all th the Ice leu from th the surface of the pond mond The rime he house Is still standing but is In three re feet t of or water and amid a gang of or men are ame working hn hard to Lo tave sav h. v I it IL to S |