| Show I ROADS AT KA KAYSVILLE Irrigation Reservoir Bursts Washing out Grades and Damaging Crops STOPS SHORT LINE TRAINS of or Bamber- Bamber Foot Pmt Lino 1 c Illo Grande Still in Service With a rush of oC water that carried away lift fifty feet of or newly built embankment embankment embank embank- ment mont on tho lie Salt Lako Lake Ogden rail rall- road feet feel of or track on the tho Oregon Short Line an and poured over o tho the tracks In a n torrent quarter one-quarter milo mile wide the tile water from tile the I Kaysville Irrigation Irrigation Irrigation tion company's compans r reservoir ser at broke broko through its banks and partially or wholly devastated nearly a n square mile of or the tho rich farming lands in the tile valley alley below tile the town A special train hearing bearing section men from Salt Lako Lake was sent to Ka and by bJ heroic efforts they were able ablo to cut cuta a pas passage sage through tho tile embankment of or ortho tho the Rio nil Grande Western thus preventing pre venting enting a sel serious ous washout that would have hae cut oft off communication by rail between Salt Snit Lake and Ogden In er- er With only onh a small part of or tho the track damaged ld over which trains were obliged ob oh- liged to proceed with care tho Oio service service ser ser- vice of or the Rio Grando Ve Western wa j d al or or r 5 It enil U elJ C r I celebration J J H J. J W- W 1 Vi JI landed safely at homo home at about 1 12 4 40 tills this morning Train Tins Has Narrow arrO The wrecking of Oregon Short Line Lino No 10 duo to arrive at at was narrowly averted There was no tele telegraph operator on duty either olther at Kaysville or Layton hut but before No 10 r reached Layton citizens of or ha had telephoned to tile the Oregon Ore Short Line Lino officials in this hits city and the tile train was stopped in the nick Ilick of or time The Tho train returned d to Ogden and anti then thon came caine to Salt all Lake over the tho Rio Grande Western estern tracks after a delay of more moro I than thun two hours The Ther Damber er road suffered great I damage as tho the fifty feet feel of oC embankment embankment embank embank- ment meet washed aWa away was forty feet feel high at th tho tilo place where the torrent rushed through The rho foot root stretch o of tho ho Ore Oregon on Short Line that was washed away was on an embankment live five feet high and in addition n to this damage dam dam- age ago the tile ballast was loosened for Cor a large e part of or the quarter mile o er which the tho hood rushed like a great greal river 11 The ThC flood at Its Us wl widest esl spread covered covered cover er ed etl to 1000 acres of or farming land being a mile wide and more than a amile amile amilo mile milo long The south side silio o of the vii vil lage o of was not i reached cached by tho flood hut but cellars In the tho north side of the lie town are aIe Hooded flooded and several residences near the tracks were damaged dam dam- aged Ii II 1110 Sprang Leak A defective box hox in tho the Hume outlet to tho the reservoir Is given as tho the primary cause of or the disaster It Is believed th tile tho water leaking from flom the box caused tho the hank bank to give I e way slightly at first anti and then more moro rapidly as the waters water's seeped PO through the leak until without further urther warning the millions of gal gal- al- al Ions lons burst their confines s and swept overy everything thIng thIng- away in their their- path Most of or the wat waters ls l's followed the tile channel of Holmes' Holmes creek Tho The Oregon Short Line was sched sched- tiled to run excursions on Oil all trains from Crom Salt Lake to O den Ogden today on account account ac ac- ac- ac count of or the U. U C. C T T. convention but hut until tho tile roadbed is repaired the tile trains of or tho lie O O. S S. S L L. will be he operated over ver tho the Rio Itlo Grande Western Vestern t rn tracks |
