| Show SEVERE STORMS V VISIT ISIT plute AND GARFIELD COUNTIES 41 3 A wore vere hailstorm hol storm struck tropic southwest part ot of town sunday in the causing considerable damage to gar dens dena and bay the TAO 11 toll 1111 11 stones are said to hayo been unusually largo large and laore lu in the tomi form ol of irregular slipped chunks or of ICO the usual round stones A flood the same afternoon washed out the bridge brides between and cannonville Cann onville also a 0 culvert near the following taken from the trib une gives an account of th the rain storm which struck plute county and tho the eastern part ot of garfield Gartl eld county JUNCTION A heavy rain and oleo electrical storm mon monday day in tell teh grazing and agricultural section ens east t ol of here hera caused more than dam abc aad including washed bridges flooded farms and houses and drowned the tha storm which hit the antimony gjud sd widtsoe districts at about a m and continued two hours ath a downpour of 0 bet between weort five and six elx inches put five miles ot of highway no 22 under water out the dry wash and antimony bridges halting all traffic between the two towns tile the escalante calante Ea district was waa hit by a howy heavy storm saturday which washed out numerous small bridges and cut cul verts verta KB an well na as doing much damage to farm crops and livestock tho greatest dr domaga inage to farms was in clover valley whore where the ranch home dt df levi king in the low lands was waa tilled filled with it a toot of 0 water and alit in Alon mondays days storm ills his also wore seriously deani ged ANTIMONY lorty teams hanft a largo large crew ot of man were busy tuesday digging this section out ot of the silt and mud lett left by the downpour ot of monday morning which washed ait 0 it crops flooded lowlands drowned cattle toro tore up roads floated away brid bridges gas and tilled filled canals D early arty estimates of the tha flood damage at are now considered low but a detrAl detailed ool burvy survey 7 Is under way to approximate the damage which was waa general in this section and through widtsoe and lite IIA tracts detours have boon been constructed so BO that traffic Is possible many farmers reported their grain either beaten down by the tha rushing waters or covered by silt alry land probably suffered most damage as much of the winter toed food grown here is on tho leya bli ot or lait valley it Is feared a scarcity of teed feed will grip i the section during the winter much hay bar WM ao noart A 1 when tha th storm struck and this was washed away and some stacks were toppled over by i water cutting under abo foundations of the the greatest neatest mainaga was in a tour four I 1 mile wide swath neutering nt at the I 1 mouth of antimony creek |
