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Kane County Standard | 1932-09-02 | Page 1 | Flood Washes out Bridge at Escalante

Type issue
Date 1932-09-02
Paper Kane County Standard
Language eng
City Kanab
County Kane
Rights No Copyright - United States (NoC-US)
Publisher Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
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Article Title Flood Washes out Bridge at Escalante
Type article
Date 1932-09-02
Paper Kane County Standard
Language eng
City Kanab
County Kane
Page 1
OCR Text FLOOD WASHES GUL bp igor I 1 I 1 AT ESCALANTE the worst flood thet has ever been known in escalanti Esc alanto alania came down the escalante croak creek saturday night fol lowing the severe storm that swept through there thera saturday afternoon the big bridge was away feet down the stream and the road la in somo some places was rendered impassable about CO 00 rods being washed away the brothers suffered co 0 heavy loss when their light plant which furnished lights tor for calante escalante Es Hs was washed away A sheep wagon and a waynw washer which wee at the plant were also host by them in the flood As a now new plant will have to be built it will be somo time before the city ot of escalanti Esc alanto will be able abla to have ci 0 lighting system the home of lawrence christensen was badly damaged when the flood swept through tho the house tearing out one end und and carrying the furniture before it three ot 0 the christensen children who were caone in the home the parents having gone up to town were forced to ties to the hillside where ty they waited until the flood went down considerable damage was done to farms along the creek creeh banks bank when the banks cairel in destroying crops lend drowning pigs chickens and sheep A severe bevere hail bail storm visited pan duitch islley saturday afternoon in the vicinity of 0 three mile creek creeh do tog ing some damage to the hay and grain the hailstones were said to have been ot of enormous size this la Is the second hall storm to in the valley this ser son one having occurred to in the lower part 0 of the valley in the neighborhood ot of the tha hencle farms arms about CL a month ago
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