Millard County Chronicle | 1951-12-06 | Page 1 | Storms Knock Power out for Five Hours

Storms Knock Power Out For Five Hours At 8:40 Wednesday morning the power went off over the entire Telluride system due to a line breakage between Santaquin and Nephl. Heavy storms had loaded the wires and poles with more than they could carry which caused cau-sed the break. Utah Power and Light Co. who own the lines at this point repaired repair-ed the damage and power was sent to most of the Telluride Power Pow-er company lines, with the exception excep-tion of Holden, Scipio, and west Millard. West Millard had two serious breaks in the lines that caused the failure here. West of Nephi the lines had gone down from two causes, the heavy storm and some insulators had been shot out. Also the line going from Delta to the Holden sub station was out due to shot up insulators and the storm. The power came to west Millard about 2 p. m., altough the line to Holden was still down. This line was repaired late Wednesday so that. West Millard will aeain have two lines to bring power into this area, until more storms and trigger happy people put them out again.