Milford News | 1929-03-15 | Page 6 | Gunnison Streets are Again Flooded

GUNNISON STREETS ARE AGAIN FLOODED "Man the life boats," was a frequent fre-quent expression Monday afternoon, when Main street became a miniature river. Business men, having had experiences ex-periences of the past from similar incidents, in-cidents, and from cloudbursts, hurried hurri-ed for the bags of sawdust and sand and barricated their places of business busi-ness against the miniature flood. Main street was a veritable mass of water and mud. During the early afternoon af-ternoon and late in the evening the waters gained in volume and it wan difficult to attempt a crossing, even at the regular places provided for pedestrains. Only for the action of storekeepers on the west side of Main street, much damage would have resulted. re-sulted. Sensing the impending danger, dan-ger, provisions were made to keep the waters from pouring into the several business houses. While no monetary damage resulted to the business men, Main street presented a deplorable sight Tuesday morning. The street was a mass of mud and the gravel that had been placed between be-tween the strip of pavement and the curbing had been washed into the gutters. A warm sun breaking forth during early morning, started a thaw and the snows on the foothills north of town soon turned to water and followed a water channel through the cemetery and thence directly through the city and down Main street. This same dangerous dan-gerous water channel has been in existence ever since the storm ditch north of town was allowed to be filled fill-ed and abandoned several years ago. N'ewg, Gunnison.