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Show VIRGIN RIVER ON TEN-DAY RAMPAGE After ten days of flood condition on the Virgin river which damaged dam-aged several bridges and also necessitated the towing of cars across the river bed by horses, the water is now subsiding and machines are crossing under their own power. The work of repairing the bridge whicli was damaged ten days ago has been greatly delayed due to additional ad-ditional floods down the river. The third flood hit the bridge Sunday, a five-foot rise of water stopped fording of the stream and held up 300 cars until Monday morning. morn-ing. For the second time the coffer dams were washed out when the increased in-creased flow struck them. After the water had receded teams again pulled travelers across, towing nearly near-ly BOO cars Monday. The bridge has a great sag where ten pilings were washed out by the first flood. The structure has sunk four feet on one side and two and a half feet on the other. There were as high as seven and eight feet of water in the Virgin Sunday it is reported. The road from the bridge to a point about eight miles the other side was cut up by a cloudburst which occurred oc-curred Sunday. It is passable, however, but motorists are cautioned to regard the signs and red lights to avoid difficulty. Pickwick stages are still transferring trans-ferring passengers across the bridge but there is no interruption in schedules. sched-ules. News, St. George. o |