Show Flood Wipes Out Engineering Camp To escape with only their B. B V. V Ds D.'s from a flood In the night on a a. desert many mil miles s from any habitation habit tion was the of the engineering engineering engineering en en- en- en party which is working inthe inthe in the Henry Mountain district II in southeastern south southeastern eastern Utah is the report which has las just been received by the paren parents o of the four Manti ManU boys In the tho party Golden Billings Edward Eliason Gail Gall Jensen and Max Moffitt in writing about their experience said they escaped with nothing but but their lives and were to escape with them The little camp was slumbering peacefully in fn the bottom of a box can canyon On below the Tite ranch They were sleeping as only boys bos can sleep after a hard days day's hike in the tha open and were not awakened until tho forty foot wall waIl of wat water r mud boulders bould bould- ers and debris was practically upon their little camp They sprang for their lives and In a moment tho the peaceful little camp was s swept sept ept Into utter oblivion Forty foot of or torrent over where they lay sleeping only a minute before In the ink inky inVy blackness it was Impossible to see and the roar of the flood made hearing out of the question The engineer climbed to a high cliff and built a fire tire as a signal to the scattered scattered scattered scat scat- bo boys s Soon nine of the eleven boys bos were shivering around the tho blaze An hour and a half haIr later Max Moffit 1 worked his way through the rocks and brush bruah to the little group and an hour later theother the theother theother other missing bo boy a lad from Sprint Spring ville joined the group and relieved relieve d their anxiety A survey survoy of or the belongings saved sayed revealed that about half the boys had escaped ed with their clothes tho others had only their light underwear underwear underwear under under- wear some had shoes and some soma stockings Only five quilts had been saved sayed from the four beds AH All other camp belongings and food was gone They divided tho the clothing saved and the lie next day sent to the tho nearest ranch for a fresh supply |