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Show HEAVY RAIN 111 COLORADO Much Damage Done By Cloudbursts No Lives Are Lost Denver, Colo., Aug. 1. Cloudbursts followed by raging torrents In the gulches, the overflowing of tho banks of streams, and rivors, inundation of several villages, the washing away of crops and cattle and the paralyzing paralyz-ing of railroad traffic and electric power plants causing many thousands of dollars' damage were reported from several section of tho state late last night Hundreds of tourists were marooned maroon-ed In Colorado Springs because tho railroad tracks in both directions had been carried out. Anxiety tfbs felt by the fanners In the Springs section sec-tion because of a telephonic warning that Monument dam was weakening under tho strain of the flood Incident to the heavy rains above. The loss of many head of cattle was reported from Kuner, where the heavy rains wore interspersed with severe hall. John Swatsman, a farmer, farm-er, had been rendered unconscious by hail stones and lay for six hours before be-fore being rescued. An electrical storm at Fort Collins had paralyzed tho power plant Tho Arkansas river at Pueblo wbb at the highest point for the year, though no alarm was felt Florence, Colo., a small town, Just west of Pueblo, was reported to be Inundated. No loss of life was reported from any point The northern and central parts of Utah, which were already soaked by the recont rains and, In spots, almost al-most Inundated from the sudden rise of water In some "of the streams and Irrigation ditches, was again visited by a Bevere rainstorm last evening, Tho storm broke at 7 o'clock In Salt Jakc and vicinity, and was accompanied ac-companied by thunder crashes and plays of lightning which had anything but a soothing effect upon nervous people, A steady rain continued until un-til after 9 o'clock. Eureka was probably the hardest hit of the towns in the storm center last night. A cloudburst occurred at that place at 7:30 o'clock and turned one street into a river of rushing water. Tho business houses and collars col-lars on the north side of Main street were floJded and the water rose above the flcfor level of the Salt Lake Route depot. It was reported last night that the damage to property In Eureka would probably amount to several thousand dollars. The Finn saloon at Eureka was visited by the high water to such an extent that t-be bar was covered and the bottled and barreled goods and some of the fixtures and glassware were washed away. The saloon Is built over a ravine and tho water washed through the floor, v almost complotelv wrecking tho building. Logan has also had a little too much rainfall, according to reortS) received. The wheat, standing In shocks In the fields about Logan, was soaked through by tho rain and a great loss may be suffered by the fanners. Tn many sections It could not be said, for once, that the harvest harv-est rainstorm was "gojd for the crops." The heavy rainfall of Tuesday evening eve-ning caused much damage in the section sec-tion between Ogden and Salt Lake and a hundred foot stretch of track on tho Bambeiger lino was put out of commission by the overflow of water from Haight's dltoh, a mile and a half north of Farmlnmton. A great quantity of debris washed over the track at that point and caused a delay of an hour on all the trains of tho electric line from So'clock until midnight Gangs cf section men were rushed to the scene and worked through tho night clearing the tracks and diverting tho water. The stretch of embankment which was washed out was filled In yesterday yester-day and last night sufficiently to carry the trains today The train schedule was maintained yesterday by using one track which was unaffected un-affected above Farmlngton and utilizing utiliz-ing a spur at Farmlngton as a waiting wait-ing place for tho trains. |