Show fAMILY SAVED FROM STOP Ephraum Storey and Child Spend Night In Rain I Tb The story stor ot of a narrow escape e from death In the cloudburst occurred in North Fork rork canyon Monday evening Mas nas told today b by Ephraim N r Storey Story of North r Ogdon Mr Storey Story solid Bald I 1 1 was nas sta Ing with Ith my wife and small child at nt the cabin ot oI George Gorge In Cutler Creek a tributary of ot North r Font There Thero were era present at nt the cable Mr Uns Ra Ran his wife fate two small children Helen Store Storey of ot 2156 Adams avenue a and Dorothy Cortez Cortz of KO Twenty first street and ni- ni my- my myself self elt and wife I I had jut juit ed at nt 6 G Monday evening to take tako carp care of SOMe cattle on my flue 11 homestead afore and toad ad finished supper About 8 30 o'clock we ne were ere about to goto go goto goto to bed led when hen someone looked out t f the window Indol and saw a n wall of mud water trees ana and boulders coming down the tho gulch I I shouted to take tale to the hills hillsand hillsand and vo ro all aU left the house and rat up through the tho brush on the steep hillside above the tho oncoming tor- tor torrent tor torrent rent With a rush a-rush rush the water swept away ay my Dodge automobile and the boulders ground It to pieces A sad sad- saddle saddle die Bad dle horse that was as tied led near the cabin after aner I had come In from feeding my cattle was washed down th the can canyon on The torrent tore oat part of the cabin and took took a array aay ay the stO stove stole e but left leCt three walls standing ln on too ering In the blUe bittel I cold for tor more than fh floe file e hours hour until dawn aheu wh the water subsided and I d down to the wreckage of what hat was left The car wa was as smashed hed to pIeces a mile do down don n below the house All that remains remain Ih Ili the batter battery and two Urea Ures Ure The huge tinge boulders car car- carried car carried ried along In the stream tream crushed the steel and wood to 11 pieces tees The saddle horse was found a little far farther far far- farther farther ther along dead and crushed The children and women folks huddled together In an effort t to keep warm w arm as they w ere thinly clad and were nero re wet net et to the skin I r left the folks and w went ent ent down downto downto to the boy scout camp about three miles do down don n the tho canyon and saw the wreckage there I t then en went to the Southwick ranch where where- I ob- ob obtained ob obtained a horse and rode rodo Into Lib Lib- Liberty Lib Liberty erty and gave the nos new no a s of the flood Procuring a car there I came backup back backup backup up the tho well nigh Impassable road for th the remainder of our party and took them home The The night was one never to be forgotten during the cloudburst the skies seemed to opens open and pour out great volumes o of water eater rho The rho grind grind- Ing grindIng grind of the boulders caused noise lice cannonading and without light fire or shelter we sought the haven Of oak brush hrush In an effort to ge get out wind and rain and watch out possessions go down the stream thinkinG an any moment would be our OUI last |