| Show FOREST SERVICE GETS REPORTS ON DAM BREAK Slides Likely to Follow Collapse of Gr Gros s Ven- Ven tre Belief Telegrams received at the for tor- forest est service Office here at 11 1130 30 o'clock this morning stated that thai the Swan aile Valley bridge a steel structure feet teet In length had been torn from Us its moorings The approaches to the Jackson bridge on the tho Jackon Wilson Jackson road are said to have been washed away but the br bridge was still standing E. E C. C Sanford forest supervisor It at Montpelier Idaho In direct touch with the ranger at Free Free- dom doni Wyoming V a a. little south 0 of the Alpine steel bridge said that the structure was as still standing although h the waters were coverIng It Sani i fest supervisor at St Sn Anthony in touch with Wyoming rangers sent the word I or orthe the Swan Valley and Jackson bridges J. J P. P Martin district engineer ot of the tho forest service expressed sur when he heard ot of the break break- breaking Ing ot of the Gros dam dar lar dartin tin and some Union Pacific system tem engineers Inspected the thu dam during the summer ot of 1925 two months after aCter the slide and thought It safe sare Boulders weighing tens ot of tons composed a great part ot of the th dam It Is said The slide from Sheep mountain filled the river bed 0 of tine the Gros Ventre to a a. height ot of feet The dam was about a a. mile thick at Its base lear Fear ot of other slides in that re- re giop with the washing out of the Gros nitre as as expressed today by District Engineer J. J P. P Martin and District Forester R. R II H. Rut Rut- ledge Dana Parkinson assistant district forester has just returned from points along the Snake river now under flood waters C. C E. E DIbble a ranger orkin under the Ogden office and wife are stationed at KellY Wyo J. J G G. Kooch I a ranger with his wife and child are stationed at BoIse Heise Ida which t CI was reported r under ger water wate at 7 o'clock c this morning n I IThe The volume ot of water let loose was best Illustrated In receiving word that II a forest service bridge over the Salt river about yards rard from the Salt rivers river's confluence with the Snake river had been lift lift- lifted ed from Its moorings from the th floods flood's backwaters Forest Fore service officials hero here tell felt that the waters might do untold damage to the Jackson 1 lenos ter- ter terry ferry ry road a a. state highway which was completed In 1926 with feder al aid ald The r road ad cr crosses se 3 the river about SIX mileS miles' west or of Kelly Wyo It Is said that the country countr Is rather w and flat A large bridge spans the river at that place V |
