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Show WASHOUT AND LANDSLIDE BLOCK THE CANYON LINE Two Hundred Feet of Embankment Washed Away Near the Peery Summer Cottage Great Boulders, Carried Down From Cliff, Lodge on the Tracks Near the Wilson Sawmill. Ogden river is on a rampage and in Its wild course has washed away 200 feet of roadbed of the Ogden RapidTransit line in the canyon. At a point west of the Peery place in the canyon, the watr has cut Into the embankment, doing much damage and yesterday afternoon a force of 50 to 60 men was sent out to check the waters and begin the reconstruction reconstruc-tion of the damaged piece of roadbed. road-bed. The canyon electric line is blocked at two points. Yesterday large boulders weighing several tons, halt a dozen of which are 14 f$et square on one face and five feet thick, slid down on the track from the high cliffs lo the north of the Wilson sawmill, saw-mill, and this slide and the washout will keep a large gang of laborers busy until the latter part of next week making repairs. These obstructions will prevent the Rapid Transit running cars to the canyon tomorrow. |