Ogden Daily Standard | 1913-11-01 | Page 1 | Hallowe'en Prank Causes A Flood

HALLOWE'EN PRANK CAUSES A FLOOD Kansas City. Mo. Oct 31 A hallow -j een prank of one small boy last night caUsed a flood, a call for the police, the fire department and the water de-1 partment. closed a saloon temporarily, temporari-ly, ruined several dresses and suitB of clothes and tied up traffic on two I downtown streets for half an hour. I The boy spied an empty telephone cable ca-ble spool In a street. A little block cf wood held It from rolling down hill The boy waited until he was sure there were no policemen watching, then removed the little block of wood and ran. The great spool weighing half a ton quickly gathered momentum Just i before ft reached crowded Twelfth street, it crashed Into a water plug. I I T" w . ..I. to , 1 'i c- K 1-,-. lr T1 -1 t r Via icja o n rl the rushing water shot into the door of a saloon dren'-hins a dozen pedes trians who were passing. The water flowed down the street In a small torrent tor-rent blocking traffic