Show sloans in alie the proto enquirer publishes the following details of the heavy storms which raged in alio southern part of the territory a week ago an immense washout occurred on tuesday afternoon last about two miles north of lehi and extending over six miles of country farther north caused by a waterspout that poured forth vast volumes of water down the mountains surrounding the point being one of he biggest storms that haa visited the ir hood for several years the floods blushed down the hilla carry ing away a considerable portion of tho railroad track and throwing ties rails and earth bome distance on the north side of the point several rods of a cut was seriously impaired and filled with earth the tuesdays passenger train from the south was unavoidably detained all night near this place while a number of leq were working vigorously to remove debris und replace the truck tho following letter from mr S W brown will show what effect the storm had in alpine a prosperous settlement east of lehi we were visited by one of tho most fearel wind hail and rain storms ever witnessed by the oldest settler whole fields of beautiful grain redy for the harvester are entirely destroyed the hail beat tho grain out of the heads of wheat barlay and oats the corn in many places is laid waste lucerne is very much damaged much damage haa also been lone to land by being washed the whole in our immediata vicinity was ono vast sea of wate several who have the whole rummer in raiding crops liast lost all and will be obliged to seek vork away from home since the above was in type w leayo received another on on the same subject from mr john deacy also of alpine il about noon a thick dark cloud wis seen traveling over the mountains a little northwest of this city accompanied wih occasional thun defines de rines in a short time hail and rain were pouring domi in torrents the hail continued about 30 minutes and the rain about one hour longer during which time our streets and creaks resembled rivers to the north very little damage was done to the east considerable was done while at the west and southwest it was beyond description it is believed that one hundred bushel cannot be gathered in a hundred acres in the west field some men have lost all they had in the shape of grain under the north hills on the bench it was even worse where on tuesday morning stood some beautiful grain today to day you cannot get a bundle of straw the storm was so heavy that it beat it down loosened the roots and then the flood of water was so great that it entirely washed it all away then there was a large amount of grain on the bench belonging to the residents of leahj that was also destroyed the damage done to residents of alpine will |