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Show COWS DROWNED IN QGDEN CLOUDBURST DELUGE ROLLS DOWN STRONG'S ; CANYON GULCH ; Stream Eight Feet High and Wide as Street Soon Formed DAIRY CATTLE KILLED Another Cloudburst Does Damage to Homes In Davis County Four fine dalrv cows, owned bv Mavis Baker. Ogden dairyman, were drowned In Stroma's canyon, ln the southeastern part of tho city, by a deluge which swept down the canyon bout 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon, following a cloudburst. Mr. Baker save the torrent caused a stream of water about eleht feet high and as wide as u streot to come tearink down the eulch rolliue bic boUlders before it and tearine awav j tons of earth EQRJlfiNX KILLS COWS. I The torrent of water came uourine from the slclefl on the rldgo between I Waterfall canvon and Strone's canyon, can-yon, but the water rushed Into the Strong canyon gulch where the Baker I cows were grazing. I Two of the animals were Holstclns i and two were Durhams. One of Mr. Baker's . own was almost I broken to pieces by the force of the de-iluge. de-iluge. Another was burled under a j great pile of debris Mr Baker de-' de-' clares the havoc ln the canyon caused : by the storm Is almost awe inspiring. Mrs. Henry Ford, who Uvee next ! door to the Baker farm, desclbed the cloudburst i CLOI DBI R.ST DESCRIBED "I saw a blin k funnel-shaped cloud (near Waterfall canyon," she said "It i looked like tho tornadoes we had In Black Hill country, and 1 called Mr. ! Ford's attention to it. He said there must be two powerful cross currents to cause tho cloudy to assume that; ) form. We watched, but Instead of i iwei ping dust and particles ln the air, j las the tornado does, this cloud revers-I revers-I ed action and began to wnlrl water :ibut. Soon It burst and we heard J I the roar, which told us of the torrent' released in the hills. ' BOX ESCAPES DEDUCE Usually their son goes to the can- ! 'yon at 3 o'clock to bring home the I 'cows for the evening milking. He was; delayed yesterday, Had he gone at the usual time. FTe would have been i caught in the deluge. ANOTHER CLOUDBURST. KAYSVIDLE. Julv 21. .Much dom-l i age was done to farms and lawns.' and cellars were flooded bv a cloud-I cloud-I burst which occurred in the hills east: ' of here vcaterdav forenoon The farms ol Robert Ward and I James Love rufferod the most dara-I dara-I age. The dam for the reservoir of the Kaysvllle lirigatlon company broke and flooded the main street, j washing debris over lawns and flood-Ipg flood-Ipg cellars. The home of Dr. Sumner Qlsaaon was flooded. Damace suffered bv the Kavbvllle Irrigation company was estimated at '$1000. The pipe line of the Kaysvllle Kays-vllle Water companv was broken bv the force of the downpour. Which was .said to have been the worst evof known In this section. At Laylon the intake to the city waterworks was washed out and j muriv homes were flooded. The res'.- dence of Wlllard Garrett suffered the: greatest loss. Much damage was done throughout through-out the surrounding country to truck! farms and manv chickens were! ' drowned. - |