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Show r HEAT, COLD AND STORM TAKE TOLL OF LIVES AND PROPERTY Ogden Citizens Warned to Prepare Against High j Water During Lull; Nebraska Wind Kills Three; Snow in Southern Utah; I ! Relieving th.it the fnllint: of the Oc- I don and Weber rivers is only tempo - 4 ! 'j't jijl rary and high waters may be again ex- "te-'"t" Parted as soon as the weather warms up. city officials are taking advantage I of the lull and strengthening banks and placing dykes alongr the river banks. The flood waters of both streams ; 1 ,' ,' are now down 18 inches below the! 1 high peak reached ;i few days ago and the banks are now easily holding The high point has not yet been reached, according to the belief of of-j1 of-j1 ,i ;! i ficlnls and floods may be expected Ir ! warm temperatures come suddenly and remain continuously for a few P j! rjj' i I, days. COOL TONIGHT. Cool temperatures are expected to-' to-' rf -!-'( night, according to the forecast of the, United states weather bureau, bring- i j. ' ing trust. I'.ilr skies arc promised for . i tonight and tomorrow, yesterday's maximum temperatun was 65 degrees, with a minimum last ". night of 85 degrees. SNOW in SOUTH, -s. Southern Utah, northern Arizona 1 and southwestern Colorado were re-. ported in the grip of a heavy snow-, storm yesterday. The mercury fell to1 24 degrees at Modena Tuesday night j and the official snow measurement I I was 10 inches. Nine inches fell at 'y1 Flagstaff. Ariz , and six inches at Du- ran go. Gallup X. M.. also reported several Inches of snowfall BBS! The storm area yesterday extended from the southern portion or the I Rocky mountain region northeastward j ll'jl ',: 1 ' 'S to Minnesota, with centers over New! Mexico and eastern Xorth Dakota Shippers have been notified to protect shipments the next thlrti'-slx hours from temperatures as follow North, 32 degrees; east, south, above free-Ing; free-Ing; west, 25 degrees. , SHEEP 11 Kl MIT. PRICE. May u Eleven Inchea of I heavy, wet now f II here -st-nla .. Trees were weighted down. Coal was delivered by bobsleds. The weathi r Is extremely cold Serious losses are reporteil among sheep, as most of the shearing has been completed and there are 2fi "lin or 30.000 shorn ewes on the road to lambing grounds and some are in the midst of lambing. One sheepman predicted pre-dicted a loss of 25 per cent In old sheep and even more among the , lambs. "Nothing more disastrous could have happened." a hlg flock I owner said this morning. "The loss K is as inevitable as it is inestimable." I Heavy floods are predicted along the Price river as a result of the heavy ' v snow. The river has been rising rap- j Idly the past few days, and this last snow will swell the stream to the danger dan-ger point. Some diking will be neces-' neces-' sary to prevent loss to property ana danger to homes along the stream, RICHFIELD. May 11. The Bevlei river continued to rise yesterday, and 1 ! more than six Inches is the record for M. the past twelve hours. Added tb the melting snows there been an al- ' . most continuous rainfall anil snowfall all over the Sevier watershed for the I past forty-eight hours, and uneasiness I i i is expressed all along the river. The lunctlon-Klnvton bridge has gone ivl'niifC nu' am' tnc f0niPnt bridge In Sevier j : ri ' j, canyon has collapsed Highway trav el to Piute towns has been diverted ir;: ,.'.' over the old route through .Monroe J -I and up over the divide to Marysvale. I j M .) This route, was aband mnl w hen the j Sevier canyon road was built. A force of men and teams I at work putting I the old road In Shape again PARK CI I V I DUE OPEN SALT LAKE. May 11. Service was! resumed on the Denver A Kin Grande Western railroad's Park City branch Wednesday after being suspended from last Saturday on account of hltrh IB Hlllnl waters Inundating the tracks in Par-1 ley"s canyon. The flood situation in Salt Lake was reported as having been considerably relieved by the cold temperature of Wednesday, there being comparatively, little snow melting. FLOOD T PO( VI F.LLO. i POCATELLn -Idaho. May 11. Flood waters i.f the Pottneuf nver, running through the city were In-j creased yesterday by warm tempera-1 I turps and melting snows and overflow 'of the banks n looked for. The condemned bridge "t North Lincoln street waa washed out Down In Happy H"llov. y the Brady ball park, the water baa flooded more than hall of that section. Several tent dwellers have been forced to move to higher ground, and embankments around other tents ar being extended, extend-ed, If the rain continues It is likely that the bad flood condition Of that section of last year, when a score of1 families were forced Out of their ! homes, will result. STORM CENTER SHIFTS. DENVER. Colo.. May 11 Heavy ' I storms which prevailed In Utah and, western Colorado yesterday, had moved mov-ed to the northeast this morning and i 'rain fall, thunderstorms and high winds were reported in parts of Wy- j oinlnir, South Dakota and Nebraska j According to .1 M. Sheerier, fore- caster for the local Weather bureau office, the storm centered this morn-Lng morn-Lng at Rapidity, South Dakota, where , 2.08 Inches ot precipitation was ieg-I ieg-I Istered, accompanied by a severe ( thunderstorm. Thunderstorms also! were reported at Valentine and Dodge City, Neb., Mil heavy rains at Sher- I idan, Wyo The west wind reached a! velocity of r.6 miles an hour at Cheyenne, Chey-enne, yo. Snow was falling only at Cheyenne and Leadvllle, Colo., but temperatures of 20 degrees above zero were reported re-ported at Modena, Utah, and Duran-go. Duran-go. Colo. WIND PLAl s HAVOC. LEXINGTON, Neb., May 11 Sev- rul lioiii, Weii lilted Irom their' foundation, juggled and replaced as a child plays with, toys, trees of large J circumference were broken at the ground, torn out by roots or twisted. 1 farm buildings were demolished ami all avenues Of communication dosed by a windstiiim that neared the pro portion or a tornaao wnicn swept over 'a corner of Lexington last night and passed into the northeast part ot the county N loss of life has been definitely def-initely determini d THKF.F KILLED ; mM aha Neb., May 1 L Three per- ' sons .'.ere killed and widespread damage dam-age Co property was done as a result ! of windstorms in various pans of Nebraska stcrday and last night, according ac-cording to advices received here to-dav to-dav SEAT KILLS ONE. I ST 1'AI'L. Minn. M.i II me deal!) from heat was reported here I Wednesday, the hottest of the year, when the temperature reached 86 degree de-gree The victim, an unidentified woman sank to the floor of, a street fur and I expired soon afterward . BUILDING I NROOFEb. SIOUX FALiLS, s D, May 11. Heavj windstorms that swept central South Dakota late yesterday damaged num. -roii- farm buildings and wrecked small strucinres in several towns The wind was most severe near Pierre where many buildings were unroofed, unroof-ed, stack of hay scattered broadcast and man outbuilding demolished. A hailstorm thai followed the wind's path al NoWlln, tlO miles west or Pierre, caused considerable damage j and some buildings at Doland north- west of here, were reported wrecked |