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Show ICOLD TONIGHTMAYCHECK RISE j OF OGDEN AND WEBER RIVERS Ogden River Falls Three Inches at Washington Avenue Bridge, But Streams at Source Are Rising; Salt Lake Uses Baled Hay Levees; Dams Threatened I With cool rains todnv and forecnsts of colder temperatures tonight to th HHI extent of bringing frost, OkIti " " threatened flood conditions are believed believ-ed to have beon temporarily relieved at le.ist by officials who are carefully, I BIB watching the situation. This morning tlie iRdfri rivn - -tcrs had fallen thro.- Inches at l'1 Washington avenue bridge below the maximum hc4cht reached sunin II was reported by Arthur V. Larson,1 commissioner of streets. The Weber liver has mulntainpd the Bam heovj tlow of Sundav, but no overflow wal reported exceut on Weal Thirty-third street, between the Union Pacific railroad tracks and the river bridge. I The road at this point was Inundated Inundat-ed for a short period but tlv situation situa-tion was relieved by a crew of men who iilacod sandbaas alons the road and turned the water back into the I river channel. The road Is open to-1 H Reports made this morning were to The effect that there has been no over- 1 flow from either the upden or Weber, Ss! river that caused any MriOUl damage. liilM Tho (,P'ion river banks, however, an-( reported taxed to nearly th limit and, :f a six-inch rise should com serious conditions may be expected. PORK STREAMS HIGH. I While the officials believe that the. cold rain has tended to retard the, flow of writer from the mountains In-' to the j.-dcn river, the determining ,i point will not be reached until mid night tonight, when th surplus waters, wa-ters, if they come, will reach the elty Visitors In Ogden canyon Sunday reported that the water Is but a few Inches below several bridges and the river channels were taxed to the limit. Commissioner Larson said th.s morning that the receding of the Ogden Og-den river has temporaril relieved danger to tho north Washington avenue bridge, but that a watchman ll stationed there to report In the event that the structure Is weakened. South Fork was reported to have reached a height Sunday equal to any In its history. North Fork and Mid-I Mid-I die Fork are also contributing heavily to the flow. It wo said. It Is believed be-lieved that South Fork hss not yet reached its maximum. GARDENS UNDER WATER Sullivan creek. "In the southeastern portion of the cltv was reported to 'j have r.-'i-"-.! nv :n I Sar.d.ix night Kmergency trews removed culverts In order that the situation would be relieved. Dykes have been construet-',! construet-',! ', ed and ditches deepened so that no 1 v overflow Is expected in that vicinity. MrnlK 1 tne district west of the mouth of i the canyon from 1 o'clock to (5 o'clock Sunday morning, the Ogden river was out of its bank" Near the Washington Washing-ton avenue bridge the water flooded over the sandbag dikes and reached the street. On Grant avenue and eighteenth strTt the water had sur-rnunderl sur-rnunderl two liousf Hastllv con- Ii ' , -Ttn-ti-il dtki s v. laC' ,l : ro-s ; I 'f.v.-.i'l small fieid t 'li- wi.t. r I n k all'S H Si from oth-r houses. Weal of Waeh-j' Waeh-j' ! ; 1 . ' i-igton n n'.: i ii a : .--n r'. . - ral Inches of water covered gardens 1 which had been recently planted in the Glasgow addition, in the norlh-I norlh-I western prrr of the city, water was . ' r;s:n? rapidly .i round -,.Veral of th- houses In the district west of the city the ! I'fj r'.ver Is out of Its banks spreading over a large area of newly cultivated " ' -, and planted I .ml, ".'.'. i - . - ' t. 'M cause a hMW !- ' r .;.-. Tn in. in places the flooding of the farm land will delay the planting of crops, which have aires dy been delayed by the late spring. In manv places the Carmen will suffer much loss owing to this delay In planting crops which would take until August and September to cultivate for the factories. In Kilen canyon the flood watersi hae ah ' ids done some damage to the street car tracks and the state high-, w.,. by washing under the roads, rn-j iratl bridges ul several of the resorts are -:ilri to have ucen weakened by the pounding of the flood against' IQwer stringers and beams. One or two bridges are expected to be washed wash-ed away it the waters continue to rlsi TREE SHAKES BRIDGl At 1 o'clock Sundav morning S tree, about fourteen Inches In diameter at the stump, came down the Ogden river, end over end. Within a shore distance of the Washington avenue bridge the roots of the tree struck a gravel' bar in the bed of the rlvei and stood straight up in the water The next instant the tree crashed InSI the bridge with such force as to unbolt the guard rail at the side of the foot path The force of the tree hitting the bridge Is said to hav. shaken the entire Structure, according to reports of the guards, The guards sent an emergency call to Street Supervisor George Welch, who summoned members of the police, fire and street departments. Chief George A. Graves and Captain Harold H. Wardlelgb and six men from the lire department. Sergeant George W. Wardlaw and Chauffeur J F. Wlggln-i of the police department and employes' of the Utah Rapid Transit company; went to the bridge and helped cut the tree and take It out of the water. The work of removing the trco hran'-h by branch and finally the1 trunk Itself, occupied about four and a half hours. In the work It was necessary neces-sary to remove part of the bridge floorj to get to the tree's trunk. The trunk, was finally removed from the water' by attaching a heavy rope to the work ear of the street car company and1 dragging It out. Guards at the Washington aenue bridge, as well as the Utah-Idaho Central Cen-tral bridge n Lincoln avenue, the i re-gon re-gon Short Une and Southern Pacific bridges, were kept busv night and day removing trees which were washed up oy the flood waters. County Road Agent Andrew Allen sa!d the river will probably carry the grentest amount of flood water within with-in the next three or four days If the warm weather continues. He thought the situation would be serious. S M-T LAKE IT WORK SALT l-AKK, May 8. Flooded con dillons are reported from several points in I'tah today. Alarm was oc- asioned In the southeastern part of I Salt Lake as the water rushing from Farley's canyon rose and flooded many streets to a greater height than has prevailed for several days. Bales of hay were used as a bulwark bv nier-1 nier-1 chants In the distrlc; who were at-; at-; tempting to keep the torrent from ; inundating their premise The snow - winter was exceptionally excep-tionally heavy, causing a greafel amount of water to rush from the eanyom. As a result, the channel : hu.hh ic rarrv all , of the water and In some places street' car tracks ore under water. A thun-i der.storm broke over Salt Iake at 7:30 la. m.. adding to the W iters from tht; I rapidly melting snows In tho mourn i tains. j t 1)I ENDANGERED The New Castle dam in Washington' county Is in d.n?er of breaking ac-1 ac-1 cording to word received at thl ca'plto) h. re. a lare number of men are .working to save the dam. c.s a break1 i would endanger Grass Valley and mv. eral towns. Floods are reported to have washed! out a great part nf the highway I through Kings Meadow canyon 'n Se Vler countv. which connects w'lih i Wayne countv r.nin's. Several bndvu ar.- reported to have been washed bailor rVnJnr Y. ? f Brlm- , hall Springs, and another at th- Fair-I Fair-I bank dry farm have gone out. oo-- |