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Show along railroad street, the P'i,ce of ,V. kasmussen was stent ue rnuch dana.,. ed, but the fled M art get his bees ihis year as it did last, J Hp. Andeison on f extreme north edge of town, whi, hfeived the other part i'f the divided treani, lost fully four ton ol lucent, ind the marks t.n i the fences indicate fct the water stood in the enclosures i,fjrts Cls.. n ai,, Niels ChristtMisuo 6tfT ix feet, wh.cii could not fail of w.,ninK much disasn-r. It also came tlirongtOle Cluistaiunt n's place, leaving it . Hiking a petlect jwieck. A little of Mrs. .Shulis, seven or eight years old got into the water and would hit been drowned but for the prompt ii extended to huu by those present. , : The Hood at Ephnfin is greatly to be .deplored, and many places have been damaged, and many jersons are out of pocket that would but vain reiteration reiter-ation to name, but tl people i f L't.ih are proverbal for finJing something to be thankful fur; $j they are thauktul that it is no worse, that it did not come in the night, that no Uvea were lost, and that the loss estimate'! t $1,000, although very great, mostly tepieseut-ed tepieseut-ed in labor and can be replaced with very little cash outlay. Sl'RlNGCITY. There was quite a flood at Spring City on the 19th ttiat beside flooding grain fields, and luccrn patches, filled a small carp pond full U Bud. The waters Covered several fields of grain and some grain that was in the "shock", that is, water to the depth of four feet. The damages are variously estimated at i.ooo to 1.500. CHESTER would no doubt haw suflered much from the high water jm Spring City and ftlt. Pleasant but fori timely warning all the sluce-ways wen opened, and a "time pass" given it tothe Saiipitch. MT. PLEA&NT is reported as having escaped being flooded, though she had part of the storm and plenty ol hijjh water. ESTIMATED LOSS. Mauti, fto.ouu; Ephraim. $2,000; Spring City, $1,500, .and other points $5,006 making 111 all. about $14,000. The losses are not 111 re tun this amount, and many place ihem such less. FLOOD AT F.PHRUM, The sources ol the stieams that water the two towns, Kphraun and Manti, rise so near each other that it would be almost al-most impossible for one to have a flood and the other to escape. The flood came upon Kphiaim at about the same time that it struck Manti; (12 30,) and'laste'd about two hour. The roller mill was the first object in its track, but luckily tor its owners il escaped, es-caped, damage, not even the, flume being touched. Two thousand leet of Win 01 11 KyMwa.,Mf.-i r. rr am?.- a pt away ami scattered rem theia- to the Sanpitch. . The stream divided itself into several bodies, materially lessening its power for evil, hut scattering the drift-wood and boulders it had brought down over acies and acres of land between the mouth of the canyon and the town, encroaching en-croaching on th? town and leaving desolation des-olation where there had been well cultivated gardens, and beautiful flowers A large body of water went west entirely en-tirely out of the proper channels and using an old ravine as a channel, working work-ing a sad havoc through all the south part of town and even passing the brrrier of the railroad grade and doing much damage to the Iucern and other growing grow-ing crops. Had the water jot taken this course it would no doubt have followed the north ditch above the north side of town, destroying property there and, probably doit.g very mocli moie damage to crops of the fields ol u rain being but a little way from where the flood left the canyon; and the slope of the land-would land-would have turned it f ooi the incompetent incom-petent ditch, upon the inhabitants ofthat part of town, with no old ravine to guide, and partly control its course. After the part ol the stream spoken of entered town it first filled the cellar -to the nice new building recently put up byThomos P. Lund, and not yet completed. com-pleted. From there it ran in a muddy torrent through the old mill belonging to Mary Thoipe, and from there to the Planing Mill of Mr. Uckerman But it was able to do very little damage dam-age here, as the proprietor had taken the timely advice ot a friend and cut his dam, giving the water a free passage The race was filled with mud, but will only make him a little work. The home and shop of F. Y, Jenso 1 suflered very much, and his bees were swept away, and quiet a lot of lumber and wood following.moved of! the place. Several rods of tight board fence had been sprung along this block by the we ight of ihe water behind it until the water could find egress beneath it. C. Cailson was visited and washed in mud and otherwise damaged, and also the premises of C. P. lenson presented a sad spectacle, J. P. Jensou's out budd ings were so badly damaged that some of them will have to be torn down, not being considered safe. Neils. Jenson, the Carpenter faired pretty badly, the wash, con dieting the water directly into his premises, he had a thousand lbs, of flour in his cellar that was completely destroyed, destroy-ed, besides other provisions. The wash is very deep just at the back of his house and in it was constructed the out build ings, which held his pigs, calves chickens, etc. His wile is something of an invalid, but prompted by humanity she attempted to assist ia rescuing the live stock Irom being drowned; but the place filled so fast and the current came so strong that the lady was in great danger of loosing her life' A step ladder was hastily procured, and with that and some boards, several men suceeded in rescuing her The block on the south end of main street where Niels Thompson is building build-ing one of the finest residences m San Pete Co, is a regular swamp, at the lower end, and the water flowed around the new building defacing it somew hat. At the extreme outh west corner of town there are acres of ground over flowed, and the well of H. P. Peterson had 17 feet of mud in it when the storm was over . A, Rosquist was almost drowned out by the water backed up bv b. f. V. grade, while on the other side of the street the grade saved several places from inundation. Driving north |