Show LANDSLIDE FLOODED CANAL THREATEN PARK ky It lh L a s u. u 4 This is the scene up Empire Canyon in Park City where hundreds of tons of mountainside slipped down into the road just where the highway up to the Girl Poison Creek is running down the side of the str street t tin in Empire Canyon following excavation of a temporary ditch to replace the underground canal which formerly carried the water The rains are adding to the volume of run off and more trouble is expected for The Theold Theold Theold old canal ran through the center of lawns at right was covered with rock slabs and dirt and planted to grass I Rapidly melting snow seeped into the Guardsman Pass Road in upper Empire Canyon and into the flux excavations nearby narby suddenly a few minutes after midnight Wednesday the unseen seepage acting like so many s separated e par ate d the face some somA tons of rock dirt mud trees power lines ar td d telephone the steep canyon and slid slowly Scout Camp begins Continued heavy rains in the area are adding threats of more landslides and Park City residents and miners are keeping a wary eye on the situation Y Ka L 4 r t Sa 1 we 0 i j jJ r J I v. v 0 t f. f f 1 Y C 1 Wf 7 tt t t t. t t io I it alm almost st silently down the east eastside eastside eastside side of the canyon As it across Daly Avenue it took with it the Judge Mines Assay Office Office Office Of Of- fice and when it stopped it left lefta a crumpled garage and car perched precariously atop a mound of dirt Power and telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone poles and tall pine trees were strewn like up stick down the mountainside by the time the third slide had later that morning The Miles Andrus home across the canyon and barely south of the slide was untouched but the f fa family a m mil i l y moved into Miners Miner's Hospital until lights heat and phone service could be restored Work stopped at the Mine since the slide area was dangerously dangerously dangerously danger danger- close to a massive volt electric line which went into the mine if this power had been disrupted it would have been impossible to get the miners out of the mine or orto to get air into the mine for them Estimated loss to the garage car and assay office was about The the flooding flooding flooding flood flood- ing waters of Poison Creek behind behind behind be be- hind the huge pile of earth and it was decided about to evacuate the residents of Empire Canyon below A similar incident happened near Jackson Hole Wyoming now called the Gros Ventre Area several years ago A large l landslide dammed a river a-river river and several days gave way in a tidal wave that completely wiped out the small township of Kelley drowning several residents and leaving no trace of a home ahome in the area Poison Creek however found its way through the tons of dirt fACE tf f 1 f- f Latest In a series of hearings hearings hearings hear hear- ings and trials Summit County versus George Aggie illegal sale of resulted in a ahung ahung ahung hung jury in District Court in Coalville Monday It was one of the most unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual climaxes in the long and unusual history of court cases in Summit County One juror changed his mind between the jury room and the court room After several hours of hearing hearing hearing hear hear- ing testimony the jury retired I to consider the case In about two hours they reached a unanimous unanimous unanimous un un- un- un verdict of guilty When they returned to the box District Judge Leonard Elton polled the jury One juror a highly-esteemed highly gentleman from Kamas h hemmed e m m e d and hawed a little Come come said the judge What is your verdict Guilty or not guilty Well Your Honor said the juror in in that room I thought he was guilty Now Im I'm not so sure Judge Elton sent the eight- eight member jury back to consider again In about 15 minutes the foreman sent out word that the impasse was solid It was seven to one for a guilty verdict and it was apparent that the one would never change Jury members were Lawr Lawrence Lawrence Law Law- r rence enc e Wright Coal Coalville vi 11 e Willard Milliner Curtis Lewis Edwin Ure and Ira Miles Kamas Rex Crittenden Hoytsville Fay Kenison the only lady Oakley and Jay Harris Oakley Several Park City were excused for cause George Bridwell attorney for forthe forthe forthe the had asked for a change of venue which was re re- re fused During the trial Bridwell asked that all testimony O 1 I way Patrolman Odell Batch at h chief witness for the plat ti te s be stricken from the reco record d charging entrapment Judge El Elton 1 ton postponed a ruling on the motion The jury heard Hatch tell of ofa a visit with his wife and Mr and Mrs Brinkerhoff friends from Salt Lake City to the Bon hotel of which Aggie is manager They carried a half- half bottle of liquor furnished by Summit County Sheriff Ron Robison Robison Robison Rob- Rob ison into the bar finished it and according to Hatch purchased purchased purchased pur pur- chased a nearly filled fifth of Imperial from Aggie Hatch said Brinkerhoff made the actual purchase The latter did not appear at the trial The liquor was turned over to Sheriff Robinson and the court action followed Robinson told of an early- early morning raid on the bar two days later when three bottles of intoxicants were confiscated Under questioning he said that they might have been left be behind behind behind be- be hind by customers Only the bar was raided he said u r rIn In his testimony Aggie said that he had never seen Hatch until the first hearing before Justice James Kilby that he had never sold him any liquor that he had never sold liquor to any visitor to the hotel and that while he knew the majority of his guests he did not remember the Hatch group County Attorney Robert Orton who conducted the trial for the County said he planned to ask for a new trial There will be some legal technicalities concerning concerning concerning con con- the judges judge's ruling on motions Since its opening two years ago under ownership of Jim Pappas and management of George Aggie the C est Bon has becoming the leading night spot in the area outdrawing most of the Salt Lake and it itis itis itis is constantly filled with conventions conventions conventions con con- and fun I Je de Jeand e and at am a.m. the hardworking hardworking hardworking hard hard- working crews crews pronounced the canyon safe for its residents to return to Most had spent the wee hours drinking coffee and getting their children to sleep on the floors in sleeping bags etc in such places as the Memorial Building and the ball park It looks like the end is not in insight insight insight sight as small rocks bounce down the newly cut newly area touching touching touch touch- ing off small Bluffs of dirt Friday a afternoon it ern 0 0 n two large clumps of trees detached from where they have stood for many years tipped ominously toward the workers clearing a semblance semblance semblance sem sem- blance of a road below There have been no floods in Empire Canyon in 30 years according the residents there But then there hasn't been such sucha a winter in that time either In January no snow In May 2 feet of it And no spring all of a sudden it wasn't cold but hot And the snow turned into muddy water at an alarming speed filling all the streams coming down down canyon canyon to capa capa- city Tuesday afternoon it became obvious that Poison Creek was wason wason wason on the rampage B Bas Basements a s e em m e en n t ts s yards and garages were flooded as the narrow stream became blocked with branches rocks and other debris The families worked feverishly to unclog the waterway to no avail I City crews dredged a new deeper stream-bed stream next to the road tearing out driveways and walkways and in many cases piling up the cement as a dike Work went on far into the night Tuesday for tor both residents and city crew About the time everyone every everyone every every- verr one one thought they were on top topo o of the situation and had re re- re tired for the night news of the slide and the evacuation notice came By Friday J the rushing water was still carving away at foundations foundations and had dug the new canal to four or five feet deep in places and was close to overflowing overflowing overflowing over over- flowing in 0 others the r s. s Gas lines were laid laid bare by the water waters but were were tied securely to pipes laid across the ditch Unfortunately Unfortunately Unfortunately the peak of the flooding is not due yet for another week The Ken Kummers piling rocks around their lodge were asked the secret of getting all the kids to help Bea replied that she had told them the story of ofa ofa a rent collector 30 years ago pockets stuffed with about 1000 in bills who hastily heeded the call of Nature in an outhouse straddling the stream and who wl consequently lost every bill inthe in inthe inthe the swift water According to hearsay none has been found yet and finders keepers kids by kids by Kit Flannery |