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Show jyenty escape Mood By Narrow Margin ,.,iid buret near the top of N A;Ucxs sent a 20-foot wall of T'V and debris down Dry canyon " :,J i Lindon Saturday afternoon. ?C; '"''''flood swept the canyon for "' miles and striking the Lin-S' Lin-S' ''mb water supply line cut and i away 4.000 feet of vitrified "k ciub boys, Admin Atkin- V Tpe Harris, Pernell Shocll and fryer, who happened tD be C: 'J"1M canyon at the time, escaped by "leaving their horses and - wg the steep canyon walls. ! f :"'',fen workmen near the mouth of ;'c- 'lyon were notified of the flood ? the boys and rushed from the '''' l.lCl to higher ground in time to Sc (he water which filled the ; el mouth in its mad rush. V:iC toys horses were not located S' Sunday but had all reached !' Jeff after being left by their riders. -.' Aching the open country at the Zih of the canyon the flood w "--.ere spread out and by the time if "-'neired the High Line canal its 1' 'axe had been spent and the canal f: tried 'he thick liquid to adjoining : ms where it was spread out and to save parched crops 'and :::hards. -. fhe Lindon water line was not re-MIed re-MIed sufficient to get water into j .' system until Monday. E "jimes Nerdin, who had taken his earn and wagon into the canyon, II B'ii not locate the wagon at all' iT ihen he returned from the adjoin-1 S ; lulls with the horses. It was ! i either completely covered by debris ' C jr smashed and washed down the - imnel. The men w'ho ran for their lives I :'rom the Lindon waterworks tunnels -v. lire: Ed Lewis Sr., Mayor of Lin-con, Lin-con, Ed Lewis Jr., John- E. Mustus, , - Kenneth Harris, A. A. Walker, Shell V ,ln. Jcs. Nerdin, Leonard Frj-er, Miles Heavarty, Floyd Bezzant, W. J. j6: Bobbins, Roy Harris and Richard I AM. |