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Show . TWENTY MILES OF ROAD GONE. Part of D. & R. G. Railway Swept Away by Breaking of Dam. Salt Lake' City. As the result of the breaking of the Mammoth dam of the Price River Irrigation Company, twenty twen-ty miles of Denver & Kio Grande main line track has been washed out. It is estimated it will require fifteen days to get the track in shape for trains to pass over. All of the available avail-able labor in Carbon county, aggregating aggregat-ing approximately 4000 skilled miners, has been pressed into service. Never in the history of the state has a flood so crippled industries. Out of the fifteen great coal mines in Carbon county there is activity at but one and that is confined largely to the operation of coke ovens at Sunnyside. Otherwise, the washout of the railroad bed, at the key to the coal mines, has rendered mining operations inactive and the thousands of laborers thrown out of work freely volunteered their services. |