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Show IRRIGATION DAM EREAKS. Raging Torrent Carries Away Sixty Foot Wall and Floods Valley. Price, Utah. Property damage to railroad trackage, depots and crops, estimated to be more than $1,500,000, was the result of the break in the Price river irrigation dam in Gooseberry Goose-berry creek, a tributary to the Price river, twelve miles northeast of Fair-view, Fair-view, which began Sunday afternoon and finally resulted in a raging torrent after carrying away the sixty-foot wall which impounded more than 11,000 acre feet of water. Three large steel bridges have been washed out, scores of highway bridges Lavi- gone and all concrete cu'.berts in the Price river valley between1 the dam and Price, a distance of forty-five miles, have been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of dollars of additional damage in loss of traffic wdll be suffered by the Denver & Rio Grande railroad because of the complete com-plete tieup of the immense coal mines in Carbon county, which depend upon the railroad for an outlet. Thousands of miners will be thrown out of employment em-ployment until the railroad is able to rebuild from fifteen to thirty miles of track which has been washed away. |