Show HEAVY RAINSTORM OVERFLOWS WS STREETS WITH MUCH E Rivers of Mud and Wate Overtax Capacity o oan of Gutters Gutters Gutters Gut Gut- an and Sewers Damage to the city amounting t probably 1600 and more than that t t tl Private te owners of or property prop rt was don doni yesterday by br a severe cre rainstorm tha swept the tho eastern a tern northeastern north em lIn in n and northwestern sections of oC tin th ci city The storm torm was much more se secre yore ere cre than the one olle of or Tuesday da tt hie did more mOIe than 1000 worth of ot damage Iama Streets trets In all the bench sections of th hi city Avert Avert- flowing rivers risers for Cor some som tim and ana the tho water found its wa way down Int o the southern and central portions portion o ol OJ the tho eft city with the tho re result that the street t h s were Vcr V converted Into rivers ravers and fool Cool traffic was seriously Impeded Impede for Cor a ar tn n hour or more The City and County building building- wa i s an flu h isolated d Island Islan for for-an hour A As th the e se storm came Just at tho the lunch hour al almost al al- fn most i every elY one was a cau caught ht out of th the e building and auLi vehicles of all lles were k kept pt busy from about 1 o clock o'clock until 2 o'clock in the art n carrying people across the tho flooded d streets to the tho building so the they could coul d return to their work In the southern part of ot the elt city man many y dy df streets were converted con Into rivers o of or f mud mUll and water and considerable dam dam- A. A age asro was done dono to private property 1 In n various arlous parts o of the elt city by overflowIng overflow overflow- nr g tog of lawns washing out o of flower flowe r Ids els flooding of cellars and depositing of d debris s on parking strips and lawns The storm seemed to start about th the e mouth of oC Parleys Parle's canyon canon and follow Collow the tup bench around to the northwestern part of the tho city CI n. n The breaking of the Storm l Was as 2 nt r nt V. V h. h o 1 h. h u u J hailstorm and In portions of of the eastern eastE eastern east east- east east- E ern Tn section sect of or tho the city It Is reported that hailstones ston's as large as pecans pelted down thick and fast tast The most damage e probably was done on tho the north bench hench and along along- r Center street From these portions of the city elly after aCter the storm was over in innumerable in- in numE numerable complaints were received b by tho the street streel department Street lt Department Busy DIH The entire street department nt force Corce was put out at once to give o relief reller Tho The department ha had 1 hardly finished clean clean- ng up Ul the debris of tho the storm Tuesday Tues Tues- da day gotten the waterways cleared and the paved streets cleaned off ocr when the storm torm of yesterday broke an and undid all the work that had been accomplished b by the department A. A A. A Clark who lost a block of ot curb I. I and guttering g by the storm of or Tuesday Tues TUes- da day hall had just replaced It yesterday when the storm broke again ag This time however howe h he had prepared a mud embankment ment across N street on Sec Sec- ond avenue and anti thus turned tho flood of le water aa away from the lIlt J new Clew W curbing and p pt ot ted it it However c c complaint was ma male mado to to th street department by h- people In the vicinity that Im improvised draw dam simply sent the water over the sl sido- sido walks and down upon their property The street supervisor compelled the contractor to open the dam in the center center cen cen- ter of the he street and let the wat waterdown water r down fn the streetA street A woman n ho ho liver Her in m Third a avenue nuo between M if and N K treats streets ts pla ru nevi ne that the water atei wat l va av was teas stopped up lit and was WIS to get bet out in rn tho the I r and rain lam and nd work to prevent her collar heats being heln filled with nIth water I At Second avenue a and C street the tho I parl parking was completely covered with mu mull mul and gravel gra and at Seventh South and West est Temple th the underground conduit became choked and for lor a time timo the water threatened to flood out a small store on the corner Carl Reynolds camo came near getting drowned on Second East between Eighth Eig and anI Ninth South streets The water was threatening to overflow the entire country an anti ami he ho and other street department employees were trying to clear cear the waterway He stepped into a quicksand hole and went to his waist In the water He lie was rapidly sinking I when Ralph Darling went to his rescue find and pulled pu him out of ot the water and mire Mrs Irs Gordon at C street reported that her property was completely complete flooded and the cellar of ot Dr K Keogh o h at Third avenue and E 13 street was flooded In City Creek canyon there were a of or cloudbursts which made the water so muddy that the tho supply from that source had to be shut off for Cor the tho afternoon |