The record-union., 1891-07-27
Special to the Rrcorp.uN1oN.

CARSON New, July ga thunder
storm Friday afternoon came near wip-
ing out the mountain town of Genoa,
Douglas County. About o'clock heavy
cloud spread over the sky southwark, and
the rain poured down in torrents. Inside
of an hour it was reported that cloud
burst had taken place near the place
where the big snowslide occurred some
seventeen years ago. In few moments
terrible flood of water came down three
separate canyons, sweeping everything
before it. The water swept down in a
solid wall, crested with foam, and carry
ing with it logs, powders and debris of
all kinds. 1t seemed about twenty feet
high, and as it came sweeping down the
canyon nearest the town was indeed q
formidable object.
When the first alarm of the flood was
given t. n. Hansen, w. D. Gray, the
people at the Raycraft Exchange and
others in that locality hurried the women
and children out to safe quarters. The
women fastened down the streets in the
rain, carrying their babies in their arms.
From the Genoa Canyon the water
rushed down in solid column twenty
feet high, carrying logs and powders in
wild confusion. 1t struck G. n. Dake's
like a toy, lodging it 200 yards off in
Gray's fields. The building was turned
completely around, and what was the
south wing is now pointing to the north.
The door and windows on the rear end of
the house are driven in, and the large
stock of collins fioated of in the field.
The building was left tilted Oh the rocks
Bnd drift logs.
The water then made clean sweep
from Snowslide Canyon, leaving the
rocks bare and dashing over the base of
the mountain. G. w. Dake saw the water
come out, and says that when the stream
from Snowslide Canyon struck that from
Genoa Canyon, carrying the powders
and logs, the water was shot up into the
air fifty or sixty feet. Logs We're washed
down the road in front of the houses as
far as the Gray garden, above the rail-
road. a stack of hay above the under
taking shop was partly swept away, and
the remainder is weighted down with
tons of rock. That part of Mr.. Dake's
ranch known as the Audrain place is al
most entirely obliterated.
The water from Genoa Canyon, rushing
down with the rocks and logs, swept over
Mrs. Rayeraft's fine young orchard and
the potato and vegetable fields on the
Nimrod place, which were devastated by
the snowslide of 1882. Il. n. Hansen's
pasture lot was covered with immense
bowlders and totally ruined. l.. Fray is
the heaviest loser of all, as his large
flume was entirely swept away from the
mouth of Genoa Canyon to the mouth OF
the Barnes lot. Dozens of logs, some
forty feet long and three feet in diameter,
were carried across the road and from
two to three hundred yards down into a
field. Rocks and debris cover much of
the finest meadow and grain land in that
section, and great deal of damage is en-
tailed by loss of crops. Fray's fume
cost over S30. .0OO
At the north of the town the damage
from the Schoolhouse Canyon was tri-
fling. The waterIrushed out of Martin
Flume Canyon, north Of Valley Springs,
covering the base of the mountain and
road TO such an extent that teams were
compelled to go down TO the tules to get
past. The central part of Genoa entirely
escaped the flood, but the entire water
supply of Genoa is cut off, the pipes be-
ing broken and the tanks filled with the
debris or wash out. Hon. James Haines
and Steve Gage were at Valley Springs
bathing when the water came, and il
drove them out. They We're obliged to
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