The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-07
(specIal 10 The Heraldl


Price, Utah. Aug. 6-There was no let
up in tho rains throughout eastern Utah
today. In fact. they were if anything
heavier than on any previous day. and
more property generally was. damaged and
vegetation destroyed. There have been
heavy showers at intervals of an hour
and two hours since II O'Clock last night.
At 3 o'clock this afternoon there was "a
drenchirg downpour followed by the most
severe hailstorui-iIlr the recoI lection OF the
oldest inhabitant. Hail from the size of a
pea TO as large as hen egg tell for half
an hour.
This stormswas about six miles in width
and traversed Carbon county from north
west to southeast. As result there is
almost. if not entirely. wiped out. Reports
from the track of the hailstorm are that
outs and growing wheat have been very
greatly damaged, and the loss in this i'm
mediate section Will be many thousands of
dollars.
Telephone messages from the south. in
Emery county. say the storm is most
severe there and in many instances grow
ing crops are badly oamaged- The same
reports come in by telephone from the
east towards Nernal and the Fort Du-
chesne section. Close around Price many
fields of lucern are cut of by the hail
about five inches above the ground. Re-
ports tonight are that several county
bridges are washed out. perhaps eight or
a late hour tonight and il is feared an
accident has occurred 10 II.
Had Marrow Escape.
The Hon Orange SeeIey and DR.. W. p.
Winters of CdStledaie started 10 drive
over to Price this morning. When about
two miles from here they attempted 10
cross a deep dry wash spanned by IA
bridge. The water was running over
where the bridge ought TO have been.
They were carried down the stream for
lrfsa hriA md Ion n
on the other side in barb wire fence.
Both horses were drowned ,;ind the buggy
carried away, the occupiE.ts having a
very narrow escape for their lives Or.
Winters lost surgical instruments valued
at $3.50.
There is a rIImor tonight of another ac--
cident of the same kind between here and
Emery county. but the details are not TO
be had The Price river. at this season or
the year usually not more than a stag
nant pool here and there. is a raging tor
rent tonight. All manner of debris is be-
ing washed down. and among the things
to pass down today are pieces or roofs OF
houses, parts of wagons. hay ricks, and
almost every article or parts OF articles
in use on ranch.
Heavy Rains In Mountains.
There have been heavy rains in the
mountains all day. and it is expected
there will be heavy losses among the
hundreds of sheep herds ranging high up
in the mountains along the streams trlb-
utarv to the Price river Trains on Inc
Rio Csrande Western are all running late.
but there are no washouts reported today.
ReDorts from the south at 10 O'Clock to-
night by telephone Indicate that every
bridge between here and the town OF En-
cry. sixty miles south. is washed out. me
stage out in the morning will be aban-
doned and the driver will attempt to get
the mail through on horseback.
The damage to bridges and roads TO the
south and east will run up into the
thousands of dollars. The state Is ex-
pending much money on public highways
in Carbon. Emery and Cintah counties,
and this work will be practically to DO
over.
A freight crew in from the east tonight
reuorts several dead engines between
here and Grand Junction. owing to pump
ing nIants at water tanks being washed
out or flooded. Several miles of the grade
OF the branch railroad into Whitmore
canyon from Mounds station Is said 10
have been washed away during the after
noon. The grade was in many places not
COMPLETED and no iron or ties down. The
rain continues tonight and is heaviest 10
the south and east of here.