The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-25

ing and restitution. The latest esti-
mate is that it VIII take ten days TO
repair the track. Information from the
Tug river district is to the effect that
the damage to the coal operations there
is not great, but that the lumber inter-
ests have suffered considerably
over 100 miles Of track belonging TO
the various coal operations are pracUl-
cally lost, The rails are bent and twist
ed like wires. Even the heavy girders
of the collapsed railroad bridges were
rendered useless. The force Of the
food is better understood when it is ez-
planned that by reason OF a long MI
and a low iron bridge some distance up
the valley the flood was damned and a
monster body of water accummula ted,
probably as large q volume as was con-
tanned IN the famous dam at JOINS
town. When this obstruction gave way
it let down a great flood on the vii
lagos and mining camps below.
Negro Plunderers Killed.
1t is reported that Or. HATFIELD. "a
prominent physician and q kinsman OF
the famous feudists of this section AMI
Kentucky, was compelled to shoot two
negro .plunderers who were Tobbing de-
fenseless food sufferers The negroes
were George Wade and Alexander
Watts both desperate characters.
The slowness Of recovery of bodies is
because the corpses of the missing are
hidden in mammoth piles of debris.
Some Of these piles are thirty feet high,
and cover in some instances as much as
a rhalf-acre of ground, and It is the
work of days to search through them
It has been suggested that the best
plan would be to burn these masses of
debris, but the friends OF the dead are
loud in their denunciation Of the idea
SO bitter is the feeling regarding TINS
matter that if it is attempted blood
shed viii result. Up TO tonight only
some fifty bodies have been recovered,
yet the list Of missing and reported
j drowned is 249. 1t viii probably never
be known how many have persisted.
At AIgouaa a number Of miners
standi3g on a high point OF water,
waist deep. rescued twenty three
women ana children as they nOated
past A number 10 whom they threw
ropes Syere so excited that they made
/ no effort to save themselves. Thirty
/ four houses fioated down. and were
/ dashed to pieces against the sides OF
I the iron bridge at North Fork Junction
before the structure collapsed.
I The flood left several narrow gorges
through which only the creek and the
/ railroad had room to pass. chOked VIII
+ shattered houses and 't0usehOld furlli-
Fture. merchandise and " fnag1naDle
article. A saw mil belonging tc
[ BeIcher Bros. was entirely swept away
/ and no trace of it has yet been found
L except the boiler, which was JammeC
/ into the end Of a box car.
/ Further details from the Chnch val
/ ley are to the effect that three members
/ OF the VanDyBe' family are dead from
1 Injuries received in the flood.
At Pounding MIL four persons were
drowned. John p. Tate, Mrs Clara
/ Hoops, two children
Town Swept Away.
The town Of Liberty Hial, in TaseweI
/ county was swept away, only twl
j houses standing. When the water hat
reached the second story OF The Afetho
/ dist parsonage W. L. Moore fastener
4 ropes about the bodies of the Wiz
wife and two daughters OF the Rev
William Waguer and dragged ten