The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-08-09
IFETH and DESOLATION
BORNE ON FLOODS CREST
Probably Three Lives Lest in Wednesdays Terrific
Storm at SCOfield.
Little Girl in Sewer County Swept Away by Angry Waters
and DrOWned-Other ClOudburStS.

Three lives and perhaps more went
out in the food which swept over Win
Ter Quarters and Scofeld Wednesday
night. The wall of water which swept
down the canyon demolished buildings
tore out track. hurled 5ouIders through
the towns and carried death.
The know dead are
Matthew KOrVela-
Ffght-mOnths-Old son OF KOrvela-
one other person is reported to have
been killed. and there are fears that
the death list mpv be swelled by later
dfsc0vries CroN as of miners are pa
trolling tire creek and searching the
debris for bodies.
The flood reached tho town last night,
as told in the dispatch 10 The Herald
which came through before the wires
went down. After a dTeaTy, rainy DAY,
in the evening it began TO pour, AMI
then the skies poured forth deiISe
which rushed from the headWate-s Of
the little stream. swelling ~ into a
food which was laden with sand, mud
driftwooG and stones.
House Carried Away.
KorveIa's home was above Winter
Quarters His house was near the bot
yom If the r4ny0n. and the torrent
Struck IL Win ANll Ati ~ NJ AlAlN LlN eAAiN-
his family lay peacefully asleep, be-
tween 10 ard IL O'Clock. The house
was dashed TO pieces. hor' Ella was
drowned and his body was carried
three-fourths Of a mile down the can
Won. where it was discovered today. The
body of the infant was picked up about
fifty feet from the house Mrs korVeta
was carried down by the flood half
nile. and was found back of the COM
hot llHr1f-a0
though she is seriously tnjL--ed, DR..
Isgreen. the company surgeon here, be-
l.eves she will recover. kOrVela was
completely stripped and terribly
bruised and mangled.
II is known that a woman and child
were rescued, and although severely in
5ured and nearly drowned, there is
some hops Of their recovery.
AT himbal 8 ranch, in lower SCOneld-
Peter Oleson, in trying to cross the
bridge on horseback. nearly lost his
nfe by being washed with two horses
from the bridge. The creek was esti-
mated by Mr.. kimball to be at least
twelve feet deep there
Jerry Christensen a waterman, his
wife and five children were asleep when
the water and logs struck their house.
A FiIialder tr5Ee through a door and
Fly.
In Scofeld the damage is slight. com
p2rauyely, IS the town lies in a fat
open space and the water spent its
force in washing out the streets and
flooding the lower floors of the houses
In Winter Quarters. which lies con-
siderably above Scofeld and i'm a mar
row canyon, the damage was far more
serious Here are situated the Utah
Fuel compaHy's mines. Nos. I. . and
g. and al present the damage to the
eomrany's property cannot be esti-
mated.
Track Destroyed.
The track from Scofeld to the mines
Was washed away in number of
places ard literally strewn with ties
poles ana driftw0od. The wires are
olWn between the mines and ScofeId
ana at present no communication can
oe had with the upper part of the can
5on where The greater number of min
sIs have their homes. At noon The
h1lalc correspondent. succeeded i'm
masking me trip from ScOfield to the
company Offices IL Winter Ouarte~s
anu was notified by a number of the
miners that there were at least three
persons Who had lost their lives in the