The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-01
DEATH turks IN THE TREAGEROU6 WATERS
Continued From Page l.

$4,000 each. making the bridge loss
S175.00 Five hundred frame dwelling
houses are under swaters
The river is full of wreekage, and
crowds of people lined the banks today,
watching the procession Of houses, cars
trees and other debris that flowed
Bodies Floating By.
Twelve bodies were counted as they
foated past during the day. In nearly
every case they We're lying across pieces
of wreckage On the roof of a. cabin
that came swirli2g down could be seen
the body Of a woman end her child
The large acid plant of the South
west Chemical company is flooded by
twenty feet Of water. The Santa Fe
car shops. machine shops. rOundhouse,
station and elevator and the Argentine
smelter stand in deep water. The 1000
employees of the Santa Fe are idle, also
500 men from the acid works, and. in
deed, all the wage workers of Argen-
tine
The loss of the bridges and the sus-
pension of street car travel and teIe-
phone service have almost isolated Ar
gentine, the wagon road to Kansas
city being nearly impossible for heavy
vehicles There would have been a
famine today but for the discovery of
two refrigerator carloads of meat in
the railway yards and the generosity
of a contractor. who sent a wagon
load Of bread from Kansas City for free
distribution. The meat was confiscated
and the bread and meat are being
served at the city hall to all appii-
cants. Many of the destitute are ne
groes who have not even saved suf-
ficient clothing. The people in the
flooded district had ample warning, but
chung to their houses. hoping for a fall
only by boats or RATS
Utter Desolation.
The situation in the suburb of Ar
mOurdale tonight is one of utter Desc
lation, with every prospect that the
financial loss, already heavy, will be
greater within the next twenty-four
hours. In this section are situated all
the large packing houses-Armour'
SWift's, Cudahy's and SchwartzchiId
& SulzbeTger's. The loss to these
plants will alone be close to 81, 000, 600
The agents of Swift & CO. also SUI
fered a loss from water. roughly esti-
mated at 100000, and the great plant
VIII be idle for some time to come. In
addition to this there are great num-
bers of freight cars standing on the
tracks, in all o. which the freight is
utterly ruined All the residences in
the district are under water. most Of
them being but one-story affairs, and
fully 10000 people from this suburb
have been compelled to abandon their
homes and take To the higher ground
for safety, In few instances have any
of them saved anything of their prop
erty, and in most instances very little
of their clothing
At o'clock tonight seven fires We're
burning in as many places in the rail-
way yards, all of them having origin
~e.I
having become heated from contact
with water At o'clock the most seri-
Gus blaze of the day broke out in some
lime cars standing opposite the west
end of the union depot and directly
behind the rOundhouse owned jointly
by all the roads entering the depot
The flames ran rapidly from car to car
and within three hours thirty of them
had been destroyed. Among them We're
several oil tanks. which for a time
threatened great damage to everything
in their vicinity
Frantic Cries For Help.
While this blaze. was at its height
frantic cries for help came from the
vicinity of the are, but the person who
uttered them could not be located
There were no boats. darkness was rap
idly closing down, and unless the aU
thor of the cries saved himself, an IN
NtLOWn man went DOWN 10 0tdln Wild
hundreds of people close at hand and
utterly unable to lend hand to aid
him. There were TumOrs that the total
number of deaths in the wholesale dis
trict of the city during the latter part
of the day would reach as high as fifty,
but there is no direct evidence of this
and no possible way of determining
the matter until the waters subside-
Directly south of the viaduct stood
the warehouse Of the Missouri Lime &
Cement company. Close to it stood
number OF cars loaded with lime. and
at > o'clock they were all ablaze, ard
with them went the warehouse and all
it contained. About a dozen freight
cars not loaded with lime were de-
stroyed also. The damage in this fire
could not be less than 100000.
The other fires were scattered over a
distance five miles long by three miles
wide. and in every instance are sup
posed TO be line cars.