The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-08-20
HEAVY RAIN STORM
SWEEPS OVER ZION
Hundreds Of Dollars Worth of
Damage Caused by Tor
rent of Water.
NORTHEAST BENCH
DISTRICT SUFFERS MOST
Street Cars Are Derailed,
Tracks Covered With
Gravel and Mud.
Hundreds of dollars worth Of dam

Hundreds of dollars worth of dam
age was done Sunday afternoon
throughout the city by the heavy rain
which descended in torrents at s
clock and continued for fully thirty
minutes, during which time .36 inch or
water fell. Street cars were thrown
from the rails and the streets in some
tirely covered by the great mass Of
mud, gravel and small boulders whic h
were washed down from the high
ground.
The bench district in the northeast
portion OF the city suffered the worst.
In the area bounded on the north by
Sixth street, on the east by Q, Oh the
south by South Temple and on the west
by E streets, the street car tracks
streets were covered by rushing water
to a depth of six to eight inches in
places.
Tons Of gravel and mud were washed
across the lawns, pavements and tracks,
in many places rocks and boulders
varying in size from that Of an egg
to the dimensions of two-gallon
bucket were strewn over the thor
oughfares.
Street Cars Derailed.
About clock Third street car No.
54 left the tracks between p and q
streets and was out of commission for
thirty minutes, At about the same
time Third street car No. 66 left the
rails at NJ street and was also held up
for half an hour.
other parts Of the city, and the trac-
ton company's emergency force was
kept busy for a time, while every
available man was sent ont to different
points to clear the tracks Of mud and
gravel.
Passengers were compelled to wade
through the mud and water and trans
fer at the points where the cars were
oil until the emergency force could get
the rolling stock back on the rails.
Due to Cloudburst.
A great deal of damage was done to
easements and cellars as we'll as lawns,
particularly on S street, between First
and Second. Deep gullies were washed
out in the sidewalks by the rushing
water and residents who were watching
the storm maintain that a cloudburst
was the cause of it. Gravel and mud
to the depth of several inches was
washed over the lawns and into the
cellars along this street, while farther
down, near the Wasatch school build
ing, the streets were almost impossible.
The residences along East South
Temple, between p and Q streets, were
more or less damaged, some of them
seriously. a natural draw or gulch on
9. street, between South Temple and
First, was soon filled with water and
this torrent poured through the back
lawns, over sidewalks, into cellars and
washed rock and earth clear across
the street. The water hero reached a
depth of eight inches on the pavement
and over the lawns.
Crossings Rendered Impossible.
Nearly every crossing along the in
tersecting streets within and south Of
the area mentioned were rendered i'm
passable by deposits Of soft mud and
several inches.
The storm was almost repetition Of
the one which did so much damage in
the same district about year ago. All
over that portion of the city the water
out the sidewalks and cutters.
carrying the earth and gravel in some
instances as far as block before de,
posting it.