The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-06-07
LITTLE CHANGE IN
FLOOD CONDITIONS
Waters of City Creek Still
Raging and Much Damage
Being Done.
WORST YET TO COME.
is GENERAL OPINION
Short Line and Rio GraHde
Tracks Near DepOts
Inundated.

The railroad tracks in the vicinity of
the Oregon Short Limo and the Denver
g. Rio Grande depots were covered with
water on Sunday until late in the even
ing, when the water running down
South Temple street and along Third
West street TO Second South was final,
ly controlled.
Tho crowds which thronged the
streets IN the vicinity of Third West
and North Temple streets on Sunday
afternoon and evening, watching the
raging torrent of water in City creek,
numbered about 2000 persons, City
creek is frothy, raging mass OF water
from where it enters the city limits TO
where it flows into the Jordan river,
The entire country IN the vicinity OF
the Fairgrounds is under water. and the
people living along Twelfth West street
are moving out of their homes. fearful
OF the damage the water may do IN the
event that it becomes higher than 1T Is
at the present time
Loop Out of Service.
At Sixth West and North Temple
streets the situation has become grave
and requires the constant attention of
the large force of men employed along
the embankments The scepagc of the
water in that vicinity is doing consld-
erablc damage 70 the property. FROM
Sixth West to the Jordan river the
street is under water, preventing IN Inc
street cars from using both tracks. ne
loon was put out of service Al CLOCK
Sunday night, with the water Slcd"liH
rising
At Sixth West, where the water flows
ont OF the covered canal, the water is
boiling up and flooding the tracks OF
The street cars TO a depth OF at least
ten inches, ,.,.1
MANY loads Of gravel were hauled 10
Third West and North Temple streeis
SUNDAY. and large force of men was
cmnIovcd in sackiug the gravel ana
saud and Milling il around the beginning
nf The conduit under Third West street.
Af this same point is one of the inoSt
dangerous places. On tho 1ght slae
of tGe viaduct, looking west and direct
IL in front of the salt Lake IialuNaae -.'.,
compnny's new building. the water was
,brea+eninp at each moment SUNDAY
nioht 10 break over the banks and Hoou
tho railroad tracks.
Police Called Out.
so nravo became the situation near
FTfth West and Third South streets S
and al Third South and Eleventh Ncst
streets that the police department was
called uuou To give what ald ~ couIo'
J1eufensnt John HcmPel sent twenty
nrisonors from the chain gang TO those
nlaces. The prisoners did yeoman Wor6
In both places. pIling up SAND SACKS ana
keeninp the channel free from DEBRIS
which might clog it, Timely assistance
vas rendered hy them at Third Sonth
and Eleventh West streets. where INC
Hood from the Jordan was threatening
thousands OF dollars worth OF prop,
ertv. There the chain gang men 1ouGnt
hack the water until late sunday niGnI'
AZ First West and South Temple inc
streets we're covered with water WhIcn
was running down South Temple street
"a th,, Oregon Short Line depot nn'll
4 O clock Sunday afternoon. After that
time the uen al work IN that srrtl"n
were able 10 control II and at lO CLOCK
Sunday night these streets were Prac-
tically dry.
In Other Sections.
In other sections of the city thc con
ditions arc much the same. Inc Jor-
dan river has washed out the banks
in many places and is flooding the
northwest section Of the city. where
the Saltair railroad bridge crosses the
Jordan river he water was flowing over
the tracks al ll.i5 Sunday night and
the Jordan river rising rapidly,
Emigration CANYON stream was much
lower Than heretofore on Sunday, Thilc
Parlev's stream was still very high.
Retwcon Eleventh and Twelfth South
streets from Seventh East to State ana
Tenth South streets The water was do
inc much damage The entire nelgn'
borhooI in the vicinity Of Eighth West
below Eighth South IS flooded.