The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-07-11
D0WNPOUR Of RAIN
DOES SOME DAMAGE
\ Miniature Flood Passes Through
Heppner Tuesday Evening.

Following a long continued spell
of hot and dry weather, Heppner was
visited by a terrific downpour of rain
on Tuesday afternoon, and our citi-
zens were treated to a miniature
| flood which lasted for some thirty or
forty minutes.
The storm gathered about three
o'clock and seemed to center right
about town and the main portion of
the rainfall was on either side of
Stansbury canyon and extended from
about mile and half south of town
and then across the hills into Black
horse.
A lot of water ran off the hills in
to the little creek at the bottom of
Stansbury canyon and this was swell
led into good sized stream by the
time it struck the south side of town.
The W. E. Mikesell place was hit first
and here much damage was done to
fencing and gardens and his we'll was
filled up. the pump being washed out
and carried off.
H. D. Mikesell also had lot of
fencing carried off and his nice
young orchard was damaged by hav-
ing number of choice trees broken
down and washed out No water got
into the house though it reached the
windows on the south side.
Andy Cook was hit pretty hard, his
big chicken house being rather badly
dislocated and number of chickens
carried to watery grave. His or
chard and garden also were damaged
as we'll as a portion of the fencing.
| The Stephens place and the Baird
place were not much damaged, being
SO situated that the water drained of
pretty we'll, and this was largely true
of the other residences of the Albina
district.
i Several bridges along the creek
were taken out. The bridge near the
~. ]. Adkins residence was washed
down to the corner of Mrs. Bartholo-
news place on Chase street, where
it lodged against the big trees and
helped turn the water away from the
residence. By the time the waters
reached the bridge near the Farms
worth barn it had gained such pro-
portions that that structure was put
up on edge and carried away. This
threw large force of water towards
the home of Mrs. McDaid and her
floors were flooded, leaving a deposit
of several inches of mud. A lot of
rubbish was also piled UP around the
Office and main building of the Hepp-
ner Light & Water Co., as we'll as a
deposit of mud on the floor of the
engine room. No other apparent
damage was done here and the wa
ters passed on, taking out the bridge
at the upper end of Chase street and
carrying it on to the main channel
of Willow creek. At this point the
water was largely diverted down
Chase street.. doing but little damage
to the property along the street.
Where the water broke through a
number of lawns and gardens were
swept over and some fencing and
wooden sidewalks carried out and
wooden sidewalks carried cut and
this constitutes the material damage
done. A bridge was taken out in
front of the residence of Mrs Emilia
Kelley. Mrs. Mary Bartholomew
seems to have been the worst hit of
any of the residents along this street,
and yet the water did not get into the
house
Numerous cellars and easements
about town were filed with water
while the store of Gillian & Bisbee
received a deposit of several inches
of mud that came in through the
rear end of the building. They have
been busy since cleaning the place
out and getting the mud out of a
large number of ranges and other
stoves that were standing on the
floors.
, So far as we have been able to
| learn, there was no very serious dam
: age done to any of the places along
, the creek. Ralph Benge has suffer-
ed pretty much by the deposit of a lot
| of rock and debris on his alfalfa from
: the water coming down Dutton can
yon, and Alex. Cornett had some dam
age done to small buildings in the
way of the water coming down the
draw back of his place.
A lot of water fell in the Black
: horse section and this made pretty
; good sized flood at Lexington, but no
damage is reported,
The rain has freshened up the at
mosphere and cooled the temperature
to a considerable extent as we'll as
making lot of dirty streets and back
yards. This latter of course will be