The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1921-06-10
RECORD FLOODS FROM.
RAINS MELTING SNOW.

sawed out the fiume at this point
where II was two or three feet under
water.
AT the place where the street bed
was endangered Bob Walker used
dynamite successfully on one obstruc-
tion that refused to be moved in any
other way.
Old Noah's Record.
When the waters rose to their high
est yesterday noon Drs. Stratton, Put
nam AMI Hart casually met in the
Salmon river bridge to exchange
notes on the record of previous floods
and 10 observe that future oldest i'm
habitants would have something to
top anything in the line up to date
Whereat DIR. Hart suggested that
they all go look up notch that was
cut 10 mark the water line of long
ago Rnd vouched for by foremost
citizen still living.
why, that mark" said DIR. STRAIT
ton. was made by Jonah, | reckon"
Nav" observed DIR. Putnam, that
was put there by old man Noah him
self, who until the Salmon food of
this year held the record as water
gauger."
Two trunks full of the linen be-
longings to the Ford family were
caught under water at their home and
the next day there was wash out on
the lines on all the dry spots.
Frank Tingiey came in from the
country early Wednesday morning To
find his house as we'll as other near
by property in peril Of the food No
where around could he find Mrs. Ting
ley who had spent the night with her
aunt, Mrs. Stroud. In the mean
time Mrs. Tingley had heard her hus-
band had arrived in her absence and
when she visited her home she found
not her husband but his shoes in their
accustomed place. Then thoughts ran
through her mind that perhaps he had
been swept down in trying to safe
guard his home. His own thoughts OF
his wife were the same and for both
these good people there were some
anxious minutes before they finally
found one another.
q. and p. Still In the Ring.
Flood conditions along the Lemhi
river have given the managers of the
G.. and Il railroad the time of their
lives to safeguard the track in num-
oers of places. Work trains laden
with rocks and powders are kept
ready to go every minute night and
day. Three loads were dumped at the
Spencer place yesterday. So far the
trains have made regular and prompt
trips, hut it took good management to
accomplish this result without mis-
hap. The same should be said of the
company telephone service which al
so has been unimpaired under trying
even after numerous poles
carrying the wires have been washed
out. Thomas Pyeatt, Lemhi Pioneer,
says he never saw so much water in
the Lemhi river in all his life.
A crew of railroad men under the
direction of Superintendent Bickler
has been on duty in Spencer's field
by food conditions endangering the
track. A message from Tendoy this
morning says that trains will be able
to pass with repairs already made.
Flood Conditions Along Salmon.
Theo. ketchum of the Salmon Riv-
er Stage company II not able TO make
through trips to Challis since early
in the week. Water in the road
blocks travel in number of places,
transferring being necessary to get
through. Beyond Hellman Hill il the
first overflow of this kind, while be-
yond the Pahsimaroi the food COW
ers the road in one place to the depth
OF three feet. There are many dan
gerous washes and slides along the
course of the new highway work.
The Patterson bridge on Big creek
was washed away.