The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-17
CLOUDBURSTS DO
HEAVY DAMAGE
SWEEP BUILDINGS AWAY AT
UNIONTOWN = RAINS DAMAGE
ALFALFA, WHEAT AT MOSCOW

FOLLOWING closely in the wake ot
Sundays hail storm, which did con-
siderable damage to the crops over a
strip little more than a mile wide
running northeast from UniOntown
through Latah county, came a heavy
rain storm Monday night, which did
damage in several sections of the
country tributary to Moscow A
cloudburst is reported in the Lenville
district which put down considerable
wheat, and another and more serious
cloudburst in the Uniontown section,
which did damage running into
thousands of dollars.
According to reports from Union
town, the storm struck some two
miles southwest of the town, at the
George Whitman farm. Two barns,
a hog house and machine shed
were washed away and grain over
wide area was beaten down. Water
covered the Lewiston highway south
of Uniontown to a depth of more
than foot and flooded the main
street at Uniontown, forcing resi-
dents to move out of the first floor
of their homes. The water on the
highway made it impossible for the
Spokane-Lewiston stage to get
through for several hours.
Moscow was visited by a shower
Monday evening which lasted perhaps
a half hour, and again after midnight
rain commenced falling and contin-
ued steadily for perhaps five hours
making the roads almost impassable
putting down some of the heavier
wheat and damaging the large ton
mage of alfalfa which still remains
on the ground or in shock.
Some of the alfalfa which is in
swath has been turned number of
times and is now so badly bleached
that it is scarcely worth putting up |
The intermittant rains have delayed
the hay harvest, and practically all
the alfalfa is more or less bleached |
This is the case all over the north
west, however, and very little alfalfa
of the first cutting will be first class
hay Second growth alfalfa is almost
foot high and will make an excel
lent crop. The tonnage of both first
and second cutting will be the heav-
lest in the history of the country.
Farmers are eager for warm dry
weather, which will ripen the grain
and which will enable them to COM
plete their hay harvest. 1t is now
certain that the wheat harvest, as
well as being the heaviest in years,
will be the latest, as the moisture is
keeping the straw green. The fall
wheat has not yet begun to turn.
Rain Ties Up Lewiston Roads
Lewiston, Idaho-At Wilma, 12
miles below Lewiston, rains swept
garage and auto into the Snake river '
and blocked the Lewiston-Riparia J
railroad. Riparia-bound trains re-
turned here. 1t is doubtful when the '
line will be open, due to slides.
A cloudburst in Lewiston Orchards s
was followed by one more severe,
estimates varying as to damage, parts 6
If the district being out of telephone l
communication.
Water from the orchards rushed
through East Lewiston causing an
alarm to be sent out by the police 1
department.. The flood covered the
Camas Prairie railway yeards two
eet deep.
A Northern Pacific fast freight that
eft Lewiston at p. m. was derailed
,y a landslide few miles east of s
lewiston and the night train from r
spokane was bulletined as indefinite +
Y delayed. A wrecking train has +
,een sent out from here r