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NEW
YORK TIMES – NEW YORK
MAY
23, 1897
A
DISASTROUS CLOUDBURST
One
of the Garden Spots of Idaho Laid Waste By It
GRANGEVILLE,
IDAHO, May 22 – A cloudburst has visited the valley of the Salmon
River, causing ruin and desolation and laying waste one of the garden
spots of Idaho County. Fruit
farms were destroyed and placer-mining industry along the Salmon River
and its tributaries suffered severe losses by the carrying away of dams
and flumes. The settlers
fled to the hills for safety. Cattle
in the ravines and low lands were drowned and carried by the flood into
Salmon River, which became a torrent.
The
cloudburst covered a territory along the Salmon from several miles above
John Day Creek to White Bird Creek, a distance of about twenty-one
miles.
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