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Show TWENTY-FIVE LIVES LOST. Number of People Perished In Cloudburst Cloud-burst in Arizona. A private telegram received in Phoenix, Phoe-nix, Ariz., from Graham county, says it is believed that twenty-five people were lost in the flood following a cloudburst above Clifton, and that fourteen bodies have been recovered. Thirty persons are missing. The property prop-erty loss will exceed $100,000. The loss to the Arizona Copper company, located in the canyon through which the water swept, will reach $50,000. Houses and stores were swept from their foundations and persons caught in tho flood were drowned. The Arizona Ari-zona & Mexican railway track was washed out for a distance of eight miles, and the evening passenger train was rolled over into the canyon. |