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Show are employed in hauling coke from Wilcox Wil-cox t Globe the great copper district. A Yuma dispatch to Denver New's says" Then the levee broke higher up the street" Good work was done intelligently' intell-igently' but the water.five feet higher than ever known before was too much. The Gila emers the Co'o ado a ftw rods above Main stteet. 1 he Colorado is 750 ftet wide, with a slough 1,050 feet wide. The flood covered the valley above Yuma, thirteen by ten miles from five to thirl feet deep. This explains how the Yuma fell. News just in says to lives were lost in Globe the propietor of the istage line. and a yassenger. The diivei s in a tiee in the tiver, and it is hoped to rescue him to-night Globe lost a half dozen buildings. ARIZONA FLOODS. The Salt Lake Herald says; A Centel-man Centel-man who arrived here recently from iJafford, Arizoiia.says the recent rise in the Gila liver was the greatest seen for ten years. It was dashing down the channel at a furious rate when he left cat rying wii it fences, corrals and a large amount of small grain and land whi:h borders on the river. Dozens freight teams had .een delayed by high water and when our informant left the iubications were that it would be at feast two weeks before the trains could be able to cross. Three hundred teams ? |