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Show PHOEHIX FACES I mwm I Salt River Almost Reached tho High-Water Record of H LOWER PART OF CITY MAY BE AGAIN INUNDATED Water Is Eleven Fet Over tho Arizona Diversion Dam PHOBNDI Ariz.. Nov. 27 -Phoenix la very much depressed tonight over Moid conditions, and in some quarters ther.- is anxiety conceining damage to property and possible loss of life. Salt river Is higher than ever known, but once, and almost up to th.- limit of the flood of UB1, when the lower part of the city wan Inundated Two railroad bridges at Temp.-, eight mil- from here, are now out of commission. Sciious Damage Imminent. Tin- hew Maricopa K Phoenix rlr. 1 bridge Is still intact at the last report but the water is withm three feel of the pier-tops and still rising. Should II con- tlnue. and more of the old bridge )USI above- give away, it is feared the bridge win be knocked down. Tha water is oh ven feet over the site of ihe Arizona diversion dam. -w hi. h undoul.i. dlv is all Telephone Wiieb Down. Telephone reports from Roosevelt Ighty miles up tin- Salt river, at noon today, said that tip- water there was eight fi . t ulj.,.- lh highesl 'tiiK-- Of la - r spring, and th.- suspension footbridge was gone Th.- telephone wire then went down, since whii h time there has been no telephonic communication The present flood at PhoeuK is sup-posed sup-posed to come mostly from the Verde river, abo.- the Arizona dam. if it bph-tlnues. bph-tlnues. and In swelled by water from Roosevelt, the results may be very dim-ustrous dim-ustrous before morning Qleindale Inundated. Cave creek, flowing across the desert north of Phoenix, haa Inundated Oleu-dale. Oleu-dale. There bus been only slight damage as yet, but more Is feared It has rained nearly two Inches here In the last thirty-six thirty-six hours and a total of nearly twenty inches since January I more than three times the annual average rainfall here Fair Is Postponed. ' The first Arizona TcrrJtOry fair, set for Decemhr '. has been postponed until tin- week commencing Decembei which Was made necessary by the disastrous soaking of the railway track and Inter- fcrenoe with transportation, |