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Show MAROONED ARIZONA FAMIIJESjlESCllEO Floods Rapidly Receding, Three Persons Drowned in Vicinity of Nogales TLCSON Arl Dec 14 Receding r oods enabled rescue parties to save ma rooned ranch families today from houses In the flooded district of southern Art zona- A squad or national guardsmen rode from Sabuaiita toda after react! lng six persons come or them women from houses partly under water Three parsons were drowned ln this vicinity One of them waa Walter For tune a supervisor of Santa Cruz county Nogales and Globe are still without rail road communication but traffic conditions are improving ln every direction. The Roosevelt dam and other reser voire In the stats have been filled with water enough to last two rears as the result of the continued rain of a week. : which brought on the floods according to R H. Forbea director of the University of Arizona experiment station Although many head of cattle have been -tost and hundreds of farms damaged abundant grass for the range eatt e ts expected NOO ALES' Ariz Dec. "4 Three per sons Including Walter Fortune, a super iaor of Santa Cruz county were drowned In the floods In this vicinity caused by six das of rain, which ceased today Wire communication betn een Nogales and outside points was restored today af er two da) s of lso atlon Railroad traffic atl 1 ls paralyzed a I bridges between here and Benson having been washed out. bridges between Tucson and Hermosl lo the capital of Sonora, Mexico also were destroed |