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Show IS UNDER FOUR FEET! ITER Whole Valley Is Likewise Covered When Colorado River Goes Over Its Banks. MANY BUILDINGS ARE CARRIED AWAY Irrigation Canals Filled to the Breaking1 Point; Communication Com-munication With Agricultural Agri-cultural Region Cut Off. YTJMA, Ariz., Jan. 22. At least a thousand persons were homeless tonight as a result of the overflow waters of the Colorado river flooding flood-ing a large section of Yuma. Practically every business house in the town has been flooded, and the entire Mexican quarter is inundated. inun-dated. YUMA, Ariz., Jan. 22. Yuma valley was covered to a depth of from one to four J'ect of flood water from the Colorado Colo-rado river tonight as a result of the breaking of the government levees near here today. The city of Yuma was in darkness and without a supply of water, us the plants supplying-gas, electricity and water were flooded. A citizens' committee was maintain ing order hero. Mayor Charles C. Moore having died of heart failure during the excitement that prevailed shortly after the levees gac way. ISusincss Houses Flooded. Business houses in the main street wero flooded to a depth of four feot by tbo water and many of the older buildings were washed away or badly damaged. rfesidonts were sent to the hills bark from the river. Thousands of acres of agricultural lend, both on the Arizona and the California Cali-fornia sides of the Colorado, were inundated. in-undated. The irrigation canals were filled to the breaking point, and it was feared that serious damage would result re-sult to the gigantic irrigation project that supplies the Imperial valley of California. Cali-fornia. Communication Cut Off. Communication to the farming secy tions near here was cut off, preventing the receipt of definite reports on the situation in many communities. Several thousand head of stock were in the low sections of the Yuma valley, val-ley, aud it was feared that a large proportion pro-portion of them have been destroyed. The river appeared to be falling here late today, but it was thought this was faused by breaks in the levees, and that the volume of water flowing by here really had not diminished Heaviest Flood Condition. Officials of the reclamation service estimated that from 150,000 to 175,000 leeond feet of water was passing this point early tonight -the heaviest flood condition ever recorded here. At least four miles of the government govern-ment levee was washed out just below here, and the waters have broken over the west main canal at, several places, frhich necessarily must flood the greater part, if uot alt, of the Yuma valley. Across the river on the Indian reservation reserva-tion unit of the Yuma irrigation project, renditions were equally as bad. Practically every bouse in the .lower half of that section was almost, burisd under the niurkv waters. It was believed be-lieved that all the residents escaped. No Estimate of Damage. No estimates of the damage either in Yuma or the surroundiug country could be made tonight. Several citizens citi-zens stated that an appeal probably would be made to congTess for an immediate im-mediate appropriation to repair the damage to the irrigation project, as serious injurv would be done the farms' of settlers if prompt steps were not taken. A committee was at work tonight housing the homeless aud distributing food to hungry families. The town was well policed. Although reports from Calexieo and El Centro, Cal., stated that the irrigation irriga-tion dams and canals in the Imperial vallev were holding, tbo:-e in close tou'-li with the situation here said tonight to-night that they feared that the vail -'y would l'e innnditted before morning. The banks on the California side of the Colorado river were seen to cave in to-rinv to-rinv hv persons at the eleven mile post 3i the Yuma side of the river. Old Buildings Carried Away. Many of the oldest buildings in Yuma .uivc ,iiappe:i'-ed beneath the flood v;it--r. It v- us eMiumted early tonight ihat al lci-t hous-es had been do- -tviiveu.' Tli" i Miholic rcebiry was iu danger ,t" liein;: -:nrie,l awuy at auv time, and i vpiad of men were bracing it with props and sandbags. The building is :wo 'ries in height and constructed ,f adol.e. Weil- I argo Kxprer-s cuinp-iny vc:is i, nip. -lie. to move fro its building id joining the office of the Yuma Ex-iiiiiner. Ex-iiiiiner. which w;i flooded to & depth -if four feet. The building in which Ihe Morning Sun was locate was a .'omvdeto loss, being one of the L'ir-t 'o ie undei-niiiied by the water. All reports from thi upper Colorado river tonight stated that, the water was falling, but the flood here rdunvcil no indications of receding. The water at i o 'clock tonight was 'apping against the girders of the foiulli eru I'acific railroad bridge, but the structure at that hour was withstanding the presure. Ice Jams .Melt. KANSAS I ITY, Mo.. Jan. 22. Danger Dan-ger to bridges in this section, threatened threat-ened during the past two days by ice floes, was declared tonight by tho weather wea-ther bureau to be past. Ice jams have melred rapidly under the sun of today, botn in the Kansas and Missouri rivers. A rise in the latter lat-ter stream was reported toninhtj the result re-sult of rains Thursday an .1 Kndav. Advices from southeastern Kansas report re-port the swollen streams iu tiiat flection flec-tion of the state are returning withiu their banks. Imperial Valley Safe. KU CUNTRu, Cal.. Jau. 22. No damage dam-age to the imperial valley irrigation svstem had resulted from the flood waters of the Colorado river tonight. Water was eighteen feet deep against the gates of the system at Ifanlou heading and debris covered au acre of water at that point, according to telephone tele-phone messages received here from J. C. Allison, chief engineer of the California J)ovelopmeiit company. The water began be-gan to recede at that point late today and there were no signs of serious trouble, trou-ble, he reported. The Colorado has reached its highest known stage, it was reported here. Flood Warnings. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. .Ian. 22 f'hmd warnings for both the Arkansas and White River vnllevs were repeated tonight by the local government weather bureau on reports that, the two streams, already past flood stage, were continuing to rise rapidly. The Arkansas Arkan-sas tonight was two feet above flood stage at Fort Smith. Thus far the damage hns been confined to the flooding flood-ing of pasture lands, and hundreds of workers have renewed their efforts to strengthen the levees against an overflow over-flow in the thicklv inhabited sections. |