Deseret Evening News | 1905-12-07 | Page 11 | Thatcher, Arizona

I i I I I THATCHER ARIZONA DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS Kiln git I mu ii t Arlona Ad I 15 nt nl Special Correspondence Co io Aria Ariz rl o LS S SIn In iii the lIP list last tel few days southern has hac ha 1 1 with ns nit severe as t those of or tact last January and und Sunday the th hist hi nearly all day clay anti and night It II rained steadily cloudily and dud one of f the Iii heaviest Hoods experienced fenced visit visited ed I h lat and I ii ih Thatcher or making iii aki tug a tc l river bed hed of some come of or the thin principal streets rind lining hilling yard ar and holds fields with water aunt and mud The Ih damage however was all done in iii cutting out and destroying the tim roads road The Tito railroad lied i iI was wall damaged and train troine delayed The railroad over nver the thc Olla Gun Just jU 1 below has bins ben been carried away 1114 Clifton Is IH practically In ruIns Many llIn of ot the time residences have hae been washed away anti and BO Nu damaged that they thc cannot connot longer hunger be he b occupied In Inmany many Instances thi thio people lost lo t all their household offer is everything being cur car carneil neil don thin the raging torrent of or ii the Hood The Fun railroad depot U Is Inundated 1 In feet felt of nt water Some Homo of or Ihl tim people acre Ier fortunate enough tn to get ot their I Ii ti i household Ii upon a pon higher ii er ground before the time worst conies hilt but they the and all their belongings ar are ure out on the th lc exposed to it the hue elements nIA present II n sorry p I A t Ian mince man and atud buy DO who tried to catch float heating me plunder r WIre were caught In the curr nt mill and washed away at III Clifton