Show ST JOHNS ARIZONA DAM Lost hy by blobs In lout I Correspondence St Johns Co Aril Aria Sept Of lat late Apache pache county ht ties been her shale shaie of or the beautiful Th lii Parched plains of six weeks ogi K are now into green and anil stocK M Ii doing well fur 1 years PK beat I county has hax never had such a soaking mid we feel that the long lone continuous drouth has been broken anu slet that a it change lor br the better hiss has conic come tie the country Of or DAM We sue sie sorry lorry to report tho ho great loss ices th the people at Hunt blunt n hae v hail I iii on account of th the excessIve floods dus down the tho fig nig Hollow Little Colorado un The damn dain was not hot entirely com um completed but considered reasonably for tor nil ahi the water It cutch Monday morning the at limit Hunt charmed alarmed over this dam on of Ut thin the sudden rl rile of scaLer In ln this reservoir amid help was tiM from St John Ity Wednesday a hugo form fore ton con tonof of men ben nd tennis at the diem putting forth every elton 10 to si It mid and make It safe against the rising stators outers Thursday most of the tho force was dl unused a as all had lud been done that couill l be e to build the dim higher with and amid ke keep p It above the water Thus the work wan sucu kept up until Friday after afternoon afternoon noon when nil all hands thought that tho danger point was past anti and felt feht hopeful of saving the as a the rains were abating and the water was wan lowering some coune At p m iii a terrific east wind came Up Ill thin the maddened waves over the darn until a channel was cut through It then this the penned up nater outdo it a mighty butch nish rich In great torrents fol followed ci lowed the course of thu river riser spreading Dreading out cut en on both sides damaging and sweep sweepIng lug Ing everything before It Rome of the farms nt at Hunt blunt stern ver submerged tent nd part of the fence felice wits was washed away Thus fur far we urn ure unable to estimate the sustained by the lie breaking of this dam butt but fortunately no lives were lost The sudden rise of water In the was duo 1112 to the breaking of two mote moie reset reser reservoirs In ono one day tic and emptying their con contents tents teats Into this the which conveyed It Ittu tu to tho thiO reservoir |