Show i SOLOMON VILLE DISASTROUS noon 1011 lion Washed Away and Great r al Dam Iam am ago Lives Lint Lost 1011 Special Correspondence Ariz Aria Oct Ocl at af afternoon and nn evening the people of or Sol and and vicinity had hiI a 1 scare they witnessed one of tho the heaviest Hoods floods over known In the history ot of tho the Qua Ola valley Many Man places were so 10 badly flooded that many had to be from their houses boul The walls of ot tim the county Jail jai were verc washed awny away and Ind walls of some Rome dwelling houses wore vore washed down Ind tint con dam damAge dar dam damage Age done don household goods No lives Ivol were lost and Ine no one ona Ol hurt Solomon Villa Is I situated at the junction of ot the San 81 and Qua volleys oles the San Son Simone drains a 1 district of at about 70 TO by miles reaching to 10 tho time borders brer of Old Mexico like Ilko Iko n great groat funnel tunnel the small smal or er end tapering us as 11 It I Joins the Olla lila Ola at n In early Irly days dOYI this thin coun try was WO covered with wih grass gru and Inel vegetation tion ton as the rains foil tol the water vater soak oak od o In the earth and came canto seeping out for tor weeks following a I heavy hov rain but Ils it Is different now As Al the writer wrier and President D Johnson Johnon were w nearing the county seat eat we noticed r a I storm up time the Son San Simone In the dis diR tance and by the time wo we 0 reached the tho drain channel It I wan n a 1 raging r torrent lorrent court was to convene Monday tho the thord 3rd rd Judge was wu water Wll r bound boun In New Nel Mexico on the Santa Fc Fe and In obliged to go around through Phoenix arrived Just ju t In time this eve ove evening flIng ning to be M caught in the storm Wo We un hitched tho the horses horas and tied led them to tho the Wagon outside the court yard rd In a lit 1 te tIe ie time they were vere standing knee deep l In n the tho flood nood As s tho the waste vasto could not lot curry carry cn t off ot tho the flood It commenced coul to back bark up And until fora for 1 a titus time the tue of ot had occasion for alarm At tho Iho hotel the Inmates were obliged to build levees of ot n mud across the doorways to 10 keep kap the floods out ou t Judge Jud and family were wet obliged to Ial leave sat their home Th The home homo of at Mr Clark Clark clerk cl k of ot supervisors U 10 was waa Wi almost almot ruined other residences PI were wert badly bd I damaged damal 3 |