| Show OIS DISASTROUS ARIZONA FLOOD fLOGO 1 Hours flours fours of or Rain date the lie Country Gila and Overflow O TWO LIVES LOST IN Iti I DELUGE DELUCE Town rown of Clifton Clion Washed Away A way Over IOU House Destroyed le Other r Damages Done Ione one Special Correspondence Graham Co U ii Uthe I the tho tInt lint mall lul out of ot the Gills alia 01 willIe valley week weel sIlica taut last Monday a u ago today Two 0 days duys rain Monday and Tuesday and all ni night was WIS such ouch a I heavy helvy down downpour downPour pour that the lIla Ulla aunt and Frisco rIvers wore store 10 swollen higher than bait thal at al uny any peri period od oct ot In the recollection of ot the tho oldest set settlers Clifton 45 5 miles attics 1 I Cd from hero here on the l tributary to thu lie Glut wan lB I nearly washed away no over 10 houses hiatuses VerO destroyed adobe dwellings melted down In H ii I pile pie frame houses were vere lifted I Ind carried on the tha steam Ilku n it box vOX and dashed to pieces on the rocks or crushed In II passing under railroad bridges Two rss foot tooL cable cubic bridges fluid and two huge hue railroad bridges bridge Ivere wc away 1 In y Onu One Mexican and andone Ind andone one lne white man nuan lost their lives 1 The Ilie TheM he M Mexican was wan found with his neck nelt caught In the fork of ot K it I tree about thre lItres miles below lItton Clifton his lens legs Irl broken hula his body bitchy badly bruised oil ail 11 hid hiI clothIng torn tor off oft except thin the th waistband of or bH bbs II shirt The man mall mal IB Is one ona of Thatchers citizens Mr Ir John Johl Hunt who lund hIlI been heen In the hue em im employ m ploy of lt the th A C company end held luell h 1 n it I responsible position Hoon Ion after nt lr the he Ito with wih ninny others wore limit off of an iii IR the works were overe nores closed Brother Hunt Html won wAs Is stand ln In log on the bunk bank of ut the th near the tho upper UlIter footbridge when the hunk raved III In anti and he lie was va carried oft off of on tho the tar tor torrent rent He lie leaven leases Ice n a 1 wife anti tour t ur chill chil children hl dren A searching party of ot our hays boys left lef bro Saturday evening the the tho the fIrst In scorch of o body bot It bolg rt opportunity to BO go 10 up tip U tho the river Near Thatcher In tact fact all al along time the lower part lart of ot the lie valley farms were ivere by b the waters overflowing thin tho river fences tencel were vete torn tor 11 down lumber timbers and debris of ot all al kinds tero welo piled pie up lp on the tho farming land Inn The riv nv river nver er cr tons waB fully tUly one on tulle mile mie wide lp the Wc wept vc t side of ot Thatcher Large lre Melds of ot train rain were covered with wih water vater wlter and Int are lre now burled hurler In mud Many Jinny acres of ot good goad farming land lanil wore welo washed III awe I 1 by hi b Jho torrent Some Rome farms forni were hen ben benefited by b 1 ln leveled up uit uJ while others Were cro a total toss loss |
