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Show iRUSH OF WATER ENGULFS TOWN Clifton, Arizona, Visited by a Flood and Many Lives Reported Lost ' Frame Buildings In Which People Were Living Were Destroyed by the Raging Waters and Helpless Help-less Woman and Children are Drowned. BIsbeo, Ariz. Ono of tho worst floods In tho lilBtory of Clifton, Ari., cnmo down tho Sim Francisco river and Chaso crock Tucmlny night. Tho principal business Bcctlon of tho town was almost completely ruined. From seven to twenty persons Is tho report of tho loss of life. Then namo of only ono victim, however, has been obtained, ob-tained, Mrs. Joseph Throni, who with her husband and children was caught In a falling building and killed. Tho other members of tho family had narrow nar-row escapes. Ono of tho saloons which was waBhcd away carried Boveral mon Into tho torrent and all aro believed I to havo drowned. A women and a child wcro lost In a small restaurant which was dashed to pieces In tho ' flood. A number of small framo build- ! ings in which pcoplo were known to bo living also woro destroyed and It I is feared that a number of famllos 1 perished. |