Show BIBLICAL CITY IN DEAD SEA WATER may confirm destruction of sodom and Go gomorrah A message to the london times from a correspondent in cairo Calro stated that an airman flying recently over the southern part of the dead sea r reported ported e having seen a town lying beneath the water this athla town according to an assistant to sir flinders it ers petrie interviewed by a depre tentative ot of tile tho london observer la Is thought ot of the london gomorrah or another a of the fire cities ot of the plain that were destroyed at the same time with them archaeologists archeologists are not in agreement as to the probable site of those cities the northern shores have been considered the most likely but in the scriptural record mention Is made of a little city nearby named zoar a city to which lot and his daughters claugh led fled a city so small as not to be as wicked as the rest I 1 A city of that name at the south remained into roman times there Is abundant evidence that there was a civilization in that region at a time when tile the plain wits well watered everywhere as thou boest toward zoar like ilke the garden of the lord the place was wai filled with city states as tile the scriptural record suggests each with its king and it came to pass in the days clays of Am raphel king icing of shinar arboch king of ENIn ellasar sar king icing of elain nud and tidal king of collm that they made war with bern bera king icing of sodom and with birsha king of gomorrah king of adman find and Shem eber king icing of and the icing ot of bela the same Is zoar all these joined together in the vale of siddia the pame game Is the salt sea suddenly all the kings departed and with them all the inhabitants of the cities and that which grew upon the ground 11 for mor ethan 20 centuries an earthquake with fiery eruptions Is postulated and a consequent general desolation and abraham looked toward sodom and gomorrah and toward fill all the land of the plain and beheld and to lo the of the land went up tip as the smoke of a furnace perhaps too the waters of the dead sea were before the disturbance tur bance whatever it was at a lower level now from the airmans height their depths even are visible and it may be that tile the sequel of the story of the judg judgment nent on sodom and gomorrah will behold be told |