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Show DISASTROUS CLOUDBURST. Wall of Water Sweeps Down Canyon, Destroying Everything In Its Path. A special from Kingman, Arizona, sayB: Heavy rains In tho mountains cast of Truxton Saturdny night sent down a wall of water thirty feet high through tho canyon, wnshlng out th Snntn Fo railroad track, pmbank-monts, pmbank-monts, bridges, telegraph polos and 1 overythlng movablo for a dlstanco ol twolvo miles. Great steel bridge? woro takon from tholr foundations nnd piled up against tho walls of tho canyon. can-yon. Maaslvo stone abutments wera crumbled and carried nwoy. At Cro-zier Cro-zier overythlng movablo. Including tho Btntlon signal, telegraph poles and box cars, wero piled up on tho big stool hrldgo to tho west of tho station. At Hnckborry tho pump house and machinery were destroyed and swept Into the valley miles away Tho big well was Ailed to tho brim with debris. de-bris. Houses high nbovo all heretofore hereto-fore known high water marks wore flooded nnd much damage done. |