Show BIBLICAL CITY IN DEAD SEA WATER may conf confirm irm destruction of sodom and gomorrah A inest message age to the london times from a correspondent in cairo Calro elated stated that an airman flying recently over the southern part of the dead sea reported having seen a town lying beneath the water this town according to an assistant to sir flinders interviewed by a representative tentative senta tive of the london observer Is thou thought allt ot of the london gomorrah or another of the five cities of the plain that were destroyed at the same time with them archaeologists archeologists are not in agreement its is to the probable site of those cities the northern shores have been considered tile the most likely but in the scriptural record mention is made of a little city nearby named zoar a city to which lot and ills his daughters fled a city so small as not to be as wicked as tile the reit A city of that name dam e at the south remained into roman times there is abundant evidence that there was a civilization in that region at a time when the plain was well watered everywhere as thou boest toward zoar like the garden of the lord the place was filled avith city states ns its the scriptural record suggests each with its king and it came to pass in the days of Ani Ain raphel king of shinar alloch Arlo cli king of ellasar king of elam and tidal king of collm that they made war with bern bera king of sodom and with cirolia Cirs lia king of gomorrah king of adman and She meher king ot of anti and the kin of rela bela the same Is zoar all these joined together in the lie vale of siddik the same Is tile the salt sea suddenly all the kings departed and with them all the of the cities and that which grew upon the ground for more than 20 centuries an earthquake alth fiery erupt eruptions ions Is postulated and a consequent general er al desolation and abraham looked toward sodom and gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and beheld and lo 10 the shoki of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace perhaps too the waters of the dead sea were before the dis tur bance whatever it was at a lowet level now from the airmans height their depths men een are visible and it may be that the sequel of the story of the judgment on sodom and gomorrah will be told |