| Show BIBLICAL CITY IN XI DEAD SEA WATER 0 1 may confirm destruction of sodom and gomorrah f A message to the london times 1 from a cor correspondent I 1 adent in cair Calr stated that an airman flying recently over TV the southern part of the dead sea reported having seen a town lying beneath the water this town ac cording to an assistant to sir biln ders detrie interviewed by a depre tentative senta tive of the london observer Is 13 thought of the london gomorrah or another of the five cities of the plain that were destroyed at the same time with them archeologists are not in are agreement ement as to the able site of those cities the north ern shores have been considered consi consil ered the most I 1 kely lely gut but in the scriptural Script uril record mention Is made of a little city nearby named boar a city to which lot and his daughters fled a city so small as not dot 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 the 4 plain was well watered everywhere as thou boest toward boar like the garden of the lord the place was filled with city states as the scriptural record suggests each with its king kin and it came to pass in the days of Am raphel king of shinar alloch king of rl lasar kin king of elam and tidal king ling of hollm that they made war with pera era I 1 ing of sodom and with birsha king of 0 gomorrah shin ib king ling of admah and She er I 1 ling ing ot of tin ani I 1 the I 1 ing of pela rela the same Is zoar AH all these joined lolether tto lo gether in the vale jl of sidd in the same Is the salt sea j suddenly all the I 1 ings departed and with them all the innab tants of the cities and that which grew upon the ground for more thin than 20 centuries an earthquake with fiery eruptions Is postulated and a consequent gen eral oral desolation ind nd abraham loo ed toward sodom and gomorrah I 1 and toward all the land of the plain and beheld behold and lo 10 the smoke of the land went up as the thin smoke of a furnace I 1 perhaps too the waters of i the dead sea were before the dis tur bance whatever it was at a lower level now from the airman q height their depths even are visible and it i may be that the sequel of the story of the judgment on sodom and go will be told |
