Show BIBLICAL CITY IN DEAD SEA WATER may alay confirm destruction of sodom ind and go gomorrah mo arah A message to the london tim from a cor correspondent adden t in cairo Calro stated that an airman hying flying recently over the southern par part t of the dead sea reported having seen been a town lying beneath the water this town according to an assistant to sir flinders petrie interviewed hy by a representative senta tive ot of the london observer 11 1 thought 0 of the london gomorrah or another of the five fire cities of tile the plain that were destroyed nt at the tame game time with them archaeologists archeologists at as to the probable ar are e not in agreement site of those ides cities c the northern shores have heen been considered the most likely ely I 1 but ut in the scriptural record mention li Is made of a little city nearby name named zoar a city to which lot and his daughters led fled a city so small as not to he as wicked as the rest I 1 A city of that name at the south remained into roman koman times there Is abundant evidence that there was a civilization in that re region 1 on it at a time when the 5 plain was well watered everywhere as thou boest toward zoat zoar like ilke the garden of the lord the place was filled with city states as the scriptural record suggests each with its kins king and it came to pass in the flays days of Am raphel king of shinar arioth ling king of ni ella lasar ar king of elam an and d tidal kin king of collm that they made war with cera bern king kin of sodom and with birsha king n of gomorrah king of admah and Shem eber king kin of and the kin king of r pela cla the same Is zoar all thee joined together in ID the vale of siddia the same 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 for more than 20 centuries an earthquake with flery fiery eruptions Is post postulated and a consequent general desolation and abraham looked toward sodom and gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and beheld and lo 10 the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of af 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 air mins height their depths even fire are visible and it may be that the sequel of the story of the judgment on sodom and gomorrah will be told |