Show BIBLICAL CITY IN DEAD SEA WATER ATER i may confirm coffinn destruction of sodom and Gomo gomorrah riall 1 I A message to the london times from it a correspondent in cairo Calro stated that nn an airman flying recently over the southern part of the dead sea reported having seen a town lying beneath the water this town ap according to an assistant to sir flinders petrie interviewed by it 11 representative senta tive ot of the london observer is 19 thought of the london G Oo lo or another of the live five cities of 0 the plain that were destroyed tit at the same time with them archaeologists archeologists ore are not dot in agreement as to the probable site bite of those cities the northern shores have been considered the most likely hut but in the scriptural ceora mention Is made of a little city nearby named zoar a city to which lot anti anil his daughters led fled a city so small ns not to bo be as wicked ng as the rest I 1 A city of that name itt at the south remal remained ned into koman times there Is abundant evidence that there wa was a ca I 1 civilization in that region at a time when the plain was well watered everywhere as th thou it boest toward zoar like ilke the garden of the lord the place was wa filled with city states as the scriptural record suggests each with its king and it cume to pass in the days ot of A king of shinar alloch king bins of ellasar king of 0 blam and tidal king icing of 0 collm that they made war with bera king of sodom bodom and with dimsha king of oc shinae kini king of 0 adman admah and Shem eber king of Ze bollin and the king of 0 kelii ilela the same la Is zoar all these joined together in tho the valo vale of the same Is the salt sea suddenly all the kings departed and with then them all the inhabitants ot of the cities and that which grew upon the around 11 for more than 20 centuries an with wilh fiery eruptions Is 13 postulated postulate find it conse consequent quint ren gen cral desolation and abraham looked I 1 toward sodom dom and gomorrah and toward all the land of the plain and beli beheld eld and lo 10 the of the land went up ns as the smoke of a fur rince 11 perhaps too the waters ot of the dead sea were before the disturbance tur bance anee whatever it was nt at a lower level now from the alrin airmans ans height their depths even are visible and it may bo be that the sequel of the story of the judgment on sodom and gomorrah will bo be told |