Arizona silver belt., 1889-09-14
A SECOND DEUCE.

visitation would remain memorable
 perhaps for years to come; but almes
 before the types had recorded tht
 statement, the food-gates of heaven
 were opened and for three hours rain
 fell Tn such torrents as to render Fri
 days rain only warming up" show
 CT, preliminary to the real storm.
 The storm commenced very much as
 on the previous day, only that the early showers were more copious, with
 briefer intermissions between them
 There was gradual increase in the precipitation until the last half hour
 when the storm seemed to gather its
 force for one last supreme effort. The record of the rainfall, taken at inter vals during the storm, gives an ldea of its progress. During the first hall hour the precipitation was 25 inches second half hour, 70 inches; third hall hour, 80 inches, and the last hour and three-quarters 1.72 inches, most ef which fell Tn 30 minutes. The tetal precipitation was 2.97 inches, and for tive days was 4go inches.--
 The storm of Saturday was even more destructive than that of Friday, the northern end of town suffered most. The arroyo coming down from the foothills of the Pinal mountain past the cemetery was converted into torrent, which quickly filled the shallow channel, where it emerges upon the flat, with sand, forcing the water to seek new passage between the collection of adobe and frame houses at that point sn and near Broad street. Alex Graydcn's black smith shop received the brunt of the flood, and the turbulent water swept directly through the shop and corral, (seme distance to the south carrying every movable obstruction with 1t. A portion of the corral fence was swept away, together with quantity of hay and grain, and what feed remained was completely soaked. The volume of water which passed through the blacksmith shop Ca frame structure) was five feet deep, and splashed against the top of the doorway. Wood work and tools were either swept away or buried in the sand which filled the shop to depth of three feet. Even keg of borre shoes went down with the flood.
 Mr. Graydon sustained very heavy loss, which he estimates at S3,000. The chief damage is to hls property which the water partially wrecked and buried in sand, rendering it prac- tically valueless, as the cost of repair ing, and protecting it from future storms would be as great as 1t was worth. MT. Graydon has moved his business to a connections building short distance south ot his old stand.
 Claude Batalier IS one of the heavy losers by the flood. He was the owner of three adobe houses which were washed down. Pinal creek was higher than we ever remember having seen it. A teamster named Lee, his wag- ons loaded with coke, attempted to cross the creek at the shelter, but the water rose so rapidly that he was un- able to eXtricate enc wagon, which was overturned, and coco pounds of coke washed away. The wagon was broken and only saved from being completely wrecked by securing it with ropes.
 The foot bridge spanning Pinal creek at the crossing north of Gray dons was undermined and has since been removed. A wall of Nose Vert mans house (the old Turner proper ty) fell down, and the water covered the entire fiat surrounding the house.
 On Friday an enormous volume came down one of the canyons east of the Old Dominion Copper Company's property, and its force was so great as to carry away number of iron oil tanks, some filled with oil and others empty, weighing 250 to FOO pounds each. Seven of the tanks had been recovered on Thursday, and several of them were found near Horrells past ure, four miles below the shelter. Ten cords of wood belonging to the Company were also washed away. Andrew Maurei came very near beng bereft ot his three children who were alone in hls shop when the heavy rain came on Saturday, flooding tue build ing. The children sought places of safety on boxes and barrels until res cued by their father.
 In the center of town Saturdays storm was less violent but reverthe- less did some injury. The wash cross ing Broad street north of Miss Eaton's property, which was the scene of the greatest damage on Friday, was again on the rampage and undermined the