Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1891-02-25
HIGH WATER MARK.
The Biggest Flood ever Known In this Section. Much Damage
 10 Property.
From Thursdays Daily:

The rain storm which set m Monday forenoon kept up without any cesss- ton until early this morning. During Monday and Tuesday the rainfall was 1 gentle, but on Wednesday 1t increased and about three o'clock it commenced to descend in torrents. continuing until about ten o'clock when it moderated, and soon after the temperature fell and the precipitation was turned into snow, which continued to tall during the TO- msinder of the night. The waters ot Granite, which were already much swollen at noon on Wednesday, com- mencei to rise rapidly and continued rising until 10 o'clock at night, when the highest it was ever known was reached, being within & few inches of the foot-bridge over the stream and rugning over the approach 10 1t on the west side, and coursing down Granite street around Martin Matters Exchange saloon.
 The water in the stream WAS from one foot and hall to two feet higher than during the big food of year ago. when the Walnut Grove dam disaster occurred. Considerable damage to property occurred along the creek. The incoming train reached point just be- yond the Granite creek bridge below Whipple when it was discovered that two bents of the bridge were gone. and the train remained there all night, the passengers, however, being brought to to town. Streams near Whlpple were SO high that it was found impossible to get out with wagons to bring the mail l in. No attempt was made to-day to send the train out, as such an under taking would have been impossible. l About eight o'clock the creek over | flowed its banks at Willis street and a | large stream of water commenced pour | ing down Granite strest, when the residences of 0. F. Fisher, Paul Johns and Mr. Selsor being surrounded by the surging waters, the families moved out to higher ground. the water being so deep that carriages had to be used to get them out.
 About seven o'clock tine kitchen of | the Chinese wash house, near the ice factory, started on voyage down 1 stream, and the remainder of the build | ing was so badly undermined that 1t now stands at an angle of about forty | five degrees
 Just before ten o'clock, the residence of Albert Haisley, in tn south part of town, was loosed from its moorings and, with all the furniture 1t contained, started down stream with the mad rush of the raging torrent of waters. It re- mained unbroken for quite distance sailing down the stream like boat, but after successfully rounding one or l two sharp curves of ihe stream 1t be- gan to go to pieces and the work of l destruction was completed when 1t struck the Granits creek foot-bridge. About one half of T. l.. Bacon's large barr, went downward with the flood" | also.
 J.G. Keegan, the blacksmith. lost s large amount of fence, and his lots are also badly washed.
 The bulkhead built by Charles Akers
 to protect his property on Mccormick
 street was washed out and the water
 made great inroads again into his lot. John Hartin's bulkhead was under
 mined, as was also the one built at the 1 west end of Granite creek foot-bridge. 1 A. NJ. Jones, of the Prescott and Ari- zona Central railroad, had q thrilling l experience and narrow escape about , 30 o'clock at the railroad bridge over | Granite creek. He was coming m with
 engine number 2. and being fearful of
 the safety of the structure, he first tested it by running some flat cars on
 1t, and it appearing safe. he started across with thS engine. As the engine 1 reached a point immediately over the [ mid, le of the stream the timbers com
 menced to creak and give way, when
 he pulled the throttle wide open and
 reached this side just in time to turn around in the cab and see two bents , float down stream.
 MT. T. G. B,rlow- Me sick, who Ii !, interested with Mr. Pedley in the Lynx
 Greek hydraulic enterprise, arrived In
 town to-day, and reports that abou ! thiri feet of the center of their dan | 1 was washed away at ' o'clock Wednes day night, down to within few fee of the ordinary creek level. They were
 unable to complete the dam last fall. oi
 account Of frost, and were not full,
 prepared for such freshet. The breal
 WAS caused by logs floating down ant
 breaking the masonry walls. Aboa ! 200 feet of Hume WAS also washed away 3 and MT. Barlow-Messick's mission t - Prescott to-day was to order lumbe for replacing this. He says that the. , are not in the least discouraged by thI
 mishap, and that the break will be re
 paired as soon as the water subsidies. II --~~-------
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