The Arizona sentinel., 1891-03-07
clean. Word still came
 THE GREAT FLOOD IS COMING.

to work to build a levce in front of the stores and buildings to keep
 the water back. This bank was thrown up south to the railroad track. The water only held it's own for few hours, then gradually rose until 1t filled Iain street even to the top of the leyee, four to six feet in height. At last 1t found an entrance under the store of Gandolfo & Sanguinetti into the backyard. All efforts to stop this flow Of water under pressure was unavailing. Work had to be abandoned. Only for this old and forgotten sewer no doubt but that the water could have been held, Some think differently. Soon the bank broke in two places near the 4. o. U. ". Lodge, when all efforts were abandoned and the balance of Main street went down. The abobe walls melted in the water like so much sugar. In a few mo- ments every building facing on Main street from the Catholic church to the $. P. hotel was in ruins. On the opposite side every thing fell.
 The water arose almost to the railroad track. The telegraph office and the ice house, a frame building also fell. The freight ware house was blown up in order to save the railroad bridge in case the water carried the warehouse away. The water held it's force for a few b5uEs and then fell grad ually and the flow ceased through the streets. Monday and Thursday, day and night, February g and 18th, '91, will long be remembered as the days and nights of the great food.
 TIRE WATERS.
 At length had wasted their force and little by little began to slaek6n their bold. had reached the point where 1t run over all of the piers c: the bridge and each ripple washed the stringers, but luckily there was no drift, no flood wood. Everything movable in town and up country had come down and passed under the bridge before dark. From 6 to 10 o'clock on rolled the angry flood at a pace of from 10 to 15 miles per hour. At s p. m. the guage showed B feet and two inches. At 10 p. m. the water had risen sas near az could be seen by the light of a lantern three inches higher. There it stood until midnight when it dropped a little and at 6 a. m. it showed 8 loss of ) inches. During the day it fell 13 inches, and dur ing the night Is inches more. Every one felt relieved. Day by day it fell from 20 inches to two feet, until 9 feet of its force had been lost. Everybody felt better. Rel::sf had come. Relaxation fol- lowed. News began to come in from every quarter, better and bet ter. Those supposed to be lost were saved, some from trees where they had rested 40 hours, others from house-tops, islands, posts and 1 in fact from everything above i water. Cattle, horses and mules, to be drowned were safe on sand hills where they fled at the beginning of the storm. Houses and bridges had stood the test of the trial and while they suffered | still they were there. Each day the news has been better, the esti- mated losses growing less and less. The storm and flood arc over and | the present citizens, delayed pas and strangers have seen what they have never saw before and probably will never be seen 1 again, the great flood of '91, when the Colorado river rose , feet higher 1 than ever before known. Thus began and ended tho hours days and nights that tried mems souls and proved the material that goes to make up brave men and noble 1 women.
 THE LEvEEs,
 Were we'll built. Under the