Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-10-19
STORM SWEPT.
Globe Visited by the Greatest Flood on Record in Gila
 County.
Houses and Other Property Destroy.
 ed-Lossss Elsewhere.
(Silver Belt.)

fali, the uarkneSS added ltS terrOrS
 the alarm and confusion of those expos
 ed to its dangers.
 evening the skies assumed threatenin
 appearance. Black, angry clouds caI
 ped the Pinal mountains and sklrte
 the eastern horizon. They spread wit
 great rapidity, and withih half sn hou the whole heavens were overcast an
 the storm broke over the valley. Befor
 $ o'clock rain was falling coplously, an'
 from that time until after II o'clock th
 storm ragged with unaccustomed fury.
 All thia time Pinal creek had beel
 gradually rising, and before the hour o
 II had reached the climax of it's height | three feet higher than the memorabl, | flood Of February IS, 1891. Every ob
 struction was swept away. No barrier
 could withstand the mighty rush o
 water. The long breakwater southwest
 or Pascoe's corral was completely sub
 merged, and the torrent swept through
 the corral three feet deep. thence ur Push street into Broad, and down the main thorcughfare until it merged again with the creek.
 T. A. Pascoe is one of the heaviest losers. MT. Pascoe is absent, at Flor. ence, but J. ". Brown, his foreman, worked hard to save the property. Very little could be accomplished against such odds. The horses in the corrall were turned loose and driven onto high ground, but two were drowned while attemptiI g to swIm the creek, Mir. E. Il. Cooks fine saddle horee and a pony belonging to R. M. Anderson. There was little time to save anything. A few sicks Of grain were placed above the reach of the water, but some fifteen sacks of wheat and barley and about three tons of hay were saturated and will be almost a complete loss. The well was filled up with water and sand, and the harness room and office floors were covered with mud to the depth of half foot These damages are insignificant, however, when compared with the exposed position or the property and the danger to be apprehended iron, another flood. The corral, and in fact all the business property below, abut- ting on the creek, can only be made moderately safe by the construction of q substantial hreakwater to turn the creek ipto its old channel.
 All the property below Push street, fronting on the west side of Broad, was two feet or moro under water, which ran through the buildings, saturated the adobe walla, end left a deposit of slimy mud on the floors.
 Most of the outbuildings in the rear next to the creek were washed down sud the rear end of l.. Robinson's tin shop was badly wrecked.
 Rolling & Rogers lost about S150 of lumber piled in the rear of their build ing. The north wall of Sam Kee's store building was damaged and will have to be taken down. The goods were all re- his stock was damaged by water. John Bowna barber shop was damaged by water end mud.
 Wang Wah's new adobe building just ccmple ted, and which had been hand somely fitted up for saloon by Heron & Clark, sustained considerable injury. The front was cracked, and a part of it had tO bs taken down. There Is also bad crack in the south wall. Heron & Clark's loss is slight.
 Charles Bankers new building, on which the workmen were putting the finishing touches, was seriously damsg- ed. The water WAS more than a foot deep in the main building, the rear wall of which IS cracked. The back building, consisting of two adobe rooms, was en- tirely washed away.
 All the fine bar furniture was in the building. It had not been unpacked and was not much damaged. Wint House and Vim. Gill expected to occupy the premises next week.
 Billing Bros.' saloon was undermine ed, and if the water had not receded when it did, the building would have fallen into the creek. The under -pinning has been strengthened and the building made secure at Q small expense.
 The bridge at the Broad street cross- ing went out shortly before 10 o'clock, and there is rothing remaining except the eastern approach.
 On the east side of Broad street, north of heilner's store, the water ran over the sidewalk. There was a foot of water ID Frank Jordan's building at the corner or the tliey, and It ran up to the doors of J. II. Pascoe's restaurant and hotel, but fortunately did not find ingress to any extent.
 Further down the creek, on the east bank, the property belonging to s. Klein of San Francisco, was flooded. The wall Is cracked and the carpets and some of the furniture ruined. The premises are occupied by Jennie Scott.
 The Chinese wash houses, under the hill in the rear of the Klein property were wrecked.
 The ground back of the 0. k. corral and the property of T. A. Pascce and James Wiley, where a number of Mex lcan families live, was three to four feet under water. A scene of wild confuslon ensued when the water ran into the houses. The women md children, many of them thinly clad, were carried out and given shelter in neigh boring houses. | The dwellings and household effects of the Mexicans were greatly damaged by mud and water.
 All the low ground at the south end l of town was flooded. The water rs n | over the grounds of Mrs. A. W. Newton | and the Stallo park on the west side of the creek, and around the houses of c. | H. Kenyon and John Champion on the east side of Broad street. At this point | the stream was fully 150 yards wide.
 The residence property above Ken yun'e, on both sides of Broad street, was nearly all flooded, but no serious dam age is reported. The only one in that neis h borhood who sustained serious | damage is Joe Guersno. whose house | was partially wrecked and hls wagon, loaded with hay and barley, and also his harness, were washed away.
 On the west side of Pipal creek the l damage was heavy. The water rose to | ihe level of C. $. Van Wsgenens porch | and flowed around the blacksmith shops on the left side of the street. About one-third of R. Mclntosh's lot, in the Dfh hio bloalyo,,a,fh IL