Arizona silver belt., 1896-07-23

parties were out all day Tuesday an followed the channel of the creek t Wheatfields, twelve miles from Globe but failed to find the bodies of tn supposed victims, or any evidence t confirm the report of drowning. Ol Sunday night man, woman and bo, answering the description of the per sons supposed to have been lost camped at T. A. Pascoe's ranch, a Wheatfields, and resumed their journe, Monday morning toward Globe, The, were strangers who had come iron Flagstaff, and are the parties supposed to have been drowned. This, however is discredited by the statement O William Winters that man, woman and boy, riding in covered wagon passed his shop on Broad street befor, the rain began, and if they left Wheat fields in the morning they would hay, had ample time to reach Globe 1T safety. The evidence is conflicting, but the prevailing opinion seems to be that DO lives were lost.
 The storm came from the east and before it reached Globe had deluged the country for distance of forty miles or more. E. l.. Benbrook, whc was twenty miles east of McMillen, states that it was equally severe there, and returning to Globe he found trails and roads obliterated and many land marks destroyed.
 It had lost none of its momentum when it broke over Globe The rain | descended in torrents and continued with unabated fury for three-quarters of an hour. In an incredible short time the earth was covered by sheet of water and every dry arroyo was trans formed into mad torrent. It soon became evident that the greatest dan ger was to be apprehended from the flood running in the wash which crosses Broad street just south of Oak. The volume of water there was twice as great as had ever been known before. Great quantities of rock and sand were carried by the current and deposited opposite Chas. T. Martins property, completely filling the channel and forcing the water across the intervening lot into Oak street. At this point the flood was fnlly l25 feet wide and three feet deep. The force of the current was tremendous; great boulders were rolled along as though they were peb- bles. Mrs. c. R. Fiske's lodging house on the south side of Oak street received the full shock of the torrent, which carried away the east end of the adobe building and flooded nearly all the rooms. A frame house at the rear end 
 of the lot was undermined and sections of the fence were washed away. Mrs. Fiske sustained serious damage also at her residence on the opposite side of Oak street. The water forced the front door open and ran through the house, depositing foot of mud on the floors and running carpets, clothing and fur niture. The we'll was also destroyed. Mrs. Fiske is the heaviest loser and much sympathy is expressed for her.
 J. H. Hamill's home was damaged by mud and water, and several houses between there and Pinal creek were flooded.
 Water also flowed through the houses of J. w. Stanfeld and John Bowman, doing considerable damage.
 Property along south Broad street was protected by the breakwaters built last winter under the direction of Adolph Haag, and no one, so far as we have heard, sustained any damage except Richard Trevarthen, whose floors were flooded.
 Business property along Broad street from Push street to the bridge escaped injury. The long breakwater built by T. A. Pascoe west of his property, and the extension which other property owners had built only few days before, kept back the angry torrent.
 The Silver King saloon, owned by Kemp X Lyell, was badly wrecked by the torrent which poured down the wash leading from the cemetery. The big frame structureis almosta complete wreck and the stock of liquors and cigars a total loss. A small adobe building adjoining was washed down.
 Mrs Alex Graydon sustained serious damage. There was three feet of water in her house and nearly every thing in it was ruined.
 Andre Maurel's fine orchard was greatly injured. Many bearing trees were uprooted. his grape crop destroyed and fences washed away.
 Both copper companies suffered con