Arizona republican., 1900-09-19

1 five feet or moro. Why should we not waves began to show their fury, when
 saw these extra five or more feet cOv- ersd by a raging torrent which raced | hither and thther I feli that the end had come. Up the waters came about the fence-up they came and covered ! the hedge. Up they came and knocked at the door. Yet I still thought the end would be reached. We hal been told that the height of the storm would he at o'clock. At and 6 and the wa ters continued 10 climb and tho winds
 to take on new strength. At the last hour they were at the door. What must come, then. at 9? My heart fell then. | had pcered out If the window and saw
 the dreadful enemy assault the house. | Then agonized people were heard. It
 was dark and the spray sped in sheets. Yet it was light enough to see now and | then. People in boats and wading came along. Their houses were gone. Mine rocked like q cradle. and l felt the end had come.
 Thus said another man:
 What were your feelings?"
 Nothing but that of complete It sig nation. I have read much in books of the tabl5auX of the past appearing 60 the human mind on the eve Of mans dissolution. In n3 instance have l found that the survivors of this terrible thing reme moered the pas. Some were frightened and simply shril ked and laid hold of anything thal would relieve them from the embraces of the water. Some were frightened and prayed for mercy. Some were frightened into dumb resignation, partal<ing of Gumb indifference"
 In all great catastrophes I have vet to know of one that some special act of selfshness and bru,ality did net oc- eur. There is hardly great wreck ro- corded in which is not depicted the brute who pushed women from boats or from splrs. In all l have heard of the thousands of incidents connected with this storm. no, an instance of that i salfshnGss which W. uld caus5 one per son to deprive another of his means of escape las occurred. Thousands of in- l g. .aEces of devotion of husband to wife,
 of wife to husband. of child to parent and parent to child can be mentioned. | One p.or woman with her child and h5r
 father was Cas, out into 5he raging ! waters. They were separated. Both
 Were in drift and both believed they
 went out in the gulf and returned. The
 mother was finally cast upon the drift.
 and there she was pounded by the waves and debris until she was pulled into a housv against which the drift
 had lodged. During all that frightful
 ride she held o her S-months-old babe,
 and when she was on the drift pile she lay upon her infant and covered it with her body. hat it might escape the blows of the blanks. She came out of the ordeal cut an1 maimed. But the infant had not a scratch.
 Another man took his wife from one house to another by swimming until he had occupied three. Each fell in it's turn, and then he took 70 the waves ] They were separated and each, as the persons above mentioned. believed they were carried to sea. Strange to say.
 after three hours in -he water he heard her call, and finally rescued her.
 But it is nos necessary to go on and
 recite these instances, for there were thousands, each showing that in time of
 danger at least the best sentiments in
 mln's nature are aroused. It can he
 safely guessed that one-half of those
 who perishcd. died in their efforts to aid
 others. The trite expression of mans
 inhumanity. to man" has n place in all
 hat may be written gr spoken of this
 great tragedy.
 It is not at all remarkable tha;. of all