Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-31
Marked by TOrrential
 Rains Last Week.
Granite Creek Highest Ever Known in the History of Prescott.
 Damage Slight.

visited by heavy storms. The prlnci- pal sufferers were the railroad com panies. A bridge on the s. F. P. & F. road just north of P. < E.. junction was badly damaged, delaying the south bound train for sevreal hours. | This road has had comparatively little trouble though during all the storm period.
 The Santa Fe on the other hand has had A greater series of misfortunes than has ever occurred before in its entire history. Commencing with the big washouts in Crozier and TruXton canyons when the floods lifted great steel bridges from their abutments and tossed them up on the mountain side as if they were wood, the com panv has been visited by one flood after another. It required about week to make even temporary repairs during which time Santa te trains were diverted via Prescott and Phoe- nix. When temporary repairs were completed, so that trains could be gotten over the road it required the services of several hundred men to keep it up so that traffic could be car ried on at all, each succeeding flood causing damage to the temporary repairs. This was kept up until last week when the storms of Wednesday again caused complete blockade to traffic. On Wednesday evening eight i trans were held at Ash Fork for some
 time in the hopea of getting them through via Phoenix, but on account of A washout on the Maricopa road they were turned back to Albuquerque anI sent around to California via
 Demirg.
 In addition to the damage between Needles and Peach Springs the road
 was also damaged east of Holrook and
 east bound trains were delayed at the latter place for some time. Luckily
 no accidents have happened during the period of storms the only mis-
 fortune being the interruption ot
 traffic and the enormous expense en-
 tailed in making repairs.
 Telegraph service has also suffered
 considerably by the storms.
 The storms in Prescott aud north of
 the town on Wednesday was one of
 the heaviest ever experienced in this
 section, the water coming down in sheets. but there was no damage to
 property.
 On Thursday the heaviest storm of the season, as we'll as the heaviest which has ever visited this section, occurred. It commenced about 3 :3C in the aftrnoou and rain fell in tor
 tens for thirty or forty minutes and ] continued falling with less volume
 for an hour. The storm extended into
 the mountains, to the head waters ol
 Granite creek and its tributaries anc
 being of the nature of what is termed : a cloudburs a great volume of water , was soon pouring down these watel courses and uniting in Granite creek I formed solid breast of water full! i five feet high. The stream ros' rapidly until it had passed all prev I ious high water records. The wate at Willis overflowed from the bank of Granite creek and flowed clear ou M of tho E'hln cor ner and quite large volume of wate coursed down that street, whii \ Granite street and the alley betweel Granite creek and MonteZuma wer vreItable rivers of water.
 \ The occupants of a number o houses in the two blocks were removes | in wagons, and no loss of life oc
 cured, but property was considerabl damaged. The water was several fee
 deep around Jess Kearley's residenc E and his fences and a portion of hi
 barn were washed away.
 \ The house occupied by Marshal \ Morgan was also surrounded by wate
 and threatened every minute to g \ down with the flood, but as the water 5 only remained at food tide for fe minutes before comencing to recedt K it withstood the pressure.
 B A Chinese wash house on the bank E of the creek was also threatened wit B destruction but the Chinese secured rope and several of them clung to th E rope enabling them to hold the builC \ ing from being swept down the stream Y Opposite Chinatown on the we E bank of the creek, Mexican boy fe z into the raging torrent and was aboI to be drowned, when his fathre, WI is cripple, jumped in to rescue hir Just as the latter landed the boy ( E the bank of the stream, he lost | - footing and was carried down str "a