The copper era., 1905-11-30
lER FLOOD BIGGEST
 IN HISTORY!
ALL RECORDS BROKEN-.--MUCH
 PROPERTY LOST.

ILL hLCVhOJ UAVALIN1WOOu
 PROPERTY LOST.
 On Monday morning last Clifton was again visited by most disas- trous flood, which broke all pre- vious records, but the damage done to the town was not as heavy as in January last, for the reason that the people had learned to profit by ex- perience, and had built on higher ground and upon better foundations. Had the volume of water been the same as that of last January but lit tie damage would have been done.
 The people were taken so by sur prise that but little was saved from many homes. A flood of any consid- erable extent had never before oc- cured at this season of the year, hence no one realized that record breaker was on until it was too late to save their belongings.
 A gentle rain commenced falling Sunday afternoon and continued through the night, causing the Frisco About four o'clock Monday morning the danger point was reached, but even then no one realized the gravity of the situation and but few left their homes. However, the waters continued to rise rapidly, and by daylight many were compelled to leave the1r homes with nothing but what they had on their backs. For tunately the rain ceased at that time, which gave others an oppor- tunity to save some of their house. hold goods.
 The river continued to rise until about 9 o'clock, and then fell slowly for a few hours, and it was then thought that the worst was over, but about o'clock the second rise came down and it was fully foot higher than the mornlng's rise, and passed the record of January last by about two feet. It continued at this stage for several hours and it was at this time that the greatest amount of damage was done.
 CHASE CREEK.
 The town of Chase creek escaped this time with far less damage than during other floods. In fact no par ticular damage was done the town. Only a few of the stores and busi- ness places along the street were in- undated.
 The frame building formerly occu- pied by Gatti & Hill as a meat mar ket, was showed off it's foundation. The firm had a large number of turkeys in the building, which were liberated, and they scat tered all over that part of town. If any one in that section went without turkey; 0h Thanksg gir7aaes> r7iafaless it was their own fault.
 Lola Saba & Son had hard fight to keep the water out of their place, and they only partially ll-4 sueeeeded, store in the Cascarelli building, were not damaged.
 Blanchard $ saloon had few inches of water on the floor.
 The New York Restaurant got heavy flood from the rear which came through the building like a mountain torrent.
 Gatti & Hills new meat market was out of the flood as were also the Fair store, the Buckhorn saloon and Spezia's place.
 Forbes store was not flooded.
 The first floor of the Manila hotel. occupied by Mrs. Norquay's restaur- ant, was flooded to the depth of two feet, but as soon as the water was gone the plucky woman had the place cleaned out and was again doing busi- ness. Such pluck will win anywhere.
 Smith &5 Norte's No Name saloon got a few feet of water.
 McDoweH 6S Turner, the Union Market, s. Hagenauer, Chas. Henry, Ounagan & Baldwin, the Barrett Beauchamp company and NJ. Rabe nowitz all escaped without much dam- age.
 More damage would have been done to the town had the water not been defected from it's regular channel and carried down the railroad track and into the round house, the ma chine shop, the blacksmith shop, the boiler shop and on down through the works, leaving a deposit of mud and boulders from two to four feet deep. The shelter and converter plant was partially protected by temporary barricades which were thrown up across the openings in the stone walls, which were built to protect the plant from just such occurrences. Had it not been for these walls, and the eff fort made by the men to restrain the flood, the damage to the plant would have been very extensive.
 The :bed of Chase creek between the stone walls has been filled with bOulders and gravel almost to the level of the walls through the entire town, and unless this is removed the floods of the future must come down the town or through the works. There is no other outlet for it. Some of the company's largest buildings are built in what was for merly the bed of the stream, and l thus the natural flow of the water is |