The copper era., 1905-11-30
ANOTHER FLOOD.
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RAILROAD AVENUE.

0 RAILROAD AVENUE. 0 The Independent Assay office got n few inches of water and mud. The COPPER ERA office was floode, 3 to the depth of three feet, but n 2 material damage was done the plan or stock, which shows that forme experience counts for something
 The entire force was busy for tw, days cleaning up.
 The A. & N. M. depot building wa 1, flooded to a depth of two feet o
 more, and much damage done tC goods stored therein. The Wells Fargo office is located in the same
 building, and also sustained consider able loss. The building was wei protected by a number of cars standing on the tracks between the building and the river, otherwise ii would no doubt have been destroyed
 It was a most fortunate thing that the yards were full or cars, other wise all of the residences of the A C.. officials would have been destroyed Drift wood and brush caught beneath the cars and defiected the current back into the main river, otherwise 1t seems probable that the main channel would have been forced to the side of the mountain, in the rear of the residences, sweeping away the yards entirely.
 The Blinn Lumber yard was badly damaged, and a large amount of lum- Der lost.
 A large portion of the tracks in the yard were covered deep in mud and sand or washed away entirely. A number ot cars were undermined and toppled over into the water. It iTr--l not C. that the main line was cleared so that the passenger train could move out.
 SOUTH CLIFTON.
 The. foundation of the Payne resi- dence was almost entirely destroyed, and the house considerably wrecked.
 The brick house occupied by Dave Settle was flooded nearly three feet deep. The family had barely time to get out of the house. All of the be- longings were damaged.
 The double residence owned by Henry Collins and occupied by Frank Laine and family and MT. Jacobson and family, was flooded
 One of the Fraser cottages located on the rear end of the lots, and oc- Cupied by MT. and Mrs. Chapman, was carried off it's foundation and lodged against the Fraser residence.
 The Fraser residence was flooded to depth of about two feet.
 The residence occupied by MT. md Mrs. Minor Simms was slightly | flooded.
 The residence occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Weise was flooded and some | damage done.
 Dr. Davidson's old adobe, which was being repaired from the last flood, was damaged considerably.
 A Groom cottage owned by Mrs. | Brutinell was washed from its1 foundation, and some othh.eI cottages in the sape>sseeCIIon sc ton damaged. Shannon company lost an oil house in the rear of their store building.
 Some adobes near the bridge were also flooded.
 The residences of Johnny Cromb, w. B. Foote, c. w. Beck, F. H. Springer, Joe Terrell, Young, Ellis, Weisbecker, Miss Pearce, Jesse Simms, Marshall and Lancaster were all above the water.
 The Shannon store was thrown open as during the January flood and many flood sufferers found it pretty good place to sleep Monday night.
 RIVERSIDE.
 With the exception of the Whalley cottage, which fioated away, this section suffered but little from the flood. The J. &J A. Smith double cot tage was flooded several inches deep, causing much inconvenience and vexation of the occupants, MT. and Mrs. J. H. Cox and MT. and Mrs. l.. G. Ames.
 The Dr. Davidson double brick cot tage was flooded about two feet.
 The cottage occupied by MT. and Mrs. H. Neville was flooded to a depth of three feet.
 HILLS ADDITION.
 This part of town escaped without damage though the water again got up around the school house. During the flood 5000 was raised for the pur- pose of building a break water from the railroad bridge south.
 The residence of Gus Williams was surrounded by water and the family moved out but the water did not get into the house.
 OLD TOWN.
 The old town of Clifton suffered worse than at any time during its history. The large brick office build ing opposite the Clifton Hotel, oCcu- pied by the telephone company, J. R. Hampton So Co. and Dr. Balmer was undermined and carried away. The occupants had time enough to save their effects, but MT. Hampton lost his furniture. The building was owned by J. R. Hampton and George Webster.
 The Risdon photograph gallery and the frame cottage owned by Harry Wright and occupied by the Bell Tailor, also went down with the flood.
 The residences further up the river occupied by James Harvey and Charley Johnson were flooded to con- siderable depth.
 The water was nearly up to the windows on the west side of the Cliff ton Hotel, but by blocking up the doors most of the water was kept out of the building.
 The frame Cottage across from the Gila Valley Bank, occupied by F: B. Laine as law office and by MT. Will son, agent of the Singer sewing machine, was flooded to depth of two feet but the building still stands. The law library and sewing machines were removed and saved.
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