Arizona republican., 1905-12-08

ed but a dozen others narrowly escap- ed. dozen or so buildings in what is known as Pattersons addition to Clifton were either washed away or damaged. Of one incident the Copper Era says:
 Frank Johnston, the electrician. who has passed through the Galveston storm, a fire and two floods in Clifton, and who lost part of his home in the January flood, was caught again, this time losing his home entirely and only saving a portion of his household ef- fects.
 The same paper gives list of about fifty houses in north Clifton, which were either destroyed, damaged or flooded to the detriment of their con- tents and in speaking of conditions generally in that part of town says:
 What was formerly one of the incest residence portions of Clifton is now a mass of river mud and ruins, especially on the lower side adjoining the river bank. After the report was circulated that flood was on, the water gradual ly rose until it reached the old water mark and then continued until it had exceeded all past floods by about two feet. And thus it continued to rise un- til what was once a nice street was converted into a good sized river.
 The names of a dozen properties in- jured or washed away from south Cliff ton are given. In the Riverside addi- tion the cottage of William Whalley was washed away and a number of other houses were flooded. The old town of Clifton suffered more than at any time in it's history. The Gila Val ley Bank building. the Clifton hotel and a large brick office building were flood ed as were many less notable proper ties. There appeared to be a remark able amount of drift wood and much of the damage was done by the floating logs ramming the small buildings along the path of the water and the streams above swept away nearly all the trees along their natural banks.
 Speaking of railroad avenue in the main part of the town the Era says:
 The Independent assay office got a few inches of water and mud.
 The Copper Era office was flooded to the depth of three feet, but no ma terial damage was done the plant or stock, which shows that former eXper- fence counts for something. The en- tire force was busy for two days clean
 
 ing up.
 The A. & N. M. depot building was flooded to a depth of two feet or more and much damage done to goods stored therein. The Wells Fargo office is To- cated in the same building, and also sustained considerable loss. The building was well protected by a num- Der of cars standing on the tracks be- tween the building and the river other wise it would no doubt have been de- stroyed.
 It was a most fortunate thing that the yards were full of cars, otherwise all of the residences of the A. c. of ficials would have been destroyed. Drift wood and brush caught beneath the cars and deflected the current back into the main river, otherwise it seems probable that the main channel would have been forced to the side of the in the rear of the residences, sweeping away the yards entirely.
 The Blinn lumber yard was badly damaged, and 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 num- Der of cars were undermined and top pied over into the water. It was not until Wednesday afternoon that the main line was cleared so that the passenger train could move out.
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