The copper era., 1906-12-13
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
Thrilling Personal Experiences .-Other
 Notes and Comments.

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 An aged Mexican was caught in the jam of the Cottage restaurant and remained there several hours with just his head above water. He was rescued, apparently in good order, but later on in the night died from exposure and fright. His body lay upon the roof of shed for two days before it could be intered, and Steve Galvan carried the coffin up the creek on his back to encase the remains.
 The rescue of the Throm children was one of great peril, but accom- plished without accident to the brave men who risked their lives in behalf of the children.
 The large warehouse of s. J. Forbes could not be opened for sev eral days on account of the water passing by it, but is now in commits sion supplying the wants of theTpeo- pie, and car loads more on the road.
 A small frame house next to the Herald newspaper office is still stand ing by it's loneliness, while all around is desolation. Strange things occur in floods and cyclones.
 Clifton resents the dispatch. sent out from Solomonville that the Mexi- can people drowned lived in novels and shacks. Most of the houses washed away were cottages and apartment houses of modern struct- ure.
 At o'clock as J. C.. Smith was on the mountain side near his home, and the buildings were crashing down, he saw men, women and children: he says like sticks in a pond, screaming for help. A sight he hopes never to see again.
 The deaf carpenter, F. H. Born, had call nearer to Eternity than proba- ply will ever occur to him again until the final call. He got caught by the current in the cut and caught onto the awning chain at the corner of the A. c. drug store, and having a large pocket knife succeeded in breaking in the window and Crawled in and onto the highest shelf where he remained for about four hours, even after the flood had receded.
 At the John Parque Manila store the proprietors remained in the building until it was impossible to escape, and as the water arose and the partitions gave way, they climbed on the counters and high places and commenced to pound on the floor above occupied as a rooming house. An axe was procured and hole cut in the floor and they were dragged out like drowned rats.
 At the Buckhorn saloon where there is something going on all the time, things got little too swift to be comfortable, but Charley Wright, the proprietor, stayed with the bunch through it all, even until the water got up to his neck.
 One of the pitiful sights to look at, when hundreds of men were helpless to assist in the least, was, when the Sirianni saloon went out, with man hanging on the roof imploring aid that could not be rendered, as he passed to his watery grave.
 When the Clifton Grocery got partly cleaned out the judge found four boxes of apricots and few thousand cigars in this store that he positively says were not there be- fore the water came. Any store up the street shy of these goods can get same by proving property.
 A large number of women and children received clothing and food at the comfortable residence of Mrs. J. c. Smith on the side of the noun tain during the night and day after the flood.
 For several days the mountain trail was lined with pedestrians, as there was no other road to travel.
 There were four places on Chase creek that escaped damage. Mo Dowell's fine new grocery store, which was a great blessing to the people, for it was we'll stocked, and the new drug store of Guy Loomis', the Hub gents furnishing store and the Hoeye barber shop.
 Pat Murphy, the boiler maker, who occupied one of the Norte cottages just above the American House lost all his household goods, but saved his wife and new baby boy.
 The Chase creek photographer moved up the hill but marched back again.
 The Gomez barber shop lost it's back stairs, and a razor strop.
 Jose Luzo, who occupied a room in the rear of the Almanza tailor shop, saved his life, but left $500 in his vest as he hit for the high places.
 Col. Mickey Hogan, of Death Val ley fame, who was on the night watch at the Last Chance, displayed his nerve and rare business ability at the same time. When the glass front went in and the water reached depth of four feet the colonel donned his bathing suit, supplied his customers with life preservers, and nrOceede6 with business He 1OSt a