The copper era., 1906-12-13

equally upon P. J. Bennett, who es- tablished the paper and Major Latin. MT. Bennett arrived Monday evening from Globe to either sell his plant or pack it up for the purpose of ship ping 1t to Globe, but was saved the trouble, as the plant was on it's way down the river that night. MT. Bennett is now employed on the Advocate, and will probably remain in Clifton.i A small building occupied as restaurant still stands, but is out of position and badly wrecked.
 The Hildreth harness shop and building made it's way to the car shed in the railroad yards, where it was dashed to pieces, and completely lost.
 The Casino bowling alley and apart ment house was completely surround ed by water, and had it not been substantial stone building it would have gone down. The basement was entirely submerged and the building was otherwise damaged.
 John Bartlett's new brick block opposite the Casino was flooded, but withstood the shock of the waters, and is now occupied by the Fl Paso and the San Francisco stores.
 The San Francisco store and build ing, next to the Casino is bad wreck, and much damage was done, and will be a heavy loss to the owner, Refu- gio Mungia.
 On the opposite side of the street was the Vienna Bakery, owned by Joseph Thrum, which was swept away, with all is contents.
 Alvino Fraide's blacksmith shop and two houses owned by Romulo Villescas, were flooded to a depth of four or five feet. Romulo Chavez Cantina, a stone and frame building, was badly flooded, but the plucky gentleman is still doing business in the same old place.
 The two story stone and brick building adjoining, also owned by MT. Romulo Chavez, is almost complete wreck, and will have to come down. This building was occupied by a Mexican family who were running restaurant. The woman escaped on a building that came floating by and was rescued when the building was wrecked in the rear of Lola Saba's place..
 The Chinese laundry on the upper side of the creek, was destroyed, together with it's contents.
 Next came the shooting gallery, owned by Mrs. Trostle, the Chinese laundry, the tailor shop, E. Almanza, proprietor, Francisco Ochoa's barber shop and M. Balin's plumbing esta- blishment. All were greatly dam aged, but the buildings still stand.
 Julian Gayaldon's store, which was in the rear of the main street, and on a high foundation was not dam aged.
 Forbes warehouse on the street next the mountain was not damaged, but W. F. Hagan's brick tenement houses in the same section, were sub merged to a depth of four feet or more.
 The Lola Saba store on Copper Avenue, was almost completely ruined. Mrs. Saba escaped on floating building and was rescued in the wreckage in the rear of her place. Garcia & Mejia $ new and second hand store in the Cascarelli block, received about six feet of water, mud and tailings and was a complete wreck, as was also the Fl Paso store in the same building, owned by Ivan Hofeld, whose inn mense stock was almost entirely ruined. The breaking of the front windows and the churning of the waters mixed everything into an un- recognizable mass. Some goods on shelving that did not give away, were not damaged.
 s. J. Forbes general mercantile establishment was entered by the swirling waters from both the front and the rear of the building, with a result that can be better imagined than described. His loss will be very heavy, but fortunately he was able to secure d large tore building in course of erection further up the street by Julian Gavaldon, and is already doing business in the new location.
 In the rear of Romulo Chavez stone and brick building was large rooming house, in which were many people when the flood struck it. The building was carried down some dis tance and wrecked, but it is thought all the people escaped.
 The Mcdowell store building was the only one on the lower part of the street not seriously damaged. The basement was filled with water and mud, and everything therein greatly damaged or utterly ruined. The adjoining building, under construc-