Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1908-07-29
STORM HITS CITY OF
 PRESCOTT
Old Timers Say It Was Heaviest in History
 Of the Town
Ccon'inucI from Page Onc.)

with destruction. small party o
 hndIum standing ou the ulroa,
 bridge offered them advice iu sheer
 ing way, ,Iou'ing without offering an,
 assistance. although they were in dan g'r of being washed away
 \ report gained circulation to th,
 effect that Mexican boy was drowned in the flood, but it could not be Veri
 fed at a late hour last night. Search
 was maic by the officers but no trace
 of body could be found No parents
 were discovered mourning inc loss of
 their child. SO the rumor appears to
 have been without foundation.
 \ horse which got into the torrent
 in some unaccountablc way swan the
 stream under the railroad bridge and
 came out on the north side of the rail.
 road track, landing safely on the bank.
 Debris and timbers of the wagon
 road bridge south of the city were ear.
 ricd down stream and lodged against
 th" railroad bridge, where force of
 railroad employees managed to keep the passage under the bridge open with difficulty. The bridge escaped without serious damage.
 The bridge over Banning creek at the WhiteSidcs place was carried away and it is reported that several hundred feet of the Miller pipe line from the Thorbeck springs to the reservoir were destroyed. The extent of the damage to the pipe line could not be verified at late hour last night. The wagon road from the Whitesides place Co the city is impossible. IL is almos, entire. ly washed away distance of two miles.
 The butcher pens and slaghter house of stephens and Hoover are total wreck, and it is believed that many if not all the hogs in the pens are drown. cd. This could not be verified last night as the stream was impossible. Parties on the opposite bank could not see any of the hogs, so it Is believed the loss to the firm will prove consid. nrable.
 Two.thirds of the bridge destroyed south of town lodged on reef of rock one hundred feet away from its moor. ings. IL is believed that the West Prescott bridge would also have been carried away if the heavy logs from the upper bridge had all came down stream at the same time.
 The Atkins ranch, imediately above the junction of Granite and Banning creeks, south of town, is reported to be almost entirely washed out.
 When the storm relaxed hundreds of people from all over the city rushed to Inc banks of Granite creek to see the greatest flood in years. The West Prescott bridge was the rendezvous for T large number who found much in the sad plight of a kitten sailing down stream on log. As the log bearing It's terror stricken feline neared the bridge, 1t suddenly veered Tor the center of the stream. Pussy. realizing in an instant that it was get ling too far away from dry land, jumped in the direction of board Fcnce on the west side. The lean proved too broad, but the kitten ex. .rieated itself from the muddy waters 'y climbing the fence, afterwards q tree on the opposite side.
 The creek was a foaming torrent all he way to the Verde river. At the 'ailroad bridge north of the Point of Rocks, the waters reached to within loot of the bridge stringers.
 Visitors in Jerome Junction were Iept there until late hour last night 'efore they could cross on their way lome.
 Lightning struck the Myers resi-. Icnce in East Prescott, shortly after loon when the downpour was at its 'cayiest. The bolt tore away patch if the shingles, ten feet square, pass. ng through the kitchen. Fortunately, III the occupants in the building were m the front porcn at the time, none ven experiencing a shock. The roof aught on fire but was soon extnguish. d by the rain, the only damage done Q the building being by the lightning.
 The east fence of tho new ball grounds was slightly damaged by the ush of waters which flooded tho grounds. The diamond was damaged cry little.
 II is reported from Jerome that the ounty road through Deception gulch yas entirely washed away in the torms of Friday and Saturday. Fri. | lays storm compelled the shutting Town of the United Verde Copper 'ompany's smelters an hour, the water