Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1911-07-03

A second deluge and Noah not on
the job
The Salt river valley submerged!
Five and forty-nine hundredths
inches Of precipitation in one storm
and nothing of a torrential nature
either-just rain, and in the summer
time when rain storms are supposed
to be short and sweet, if they come at
all. No overflowing rivers or accum-
ulated waters from above. No wind,
but rain, rain, rain; one little squirt
running up To nearly an inch in an
hour, yesterday morning early, as a
grand climax before the curtain fell,
and then, bright sunshine all day.
What will the neighbors say? What
viii the effete east think of the dry
and parched summer deserts Of central
Arizona?
But this story is about the flood and
damage; the storm is dealt with else
where. As near as could be deter
mined last night the damage may be
epitOmized as follows:
Washout on the Arizona Eastern
at the Portland cement works between
Phoenix and Tempe, delaying traffic
until noon Sunday.
The flooding of the lower part of
Phoenix from an inch TO three feet,
according to location, crumbling per
haps a dozen adobe houses. rendering
for the time being.
a few old adobes and adobe walls
in the higher part of town also in
ruins.
Electric light and telephone poles
more or less undermined; water and
gas pipe trenches caving in where
new work has been done since the last
big rain. Ice wagons and other heavy
vehicles begged Streets more or
less a quagmire. and fish ponds by
the roadside
Telephone and street car service
impaired yesterday.
A couple of washOuts on the Glen
dale suburban line which it was
thought would be repaired by last
night
Break in the Salt river valley canal
bank at crossing of Eastlake Park
road and another at high school
grounds in center of city, and through
mountains and Paradise valley, sweep
ing across the Arizona and Grand ca
nails and into the Salt, submerged
lower Phoenix. A wing of the waterflow
from the break in the Arizona be-
tween Central avenue and the Cross
cut, after IL swept south across the
Grand canal, turned west and skirt
ing south of the Indian school swept
across the area of which the Osborn
school is the center.
In the northwest Cave creek brought
flood around the western extremity
of the Phoenix mountains and sent it
down through the Glendale country
toward Six Points.
Asylum grounds flooded IS inches
deep.
Evergreen addition, highest part of
Phoenix, flooded by water from the
Grand canal through the little Mari
copa- A little store at Seventh and
Roosevelt street was surrounded by
water, il was said, IS inches deep.
Farmers will suffer heavily by loss
of uncured hay and grain not threshed
Cantaloupe and melon growers will
lose the melons now maturing and
some fields may be ruined for the
season.
The aggregate damage win amount
to a great deal, though no individual
farmer or any particular industry has
suffered more than partial loss.
Origin of Flood.
Unlike any former disastrous flood
that has visited this valley. the dam
age was due solely to rainfall and
desert run-Off. Salt river which gen
orally occupies the center OF the stage
in a storm story. had hardly begun to
rise last night after the trouble here
was all over. II was reported last
night to be only three feet above nor
NAL at Tempe
In the big flood of 1891 the lower
part of the city suffered much more
damage, and the water came from Salt
river through the broken bank of the
Salt River Valley canal several miles
east of Phoenix. II flowed south and
west backing gently into town until
il had the low places filled up, while
the rest of the city did not suffer
a great deal.
In this storm the greatest damage
was done from water pouring out of
Paradise valley. vast basin like
desert. across the lower end of which
runs the Arizona canal at the eastern
extremity of the Phoenix mountains.
or Camelback, and water pouring off
the southern slope of the Phoenix