Bisbee daily review., 1911-09-12
MOUNTAIN FLOOD
 CARRIED AUTO AWAY
The Startling Experience of Sterling Smith on Sat
 urday Evening.

A precipitation of rain. amounting in volume and momentum to water. spout. placed in jeopardy the lives of
 Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Smith and Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Caldwell and baby of Warren Saturday afternoon. one mile this side of Forest Station, as the party was returning from Douglas in an automobile.
 The machine in which they were travelling, after running a short dis tance through water that covered the running board. was raised and hoated distance of two city blocks by a second stream of water that struck the car amidships. coming from mar row mountain gorge. The women and the baby were taken from the car and carried to safety and the men waded in water up above their waists to re- cover accessories of the machine.
 The main road this side of Forest Station was in bad condition for run ming from previous rains, and MT. Smith steered the car into an old par allel road When about a mile this side of the station he saw a volume of water approaching the car, running in a counter direction. He breasted 1t with the big Buick, the water com ing up above the running board, but it was deemed safer to take the women from the car and take them to higher ground This had no more than been done when a stream of water. larger than the first encountered, dashed across the flats from a mountain gorge.
 The car is one of the new fore-door Bucks, recently bought by MT Smith, and when the water struck it, it rose gracefully 10 the bosom of the flood, drawing about three feet of water, and foated across the flats for a dis tance or several hundred feet. The water had been Altering into the body of the car and after it had gone that distance it partially filled with water and settled.
 The current of the flood was so strong that the added strength of three men on the loose end of rope that had been tied to a wheel of the car was not sufficient to keep the ma chine from floating away.
 A team of mules was secured from the construction camp of the terri torial highway and the machine was pulled to high ground, the engine filed with water and the body of the ear carrying a full cargo of mountain silt.
 Mechanic Rabb of the Bsick garage was sent for, arriving late Saturday night After securing the car for the night, the mechanics slept in the aid car, and ct daylight began working on the hood-damaged machine. Sev- eHal hundred pounds of mud and water were taken from the hood, body and engine Of the car, but at the first cTanking the motor began throbbing and it moved out of the flood r1ts with ease and grace.
 Captain John C. Greenway and Dr. L. D. Ricsetts came up on the beach cd machine and aided Messrs. Smith and Caldwell in getting out of the flood. The ladies of the party were re turned to Warren in their auto. The fiood-swept auto was cleaned at the garage yesterday and shows DO signs Of the experience of Saturday after noon
 Parker Woodman and Billy Fergu- son encountered a flood between Hereford and Berner's Saturday af- ternoon. but t was not so severe as that at Forest Station. They ran Mir Woodman's new Buick through water e foot deep a part oi the way
 The rain Saturday afternoon was a general one in the valley. according to reports, and another big rain fell in the valley Sunday.
 At the point where Mir. Smith en- countered the food a large section of the new territorial highway was ru- ined, gullies of great depth being cut across it. Every culyert along that point was washed out.