Arizona republican., 1911-08-18

of the relief fund. ANY one desiring to
contribute may do SO by going To the
board Of trade room or by seeing
either of these two gentlemen. From
the later stories it appears that finan-
cial aid for the homeless is the greatest
present necessity as there are doubt
less plenty OF provisions available.
WAS A REAL CYCLONE.
Several persons who were in or near
Winkelman during the storm arrived
here last evening on the train and all
of them had tales of fright and hor-
ror to relate. None of them however
were provided with a list of those
injured nor could they speak in more
than general terms of the amount of
damage as all was still chaotic when
they left there.
Among these people was J f. Good
rich, road foreman of engines for the
Arizona Eastern. He is in Winkelman
much of the time and CHANGED TO be
near there when the storm broke. as
he was on the next ridge back of the
one that forms a part of the town
site, walking toward a spring some
distance away. His story of the two
storms meeting, forming a twister and
turning west toward Hayden, accords
with that given in he beginning Of
this recital He says that the storm
measured up fully To his ideas of cy-
clone He never saw one before and
hopes he will never see anoher. The
storm broke suddenly and when he
saw the palo verde trees snapped off
around him like umbrellas being turn
ed inside out. he flattened himself on
the ground and hung tight 10 mother
earth. The storm did not last long
at that point and the wind was ac-
companied by a heavy downp0ur Of
water but he thinks it rained harder
a little further east, between WinlIel-
nan and Saddle Mountain.
Mr.. Goodrich like all the others told
of the complete destruction of the
Commercial hotel and most of the 9TH
er buildings on the ridge of upper
| Winkelman. except an undertaken :
place Of business. That escaped in
Jury though the houses on all sides
Of il We're blown down. The hotel
seems to have been the most imposing
structure and it was destroyed ut
terly. 1t has not been related how its
death. Among the houses on the ridge
were three or four stores says Good
rich. and the Catholic church was also
completely demolished The smoke
stack Of the ice factory was blown
down and other damage was sus-
tanned so it was out of commission
yesterday morning.
A Philadelph ian's Experience.
Lewis f Jarrett Of Philadelphia
has been near Winkelman for a month,
visiting a brother Lowrie B. Jarrett
who owns a ranch just across the ella
from the town. on the tongue of land
between the two rivers. He came
down from Winkelman last evening
and recited his experiences to The
Republican Mr. Jarrett, Mrs l. b.
Jarrett and the latter's son had been
! in town shopping and left the post
office for home in a spring wagon
drawn by one horse. They had reac-
| ed the river bank about 500 yards
from the postoffice when the storm
| broke. The river was still normal
as to volume Of water and possibly
not over a couple of feet deep, but
the wind dashed it into waves that
| d
approaching. The horse reared back
and refused TO enter it, The occu-
pants of the wagon all jumped out.
Mr.. Jarrett caught the horse by the
bit and all huddeled behing the ami
nal for protection for by that time
! the splintered debris of the town
circled them round about and they
! feared that at any moment flying
timber might hit them, though they
! fortunately escaped. The wind caught
the wagon in the rear and tipped IL
| over endwise at one side Of the horse
which could not run as il was held
firmly by Mr.. Jarrett.
Mr.. Jarrett says the wind was ac-
| companied by heavy precipitation ana
/ by a rain of hailstones from when
! his face still stings. In a few min
utes he found himself standing IN a
| foot of water that was sweeping down
upon him from the town. The storm
lasted he SAYS tweHt. or thirty min
utes and after it subsidized his brother
waded the river and helped the fam
| ilv across 10 the ranch. By that time
the arroyos coming down between
| the two rivers were pouring torrents
all over the bottom lanu. Inc IAN
was covered deeply with water Whlch
stood six inches deep in the house
and later when they retired they
| stepped into their beds from out OF
| the water that covered the floors "a
great depth BY Yesterday morning
the flood had disappeared and the
river was normal again. Mr.. Jarrett
verified all that has been said con
corning properties destroyed and ad-
ded some details to the damage list
Among other buildings taken off the
ridge was a photograph gallery though
he did not know the name of the
| owner. A restaurant was also wiped
off the ridge, along with many res
| licences, and some OF the stocks OF
goods were exposed in unroofed build
ings. At the lower end of town Pools
lumber ward was turned tOpsy turVey
and the sheds unroofed. At the upper
end of the lower town the redllght
section was demOralized physically as
| bad as il ever was morally. The post
| office and a few stores and saloons
in the lower town were unroofed but
other than that the damage was only
trivial in that section.
Mrs. Brewer, the woman reported