Weekly journal-miner., 1911-07-05

the job!
 The Salt River valley submerged
 Five and forty-nine hundredth
 inches of precipitation in one storn
 and nothing of a torrential natur,
 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 ac
 cumulated waters from above. Nc
 wind, but rain, rain, rain; one little spurt 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 will 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 elsewhere. 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 be- tween 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, render ing half hundred people homeless 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 eaving 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 ear 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 these the water from the Phoenix mountains and Paradise valley, sweeping across the Arizona and Grand canals and into the Salt, sub lower Phoenix A wing of the from the break in the Ari- zona between Central avenue and the Crosseut, after it swept south across the Grand canal, turned west and skirting south of the Indian school swept aerosh the area of which the Osborn school is the center.
 In the northwest Cave creek brought a flood around the western extremity of the Phoenix mountains and sent it down through the Glen iale country toward Six Points.
 Asylum grounds flooded IS inches leep.
 Evergreen addition, highest part of | Phoenix, flooded by water from the Grand canal through the little Mari ,Opa. A little store at Seventh and i Roosevelt street was surrounded by water, it was said, IS inches deep.
 Farmers will suffer heavily by loss If uneured hay and grain not thresh- d. CantalOupe and melon growers will lost the melons now maturing md some fields may be ruined for he season.
 The aggregate damage will amount o great deal, though no individual armer or any particular industry has uffered more than partial loss.
 Origin of Flood.
 Unlike any former disastrous flood hat has visited this valley, the amage was due solely to rainfall and esert run-off. Salt river which gen rally occupies the center of the tage in a storm story, had hardly egun to rise last night after the ' rouble here was all over. It was epOrted last night to be only three | eet above normal at Tempe. { In the big flood of 1891 the lower art of the city suffered much worse amaze, and the water came from |; alt river througt the broken bank of { he Salt River Valley canal several ( liles east of Phoenix. It flowed { 'uth and west backing gently into own until it had the low places fill s mn Uhi1a 4ha rast of the oifv did l !