Bisbee daily review., 1911-06-13
First Real Downpour of the Season Occurs Sunday Afternoon and Covers
 Whole District
NO DAMAGE IS DONE
 SUBWAY IS CLEANED
City and County Work of Pro- JeCtiye Nature Is Now Ready for Really
 Severe Test

Sunday, June II, ushered in the l first severe rain of the season III Bisbee and vicinity for the gear. The day before had seen several showers, accompanied by terrific thunder and once in a while vivid flashes of chain lightning, which served both as notification that the rainy season was at hand. and warn ing to property owners to prepare for high water. Places along Brew cry avenue and Review alley which have doors or sidewalks lower than the usual high water mark were ready with heavy board bulwaTks. fitting closely in water tight grooves. {. The city and county had completed all work designed to protect pror erty against such disaster as occur red last year, and although the wa ter came a little early, it really was welcomed. For weeks the streets had been dry and fearfully dusty. the wind stirring up suffocating clouds. The subway also needed a good souse So when the black clouds gathered shortly after noon Sunday nobody was apprehensive.
 Hours of Steady Rain.
 The first rain did not last long, probably half an hour. But after an interval of an hour the real down pour started. While not as violent as some storms of the past, it kept steadily at work several hours, un- til the whole district was soaked thoroughly.
 NotN ithstanding the volume of the rain, the water did not come down t-c rl... lains in such r'.v as to flood the streets very deeply Several inches of water was brought down Brewery avenue, and it was at the highest point when the exercises of the Loretto academy at the Or pheum were brought to a close. The large audience found itself ma rooned. Ladies in light dresses could not venture out in the rain. Later the big band wagon of the o. K stables was pressed into use and backed up to the Orpheum door. Several loads were thus carried over the miniature river to higher ground. w. H Brophy also took several loads up the canyon in his auto.
 Lower District Cleaned.
 In the lower district, at Johnson addition and Lowell, the county had finished it's work of building the section of the cement wall knocked out near the beer garden last sum mer. This wall is now reinforced iu such way that it is believed that no possible flood can move 1t. t was hardly tested Sunday, and the effect of the rain in that neighbor- hood was beneficial, chiefly in the direction of washing away the black, slimy waste from the gas house. which was beginning 70 smell to high heaven.
 Owing to the lay of the land in Warren there never can be serious damage from rain storms, and there was none Sunday. The base ball park was made ankle deep with mud. and as it takes an immense amount of water to do this. the volume of the downpour can be guessed. The street car traffic was not interrupt ed at all.
 More Yet to Come.
 Yesterday dawned with 6 cold wind blowing, which madR heavy clothing comfortable. and the shirt waist brigade was absent. During
  more rain. but aside from light showers ncJhing materialized. It is believed. however. that the really hard rains, such as bring floods, are vet to come, and the protective Work | in Bisbee will be given more se- were tests. The volume of the ram fall in the neighborhood does not always determine the amount Of wa ter that finds an outlet over ana under Bisbee streets It is the way | the rain strikes the mountains sur 1 rounding the town, causing number | less rivuIets to converge in upper Tombstone canyon and Brewery ave nee. a cIoudburst at the right points usually doing this. During such a storm Chihuahua hill sends Fs water to 0. K street and thence around to Brewery avenue
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