Arizona republican., 1913-07-20
HEAVY RAIN IN
 THIS VICINITY
Promised Soaker Comes With Much Thunder and Lightning g-Does Consid- erable Damage to Ackel's StOre-LOss $6OOO

The heaviest rain of the year fel
 in Phoenix and vicinity last night. the
 doWnpour continuing unabated for more than an hour, beginning about 1O:3O. The rain was still falling lightly in the early hours of the morn lnS- The storm was accompanied by much briIliant lighting and the thun- 1 der at times was exceptionally heavy. 1 The clouds began to bank heavily l all around the horizon shortly after
 dark last night, and continued to get 1 blacker and blacker until following
 an unusual brilliant display of light
 ming the drops began to pour down 1 They were very large at first and continued large until the heaviest part of the storm passed over Soon the streets were running from curb to curb In some instances the <Kyater backed over the curb stones onto the side walk. At the corneI~. of First
 street and Adams it did this, ran down
 into a light conduit, short circuited
 the arrangement somehow and put
 the light out on the opposite side
 of the street. This was one of the
 freaks of the storm
 The alleyways soon began to fill
 from the fall on the roofs of the ad-
 Jacent buildings, and the water rush
 ed out of some of them with the force
 of a millrace. Especially was this
 true of the alley between Washington
 and Adams on Central. Automobiles and hacks were soon at a premium
 in such a storm and continued so un-
 til away after midnight The storm
 having once passed over vcered and came back, the second precipitation being equally as heavy as the first The temperature fell rapidly so that coats and wraps felt astonishngly comfortable.
 Damage to the amount of S6OOO was done by water that leaked through the roof of Salim Ackels store last night caused by the stoppage of the guttcrs and waste pipes leading from the store. When MT Ackel investi- gated he found that some person or persons unknown had used the gut tcrs and pipe for q cache in which to | store their old clothes. beer bottles | and supply of whisky Several bot 1 ties of beer were found in the cache, | which had the appearance of being 1 frequently used.
 Among the articles damaged were | twenty kimonas' that had just been 1 received from the Orient. These gar l ments were valued at two hundred | dollars each and were the finest | specimens of the art of embroidery ever seen in Phoenix. Articles of | wearing apparel valued at several thousand dollars were ruined as the black marks caused by the rain wa ter cannot be eradicatcd. The water on the main floor of the store was over eighteen inches deep when MT Ackel arrived and it percolated down through the floor into the basement where it saturated nearly everything stored there.
 Mir. Ackel took charge of the beer found in the gutter of the roof of his store and says that he will keep it as 3 curio. He thinks that these bot ties caused more damage than any similar bottles so far known
 The splendid collection of Persian prayer mats owned by MT. Ackel were not very badly damaged and the col cction of ancient rugs were forum ltely not in the path of the waters This collection has been appraised by experts and valued at more than 5000. MT. Ackel carries fire insur- 'nce but this policy does not cover lamage caused by flood.