Arizona republican., 1913-03-07
HIGH WATER ON GILA
 AFFECTS HAYOENITES

HAYDEN. March 5.-The Gila river has been running dangerously
 high since the heavy rains of a few days ago and as a result the waters of that treacherous stream came |ShOCkingly near to claiming the lives of d family of Haydenites Sunday afternoon. As the day was unusually fine q party of young people among whom were Mir and Mrs. Truman Phillips and their year-old child crossed the stream in the morning to spend few hours picnicing. The crossing was easily made on the trip out but on returning later in the day the Phillips family. who were driving single rig. came up some up some distance behind the rest of the party in another conveyance. When the
 first section of the outing party reached the ford. which is directly opposite Hayden they considered the appearance of the stream rather menacing and elected to drive up 1 stream to the ford at Winkelman | where the crossing was made more l safely but when the Phillips party | came up they endeavored to make the ford at this point About mid 1 stream they drove into a deep hole 1 where the sands of the river bed had | shifted under the high water and | here one of the buggy wheels was
 taken off placing the occupants at the | mercy of the angry stream with no | one in sight or in calling distance.
 For the greater part of an hour which to them seemed the greater part of day) they struggled to keep the buggy in an upright position | awaiting an opportunity to summon 1 assistance from some passers-by. Just | when their plight seemed to be grow ing more hopeless and the mother
 was pleading that the father save the childs life by swimming to shore
 two Mexican horsemen heard their 1 cries for help and rushed to their | rescue Riding into the stream one | of the hOrsemen rescued Mrs Phillips
 and the other took the child while
 MT. Phillips swan ashore after re- | leasing his horse from the harness l Aside from the loss of a fine over
 coat and q very valuable fur cloak
 which were carried away by the
 stream the party is little the worse
 for the narrow escape. The little
 child, too young to realize the gravity of the situation, seemed to en-
 joy it all immensely and laughed
 throughout the episode.
 A. J Maclean and George A. SOut-
 ter who left Hayden last Sunday or
 their way to Globe abandoned theil
 trip at Kelvin on account of the inn l pa assable condition of the mountain roads between Globe and this part ol the county. For several days stage service has been completely aban- l doned on account of about three fec of snow in the Pinal mountains |
 now appears that it may be severa days before this service is resumed. As diversion for our community 5 the management of the National the { ater replaced the customary moving 9 picture exhibition with the side ] splitting comedy, "A Bachelors Hon g eymoon," on Monday evening present
 ed by an excellent cOmpan@ A larg t and appreciative audience was ou 0 and it is hoped that the management t will feel that the patronage accord { ed this will warrant the presentation | of other attractions of this nature il n ] the future.
 |. Rev. A. l.. HaWley was up iron n Higley Sunday and held gospel ser t. vices with a large congregation at tn D school house in the evening.
 n Deputy Walter w. Gibson of Wink q elman has decided to discontinue hi Q guardianship of the law and orde
 of that community and embark int
 the cattle business hereabouts Ma IF turally. of course, he expects his ne, n field to prove more remunerative an V his success is the wish of the com l. munity in general as Deputy GibsO L. has enjoyed a wide popularity bot 2 in Winkelman and Hayden. haVin 10 been an officer at this point befol if his appointment to the Winkelma
 post.