Arizona republican., 1914-09-22
ONE KILLED
 WHEN FLOOD
 STRIKES RAY
Damage to the Amount of $65,O0O Done to Unfor- tunate Mine Town-Rail- road Cut Over a Mile People Flee to Hills
Especial to The Republican,

RAY, Ariz., Sept. 21.-One man is dead, and dozens of the residences and public buildings of Ray are de- stroyed in a double flood following q cloudburst in Devils can yon at two o'clock this morning. Damage estimated at beyond $65,0OO has been done to the town. not yet entirely recovered from it's recent disastrous fire. And to make things worse, the people of the stricken city face the most serious water famine in history, for the three hundred foot pipe line which supplies the town was completely destroyed.
 Railroad service through Ray June ton will be interrupted for at least four days, according to officers Of the company, for over two thousand wards of track in and near Ray are destroyed. So great was the force of the flood, a string of 19 sixty ton ore cars standing on siding was swept down the canyon like so many chips of wood.
 Wayne Dengler young man or twenty eight, employed by the Ray Cons. was drowned in his home, after he had refused the offer of a rescue party to take him out. Den gler's home is in Portland, oregon, where his body will be sent.
 About two-thirty the people of the town were awakened by tremend- ous roaring sound. It had been storming all evening and some had expected a heavy downpour But when the first waves of the Hood swept through the lower part of the city. it became apparent that vlgor- ous rescue work must be done. be fore the flood had attained it's height -it was short-everybOdy had been routed out of bed and sent to places of safety. Trees, tops of houses lit tle hills formed places of shelter, and groups were clustered on them watching their homes being swept away.
 And almost before the first great wave had gone by, came another II was just twenty minutes between the two floods, and the second was much | ibigger than the first. It demohSheu eight homes, carried away the ore trains and the track. swept out the two foot bridges of the Ray-Cons, filled all the cellars. sent it's hlghest waves down the main street, anu comnleted the destruction begun D! the first.
 The Kelvin Lumber companys Yard' llocated near the banks of the creeh
 ord near the line of the Ray ana Gila Valley railroad, suffered more ithan any other institution. All the
 buildings and all the lumber piles
 were carried down the wash. l Railroad Tied Up
 | Yesterdays train to Ray got as Tar as Cochran. ten miles west or hel- win. At that point it was dlsceNereu to be dangerous to proceed, ana the
 tro;n was sent back Passengers had
 heen warned at Mesa that it would he impossible to get to Ray, but many wont m just to see what damage the flood had done.
 Four days will be necessary to re- lbuild the line into Ray.
 Mines Close Down
 When it became evident that the flood would be serious the miners III Ian shifts were ordered out to the
 rescue of lives and property Ihes
 have not resumed work underground Ithis evening, and large gangs o1 them |are being used to clear away the ldehris Wrecked homes. piles of lum-
 her huge boulders, borne into the streets of the city make them scenes
 of indescribable confusion
 The water supply of the town IS
 row heinz drawn from the reservoir
 na if another source is not found in
 side twenty-four hours there VIII Ut
 serious famine. It may De pos
 sible to repair the pipe line m 'i'i''
 to avert this danger.