Mohave County miner., 1916-09-02

channel to the east of the highway
 to carry off surplus water hereafter
 One of the items of damage was tn,
 breakage of water pipes. They wer,
 torn asunder everywhere, but before
 the rain had ceased falling Mir. Row.
 ly had force of men out renewing
 connections and making repairs. Al
 were connected up by nightfall
 One large tent-house was moved
 several rods, it's location being near the Old Trails blacksmith shop. All the houses in the path of the storm had quantities up to many tons of rocks and debris washed against them and few were flooded It is believed that the water in the center of the channel was three feet deep. It went down the street like wall and this was followed up by constant torrent for over an hour that would almost carry a horse off it's feet.
 John Moore, whose residence is at Old Trails, has lived in this vicinity for years. He says it was the worst flood in IA years.
 Perhaps the worst damage in Oat- man was in the store of Polin Broth CTS. It is in a reimbursement with no protection against a flood and the water came in to depth of IS inches. Louie Polin estimates the damage at $200. This was most in the loss of cigars, tobacco, and sundries in show cases and under shelves and other merchandise in locker. An amusing feature of the young catastrophe was to see Louie with a pail wading to the back end of his store knee-deep baling and packing the water into the street, only to have the same identical water beat him back into the store. The humor of the event caused a crowd to gather and josh him while he was working so earnestly.
 A lake collected in the gulch above the rear of Lovin and Withers' store and threatened great damage. The force of clerks braved the storm and opened a passage for the water to save the order department in the base ment. Some water got in and did slight but not serious damage.
 Otto Ketelson's hardware store suffered damage by a cave-in in the rear. The Oatman candy kitchen was flooded with water several inches deep. The Mission dining room was swamp ed and put out of business for the evening. The boarders had to look elsewhere for their evening meal.
 The Oatman hotel suffered consid- erable damage from debris and threatened cave-in. W. K. Smith of the St. Francis hotel said the damage to that hostelry was just s3.50, which was expended for help in sweeping and cleaning. This slight harm was the result of his foresight in excavat- ing a flood ditch several weeks ago.
 The Dairy lunch room was flooded from the rear and considerable loss done. The same happened to the Oat- man Auto Supply store in basement. Three inches of water came in with a rush from the rear when least ex- pected. Some $75 worth of batteries were on the floor and had to be gath cred up and placed out of reach of the flood quickly. Very few got wet.
 The cloudburst seemed to be con fined to an area just east of town and east of the Tom Reed, Combination and Telluride. At Goldroad there was a rain but nothing in the nature of cloudburst. There was no damage there. The new grade of the King man road over the Goldroad hill was so it is reported here, ex- cept by an ordinary rain that did more good than harm.