The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1919-10-27

drink and procure water enough to wash.
Cold drinking water was found near their
car and they were taken to a beautiful
community house. Inside they were ten
dered the use of the swimming pools and
shower baths, with plenty of water
They also were given an opportunity to
use the reading and writing rooms with
electric. fans and other comforts Then
Ethey started ont again to go through the
sand plains. The sun was shining beau
fully and they had remarked that they
must go through another dry section
ahead. They. looked up and in five min
utes black cloud had come UP and there
was a cloudbust5 ahead S6f them so that
they were obliged to cross little rivers
for more than mile. Just before the
cloud burst a terrific wind came up and
he sand blew so that5it was almost i'm
POSSIBLE to see to the motor Mrs. Ham
ilton suggested that they turn back to-
ward Needles, but this was not done
The sand storm lasted about 10 minutes
Between Kingman and Peach Springs
a hot dry section was passed through
and then they entered Nelson Canyon in
Arizona, which is four miles long and q
miles from any village. The Santa Fc
railroad goes through the pass, where the
| highway is the bed of a stream when
| there is water. At the points where the
'ailroad crossed the river bed there wers
| large puddles of water. They had
plunged through five of these when they
came to one larger than any passed. The
car was stopped. The water was muddy
and one could not tell about the defth
J The machine was started and stopped
again with water about eight inches
above the running board. DIR. Hamilton
stepped into the water. which came up to
his waist, secured a big timber which he
put across to the door of the automobile
Mrs Hamilton and John, in turn, crawled
out on that to the main land. They tried
then to cut brush to put under the car
! so that it could be taken from the water.
! but this was not of much use
Another automobile party happened
along and by removing stones and plac-
ing railroad ties they were able to get
across and up 20foot bank, across the
railroad track and down the other side.
breaking their car. This was fixed up
so that they could start, on their trip of
"a miles across the plains to Seligman
to give word for someone to 60 back and
help the Hamilton party from the river
bed. When they were four miles out they
saw one man who belonged to the rail
road section gang of the Santa Fe rail
road and told him party of three were
stuck in the river and asked him to send
someone back to help them out.
Realizing the danger of those in the
river bed, the section man secured five
other men and they came to the assist
ahce of the Hamiltons, bringing tackle
blocks and ropes. During the process
the clouds were growing very black and
| when they were out the strangers re-
marked that they were three of the
calmest people he ever saw. When Mrs
Hamilton asked why they should not be
the stranger replied: Get into your car
as quickly as possible and get out, a
cloudburst is coming" They had driven
only an eighth of mile when the cloud
burst came, and they realized that il
they had remained they would have been
wa shed down the stream.
Then to Seligman they drove through
yroads, sliding from one side of the road
to the other so that they were obliged te
get out and push the car back into the
road many times From go o'clock that
morning until Q O'Clock at night the,
covered but "a miles and when the,
reached Seligman they saw anothe
| black cloud break some distance away
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