Arizona republican., 1919-11-28

ready huge volume in the Agua Fria rvier. Glendale late last night was reported to be in a flooded condition, with water running in the business dis trict according to Constable Rudd, who was at his ranch at the time.
 Move Out of Capitol Basement
 At Il o'clock the custodian of the Capitol reported that work had started in moving valuable material from the basement of the building in anticipa- ton of the flood waters. The water at that hour had not arrived in any quantity upon the Capitol grounds, al though the grounds were in a watery condition due to the heavy rains during the day.
 Much valuable material is in the basement The state engineer and other officials were on hand to direct and assist in the removal of the state property from the basement. If tho water should rise about the Capito to any great extent the contents oi the bungalow occupied by the engi- neering department will be removed fol safety.
 Rancher Bradshaw reported cloud burst in the Black Canyon at 3 o'clocl this afternoon. He said the downpou was so terrific as to resemble an ocean This tloudburst, according to report washed out roads and tore down rock and caused a huge volume of water t' be let loose upon the valley.
 Bridge Goes Out
 The last big flood in the Agua Fria previous to the present one, was Il 1916, at that time a great volume o water coming down the Agua Fri; river changed the channel of tha stream, moving it more than one hal mile west This flood occurred whll the railroad bridge over the Agua Frii was being built. Since 1916 the stat highway department has been grad ualfy moving the river back unde the bridge at an estimated cost O s600O0.
 shortly afternoon yesterday the wat CT in the Agua F'ria had reached tn rail level of the bridge and ran owe both approaches and below the high way bridge. Seven hundred feet bling went out, a couple of bents go ing out first. When about the thir had gone the deck dropped until tn water caught it and the force of tn current tore the deck and piling an swept it around and down the strean The tires remaining on the rails an floating like log boom.
 Damaoe Is Heavy
 The piling, relieved of the weight ( the superstructure and pulled up D the bouyancy. jumped clear out ( the water, and started down the rive toward Yuma Estimated damage railroad now is beteen s25,000 an 30,0o0 and probably nearly as muc on the big highway bridge approache
 The protection work put in by u the state in 1917 and recently repaire is apparently holding the water in Il main channel under the bridge, a though this cannot be definitely to until after the flood subsidies. If u river returns to the west channel will make a difference of from $15,0' to $20.00O to get it under the brids again Between 3 o'clock and o'cloC the water went down four inches, bl this was a small quantity to the feet of water under the bridge.
 Fear Loss at Gila Dam Site
 Nothing could have been done avert this loss. The railroad will two weeks before being able to get train through to Buckeye. If the wat stays in the main channel of the riv the highway will probably be passah two or three days after the water go down. but if the stream gets out of tl channel it may be 10 days or tv weeks before the bridge can be tra' eraed.
 This tremendous quantity of wat in the river will probably do gre