Arizona republican., 1921-08-23
CITY RECOvERS FROM FLOOD IF
 SUNDAY NIGHT
Water Recedes From 700 Houses In Flooded Area And Residents Proceed To Clear Away Debris

an average depth Of three feet. By nightfall last night, there was com paratively little remaining evidence of the water wall which had made hundreds temporarily homeless the night before.
 No accurate estimate of damage in city or county was available yester- day. City officials said the damage in Phoenix. exclusive of property loss at the state capitol, would not exceed $100,000. Loss in the farming com munities cannot be definitely deter mined. it was announced, until the flood waters have receded from the lands and the farmers given an op- portunity to estimate their crop damage. All were hopeful. however. that first estimates of loss were greatly exaggerated; that property damage will not be more than $200,- 900 or $300,000.
 Less than 12 hours after the crest of the flood waters had reached Phoenix, work of clearing away the debris and rehabilitating the flood areas was well under way. By noon, many of the homes had been restored to normal and by nightfall, it was estimated that less than a score of families had been unable to return to their residences.
 700 Homes in the Flood Approximately 700 homes were in- cluded in the flood area, which ex- tended from the state fair grounds on the north, south to Van Buren, as far west as Nineteenth avenue and as far east as Seventh avenue. The main channel of the water was down Grand avenue to Sixteenth avenue, thence south to Van Buren street, n-f S<, vf~xl~ eenth avenue and down Eighteenth to Jackson. where it encountered a barrier in the Santa Fe tracks.
 From this main channel, the water spread out to the east and west All that district between Grand avenue, Seventh avenue, the fair grounds and Roosevelt street had some flood water; a sufficient amount. in fact, to isolate majority of the scatter ing homes. To the west of Grand avenue and as far south as Pierce street, the flood area was general, extending as far west as Nineteenth avenue. Little water. if any, reached the district between Grand avenue. Pierce street. Van Buren street and Thirteenth avenue. but from Thir- teenth avenue west to Nineteenth avenue, and from Pierce to Van Bu- ren, few homes escaped damage.
 After crossing the old Town Ditch at Eighteenth avenue, the flood wat CTS again spread in both directions. extending as far east as Sixteenth avenue to the north of Washington and as far west as Twenty-third avenue. South of Washington street they extended as far east as Eff teenth avenue.
 Loss Is Heavy
 Tn all fhiS farrifnru oenerial1u that east of the Santa Fe tracks, heavy loss was sustained by the property owners. In some homes, water reached a depth of eight or ten inches: in others, it just reached the floor level, and in a few instances if failed to cover the ground floor. Greatest damage was to the north of the old Town Ditch where several homes, light frame structures, were l carried from their foundations. In three or four instances houses, es- pecially the portable kind, of which there are many in this particular To- cality. were turned completely around and where they originally faced east and north, were facing west and south when the flood waters had passed.
 eSome water continued to pour down upon the city yesterday after noon and evening, but it was of little consequence and did not deter work 1 CTS in cleaning up the city. It found a course down through the fair grounds, Grand avenue and Sixteenth avenue, but was carried off in the old Town Ditch at Van Buren street | and Eighteenth avenue. The ditch had previously been dry. and it ear l ried off all the surplus water from 1 the north. At o'clock yesterday afternoon, no flood water was cross 1 ing the Town Ditch.
 l Furnishings Ruined
 Of the TOO homes in the flood dis l trict, probably 300 escaped serious damage, the water failing to reach l the first. floors of these structures | The remaining 400 homes. however were damaged to considerable ex- | tent: water had poured over the floors for hours: carpets aud rugs had been ruined, furniture damaged and floors warped beyond repair. and the whole covered with an inch oI
 so of a slimy silt that gave more 1 than one person a hard. fall. | To the north of the Town Ditch l the flood water was confined to a I strip about 300 feet wide from Grand avenue south to Van Buren street l via Sixteenth avenue, but pools filled |
 stances isolated homes from the resi of the city.
 South of Van Buren street, con-
 siderable water remained in Adam. and Washington streets, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth avenue: and no attempt was made by the
 Phoenix Street Railway company tc operate it's West Adams street car: beyond Eighteenth avenue. The ent
 of the line ordinarily is at Twenty | second avenue.
 West of the Santa Fe tracks ther,
 was some water on Jefferson, Wash. | ington and Adams streets betweer
 Nineteenth and Twentieth avenues
 but it was rapidly being carried
 away in the drainage sewers.
 Cotton Bale Takes Trip
 A bale of cotton, landed at the cres
 of the flood last night, was dryin.
 out at Nineteenth avenue and Adam.
 street, near the Santa Fe tracks I
 had been carried down by the fioot
 waters, presumably from some poin far to the north. Men and boys wh,
 had been watching the raging water
 from the security of the railroa'
 tracks Sunday night pulled the cot
 ton to dry ground as it was speedin;
 past.
 Numerous rumors of damage t
 bridges in the county were receive,
 in Phoenix yesterday, some by Stat
 Engineer Thomas Maddock, but the,
 were without confirmation.
 The only official report receive,
 by the state engineer was from Wick
 enburg where the water was thre
 feet deep under the bridge, the repor
 said. Run-or was also current O
 the destruction of the Hassayamp 1 hrid0n hI1f Ar AIaddnnlr ha dofi