Arizona republican., 1921-08-22
OVER $1,O0O, ,OOO
 PROPERTY LOSS
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 dairy inspector, as we'll as the ele- vator machinery. was filled with wat CT and three inches stood on the floor above. The flood overwhelmed the grounds with amazing rapidity. At o'clock the water was first observed cross ing Adams street block west of the capitol grounds Ten minutes later it had broken over the pavement into the grounds and quickly spread along the west side of the grounds. In a very few minutes it was approaching the building.
 Scores of automobiles had been driven to the western end of the grounds along Adams street. and some which were not turned quickly enough were waterlogged. A re- porter for The Republican walked along the pavement to the Twenty first street side and when he turned the whole pavement to the Adams street entrance to the grounds was under water. It was rising at the rate of half an inch a minute.
 Water Enters Statehouse I/ At half past eight the previous high water mark of 21 years ago al the capitol was reached. That wal within an eight of an inch of the tor of the door sills of the first floor The water first made its appearanct under the door of the outer office of the state tax commission, and th' green carpet was quickly covered with the yellow flood waters of Cav' l Creek. Other offices flooded were those of the corporation commission state auditor, attorney general ant 1 inspector Of weights and measures. | By that time the flood was enter l ing on the east front and in fiv' minutes had covered the entire frs | floor and was pouring like a Niagars down the steps into the basement In the meantime the water had foun, an entrance to the basement from west area and a strong oak doc at the foot of the stairway wa crowded back farther and farther With the water pushing against tn door and that pouring down the stai way there was the muted roar of cataract.
 II. NJ. Alexander. the custodian ( the building, was never buster in hi life, salvagirg whatever could moved Boxes containing statiouer 1 and supreme court exhibits were hun ried to the elevator and taken to tf rotunda of the second floor. He ws unable to reach officials of the val ious departments by telephone so thu until the flooding of the first flot was complete only Assistant Seer, tary of State Redmond was on Il | scene.
 So engrossed were those in u building that they had not talk. notice of what was going on outsid When they looked they found then selves marooned. The capitol groun on the east had become a lake of III certain depth Pavements were hi den and their location could known only by the line of electr light posts There the Orater " knee deep and when one stepped | advertently from the pavement sank to twice that depth.
 Current Ten Miles An Hour
 The estimated flow of the wat was ten miles an hour. so that wa ing was a task of difficulty. Gre boxes and casks were swept over { grounds. Each minute brought jt sam of greater bulk. At ,'clo the water was still rising rapidly. that time, too, the water extended far east as Fifteenth avenue. Tn t great flood of 21 years ago its ca. ernmost point was Seventeenth.
 At that time, too, the bungalow the southwestern part of the capi grounds occupied by the state Ia department could not be approach and was believed to be doomed. the flood had already covered raised walks leading to 1t.
 After the flood had begun to su side. Mir. A,~-1nder estimated 1 total damage to the capitol wol amount to s250000, exclusive of st' records in the basement and ii floor offices, which cannot be placed. The greatest depth of Wa in the first floor was two feet.
 Few Homes Escape
 The main channel of the flo through Phoenix proper was fr' the state fair grounds down throu Oakland plac and thence do Eighteenth avenue, where the c, rent was variously estimated at fri eight to twelve miles an hour. Err this channel the flood waters spre out fan-like in both directions. ( tending as far east as SixteeT street and as faI west as 300 val west of Twenty-second avenue.
 Greatest damage was done east
 the Santa Fe tracks, however, f homes escaping West of the tra' the water reached the first floor
 residences in only a few instanC
 and then it crep' to height of O ,s a few inches.
 But all of the territory betw' " Seventeenth and Nineteenth aveu' ht and from Van Buren street to