The Coconino sun., 1923-09-21

Meanwhile many who had to get away
hired automobiles to take them to
Ashfork, and others, who thought
they were in a hurry when they left
here on No. 10 Monday night, sat it
out in the comfortable car seats while
the train stayed at Cosnino and ate
the food that was taken out to them
with switch engine from Flagstaff
Tuesday morning.
Just to show what the road was and
also indicating how even the desert
country northeast of us was not spar
ed:
E. w. Ennis, Billie Joint, Charlie
Fisher, B. o. Tillman and Frank
Kinds left Grand Canyon at Monday
morning to drive over the new Desert
View road and out to Tuba City. They
were out one and half hours when
the rain began. When they got
short distance beyond Cameron bridge
over the Little Colorado, they came
up with an Indian driving a six-horse
team attached to load of furniture
he was hauling from Flagstaff to
Tuba City. He had broken his arm.
The wagon was mired. They took
the man into Tuba and brought back
help to get the wagon out. Then the
auto party started for Flagstaff.
Along in the evening mile east of
FLAGSTAFF, near Chicken Ranch"
bridge, in one of the detours away
from the new highway now building,
they slipped into four feet of water.
Previous to that they had negotiated
several sudden lakes successfully by
tying a robe over the radiator and
shooting through. This time they
STAYED put. Billie and Charelie care
fully perched on the top of the back
seat of the Pierce Arrow tonneau
while the others started out to walk
to Flagstaff. They had to swim part
of the way out Of their environment.
They eventually got here and Bah
bitt Bros Cadillac truck went out to
null the Pierce Arrow out of the mud.
tt couldn't do it. In the morning the
county caterpillar got them out. The
water was up to the cushion on the
rear seat.
Walter Conley was returning from
Kaventa and the Red Lake country
when the rain hit there. He walked
to and fro most of the forty or so
miles between the two points scouting
out the road he had to drive over. He
used up four days getting In here.
Occasionally, here in town, the rain
turned into hail for few minutes,
just to relieve the monotony. Elden
mountain was covered with snow OF
hail and as for the San francisco
peaks, they are whittier than they of
ten are in dead of winter.
Twelve sheep belonging to M. /
Powers were killed by lightning dur
ing the storm. They were on Elder
mountain.
A tourist coming into town from
the east ran into hail storm jusi
beyond the store at the junction east
of here and the top of his car was cu'
to shreds.
UD Kendrick Park way there was
NOT nearly so much rain as here.
The rain extended as far west as
Kingman. though it did not begin
there until Monday night. The farth-
er this way from there, the longer
the rain lasted and the harder 4
came down. The storm belt extended
east at least into New Mexico arlc
south at least as far as Phoenix.
There was considerable damage
done to crops east of here by hail.
The new lake in city recreation
park is full for the first time. Shortly
after IL o'clock Monday forenoon the
water began spilling over the top Of
the dam.
There are many ridiculous storie:
about the amount of rain that actually
fell. 1t has been said there were