A Colorado Water Spout

A water spout occurred on the Cenrál stape road, in Golden Gato gulch, :'our milos abovo tbe town of Golden, oa Sunday ufternoon about four o'clock. People residing in that vicinity report javing seen, just abovo tho higber mountains, riuinorous dense clouds, Irom which -v conical pillar, resenibling condensed vupor, was seeu to descend, and almost siiuultaneously a deafening peal of thunder wa heard. Mr. Jack Yirdeiiy with hia wifo and sis:er, and Misa Blood, daughtcr of Lyman C. Blood, had been to Golden, and were ruturiiing home in a doublé carriage. fhey had reached tho poini indicated above, when tho peal of thunder carae and the water spout dispersed. Present!y a violent comtnotion, with confusión of sounds, was hoard high up the mountaing. Then carne tremendous torrents of water, beuring trees and boulders, and calculated to astonish and tenify by its magnitude and violuiice. Thu horse3, steing that they were to bo sacrifioed to this proliigiouu volume, took fripht, and shying to one side, unset the carriage, and all the occupants woro pitched into the bottom of the gulch. In an instant, before they could recover their feot, the wave, with a porpendicular breast of ten or twelve leet, was upon them Mrs. Virden clung to hur husband, and he, by a miraculiius chanco, got liold of o limb, and held fast untü the flood subsidcd. Tho poor girls - Misses Ulood and Virden, aged respectfully twelve and t'ourtoen yeurs - were lesa fortúnate. They were carried down by thu mighty ourrent to Sh uppaiHng doath. After tho torrent had exhaiisted its fury, and a soarcli for the bodios had been instituted. that of Miss Blood, mutilated btyond recognition, was found buried in the sand, all but oae foot, nbout half a mile below where tho accident occurred. Her ekull was dennded in places, iier body was frightfully gashod. Lymau C. Blood, hor father, who had been down tho vall:-y, and was returning on horaebaok, when tho accident took plaee, and had oined 'w t for tho boiiieff, was the first to discovur the corpse of tho girl, though he did not recognize hor, for he supposod her to be be ut The body of Miss Vird n ras r-, covcrud some thrce uiiloa bolow the scène of the disaster whoni it had lodged against a tree, and was stripped of its clothing. A witor spout equidly prodigious dcgoended upon üuy hill a few yoars ago, and Hoodod n stage coach containing Generala Ormit, Suerman and Bheridan, though they were far enough removed to escape disaster.