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Disaster From The Clouds

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Day
31
Month
July
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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i'.URJiKA, Nevada, July 26.- A terriW water spout bur.st in the muuntains ve ■ terd-iy, and iwept through the town kiil iiiK twenty persona, aacTbuMing a !, ', destiuction of property. The po crossed the Central Pacific track betwe Huiuboldt, "Wells and Tolano, washiu,, , the track. The west-bound emigré train was wrccked, and flve pawei! killed. 8W Yusterday it had boen raiuiiu' w;,. great violoncH till noon, when the cW burst on ttie lo% range of mountaiu8t the east, and a vast volume of wat' rushed down the canon where the to is locatcd. The eastern part of the to was flooded in ten minutes by a fearf rush of water, constantly inereasins , volume, depth and impetuosity. n people of that portion of the place wet! hemmed in. Every moment houses wer torn frora their foundations and 8We. away with the occupants. Ropes Wef procured, a line formed aud brave mj thus protected dashed into the torrenand saved inany Uves. Ünly a few v men and children were lost. Tho bod' of one Mis. Bray was recovered. EoJ Roinet, a reporter of the Sentinel, Z among the drowned. Tho Sentinel 'offic was swept away. The bodies are beit, brought to tho court house as tast as covered. Three Chinamen are lost and thith houses swept away. All that part of tk't town dovoted to danco houses and ntU places ot amusement is gone. Tlieflm lasted only half an buur. The total b of life is not yet know, bat it is belieVf will reach twenty-five or thirty. Wells, Nevada, July '2".- Aboutthirl feet of the Central Pacific Bailroad trac was washed out by the bursting of a'rai cloud twcuty-eight miles east of thi place yesterday. The east buund expm train ïsdetained. A train of workaa has passed to repair the dauiage, andH anxious passengers are áwaiting theprogres8. San Francisco, July 26.- Private & patches to-night froui Eureka atate tii four dead bodies had been recoveïed. A water spout burst near Carson Cit; Nev., this aiternoon, Cfiusitig great 4 struetion of propertj'. No ii ves wore lost The loss by the ttood at Kareka foots up over $100,000. In addition to the names given thii morniug, the following are stut ■ drowned: Jas. Galvin, J. VV. Talbot, J Deany, John Kaufh, W. J. McQeán Wm. Siuith.

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