Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1874-08-06
TELEGRAPHIC.
Special to the Tri-W eekly Times
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| stream five feet deep followed Pennington av-
| enue to petts Run. into which it emptied and
| flowed to the Delaware. II inundated all the
houses along its course. compelling the in
| habitants to flee for their lives. The other
| stream swept with terrific force across the va
| cant lots washing away frame house and
| carrying it with its occupants for two BLOCKS
| The water united with the other stream at
| Railroad avenue, the two forming Hood that
| foated an entire block of frame houses from
| their positions and washed ont a coal and
wood yard. From this point the water was led
| by an underground culvert through one OF the
best portions of the city. The culvert proved
| too small to carry off the water which burst
| its confines and ran into the lower flood OF res
licences. The area of the food was one mile
| in length by 800 yards in width. At O'Clock
| the water had all escaped and the flood SUD-
sided. No lives were lost The break in the
/ reservoir was % feet wide and was caused
| by leakage in the main supply OF city pine
which workman were repairing, when with
! one movement the entire bank gave way. IT.
| is said leak has existed in the pipes for sew
eral days. The reservoir was built i'll 1888,
! and has broken once before. The embank-
ment was composed of loose sandy soil and
the wonder is that it could sustain a pressure
of thirty feet of water. The damage is esti-
mated at $4,000.
| San Luis Obispo. CAL, August A cutting
| ARRAY took place at Morrow, twelve miles from
| here. last night, in which a man named Stuart
/
! wounded by his brother-in-law, George Cox.
| The ARRAY grew out of family difficulties.
/ Immediately after the cutting Cox came to San
! Luis Obispo for a physician, but before he
! could reach the injured man he was dead.
| Cox returned with the doctor but showed no
| disposition to escape. Sheriff Norcross of
| this country went to Morrow to-day and sr-
rested Cox and lodged him in Jail at this place.
| Both parties were respected citizens OF Nor
| row Stuart had Just returned from bust
~, 20 no Rarhara
| in town half an hour before he was killed.
| Cox claims that he acted in self-defense.
wadsworth New, August Am ARRAY oc-
Cured yesterday morning at ranch four
miles north of here between two men, named
r s. Pratt and j. l.. Downs, in which Pratt
was shot and killed almost instantly. Downs
claims that he shot in self-defense. The
| ownership of ranch or portion of it seems
| to have been the original difficulty. both par
| ties claiming it. At the time of the shooting
Pratt had entered and was occupying Downs
| house which had been temporarily vacated,
and Downs finding him there ordered him
away, when Pratt assailed him with knife
and followed him to the door when Downs
turned and shot him down. Downs immed1-
ately gave himself mp. Deceased was native
of Indiana. aged 65 years.
Seattle. W. T., August A boat containing
w. C. Herod his wife and three children, with
Miss Smith, upset in the bay to-day about
noon, Some Indians went to their rescue and
saved all but Mrs. Wells fHerod?l and her
youngest child. The lifeless body Of the lat
ter has been recovered bur that of Mrs. Wells
Herod?] has not yet been found.
New York, August 5.-A member
of the Beecher committee yesterday
said the design of Moulton in with
holding his testimony was to espouSe
the stronger side when Beecher ties
titled, and cut the throat Of the
weaker. 1t was doubtless Tilton's
purpose to lock up a part of the tes-
timony for a reserve fund for future
examination. The committee unan-
imously decided that no report be
made till Moulton's testimony was
taken and letters submitted. If the
latter are not forthcoming they may
be Obtained by legal process.
Dispatches announce the total loss
of the Pacific Mail steamship City
of Guatemala, which went ashore on
Walling's Island recently. No par
ticulars concerning the cargo. The
net loss to the company is 100000.
Cincinnati, Aug. 5.-The steamer
Pat. Rogers, while near Aurora, this
morning, was burned with her en-
tire cargo of cotton. 1t is reported
that twenty lives We're lost. The
names of the lost, so far as known,
are as follows: j. r. Stewart and
Mrs. Smith, of Madison, Ind; w. C.
Brown, of Cincinnati, son of w. Fl.
Brown of the Union Line Transpor-
tation Company; Charles Fl. Dett-
man, the pilot, and Shirley Snider
l. ,..Et 81 81, "a
boat was valued at $50, 900; insur-
ance, 1000; value of the cargo I'M
known. Engineer Holmes gives the
following account of the burning: 1t
was about 6 o'clock, when opposite
Long Henry Creek, that flows into
the Ohio, two miles below Aurora,
noticed bright light along some
bales of cotton, in another part of the
boat. / fastened to the spot, and
found them burning rapidly, and
beyond the possibility of immedi-
ately extinguishing them. has
tened to the hurricane deck and gave
the alarm to the pilot, and told him
to run her ashore. The pilot at
tempted to do SO, but the boat re-
fused to obey the helm, hence it is
believed that the tiller rope was cut,
and the fire was an incendiary work.
Another theory is that a passenger
dropped a spark from a pipe on a
cotton bale. The boat became un-
manageable. She drifted on sand
bar, when the flames, instantly
spreading along the lower deck, shot
up to the cabin and pilot house, and
then swept away the hurricane deck.
The passengers were aroused, boats
lowered and many carried ashore,
but others in their fright jumped
into the water. There were nearly
one hundred people on board, and
but small portion of the number
were actually lost. 1t is not known
how many, as it is reported that some
of the missing have been seen on
shore after the disaster.
San Francisco, August 5.-The
members of the Chamber OF Com
merce will attend the funeral of j.
w. Stow in a body, and will hold a
meeting this afternoon for that pur-
pose. Flags on the Merchants Ex-
change, and several other public
buildings, are at half mast to-day.
His funeral will take place this af-