Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-12
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The Carson Valley NeiUS OF last sat
urday gives the following particulars
of the land slide at Genoa: ''HetHe-n
7 and s o'clock last Wednesday norm
ing our own was startled by "A nun
bling and crashing sound, which
proved to be an enormous mass If
earth, waller and timber making It's
way from the mouth of Genoa canyon
at the south end of town, carrying
everything before il. In a few min
utes after the alarm was given half
the people in town We're standing
along the margin of its track watching
the huge mass OF earth, rock and TIM
Der moving towards the river. Justice
Whitford, who resides directly in its
course, was notified of the approach
ing danger by some Indians who heard
the noise and knew what it was, just
in time for his family to escape. For
tunately, we may say, providentially,
a strong board fence and some out
buildings standing above the house
changed the course of the moving
mass Of mud, which at this point was
not confined to any channel, and the
promises were sa red.
The principal losses were sustained
by the Genoa Flume Company. Their
I'LL thO
cry had been removed "a short time
ago-and about N miles Of the flume
was carried away. Loss estimated at
5000. The grain field and meadow
being cultivated by l.. Fray, was COW
cred with mud and rubbish. Other
damages were comparatively small.
The slide occurred in the canyon about
three miles above town, and consisted
in the beginning OF about o~ne-quarter
of an acre of land, but the canyon be-
ing very steep it was confined to mar
row limits and kept moving along
slowly, carrying everything before 1t
and becoming limped as 1t pro-
crossed, taking in OF its way one or
two small reservoirs of water and all
that accumulated during its passage,
until finally in narrow places in the
canyon it was over As leo deep, as
shown by the marks left on the side of
the mountain; every tree, bush and
rock and the earth down to the solid
rock was carried away. The bed of
the ravine is now smooth solid rock
from the point where the slide started
to its mouth. Logs sixty feet long were
carried two or three miles.
On Monday morning. says the Silver
City Mining Reporter of the 9th inst,
Felix McKenna, brother to B. +. Nc
Kenna, foreman of the Senator and
Knickertocker mines, was accidentally
killed in the shaft of the Senator mine.
The unfortunate man was being hoisted
from the bottom of the shaft on the
water tank, and when about twenty
feet from the snrface fell from the tank
into tho stump below, a distance of 200
feet, and is supposed to have been in
stantly killed. He was a native Of
Bangor, Maine, thirty-six years of age,
and had been working in the mines on
the Comstock for the past twelve years.
His funeral took place yesterday after
moor at Virginia City.
A story comes from Washos this
morning, says the Cayson Iri5une OF
the 9th, that one Pitcher, a section boss
at that place, Mas arrested last night,
charged with the crime of rape upon
his sister in-law, twelve years OF age.
1t 10 said hat his wife-the child's own
sister-assisted him in the outrage.
This seems too horribly unnatural for
belief. When arrested the man stout
ly denied the charge. Later, through
some carelessness, he was allowed to
escape and has not since been heard of.
The Winnemucca Register Of the 10th
says: The Central Pacific Railroad
Company have backed . little from