Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-10
TELEGRAPHIC.
SPECIAL TO THE REcoRD-usIos.
DOMESTIC NEWS.
Frfghfful Flood i'm Colorado,


DENVER, August CHA Central City
special says: The most destructive food in
the history of the country occurred yesterday
afternoon. at half-past heavy storm
cloud appeared, accompanied by almost in
csssant thunder and lightning. About
o'clock the citizens were startled by an almost
unearthly roar to the west and almost ia-
simultaneously volume of water, between
four and FIVE feet high, came rushing down
Nevada and Eureka streets, taking every.
body by surprise. Heavy quartz teams
standing in the streets were overturned and
carried down stream like feathers. Rocks
weighing 800 and 600 pounds were rolled
along the streets like pebbles. Animals and
everything in the track of the food were
swept away in an incredibly short time. The
streets were cleared of people, everybody
seeking shelter during the food. Large
masses of debris was carried through the
streets OF the rate of abont fifteen miles an
hour. The whole length of the gulches,
from Nevadaville on one side, and the head
Of Eureka on the other, presents the most
desolate scene imaginable. The roadway is
entirely destroyed, in many places the ruts
being five and six feet deep, and extending
for hundreds of yards. The entire length, for
about three miles, is strewn with debris of
every kind. At several points between Gen.
trail and Black Hawk the debris is piled twen-
ty-five feet high. Eureka street. for a quar-
ter of mile. is one mass of
rocks and rubbish. On Main street
four feet of sand is deposited. The food
was caused by the bursting of a raiu-cloud
little west of the city. The natural channel
of the stream became damned, turning the
water into the streets. The only loss Of
life known at present is that of Joe Gerrick,
whose body was found in Black Hawk. The
flood lasted but twenty minutes. The dam
ages are estimated at about $50, 900, SIC, 900
oe which is sustained by the highways. A
number of small houses were upset and
washed away, and many residences and stores
flooded, and mud and sand deposited on the
floors and in cellars to depth of several feet.
Advices from Idaho Springs say the rain
was the severest which ever fell there.
Several houses in Virginia canyon were
carried away and o six-year.old girl was
drowned.
Nearly all the railroad and county bridges
between the forks of the creek and Idaho
were swept away, and nearly all the houses
in the business portion of the town flooded
Idaho will amount to S20,000
1t is estimated that it will take 100 men
forty-eight hours to repair the damage to the
railroad track between Idaho and Floyd Hill.
Brooklyn Socialists and Hartmapn's FIX
tradition.
New YORK, August 9th.--The Brooklyn
Socialists in mass meeting last night, protest
ed against the extradition of Leo Hartmann,
such course, they believed, having been con-
templated by the authorities. They adopted
resolutions to the effect that it would be a
disgrace to our country and an insult to the
memory of the founders of the republic, if the
Government should deliver up the revolu-
tionary hero to certain death while he found
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monarchy. The Secretary was instructed to
inquire of Secretary Blaine about the matter.
The Irish Convention.
CHICAGO, August 9th.-The Irish Conyen.
tion acquitted Secretary West of the charges
made by Keegan, and denounced the latter as
falsi6er The real work of the Convention
will now begin. Captain John Geary, one of
General Lees staff, Colonel D. O'Sullivan,
Republican politician of Little Rock, and DR..
Dennis Bowling Mulcahy, of Newark. are ex.
pected to join in the labors of the Conven-
tion. The President of the meeting posi-
lively states that it was not held in the
interest of the dynamite system, nor did it
countenance that crowd.
bring libel suits against two Chicago daily
papers for saying that he had been in the
penitentiary.
Attacked by Robbers.
ATLANTA (Ga.), August 9th.-Judge H. D.
Twiggs, Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatiyes, while spending the day at sum
mer resort called Mount Airy, was assaulted
by two robbers with whom he had desper-
ate fight with knives, and narrowly escaped
being murdered
Proposes to Reform.
NEW York, August 9th.-The notorious
The" Allen was married yesterday to
refined and handsome young girl, worth
S442, 900, and will reform, he says. He was
divorced few weeks ago.
Escape of COnvIets.
NEW ORLEANS, August 9th-The city is
flooded with rumors that the convicts in camp
near Washington, La, at work building
railroad, killed Captain Haken and two other
officers and escaped.
Handsome Girl Drowned.
New HAVEN (Conn.), August 9th.-The
widest excitement prevails here over the dis
covery in the water of the body of Jennie
Cramer, the handsomest girl in the city.
The Perry County Trial.
trial in Perry county has begun. 1t is ques-
tion whether the Judge will be brave enough
to do justice.
Frosf In August.
ST. LOUIS, August 9.h.-A reliable gentle
man reports that frost occurred at Astoria,
ILL.,, this morning.
The Railroad War.
CHICAGO August 9th.-Another passenger
war has broken out between the Wabash and
Alton, and it may become general and dis
astrous. The fare from Kansas City to Bos-
ton is nov SO, but to New York it is S22 30.