Daily globe., 1883-05-21

disappeared rapidly under heavy warm
rain Friday night and Saturday. The
gulches or valleys in the hills are from a
few hundred feet to probably quarter
| mile wide, generally. Deadwood is at the
junction of Whitewood and Deadwood
gulches. Numerous gulches in this case
emptied their accumulations of
water from the mountains
into these two main gulches, and
| gave a volume of water that rushed down
| the Whitewood in resistless force. Central
City, Anchor City and Golden Gate are on
| the Deadwood above. The greater portion
| of Central would be above the flood, but as
| for Anchor and Golden Gate, there was no
| escape. The gulch is not over 600 feet
wide. Deadwood is town of 5000 people.
the main residence portion of the city,
| 100 to 800 feet above the gulch, and the
| main business portion above the danger
line. The portion destroyed was occupied
by cheap tenant houses, third class hotels,
laundries, small traders, sporting houses,
livery stables, etc. Some of the buildings
were built over the stream, which, at it's
| ordinary stage, is but a few feet
wide. Its locality was avoided, however.
by the shrewder interests for the danger
was recognized. In this case timely
warning was given by means of the tele-
phone system existing in the hills and the
most valuable articles were removed. So
far but three bodies have been recovered,
but it is now believed that the loss of life
has been great.
The loss in Deadwood will reach $780,
600. Golden Gate, Anchor City, Central
City, South Bend and Crook City
are heavy losers. Several Of the mills in
Deadwood Gulch were destroyed, and the
damage to the mines by floods cannot be
replaced for several weeks. All roads are
impossible.
NASHUA, n. H., May 19.-The whole
square of wooden buildings between Chest
nut and Walnut streets burned. Loss $780,
600; insurance $4,000.
WooDsvILLE n. H, May 19.-The steam
saw mill and 100000 feet Of lumber be-
longing to A. T. d E. Baldwin, also the
depot, water house, 500 cords of wood,
property of the Montpelier g. Wells River
railroad, with two cars, burned. Wood
land fires are raging at Twine Mountain,
Jefferson, Warren, Summit, and much
damage is anticipated. thousand acres
have already burned over. large force
CT mea is fighting the flames. The losses
on standing aad cat timber are large.
JERSEY CITY, May 19.-The cabinet, up
holstering and paint shop of the Pennsyl-
yanla Railroad conaSGay, contained in one
building 400 by 175 feet, burned tonight
The shops contained three Pullman
coaches, one Of which was saved,
badly scorched, eighteen passenger
coaches, Eastlaks design, three
locomotives, six tenders, and
vast quantity of paints, cushions,
plush and other car fittings. The watch
men got freight engine 449 out, but were
unable to save engine So, a good, large To-
comotiye owned by the New York, West
Shore & Buffalo railroad company Loss
estimated on building, $8O,00O; two Pull
man coaches, $4,000; two locomotives,
$4,000; eighteen passenger coaches, $144,-
600; six tenders, $4,000. Total, $312, 1000.
To the above must be added the material
and fittings, the value of which will fall
not far short of 100000, making total
of $4,000. The company has large re-
serve for meeting fire losses. Nearly 500
men are thrown out of work. The com
pany will rebuild at once.
THROUGH BRIDGE.
LA"hr'NOE, AAo'3 AhoJ AC.-N w LILO d 1r6lSuI
train on the K. G. L. & S. K. railway was
crossing the bridge over Arkansas river at
Oxford, KS, this morning, the engine and
one car went through the bridge, killing
engineer Howard Finley, seriously injur-
ing fireman Kelly, and drowning car
load of horses.
KILLED By THE CARs.
WINCHESTER, Ky, May 19.-Wm. H.
Hester, of Raleigh, N. H, was run over
and killed by the engine of construction
train this morning.
RAILWAY COLLISION.
DENVER, Col, May 19.-In q collision
between 2 passenger train and a wild en-
gine near Satida, on the Denver q Rio
Grande railway this evening the fireman,
Johnny Howard, was killed, and engineer
Miles badly hurt. Roth engines and cars
were wrecked. None of the passengers
were injured.