The Arizona champion., 1884-04-05
THE CHANPIONHASA CIR' CULA1IONALONG THELINE THE 4. & ?. ROAD DOOB- LE 7HATOFANY OTHER PA- PER IV ARLZONA.
The Terrible Accident at Mineral rarA'

PER IN ARIZONA.
 The Terrible Accident at Mineral fark'
 The frequent natural convulslons of recent times furnish no more tragic event than that which betell our late friends. Moses Steen and family, Of Mineral Park. Retiring to rest wlth no thought but of perfect security; the very walls that were reared for the,r protection wrought at once thelr death and became their grave.
 At day break only the north wall of the fatal building was standing. The other three had completely given away, and the whole ruin tumbled into the cellar-while over it rested the disjointed roof of the house. The roof was quickly carried off by the men who rushed to the scene, and then began the work of unearthing the bodies. It was soon found that MT. Steen was killed. A voice was heard. listening, the workmen could hear the faint tones of little Henry. He was deeply buried under the debris and was heard with diff culty. Presently the workmen dis tinguished, "there is board across me, hurting me awfully. Hurry up," and presently, "the dirt is falling on me-"
 Little Nellie was found lying upon the broken floor as it sloped into the cellar beneath its great weight, her little limbs caught in the timbers, bruised and bloody-dead.
 Mabel had been carried away earh- CT. She sustained compaI atively lit tle injury. Her limbs were car ght between some boards, so that she could not move. and she sat there unclothed in the cold blast of that stormy night, until 5 o'clock In the morning-it is supposed at least three hours. Finally the workmen succeed ed in getting Henry out. The brave little boy, exhausted and deadly pale from his terrible and prolonged suffer ings, was taken to the freside of rel ative and immediately cared for by the physician. The body of MT. Steen was now removed. Evidence made it appear that he had died from uffo cation.
 Then the body of Mrs. Steen was unearthed. It was contracted, the hands clenched, and the fearful ten sion of the muscles told of the desper. ate effort made for freedom from tha, load of earth that fell with crushing weight, then shut out the air as if tc make more sure the fate of its naples: victims. What terrible picture i: that! The wife and mother, her bus band by her side, stricken insensiblt and dying beneath that relentles. weight, her three idolized childrer only few feet from her, buried alive -she conscious of the situation anc straining every effort, it is said ever tearing the arteries in her superhumar exertion to help them, but compelled at length, despairing, to die alone.
 Said little Henry: "I heard Nelli, cry, and she asked me to come anc help her, and-but l told her couldn't; l was fast. After awhil, she quit crying" It was death tha hushed her quivering sobs. "Thel l heard Mama cry-and she cried and criedl but after awhile she quit. Death had settled over the ghastl scene of that stormy night. And no, of that family of five who but fe, hours before had laid down to res with light hearts and golden promis for long years of life, only Henry buried and faint beneath those ruins and Mabel, sitting unprotected in tn cold, were left, Certainly, Eye kno, not the hcur when your Lord shal come"
 To their relatives, how poignan must be the hear.'s grief when it stream of love is so rudely turne back in its flowing and stilled in tn fountain of grief. To all these we ex tend our sincerest sympathy in thi hour of woe.