The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-11
! BrRIED CITY IN TEXAS
20 GREAT SOUTHWEST = LAND
- OF MARVELS.

.onv PARK OF Arizona
From the Ne,0 York Times.
/ r..r DAVIS. TEX, June 2S.-American
- and idlers il search Of strange
- and wonders new never need go
80 The natural wonders Of the world
On this side Of the Atlantic. Our coun-
- oon+ains miles upon miles OF curious,
y! and suupendous marvels, and all
lin a few days ride of the most populous
'.;os If the east. Tue great northwest has
4 sasn thoroughly ''done" or gone over by
s-srelers but the great southwest remains
Fl .,,a+ almost an unexplored region. Lack
:, railroads, hostile Indians, the pre-
,,onca of cutthroats and road agents"
49,. been causes sufficient to give the
parS bad name, and so this portion
tba continent is perhaps the
Of o. Known and understood Of all our ter
leao- Arizona, New Mexico aud North
o.rarn Texas have many surprises in store
w. Sight-seei travellers. Ruins Of lost
l n.;es cave dwellings, cliff houses and other
4 obodes OF extinct man are now being I'M
o eOveI. to he light Of dav, showing that
s . Treat and ind strious people once inhab-
;+sd the land, Who unders God something of
10 arts and sciences, and who cultivated
~ aids and plowed the gr1und at some
4 distant epoch of time much inc same as we
3 do to-day c.,.. a..
,rrerican side of the Rio Granue, Amanda
4 chavez disc vered the ruins of an extensive
q INV tne existence of which had never been
4 snsnected before. The place whe this
bdden city lies has hitherto had the general
onnaarance of a huge swell or rise the
n marie. a perfect desert IN outward appear
inca for it contai ed no herb, no root, no
#Tiant no verdure of any kind, nothing save
s = waste of sa d, alkali, and dirt, across
which living creatures hesltated to travel
B rnle,s forced to do so. Beneath this pile of
&desolation lay the ruins of an ancient city,
s Drobablv Toltec in origin.
il Itl>nOt hard to imagine how the old city
<became buried MIR. Chavez tells us how
8 be CHANGED to stumble across it soon after
yaterspout and gale of wind uncovered
& the ruins to view. Here in the far s)uth-
west. where rains are few and strong winds
FREQUENT the surface of the country, which,
&by ages If drought and disintegrating proc
8 esses has become crumbled and loose, is
Dicked up and carried about from place to
&nlace by almost any wind that blows. Very
#often these whirigig storms develop into
N15iniature cyclones, and sometimes they
q grow so large on such a grand scale
|Sfnat their DO er and deStructiveneSS are
almost beyond belief. Sweeping across
tine country with not so much velocity
as a genuine cyclone, they pick up and
zcarry along rocks, dirt, stone, trees, sand,
and what not, smashing everything they
*eucounter and spreading ruin in their path.
8They have habit when reaching a soft,
yielding surface of boz ing down and suck
slng up or SC oping out the sand, leaving the
zhollow SPOT barren and clean as far down
as bed rock, and this hollow or hole looks
for all the world as if some gigantic anger
#had been employed in doing the work.
zdelce they a o called sand augers." so
dense is he mass of S nd gathered up by
TINS curious phenomenon of nature that the
#column whTling about with frightful ra-
Spldty, actually I, aches the clouds, and
I0ins with the latter in fOI ming a funnel
from the earth to the sky.
& The first indications of a sand auger
Swould be the formation here and there Of
little whirligigs of dusty wind, picking I'D
bits of straw, leaves and other rubbish, and
%waltziDg about helter-skelter with them
from place to place. In this valley, from
Rwhere | am writing, ore can see almost any
#dSy dozen or more of the little tunnels,
hooking like tall, slender pipes of smoke,
dancing over the prairie in every direc-
8tloa. One or two of them sometimes meet
#and join fo ces, but when a dozen or
twenty come gether, and happen at the
Same time to strike a heavy, low-hanging
Cloud full Of wind and vapor, then
the chances are that a genuine sand
&auger Of the first magnitude will be gener-
#a,ed Although formed or created by a
succession of small whirlwinds, sand augers
~ eak up very quickly, collapslng SO sud
q fhar hn hna for
mass OF flying, falling sand. Anything
below is Simply swamped out of existence.
PROT. +. E. Clarke, with a railroad en-
eineerlng party, thus describes a ten
Seconds experience he had one Sunday
afternoon with a small-sized frollicking
fand anger. This particular mOnste had
a diameter of only eighteeen or twenty
Feet at the ground, but its bulk increased
e @lth Its hight Until it W S finally merged
INTO the broad surface of a thick, heavy,
$SfanglHg cloud. ut passed near nur camp
@nere as at work." said the professor,
and carried off tent or two. 1t then
III raz,d the edge of a corral near by,
putt away one angle of ar adobe wall,
fnd sN eeniHg by the house itself. left every
n pane OF glass IN the one window as neatly
round a if done by sand BLAST machine.
& aSsing on, the tents the auger vas carry,
lg oil became entangle1 in the telegraph
g sires running through the valley, and after
g Raging down two poles the cyclone col
'ISed, leaving beneath, when it broke up, a
'emendous mound of sand and dirt wnere
othlng had been before"
such, no doubt, was the fate of the city
Pecently unearthed by Mr.. Chavez. A sand
flger posslbly made the first deposit, and
Zen tie contiguous ACCOMMODATIONS of wind
faadeS ami the like piled up the sand and
fpIaer desFltus until The whole was converted
i.to al extensive mound. The uncovering
Tie runs was accomplished by severe
aIh,toria, which proved TO be genuine
cioud burst. This, sweeping down upon the
ahdy mound, with terrible force, washed
|zaway ne angle OF the mound, disclosing
oule heavy stone walls, which made the
Nciscovery possible MIR. Chavez obtained a
iuHiper OF interesting relics. One skele-
*toh mad three strands Of beads around its
tieck, of torquois. jet, and bone respectively,
n,so earrings of jet aud turquois. The
ltqIihlny'S hair was brown, and some pieces
orlgnt, orname ted pottery were near it.
1rFo" heads, broken pottery, ETC., were
battered about The skeleton was in q
ctanioer OF solid masonry, the stones firmly
cel1ented, and IL may have been his tomb,
I!Vnin which he was sealed at the time of
tis death. '--O -
Ene large building, with massive stone
ans ana . tower at each corner, was ex.
e'ooeo oy the cloud burst. This has the
L.caraace OF a citadel, the masonry being
ny aud secure, and in the center Is
ssonaT1y water reservoir with aaueducts
ovoIeS retchlng away in many directions,
u a. 't tE One Idea That the Hiding was erected
p,,. ine purpose Of standing siege. Some
n ga S'o ~: indians, Questioned regarding the
a oiu Guy, saw thar las .1an,a vvss E,o+n 80