Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-01
LIST OF THE DEAD.

LIST OF THE DEAD.
 Prescott, February 25-Following is a partial list of the drowned Hannah Mccarthy, maid to- Miss VanBuren and Miss Hanton; Joe Reynolds, min CT; D. Ebbetts, laborer; N. E. Nickel, laborer; Alexander McMillan, coach man for MT. VanBuren; E. G. Wheeler, laborer; N. L. White, laborer; John Silisbee, visitor; Charles King, black smith; Patrick Shay, laborer; Patrick Barre, laborer; Thomas Brocken, la borer; W. Flannigan, laborer; Freder- rick Palmer, laborer; Casper Preston, John Brown and Alex. Brown, engin- eers S. Burlogie, ,laborer; L. D. Haynef, laborer, and child; G. Runden, labor CT; one Mexican and eight chinamen
 Among the survivors are Miss Mary Hanton, niece Cf H. H. VanBuren, president of the Walnut Grove Water Storage Co.,; s. Redington, engineer; Paul Lansing, book-keeper; Robert Brown, Edmund Silsbee. H. H. Van Buren and daughter, with Lieutenant Brodie. superintendent, were in Phe- nix, having left for there on Tuesday preceding.
 Besides the victims here mentioned were l2 or 15 miners at work between the upper and lower dams, and num- Der of ranchers along the stream are missing. The number of lives lost will probably amount to 5 or CO., About dozen bodies have been recovered, many of which were found 20 or 30 miles below the place where the flood overlook them. All of the remains are more or less mutilated, while oi some only fragments have been re- covered. Many bodies have doubtless been buried in the sand, some torn to pieces and others carried far south. The force of the water can hardly be appreciated without going over the ground covered by it. Those who saw 1 1t say 1t came down in an almost per pendicular wall 90 or a 100 feet high, and apparently crushed down in stead of sweeping away everything be- fore it. Ordinary flat iron was taken up any carried , miles, then embedded in canyon fifty feet above the pres ent level of the stream. A large safe belonging to Robert Brown, which con. tained $7 900 was swept away and nc l trace has been found of it yet
 The flood struck the lower dam ai l :55 Saturday morning, and 5 minutes later the headquarters, 5 miles below were swept away. Early Friday even ing a courier was sent from t le upper to the lower dam to warn the residents at the latter place that the former structure was in danger of breaking but owing to the storm and darkness. the messenger, William Arkird, could not keep ahead of the flood and los his life trying to cross the Hassayampa within view of the survivors of thl camp that he had tried to save.
 FAULTY CONSTRUCTION.
 San Francisco, February 25-In tht printed transactions of the regular meeting of the Polytechnical Society O the Pacific Coast, held in October 1888, appears a description of tn, Walnut Grove dam, by Luther Wagon CT, one of the directors of the society From this 1t appears that the dam i situated on Hassaysmpa creek, abou B miles south of Prescott, it's eleva ton above the sea level is 3,509 feet The drainage area above the dam i 3S0 square miles. The dam was bull to store water principally for some al legged rich placers on the mesa eight cen miles below the dam. The repor continues: "The history of the dam i one full of blunders, mainly caused b, the officers of the company in Ney York;" Its alleged faulty construc ton is then stated in considerable de tail In brief the quality of cemen and lumber were not up to the usua standard. Some of the work was don while the chief engineer was absent Wagoner was assured by the men who did the work, that in cementing they did not go down to bed rock, and tha they worked in four feet of water. Tn labor was also unreliable, owing per haps to the presence of saloons anC gambling shops, and totally inadequat, provisions were made for the comfor of the men, by either the company o the contractor.
 THE STORY OF AN EYE WITNESS.
 Prescott, February 26-The tw, prospectors who arrived from the up per Walnut Grove dam give the fol lowing account of their experiences Their names are Moses and Rober Moore, two scotchmen, who recent, arrived here from Colorado. Whel found, they were cleaning fish fo their supper, stating that they had SC cured enough from the wreck of tn, dam to last them ever since, many o which were found 80 feet above thC level of the creek. They say they art the last men who ever made the jour ney between the two dams. "W, came up to the Hassayampa," he saiC "from Wickenburg, prospecting al all along the river. We left Wicken