The Lamar register., 1890-07-26
STATE NEWS.

Denver wis FelfesutQ ny u suOWSi
IN the 18th. 1t was the first in two
months
A carbine was found recently In the
,ork of tree In Taylor Park, near Aspen.
It belonged to prospector who was killed
~ the Utes in 1862.
The people of Denver are enumer-
,ted at last and 1s6, lS6 is given by the
supervisor as the total number Of inhabit-
ints of the city and its suburbs.
Secretary Eellerman of the Ger
mania and Centennial Building and Loan
Association of Denver is short in his &C
sounts about $4,000. He has turned over
nearly enough property to cover the de-
icit. The defalcation is said to be due to
his liberality to his friends.
Heavy rains in the mountains have
caused great damage of late to railroad
property, and caused several deaths.
There was a terrible food on North Clear
Greek last Monday night, and by sudden
rise of Beaver Brook party of Denver
campers was overwhelmed in flood OF
water which drowned Mrs. Abel and her
child and Miss Drake.
Pitkiu County has come to the front
with n carload of mineral specimens for
exhibition at the ST. Louis fair. The col
lection is said to be one of great value and
interest, and will be forwarded in due
time with the exhibits of other counties.
La Plata County, through its county com
missioners, has appointed an agent TO
manage that countyis exhibit
A cloudburst occurred on the Big
Thompson c few miles west of Loveland
Sunday afternoon. Saw logs, brush and
debris of various kinds came down with
the rush of water, and was scattered along
the valleys. Bridges on the Buckhorn
and Big Thompson were washed away and
the banks OF the Souden canal were broken
in several places. The river rose several
feet in less than an hour. y heavy wind
accompanied the cloud as it passed over,
and considerable hail fell, doing damage
to crops.
Little Annie Wilson, of Loveland,
was run over by the accommodation train
at Lafayette last Tuesday. Both lower
limbs were cut off and mangled and other
injuries caused Internal hemorrhage. She
lived but two hours. The train was back
Ing down to Lafayette for passengers to
connect with the evening train during a
heavy storm. The little girl was walking
between the double tracks with her
umbrella up The conductor saw her
and shouted. Unfortunately she stepped
onto the wrong track. The car struck and
dragged her under with the above result
Governor Cooper has received from
United States, letter enclosing check
for 500, sG4.0J which is partial payment
of the amount due the State of Colorado
as its . per cent of the amount received
on the sale of public lands from July /,
1856 TO June 30. 1890. Mr.. Garrison ex-
plains that the total amount due the State
from this source is 1924, 3+129, and that
his remittance exhausts the fund avail
able for the payment of the Indebtedness.
He adds that Congress- will be asked for a
special appropriation to satisfy the States
claim.
At 1890 o'clock Tuesday morning
a few people who were passing the Farris
hotel-Pueblo, were surprised to see a
man, clad only in his underclothing, climb
ing out of third story window until he
was hanging by his hands from the stone
sill. a party at once started TO the res
cue, arriving in the room below Just as he
kicked in the glass, cutting his feet and
legs and awakening him from the somnam-
bulistic slumber in which he had perform
ed his strange feat. He was then drawn
into the room, lite the worse for his dan.
gerous adventure The hero eff this mid.
night episode is cattleman from Grand
Junction.
The east-bound passenger train on
the Rock Island railway, which left Dem
yer last Monday evening, ran through q
bridge over Big Sandy creek, one mile
west of Limon, just before midnight The
engine, smoker and chair car were ditched.
The passengers were thrown in all dlrec-
sions, and miraculously escaped with their
lives. a large number were injured.
Engineer Mccormick, it is feared, was
killed. He is missing and it is the suppo
sition that his body is under the wreck.
The cause of the accident was the giving
way of the bridge. The strength of the
structure has not heretofore been ques-
toned.
The Colorado Central railroad SUI
fered great damage from storms on the
22nd and Ord. The loss can only be ap-
proximated at $3.50, 900. The amount OF
track washed out covers, altogether, a
distance of about twenty miles, five miles
from Forks Creek to Smith Hill and
fifteen miles from Golden to Floyd Hill.
The iron bridge at the forks of the creek
looks like bundle of wire, it has been SC
tangled up. 1t is impossible for the rail-
road men to estimate the damage done to
the road, but they admit it must be very
large, as the road up through there is a
very costly piece of railroad construction.
The bridge alone was worth about s., 900.
A miraculous escape from death oc-
CURED twelve miles below Salida Tuesday
afternoon Four sections of the east
bound passenger train were made up from
several trains which have been greatly
delayed by washouts in Utah, and left
Salida at o'clock in the afternoon.
When nearing an iron bridge across a
small stream which flows into the Arkan-