Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-02-26

ing rear, sounding like the ocean beat : iHg agaias; the rocks.
 Al three o'clock in the aftsrnson.
 superintendent Brown, sesisg that tks dam must inevitably go. sent messsn- ger ts the fewer dan to nstiiy them si
 the danger, but it was ss,ted that he
 stepped at salsen sn the read and,
 becoming intsxicatsd. failed ts deliver.
 his message, returning to tho wreck ei
 the dam she ssxt morning. The feel
 ing against him vas so strong shsre that he immediately left
 | ANOTHER MESSENGER WAS SENT
 At s:So in the evening. but owing to
 the sarkness of the night and the fury
 of the stsrm he cosld make bas slow 1 progress, and is reported to have been
 ovsrtaksn aai drowned by the aoea l jsst ss he neared the lever camp.
 1 Superintendent Brewn eamped at
 the dam all night and watched the ire
 sistisle progress of the fcsd. but was
 powerlsss tS de more than he had
 already done.
 Ne had gone ts sleep, hnt about F
 o'clock ws were awakened by ssperin-
 tendent Brswn calling to bis foreman.
 MT. Dwyer, Get uP Pail. think the
 dam has broken. Soon afterwards there was A TREMENDOUS ROAR, Which was perfectly indescribable, and [ we arose and, locking out, saw the water rushingout of the dam. Inside of | i've hours the water had all disspt cared from where berors 1t was fren sixty to | ninety feet deep. Dwyer took a isn-
 tern and worked his way down along the rrecipitsus cliffs of the river about A mile, where the camp of the miners had besa located, and the light attract.
 ed thc attention of man on the oppc-
 site side of the stream, who called for help. Ne could not see him in the darkness, and l. Icing impossible te reach him, he returned tc the dam, and i we two, accompanied by s Mexican and an Italian, provided with ropes, went down to rescue hin We remain- cd there until daylight witAout being able to reach him. At daylight we could sec hin away up
 os THE SIDE OF THE HILL,
 Eighty feet above the river, amsng the orash. We called and saetioued te him ts cems down te the stream. Vel threw rope ts him, but he was afraid ts risk crossing with 1t. Ne had nosh- . ing but his sndsr clothes sn, and bis feet were bare, and all cnt and bruised ls from climbing among the recks. We ls tied some matches to a stone { sad threw them te him, when he built fire and warmed himself, when , we nstisned to him ts go up the stream, which he did, and was assisted acres the waters, and provided with clothing. l
 4 THRILLING EXPERIENCE, li
 His naus is Francis M. Packer. He stated thas while himself and partners had previously been afraid that the dam , would break, they felt no fear whatever this time, and had gene to bed feeling perfectly secure. During she night they were all awakened by sound as if some one had thrown a handful of stones against their cabin. He heard one st his partners jump cut of bed and ex ! claim, My God. what IS that" and never heard or saw anything of them af- The next moment be said be sas lifted against the roof of the cabin l | snd be csugh. hold of the rallers. The s Fatsr formed an eddy where the cabin | 'tood in little cove. and the cabin wss T RAISED TO THE SURFACE OF THK WATER, q And after floating around in this eddy or awhile the roof was struck by big . wave and driven ID against the hluf, when he seized some bushes asd drew himself out of the watsT, and rushed u@ r he side of the hlll over sharp and broken A 'scks with all possible speed. He called 7. md called for hls partners, but the only ' Insser that came back to him was the laundering rear of the torrent" Is
 CONTINUING HIS OWN STORY. le Mr. Moore sad: .Aft rescuing Packer W we continued eus ser ch dewn the can rI Ton, but found nothing but dead fish ol md evidences of the ~reatest devasta- q ion. The water line along tbs bluffs d vas clearly marked, as every particle of al al and vegetation had been swept away f. eaving only the lines defining the sif- | erent stratRs os rocks. aud Ii will remain V here fer years Immense trees had y 'esn broken of, while ths few left b. tanaing were stripped of all foliage, V imss and even their bark, leaving them q ,are poles. h lials side creek tibu e ary to the Hasssyampa % the east side (; suld be seen where the water backed fr P several hundred feet and the marks Il n the hills showing it to have been Ios - eet deep. Mr Moore relates as u
 4 SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCES, n Which has impressed him more since .n han It did at the time, that when he a' cached the road leading te Castle Creek h' Ie wanted to 60 there, while his brother V vantsd to continue up to the dan. a' They decided to throw up quarter five ia ines to decide, be selecting 'tails" in V avor of the Castle Creek read. The r uartef was tossed seven times, 'sailsp 2 rinning every time; but be still gave in | 2 bis brosher's wishes ard weat up to n' he dam. narrowly escaping the fury or ID s waters. ei Profsrs of assistance from outside towns ave already been received. but the present ants of the survivors have been amply 1pplied. Goods in addition to those ore. ! si iously sent were forwarded from Prescott te o-dsy, while q telegram from Phenix sn- u ounces that aid in the shape of clothing ! c nd provisions had been sent from that sl lace.
 The survivors state that the friction of hs water caused light making
 SURROUNDING OBJECTS rLAfsIY
 pfscERNIBLE. ~e ci ,ne man was seen to start for place of n, sfety, and. seeing that escape was impos- ;- ible, brayeiy turned his face to the flood Q meet his fate. Nothing was ever seen st { him after being struck by the water. c
 AsetheT man was seen going up a el teep hilL and had reached a point IT bout fifty feet above the leve! of the n iver bed, when the mighty volume Of = Tater struck and killed him. |.
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