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

banks of the nassaysmpa away further down the stream, fears are entertained for the safety ef is and its few inhab- itan,s if the worst fears should he real ixsd There are also
 SEVERAL FAMILIES Living sleng the banks of the strsAm between the lewsr dan and the absvs nsused town.
 Telegrans have been pouring in frsm all portions ei the United States. ask ng for further information oI tAe dis- astsr and inquiring ss to the safety si various individuals, nc fewer than ten
 hAving been received by the editor of
 this paper yesterday
 Lieut.. Bredie, whe has been in charge ei the work, was in Phenix with fresi-
 dent Van Beuren at the time ei the disaster.
 Charles sraoken, que of the nuwber
 reported missing, was brother oi Mrs.
 c. A. Peter, whsse husband was for
 msrly assistant cashier of the Bank of
 Arizona.
 L. " Edwards. who came up from
 Kirkland Valley yesterday, says that
 Skull Valley seemed ,o be deserted as
 he came through. it's citisens having
 probably gone ts the scene d tho food.
 THE DANE REPORTED BKcKfH
 Were built by the Walnut Grove Water
 Storage company. The upper enc,
 which is aboat forty miles from Pres
 sott, was built to fern, a reservoir for
 the storage of water for use for driving machinery. washing gravel. etc. Work was commenced in lss6. the original promoter of the enterprise hsing Wells H. Bates. The dam was completed about October. 1887. It was huilt in a narrow hsx-canyon oi the Hsssay smpA river. just below it's confluence with five large tributaries of the stresn. which drains scores of square miles Of territory. It WAS ilo feet long at it's base, and 100 feet on top. It was Il feet thick at base. aad 10 feet sn teP, being no feet high. The lake of water formed by it was two and half miles ! in length, hy three quarters of mile wide, covering over HOO acres, the | average depth of the water being 60 feet < wasis-way thirty feet wide and eight feet deep was built around the wes. side to allsw of tho escape of water when the dam was full. In sd. ditien to this there were
 TWO IMMENSE IRON PIPES. h the bottom of the dam, which were twenty-two inches each in diameter, fer use in letting the water out at times of Hoods, as well as for service below when needed. The new service dam is loca- led about fifteen miles below the ste- rage reservoir. IL was commenced | about year ago, and was completed within the past month. It was only thirty feet high, and was built te direct he water inte the fumes, to be carried ! distance of Sfteen miles further down or use in hydraulic mining. The dam md Hume had just been conpleted, md President Van Beurcn and Lieut.. Brodie's mission at Phenix was to ship | lydrsuiic machinery ts the gravel beds, to commence operations next week.
 The company has expended close to I ,00o.f 100 on tse enterprise. and was ust on tho eve of reclining on its iA- when the resistless power of he hsod swept it all away in few eRrs. |,
 In addition 10 the hydraulic opera ( icns of the company owning these , ans, the Electric Placer Mining com any had just completed arrsngem ents pr the purchase of water for driving . aachinery fer . plant they ceAtempla , sd putting in, requiring an expeadi- ure of s250,0o0.
 Engineers Barry and Wilton caIae in o- day from their camp south of tows. hey report having seen large body oi 'ater south of theie camp at o'clock , ester.iay afternoon, and thought it , light have been the lake at the Walnut rove dam. Aside from this nothing hatever had been received up to the eur of going to press this afternoon, nd nothing like even an approximate s,imste of the damage can Dc formed OK the meagre particulars at hand. A ,essenger promised to bs seat by Sher- W. o. 0'Neill on his arrival there is xpectoa at any moment.