Arizona republican., 1890-08-06
BISBEE'S GREAT FLOOD
PARTICULARS OF THE DISASTER
 FROM AN EYE WITNESS.
A List of Those Who Sustained Damage An Immense Torrent of Water Sweeps Through the Gorge.

From Mir. Brooks, who was an eye wit ness of the terrible cloud . burst which occurred on Monday night at Bisbee, the Tombstone Prospector learns the following particulars of the disaster:
 The work of destruction and death was fully completed in less than twenty minutes after the first drop of rain fell. The storm gathered rapidly and as the rain was soon falling in torrents the people hastened to the shelter of their homes, little anticipating that they would SO soon be driven out in the storm homeless. The lightning was almost livid glare and the peals of thunder were deafening; but soon above the din and crash rose the shrieks of frightened victims, who were obliged to rush from their deluged homes to places of safety further up on the hills. Houses began to give way with crash and yield to the flood, which carried everything before it, while the light ming gave uncertain glimpses of the wierd scene of destruction. The frantic appeals of the doomed men for the help that could not reach them were plainly audible and heart-rending. A rescuing party bravely rushed to their aid, but succeeded only in saving one man just as he was about to share the fate of his companions. During the confusion that ensued it was some time before 1t was found that three men were missing, and vigorous search up to the hour of noon the next day resulted only in finding the body of Mills. Two miners by the names of Kelly and Stevens are thought to be buried in the pile of debris which is heaped up by the culvert at the rail road bridge.
 Those who were so fortunate as to live on the west side of the main street did not sustain serious damage, except where the flood filled the cellars and destroyed their contents.
 At the Copper Queen store the cellar was deluged and the store filled with mud and water to a depth of three or four feet. The entire force were at work all night, shoveling out mud and trying to rescue the place from destruc- ton. At the Copper Queen office the the water was up to the top of the lower sash of the window and the loss sus- tained by the company is probably under-estimated. At the Copper Queen stables the horses were found standing in water, which nearly covered them.
 The house formerly owned and occu- pied by Mrs. Mcbride, which was located near the Copper Prince, was totally destroyed. It had just been purchased by the Copper Queen com pany and the purchase money together with the house and contents were swept away.
 Three cabins were also swept away, in which were the three victims, one of whose bodies was subsequently, re- covered.
 The building occupied by Mrs. O'Brien, was not demolished, but was washed about four feet away from its foundation, and all it's contents ruined by the deluge of mud and water.
 The home of Charley Platt, whose wife was formerly Miss Mary Welch, Oi Tombstone, was flooded to depth of between two and three feet and it's con- tents ruined.
 The entire loss can hardly yet be esti- mated, but among those whose buildings were flooded and property more or less damaged were Chris. Redovich, who kept a fruit stand; Jacob Lang, pro- prietOr of the Union bakery; the music store of J. Langsdorf; Perkins drug store; the Can Can restaurant; Pasqual Negro's saloon; Waters boot and shoe shop; Wallace's stage office and Mrs. English's lodging house, beside doubt less many others that have escaped men, tion.
 All of the bridges, in and about town, were washed away, with the exception of the railroad bridge, and most of the little foot bridges that led across the gulch to the main street were also de- stroyed.