The Bottineau pioneer., 1890-03-01
THE BURST DAM.
Further Particulars Of the
Horrible Disaster Reports
a Loss of Over Fifty.
A Wall Of Water q Hundred
Feet High Rushed Down
the Valley.

PRESCoTT, AriZ., Speclal.--Ihe failure OF
the messenger to arrive yesterday with fur
ther particulars of the great disaster on the
Hassayampa river had a tendency to en-
gender the feeling Of hope IN the hearts Of
many that the news was exaggerated and
that the horrible catastrophe was
not as bad as at first briefly report
cd. such hopes, however. were dispelled
when J. J. Williams, mining superintend-
ent accompanied by his brother, Ben
Williams of Bisbee and Prof James
Douglas, mining expert and capitalist ar
rived from Copper Basin and related the
brief story told them by two prospectors
direct from Walnut Grove dam. Not only
was all the hope dispelIed, but their
story went to show that half had not
been told. A short time after the arri-
val Of Prof. Douglas and the Messrs. Will
Jams. 3. III. Beggs, q. stage agent who took
Sheriff O'Neill and DR.. Miller to the scene
of the disaster, returned and reported that
messenger with full particulars had been
sent by Sheriff O'Neill. 1t was midnight,
however, before this messenger arrived,
giving list of the lost as far as known,
and a partial list Of the survivors. Sheriff
O'Neill writes as follows from Rouark's
ranch, dated Monday:
THE WATERS AWFUL. WORK.
The scene OF desolation along the Hassayampa
river below the sites Of the dams is complete;
Atornado could not have made such q complete
breaking OF the dams have filed the bed Of
the creek with bodies and with enor-
6es kna deSss s5sss The an eysny
drowned: Hannah McCarty, maid to Miss Han
lon and Miss Van Buren,; Joe Reynolds, miner;
Alexander Mcmillan, coachman for Mr. Van
Buren,; E.. G. Wheeler, laborer; one Mexican,
name y unnknown g. l;. /; Cook. laborsri NsL. al.
bee, visitor; Charles King. blacksmith;
Charles Bracken, laborer. William Flanagan, Ia
Freester, laborer; John Browne, engineer; Alex,
Browne, engineer; 8. Burlogie, laborer; y. D.
Haynes, laborer, and child; George Funde!l, la
are Miss Mary Hanlon, niece of II. s.. Van
Buren,, president of the Walnust Grove Water
Storage company: James Reddington hydraulic
brown, merchant, and all his assistante; Ed
mund Sisbee, III. s. Van Buren, and daughter,
with Lieut.. A. N. Brodie, superintendent, were
Tuesday preceding Besides these here men
toned some twelve or fifteen miners who werein
the placer mines between the upper and lower
dam with number OF ranchers along the
stream are missing aud when all the casualties
are ascertained the entire loss will probably be
between fifty and sixty lives. The bodies thus
lar discovered are about q dozen, many OF
which were found twenty and thirty miles from
the place where the food overlook them all.
The remains are more or less mutilated.
while IN several cases only Tagments
nave 5een recovered, as Ihe lorce q gne nooa
was r. t s,,d S othars ter ~ Mass and
sarried Il far W south. ~ Tie impetus Of the stream
Of water when turned loose can hardly be appre-
,iated without going over the ground covered by
It. Those who saw It say that y came down ~
AN ALMosr, ,PERrENplc9LAK Pen pi.1 NALL