New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-05
THE BURST DAN,
Further Particulars of the
Horrible Disaster Reports
a Loss of Over Fifty. i
1 Wall Of Water d Hundred
Feet High Rushed Down
the Valley.

asRESCOTT, Ar1z., Specialize failure of
She:messenger to arrive yesterday with fur
Their particulars of the great disaster on the
Aassayampa river had tendency to en-
gender the feeling of hope nn the heartssof
zaasaaya that the news was exaggerated and
that the horrible catastrophe was
not aas bad as at first briefly report
ed Such hopes, however, were dispelled
when u. 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 dispelled, but their
story went TO show that half had not
been told. A short time after the arri-
val of Pnof. Douglas and the Messrs WILL
Jams, u. H. Beggs, a 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. It was midnight,
however, before this messenger arrived.
giving list of the lost as far as known
and partial list of the survivors. Sheriff
O'Neill writes as follows from Rouark's
ranch, dated Monday:
THE WATERS AWFUL WORK
The scene of desolatiosl along the Hassayampa
river below the sites of the dams is complete
A tornado could not have made such a complete
wreck. For miles the waters turned free BY the
breaking of the dams have filed the bed of
the creek with bodies and with enor-
e knd oet de iGsss The and foe evsng
thifty-eight names are a partial list of the
drowned: Hannah mccarthy, maid to Miss Ham
lon AID Miss Van Buren,; Joe Reynolds, miner;
George Ebbetts, laborer; N. e. Nickel, laborer:
Alexander Mcmillan, coachman for Mr. Van
Buren,; u G. Wheeler, labores; Mexican,
Cook, laborer; n Z. White, laborer; John Sis.
bee, visitor; Charles King. blacksmith
l7 Shay. laborer Patrick Barry, laborer
borer; Frederick Palmer, laborer: Casper
Freester, laborer; John Browne, engineer; Alex
Browne, engineer; S. Burlogie, laborer; L. D.
borer, ar, and eight Cinnamon. Among the survivors
are Miss Mary Hanlon, niece of H. s. Van |
Buren, president OF the Walnust Grove Water
Brown, merchant, and all bis assistante; Ed
m ,l:1, silsbee, q s. Van Buren, and daughter,
in the Phoenix, having left for there on the |
Tuesday preceding. Besides these here men |
toned some twelve or fifteen miners who werein
the placer mines between the upper and lower
dam with a number of ranchers along the
stream are missing and when all the casualties
are ascertained the entire loss will probably be
far discovered are about a dozen, many OF
which were found twenty and thirty miles from
the the place where the food overlook them all.
while in several cases only fragments
have been recovered, as the force of the food
was terrific Many bodies have doubtless been
carried far south. The impetus of the stream
OF water when turned loose can hardly be appre-
ciated without going over the ground covered by
IT, Those who saw it say that it came down in
AN ALMOST PERPENDICULAR WALL
ninety or one hundred feet high, and apparently
crushed down instead Of sweeping everything
thrown around as child n might toss sols b ba
Enormous trees were broken in two or torn into
shreds. Iron bars We're broken and twisted
miles and then embedded in the walls OF the the
canyon eighty feet above the present level of the
containing in the neighborhood of 81, 900, was
swept away and no tracs has been found of it.
Whatever the water struck went down. The
food struck the lower dam at 1:5o. and five
minutes later the headquarters, five miles
below were swept away. Several persons were
at both points watching but notwithstanding
point was over thirty, and those who did
escape did SO with only what they had on
heir ii, backs, many only in their night clothes.
) Courier u was as sent e Eom ~ the s u pper
10 the lower dam to warn the residents at the
after point that the former structure was in
LANCER OF breaking but owing to the storm and
darkness the messenger could not keep ahead OF
5he food, and lost his lie in trying to cross the
aassayampa river within view of the survivors
of the camp he had tried to save.
Charles Thompson, a courier who arrived
here this afternoon from below Wickenburg,
md who lost his ranch above the lower
lam, reports that nine bodies have been
discovered at Wickenburg, aud three above,
n addition to those already discovered.
All the ranches along the river have been
entirely swent away !