Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1890-03-01

one to authorize the purchase of gold
and Silver bullion and to issue treasury
notes in payment, the bill directs the
purchase of silver bullion to the amount
of S4,JC0.O00 per month and as much
gold bullion as may be offered and the
issue of treasury notes, and repeats the
laws directing the coinage OF 100000
Of silver dollars per month.
Beck said the report from the finance
committee was not unanimous. lie OPP
posed it. Sherman and McFerson are
also said to be opposed to the bill.
| Chandeliers resolution offered yester-
day was then taken up and bitter de-
bate between Chandler and Call fol-
| lowed, after which the resolution was re-
ferred TO the committee on privileges and
elections.
LOUISVILLE, Feb. 2j.-The city is agog
on account of an attempt of three prom
| inent local physicians OF this city, to rob
| tho ;graves Of Tom johnson and Ed.
Pearce, buried in the New Albany ceme-
| terry yesterday. The men were to COM
NIT the deed early in the morning but
officers got wind off it and were IN
| waiting. DR.. j. L. Blackburn and DR..
| w. e. Grant were arrested and taken to
| jail. The third doctor fled but his
| identity is known. A negro who drove
| the wagon was shot dead as he started
| to run. A second colored man who went
to help the ghouls was also arrested.
Medical students from this city have
roboed the cemetery repeatedly.
GALVESTON, Feb. 25-The schooner
Marcan Trimes, from Georges Bay, re-
ported that during heavy gale, three
lNf ha-- cd
drowned.
New YORK, Feb. 25.-The funeral of
John Jacob Astor occurred to-day.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The President
has appointed Harold NJ. Sewall, consul
general at Apia.
VANCOUVER, w. T., February 25-Ear-
ly this morning the court house and Jail
were discovered to be on fire. High
wind seon set the whole south half of
the building in flames. The fire spread
so rapidly that great difficulty was ex-
perlenced In saving prisoners confined
in the building. Building which is
stone and brick, valued at $4,000, is q
total loss; insurance $4,000; supreme
and associated court records totally des- |
troyed. Judge Bloomfield lost his Ii |
brary valued at $500. Total loss to
County estimated at 100000. Origin |
of fire unknown.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.-The house
passed n bill extending to the San
Diego and Wilmington, California, pro-
visions of an act relative to the immedi- |
ate transportation of dutiable goods.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 25.-The train
which left here this morning for Indian
apolis and Chicago, ran into a washout
north of Vincennes. Tho engineer and
fireman were both killed.
Prescott, February Following is
a partial list of the drowned Hannah
Mccarthy, maid to Miss Van Buren, and
Miss Hanton; Joe Reynolds, miner; E.
Ebbetts, laborer; n. r. Nickel, laborer;
Alexander Mcmillan, coachman for Mr..
Van Buren,; Il. G.. Wheeler, laborer; n
L. White, laborer; John Silsbee, visitor;
Charles King, blacksmith; Patrick
Shay, laborer; Patrick Barre, laborer;
Thomas Broken, laborer; Casper Pres
ton, John Brown and Alexander Brown,
engineers; ~. Flanagan, laborer; Fred
erick Palmer, laborer; S. Burlogie, la
borer; L. d. Haynef, laborer and child; I!
@. Rundell, laborer; one Mexican ana
eight Cinnamon.
Among the Survivors are Miss Mary
Hanton, niece of Ii. H. VanBuren, presi- |
dent of the Walnut Grove Water Stcr- I;
age Co.; j. Reddington, engineer; Paul /
Lansing, book-keeper; Robert Brow
merchant, and all his assistants; Ed
mund Silsbee. H. II. FanBuren and |
daughter. with Lieutenant Brodie, su-
perintendent, were in PheniX, having
eft for there on Tuesday proceeding.
Besides the victims here mentioned
were II or 10 miners at work between
the upper and lower dams, and a num-
Der of ranchers along the stream are
missing. The number of lives lost will |
probably amount 20 SO or co. AbOuta
dozen bodies have been recovered many
Of which were found 20 or 80 miles below
the place where tho flood overlook them
All of the remains are more or less mutt
lated, while of some only fragments have
been recovered. Many bodies have
doubtless been buried in the sand.
some torn to pieces and others carried
far south. The forco of the water can
hardly be appreciated without going
over the ground covered by it. Those
who saw it say it came down in an al
nest perpendicular wall 90 or 100 feet
high, and apparently crushed down in
stead OF sweeping everything away be-
fore it. Ordinary Hat iron wls taken up
and carried five miles. then embedded in
a canyon 80 feet above the present level
OF the stream. \ large safe belonging
TO Robert Brown, which contained $1,000,
was swept away and no trace has been
found OF it vet.
The flood struck the lower dam at 1.5J
Saturday morning, and five minutes
later the headquarters five miles below
were swept away. Early Friday even
ing courier was sent from the upper
TO the lower dam to warn the residents
at the latter place that the former
structure was in danger Of breaking,
but owing to the storm and darkness
the messenger, William Arkird, could
not keep ahead OF the food and lost his
life trying to cross the Hassayampa,
wit in view of the survivors OF tho camp
that he had tried to save.
Charles Thompson, courier who ar
rived from Wickenburg this afternoon,
and who lost his ranch above the lower
dam, reports that nine bodies have been
recovered. Ranches along the stream
including the old historic Brill ranch,
has.bee swept entirely away.
PHENIx-News from the scene OF the
disaster comes in slowly. The full list
Of drowned is not known and it will be
several days before they are known.
Mr.. Mills, courier who arrived last
night, says he was awakened about two
o'clock in the morning by the shrieks of
the people in the camp and yelling to
his partner, rushed for high ground |
some 30 feet away, up the steep bank of !
the canyon. His partner stopped 20
grab his boots, aud was in water up to |
his armpits before he reached place Of |
safety. When he first saw the wave it |
was 80 feet high. With terrible roar |
it swept upon the camp, carrying away |
tents buildings and cottonwood trees. |
The lower dam building was $40 feet |
above bed rock and 80 feet above sur
face water. Every vistage OF it was
swept away,
A party of prospectors on their way to
the dam was camped in YaSsascappa