The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-02-26
THE ARIZONA DISASTER
Further Particulars Concerning the
Awful Calamity.
Terrible Suffering and Destitution
Among the Survivors-A
Partial List Of the
Drowned.

PRESCOTT, -,riz., Feb. 25.-Thc worst
fears of the Walnut Grove disaster are
more than realized. alth orIlh the p,,rtict-
lars come in slew and are still Iicagrc.
Two prospectors arrived last night from
the upper dam. They state that thcy
campcd above the dam ON Friday night.
About i o'clock Saturday morning the
dam broke. the water running down the
marrow. steep canyon - feet high. pnc
man was rescued from the top Of - tree.
They State that not even remnant of the
dam exists. The immense body of water.
one and on half miles square and Co
feet deep, was emptied in an hour
They had talked with many from the
smaller dam II miles below, who said
been r>covercd, hut could give no asidi-
tional nnncs. The survivors were in
great dcsti,ntion, having neither provis-
werc being used in lieu of clothing. A
camp of workncn engaged i'm building
tiume had not been heard from at all and
IL is feared that all are lost. No news has
been received here from Wickcnbcrg ar
from the settlements below the dam.
More detailed particulars ars looked for
now every moment.
A messenger bringing further details of
the Walnut Grove dam disaster arrived
the scene of the disaster, writes as fol-
lows: "The scene OF ,icsolation along
iassayampa below the sites OF the dam.
is complete. For miles the waters turned
free by the breaking of the dams have
filled the bed of the creek with bodies,
ana VII enormous ubttItlt.rS ann tftt-s
aud cytry other kind of debris.
drowned:
HANNAH MoCAxTHr.
JOE REYNOLDS. miner.
GEORGE EBBETTs, laborcr.
ALEXANpce McMti.LrS. coachmau for
T.. G.. WHEELER, i,borcr.
ONE MENIcAN, name unknown
&. l.. Cook, laborcr.
n. l.. WHITE. ltborer.
JOHN SILsBEE. blacksmith.
| CHARLES KISG, blacksmith.
| PATRICK SHAY. laborcr.
PATRICK BARRS. laborcr.
CHARLES BRAckEN. laborcr-
| WILLIAM FLASAGAs, llborcr.
| FREDERICK PALMER. laborcr.
| CASPER FOSTER, istborcr.
l.. N. HAYES. la,orer, and child.
GEoRGE B. RUNDELi., iaborcr, and eight
\ Cinnamon.
| Besides these mentioned were some L.
| ar II miners. who were placer mining be-
| tween the upper and lower dams. with :,
number of ranchers along the stream
| who ace also missing. and ssh.n all the
| casualties are ascertaincd the entire loss
| will probably bc betw.en 30 and ~ lives
| A number of bodies been recovered, many
| of which were found. ID and ~ mil'.-
| them. All the remains arc more ar icss
| mutiiatcd, while IN several cases nni!
| fragments have been recovered. Man,
| bodies doubtless have been buried in ths
sand, others torn to pieces and others car
ricd far south. The impctriosity of tbs
stream of water when turned loose ear
the ground covered, by il. Those who saw
il say il came down almost In q
| perpeItlicular wall ~ or 100 feet high ant
| apparently crushed down instead o
| sweeping away everything pcforc u. III,
| great body of water one ana ~ balf miles
square and 80 feet deep eunpticd in IN
| hour. Immense boulds,rs weighing ton
| were TIN own around and enormous trcc'
| broken in two or torn IN shreds. Nat
| iron WAS picked up aud carried live mile,
aud then iinbcddcd in the wall
| of the canyon ~ feet above th'
present level of the stream.
large safe containing 5000 WA
of il. The Hood struck the lower dam {,
1 30 n. M, and five minutes later tin
ldaIuaricrs, five miles below. wer
swept away. Several persons were {,
| both points watching, but Notwithstanding
this the number drowned at the iirst poin
was over thirty. and those who escapes
did so with what they bad on their backs
survivors are in great tlcstitution havin
neither PROVISIONS nor clothing. Man
are using coarse grain sacks IN lieu q
clothing.
Friday evening "A courier was sent from
the upper to- the lower dam To warn res
danger of breaking but owing to the storr
th, messenger lost his life in trying
cross VI g Has-ayainpa. within Ni"w q
survivor of the camp ~ had tried "a save
Charles THOMPSON. ti,.. courier who al
rived this afternoon from below Wicker
: burg. reports thai nine bodies had bcc
| discovered AT wi.kenbury and three |
addition to- those already discovered. 1b
old historic Brill ranch, with all the 9th,
ranches along th'. rivcr.tavc been cntirci
swept away.