The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1890-03-08
VICTIMS or THE DAN DISASTER.
Names of me of the people Who Per-
ished-f bodies Carried Thirty Miles.

Names OF me of the people Who Per-
ished- bodies Carried Thirty Miles.
The latest dispatches from Prescott
Arizona. say that the scene OF dcsolatlon
along the IIassayampa below the sites OF the
dams il complete. A tornado could not
have made such complete wreck. For miles
waters turned free by the breaking OF dams
have filled the bed OF the creek with bodies
and with enormous powders, trees aud
every other Kind OF debris. The following
thirty-eisht names are partial list OF the
drowned:
Chas. King, blacksmith; Patrick Shay.
laborer; Patrick Barry, laborer; Chas. Il.
Bracken, laborer; wm. Flanagan. 'lahorer;
Fred Palmer, laborer; Casper Frecster. lab
orer. John Browne. engineer; l.. ID. Haynes,
and child, laborer; ). Burlogie, laborer;
Alex Browne, engineer; Hannah McCarty.
maid TO Miss Iianlon aud Miss Van Buren,;
Joe Reynolds a miner; Geo. Ebbctts, a lab
orer; n. T.. Nickel, laboror; Alex McAitl-
Ian, coachman for Mr.. Van Buren,; one
Mexican. name unknown, l.. Cook. laborer;
y, l.. Cook, laborer; n. l.. White. laborer;
John Slisbee visitor; Geo. Rundell, laborcr,
eight Cinnamon.
Among the survivors are Miss Mary Han
Ion, niece OF II. ;. Van Buren,, president OF
the Walnut Grove Water Storage Company;
James Redington, hydraulic engineer; Paul
lansing, bookkeeper; Robert Brow. mcr-
chant, and all his assistants; Edmund Silis-
bee.
H. J. Van Buren, and daughter, with Lieu
tenant A. y. lirodie the superintendent.
were in PhGnix, having left for there on the
Tuesday preceding. Besides these here
mentioned, some twelve or fifteen miners,
and lower dam, with "A number OF ranchers
along the stream, are missing and when all
the casualties are ascertained the entire loss
viii be between fifty and sixty lives. The
bodies thus far discovered number about a
dozen, many of which were found twenty
ana thirty miles from the place where the
flood overlook them. All remains are more
or less mutilated. while in several cases only
fragments have been recovered, rs the force
OF the flood was terrific. Many bodies have
doubtless been buried In sand others torn TO
pieces, and others carried far south. The
impetus OF the stream OF water when turned
loose can hardly be appreciated without
going over the ground covered by IL. Those
who saw IL say that II came down In an al
most perpendicular wall ninety or hum
dred feet high, and apparently crushed down
instead OF sweeping away before IL. Immense
powders weighing tons were thrown around
rs a child might toss u ball. enormous trees
were broken in two or torn into SIN eds, iron
bars were broken and twisted out OF shape,
and ordinary Hat iron was picked up and
carried live miles aud then imbeddod in the
walls OF the canon eighty feet above the pres
ent level OF the stream. A large safe belong
Ing TO Robert Brow. containing In the neigh
bOrhood OF $1,000, was swept away and no
trace has been found OF 1t. Whatever the
water struck went down. None OF the vie
Tins were wounded; all were drowned. The
Hood struck the lower dam Mt 80 a. M; i've
minutes later, the headquarters, live miles
below, were swept away. Several persons
were at both points Watching but notwith-
standing thi, the number OF men drowned ut
the first point was over thirty, and those
who escaped did SO with only what they had
on their backs, many only In their night
clothes. A courier was sent from the upper
10 the lower dam TO warn residents at the
danger OF breaking, but owing TO a storm
aud darkness the messenger, William Ask
ard, could not keep ahead OF the food aud
lost his life in trying TO cross Hassayampa,
within view OF the camp he had tried 10
save.
Charles Thompson the courier who arrived
from below Wickenberg, and who lost his
ranch below the lower dam, reports that
nine bodies have been discovered NJ Wick
onburg and three above in addition TO those
previously discovered.