Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-09
THE BISBEE FLOOD.
FULL PARTICULARS OF THE DISAs-
 TER FROM AN EYE WITNESS.
A List of Those Who Sustained Damage by the Flood--Items from the storm in
 Other Parts of Cochise County.
Prospector

Prospector
 From MT. Brooks who was an eye witness of the terrible. cloud burst which occurred on Monday night at Bisbee, we learn the following particulars of the dis aster:
 The work of destruction and death was fully completed in less than twenty minutes after the first drop of rain fell. The storm gathered rapidly and as the rain was soon falling in torrents the peo- pie hastened to the shelter of their homes, little anticipating that they would so soon be driven out in the storm, homeless. The lightning was almosta
 LIvID GLARE,
 and the peals of thunder were deafening; but soon above the din and crash rose the shrieks of frightened victims, who were obliged to rush from their deluged homes to places of safety further up on the hills. Houses began to give way with a crash and yield to the flood, which car ried everything before it, while the light ming gave uncertain glimpses of the weird scene of destruction. The frantic appeals of the doomed men for the help that could not reach them were plainly aud ible and heart-rending. A rescuing party bravely rushed to their aid, but suc- ceeded only in saving one man just as he was about to share the fate of his con- panions. During the confusion that en- sued 1t was some time before 1t was found that three men were missing, and a yigor- ous search up to the hour of noon the next day resulted only in finding the body of Mills. Two miners by the names of Kelly and Stevens are thought to be buried in the pile of debris which IS heap ed up by the culvert at the railroad bridge.
 LOSSES BY THE FLOOD.
 Those who were so fortunate as to live on the west side of the main street did not sustain serious damage, except where the flood filled the cellars and destroyed their contents.
 At the Copper Queen store the cellar was deluged and the store filled with mud and water to depth of three or four feet. The entire force were at work all night, shoveling out mud and trying to rescue the place from destruction. At the Copper Queen office the water was up to the top of the lower sash of the window and the loss sustained by the company IS probably under estimated. At the Cop per Queen stables the horses were found standing in water, which nearly covered them.
 The house formerly owned and oc- cupied by Mrs. Mcbride, which was To- cated near the Copper Prince, was totally destroyed. It had just been purchased by the Copper Queen company and the purchase money together with the house and contents was swept away.
 Three cabins were also swept away, in which were the three victims, one of whose bodies was subsequently recovered.
 The building occupied by Mrs. OBrien, was not demolished, but was washed about four feet away from it's foundation, and all its contents ruined by the deluge of mud and water.
 The home of Charlie Platt, whose wife was formerly Miss Mary Welch, of Tomb stone, was flooded to a depth of between two and three feet and its contents ruined.
 The entire loss can hardly yet be esti- mated, but among those whose buildings were flooded and property more or less damaged were Chris Redovitch. who kept a fruit stand; Jacob Lang, proprietor oi the Union bakery; the music store of J. Langsdorf; Perkins drug store; the Car Can restaurant; Pasqual Negro's saloon Waters boot and shoe shop; Wallace's stage office and Mrs. English's lodging house, beside doubtless many others that have escaped mention.
 All of the bridges in and about town were washed away, with the exception of the railroad bridge, and most of the little foot bridges that led across the gulch to the main street were also destroyed.
 STORM STORIES
 The storm of Monday night seems t have spread over a large portion of th, Territory.
 The bridge below Watervale was wash ed away last night
 The Grand Central mill was shut down owing to the fact that the tailing bed wa too wet to work.
 We learn that the Sterling Silver mil was obliged to stop work on account c the storm
 Several parties were delayed at th lime-kiln on account of high water las night.
 The road to the Dragoons just beyon the foundry, is so badly washed as to b impossible by teams.
 The Bisbee train had not reached Fail ' bank at last advices, and the N. NJ x A 5 were unable to proceed farther south tha : that point
 The lightning struck the ground in tb l vicinity of the foundry last night an l people who live in that neighborhood Sd : that it rolled along the street like a hug
 ball of fire.
 A swarm of people were out last nigl
 after the shower, investigating the nun
 erous brooks which had formed Abol
 fifty wandered off to the Walnut gulc S where there was quite river, whose roi Q could be heard at the outskirts of town. # MT. and Mrs. Perkins had quite l. serious time in returning to their hon a at the Grand Central mill yesterday. y Watervale they were obliged to wait f h the water to recede as they found tn 7. the bridge was washed away and at u t three mile house they were again obligs ir to wait for two hours, reaching hon l. finally at ten p. m. having spent near ss five hours on the road.
 a AT FAIRBANK. u From MT. Schmeiding, who was 'o E, tained at Fairbank last night by t , , storm, we learn that the rain that visit. a. Tombstone had spent little of its for $ before reaching Fairbank, and the wat
 swept down. transforming the entire V
 ley into lake. The International Hot
 which was so badly damaged by rece
 storm, Is complete wreck from the effe, C. of last nights deluge. Several yards y track south of the depot are washed aw h. and nearly all of the houses along t V, main street were flooded At the Mon V. zuma hotel, which stands somewl
 higher than the adjoining buildings, f y, water nearly reached the floor of t porch. The flood had by no means sr d. sided this morning and the roads betwe n. that place and Tombstone aresvery bat .s- washed, although not impossible.