Morning journal and courier., 1891-03-02
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NEWS By TELEGRAPH.
I From All Quarters.
MANY PEOPLE DROWNED.
Narrowing Details Of the
Flood in Arizona.
HUNDREDS OF HOUSES DESTROYED.
A New York Village Wiped
Out by Fire.
DEATH OF SENATOR GEORGE HEARST
Violent Storms Through
Massachusetts.
DEATH OF SENATOR GEORGE HEARST

HAVOC WROUGHT BY FLOODS.
Over Two Hundred and Fifty Houses
in Yuma pestroyed-Nearly Fifteen
Hundred People HomeIess-A Path
OF Desolation Through the ella
Valley-From Eighty to One Hun
dred Persons Believed to Have
been Drowned-Floods Elsewhere.
DENVER, Col, March IA special to the
Rocky Mountain News from Yuma, A. T.,
says that in that town over two hundred
and fifty houses are in ruins from the food
and fourteen hundred people are homeless.
Not a single brick house remains and it is
feared that hundreds of lives have been
lost in the ella valley. The telegraph
wires are down and as all bridges are gone
and roads impossible no reliable reports
can be had from there. The river above
the town is several miles wide and below
the town in places the water covers the
country in one grand lake over fifty miles
across. The railroad will not have the
blockade raised for four days and it will
be ten days or two weeks before they
can get east. The town has provisions
sufficient for eight days more and the
Southern Pacific hotel is feeding 200 peo-
pie day. Reports from Jakuno, fifteen
miles above here, are to the effect that
the flood drove the people into the tree
tops, and, many becoming exhausted from
cold and hunger, dropped into the water
and we're drowned. Reports from relia-
BILE sources put the loss of life in the val
ley anywhere from eighty up to one hun
dred. All along the valley for two hun
dred miles everything is in desolation.
Costly houses and barns have been washed
away like playthings, and stock and
fences have been carried down by the
flood, leaving the country bare as desert.
Eight miles south of here, where 1000
Cocopah Indians live, the country is flood
ed for eighty miles square and as there
are no hills for refuge it is reported that
over 100 of them have been drowned. The
great valley in Colorado is one vast sea of
water as far as the eye can see in every di-
rection. The river has fallen six feet, six
inches in thirty-six hours and is now
nearly at standstill. The weather is
thick and threatens heavy rains. The loss
of this county feots up So, DOC, 900, of which
the railroad suffers all of $250,O00. Old
Yuma will never be rebuilt. The town
will go higher up the hills.
CAMP OF DISTRESS.
YUMA, A. T., March Yuma is camp
of distress. Out of $50 houses composing
the town only fifty remain. The second
high water of the Gila river on Thursday
was more disastrous than that of Sunday.
The canals have been washed out, the
ranches destroyed and tho railroads are
under water. The loss in Yuma is half
million The cemeteries are on high land
and many people are camping on them.
1t is reported that a Mexican family, eight
miles east, were drowned. One body, that
of man, f1oated past the town. The
river here is fourteen miles wide. Many
people are believed to be drowned in the
country, but no particulars have been re-
ceived.
No word has been received from further
than ten miles from town, and it is feared
that hundr eds of lives have been lost up
the ella valley which is two hundred
miles in length. Indian messengers have
been sent out but have not as yet returned.
1t is known that thousands of cattle,
horses and mules are drowned. The wires
are down east, and repairers could get
only five miles east to-day. Five miles of
railroad are gone west of here, and it is
known that sixteen miles are gone east.
obtainable at work tomorrow. Every
house on the hills has been thrown open
to the sufferers. The merchants have
opened goods on the streets to help the
sufferers.
The water is still high for two hundred
miles east of this point. The common loss
has brought all classes of citizens together
and all have worked with will, fret in
trying to save the town by constructing
rude levee, and when that proved futile
in saving as much as possible from the
ruins.
A boat which has just arrived from No
hawk, sixty miles up the ella river, brings
reports of terrible loss of life, all the coun-
try being under water. The greatest suf-
ferers are the poor Mexicans, whose en-
tire possessions have been swept away and
who have no reserves to fall back upon.
THE RUIN COMPLETE.
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