The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-03-04
THE FLOODS IN THE SOUTHWEST.
Trains Running Again. and the Water
Rapidly Rcceding.


Trains Running Again, and the Water
Rapidly Recedlng.
DRIVER, March 3.-A special to the News
from Yuma, Arizona, says: The worst of
the flood is over and the river is falling.
Reports received from 200 miles up the
river say that the report that 100 settlers
were drowned is untrue. Damage to irri-
eating bitches, fences. orchards and fields.
together with the loss of cattle, is meal.
culabie.
no lives were lost. At Globe q dozen
houses fell and two lives were lost, the
proprietor of the stage line and a passen-
gerand the driver were washed into tree
and will probably be rescued tomorrow.
Indians to the number of $500 occupy
the river banks for eighty miles below
Yuma, and there is no news direct from
there. An old chief says there are hum
dreds lost. They live in low valley
along the river bottom, and were warned
to flee. Word is expected tomorrow
from them. They have corn and beans,
but no meat. Their houses will stand six
to eight feet of water, but it is over ten all
over the reservation. There will be no
trains either way from Yuma for ten days
yet.
YuMA, Ariz., March ga Cocopah In
dian runner from the Colorado reservation
arrived today reports that the steamer
Gila had gone to the rescue of several
refugees of the food who were perched on
the tops Of houses. The men were saved.
but during the night the Colorado river
lowered vd fast, leaving the steamer six
feet above water on q sand bar. Further
news from the Mohawk valley reports all
the settlers safe and the damage by food
being repaired. The first train from the
West is expected tomorrow.
PREscoTT, Ariz., March 3.-The first
train for the East since February q left
here today.
SAN FRANCISCO, March Sword has been
received from Assistant General Secretary
r. H. Pratt, of the Southern Pacific, that
Ell Rio was reached this morning with a
force of 700 men. The water had so far re-
work immediately. The line beyond
Yuma may possibly be open on Saturday
night, and will certainly be so by Monday
morning next.
A dispatch from Clifton, Ariz., dated the
LIST inst, says: A Graham county bulletin
states that the water is higher than the
Aztec ruins and seven feet higher than the
oldest Indian or Mexican remembers. 1t
is impossible to ascertain the damage done
topropertv or lives. Mail arrived on hand
car today, the first time since February -.
Hundreds are at work repairing the dam
age. No lives have been lost except from
pneumonia contracted during the storm.
The loss to property is about 500. 0O0 The
weather indicates another STERN. The
Magnolia, White, Blue and San Francisco
mountains are covered deeply with snow,
and another warm rain would be just as
disastrous.
MAaYsvILLE, CAL, March a.-Reports
from the Sacramento river say that the
water is very high. but there is no i'm
mediate danger. The Feather river is
running over both banks at Nelson's
Point below the break of last year.
San DIEGO, CAL, March 3.-Agent Kee-
Ter of the Santa Fee reports that travel
will be resumed between here and Los
Angeles Thursday, the first train leaving
that day