Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-02
THE NEW SALT LAKE
Waters Still Rising in the Flooded
Colorado Desert.
FOUR ELETROCUTIONS at SING SING.
Warden Brown VIII Allow No
Newspaper Men to Witness It.
THE REUNION AT BUFFALO
THE sALToN WATERS RISING.

No Improvement In the Condition Of AnAirs
In Southern California
Los ANGELES, CAL, July 2-There is no i'm
provement Of affairs at Salton. The water in
the lake is rising. but no special uneasiness is
felt by the railroad people. Owing to the
almost unbearable heat, it is impossible to get
any white man to venture on the desert
at this time of year. The Indian runner sent
by the railroad people has not yet returned and
the boat sent out from Salton has only been
able to get a short distance. A telegram re-
ceived at the railroad Office in this city says:
"A strong wind Tuesday night from the south
east raised the water on the north shore. The
water line is moving westward slowly i
cannot reach the end of the track and fear the
track will go with the next strong wind. The
waters are slowly but surely rising. The satu-
ration is l6 per cent fresher than Tuesday.
That the water comes from the Colorado river,
which it leaves at a point near Pilot Knob,
there is but little doubt"
In answer to a dispatch Of inquiry yesterday
Superintendent MUIR of the Southern Pacific
superintendent Of mines at Ogilby, eighteen
miles this side of Yuma: In regard to the
water that is flowing into the desert from the
Colorado river at point some fifteen or twenty
miles below Pilot Knob ever since the great
overflow in February we have been wondering
running today, but it was a week ago"
WATERS NEARISa THE RAILWAY TRACK.
A special dispatch received by the Times
says the water around Salton is now within
1900 feet of the main track. 1t came in 200
feet in two hours yesterday. II it continues to
come in as it has been doing it will
wash out the Southern Pacific in three
days. The deepest water found was
three feet and the shallowest in the current
fourteen inches. Superintendent Darbrow Of
the salt works is alarmed and wants the rail-
road company to send men to fl the break in
New river. The break is thirteen miles
below FL Rio and is about seventy
miles from Salton. The Indians are
badly scared and all the desert Indians
have fled to the hills, and even those as high up
as Banning are leaving for the mountains. A
reservation and told the Indians that the
Messiah said there would be a big food by
July 4, that all the whites will be swept
away and only Indians saved. BE
said that Indians who worked up
to July4 would not have time to get away. All
Indians are much excited, and even the most
intelligent ones are going to Grayback mountain
with their families tomorrow.
A special dispatch from Salton at II
o'clock last night said the water was still
rising. but not SO rapidly as in the after
noon. Old residents of this city say that
while the water is higher than ever known be-
FORE the desert lake is not q new thing and the
phenomenon has occurred frequently. but
from the fact that the desert is uninhabited
and no one ever ventures across it, it has not
been noticed.
A dispatch from Redlands late last night
stated that the San Pedro boat had again been
sent out. At a point fifteen miles from
Saiton they found the current rum
ing four and one-half miles per hour, but the
water was ouiy fourteen inches deep. The
deepest water they found was at point three
miles southeast of Saiton, where it lis twenty
one inches deep. At this place it was only
eight inches deep the day before. The sailors
were compelled to come in soon after the sun
rose the heat became unbearable, but they
started out again last night and had not re-
turned when the dispatch was sent
A San Jose dispatch from q correspondent
who has been camping in the mountains says
that several gaps were made in the mountains
between the coast and the Colorado desert by
Monday mornings earthquake shocks, and the
correspondent claims that the water now enter
ing the desert comes from the direction Of the
Pacific and is probably pouring through some
fssure caused by the earthauakes