Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-03-02
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the Rocky Mountain News from Yams.
Arizona. says that in that town over $50
houses are in ruins from the food and la0o
people homeless, Not . tusinses house
remains standing. IL 10 feared tha, hun-
dreds Of lives we're last In the GilA valley.
The Telegraph wires are down aud all the
bridgea gone The roads are impassabie
and no reliable reporas can be had from
there. The liver above the town 10 seven
miles vide. and below The town Ia places
the water covers the country in lake Of
over so miles across The railroad company
will not have the blockade raised for vest
bound trains for four days and IL will be 10
days or two weeks before they can yet east
The town hss provisions sum cient for eight
more days. the Southern Pacific hotel feed
ing thousand people. Day reports from
Jskuno. Is miles above here, are to the
the effect that the flood drove the people
into tie treetcps, and many becoming
exhsus.ed from cold and hunger dropped
into the water ard were drowned. Reports
from reliable sources put the loss of life In
the valley anywhere from 80 to 100, and all
along the valley FOR 200 miles everything is
in desolAiion. Costly houses and barns are
washed away. and stock and fences are
carried down by the flood, leaving the
country - bare - = desert. Eighty
miles south 5000 Cocopah IndiAns
live The country is flooded for so miles
square and no hills for refuge. 1t 10 re-
great valley in Colorado il = vast sea OF
water as far - the eve can see in every di-
rection. The river has fallen six feet siI
inches in SO houss and 10 now nearly At =
stsndstill. The weather 10 thick and
threstsns heavy rains. The loss in this
county foots up O., 1000 900, Of which the
railroad will have to suffer S250.000.
Yuma Camp OF Dlstrsss.
YuMA, A. T., March L. Yuma 10 camp
of dis,fees. Out Of $50 houses composing
the town only \ few remain. The second
high water Of the Gils river, Thursday,
was more disastrous than ON Sunday
Canals were wAshtd out, ranches destroyed
and railroads uoder water, Loss in Yuma
half million. The cemeteries are on the
high land and many people are camping in
them. 1t 10 reported that Mexican
family. eight miles eas;. are drowned.
The river here is IA miles vide. Many
people xIe 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 IL 10 feared
that hundreds Of lives are lost up Gils val
ley, which is 2Co miles In length The
Indian messengers sent out. have not as
J ct retuiD ned. 1t is known that thousands
Of cattle. horses and mules are drowned.
The wires are ell down east. and the re-
pairefs could get only five miles east today.
FIVE mi,es of rsilroad has gone west of
here. Every house on the hills have been
thrown open to receive the homeless huud-
reds quartered in tents and Old government
buildings. Merchants opened goods on the
streets TO help the sufferers. The water is
still high for two hundred miles Eas. Of this
point, sud as all of this must psss
here many fear the woret 10 yet TO come
The committee on loss brought all classes
Of citizens together and all worked with a
viii. first in trying TO save the town by
q rude levee, AND when that
proved futile. in saving Is much ~ possible
from the ruins. A boat just arrived from
Mohawk, sixty miles up the Gila river.
brings report, OF terrible loss Of life, all
The county being under water. The great
tss sufferers are poor Mexicans. whose en-
tire possessions were swept away and who
have no reserve to fall back upon. In thls
city the ruin has been most com plete. The
Catholic church is the only building left
standing on the main street. Many people,
driven from thrie homes, used dry goods
boxes as cottages. In the rush OF waters
the steamer Mojsve was driven high and
iry on the bank. and a dozen fam
'iies have taken refuge in her cabins
OH ser. ut Font Yums done everything in
heir poAer to assist toe sufferers aud for
Iun.teiy had n good supply OF tents on
hand these st once were placed st the dis
posal Of the homeless families snd much
therein prevented. Citizen Of
Ihle city have already subscribed over
S2500 to the relief fund. Les Angeles
about $4,000 for the same pur.
pose. Ssn Francisco merchants subscribed
. gen erousiy 10 the fund. A relief train
will be sent through from there Us soon rs
he railroad is repaired.
at Yuma Thought to bs
Exaggerated.
SAN FRANcisco, Cal, March l.--Gsn-
efai Mausger A. N. Towne Of the
Southern Pacific Railroad tonight dis.
credited the rumor that hundreds Of lives
bad been lost a. Yuma and vicinity by the
second food. He stated to an Associated
Press reporter that he had been in commun-
cation with Yuma mp to half past tonight
aud received no such reports, as he surely
you'd have, hsd there been ench disaster
So far no lives have been lost n, Yuma, ex-
,ept one Mexican who was drowned las.
week. In the upper Gils valley. however,
he ranches may nave been flooded and
,ome people drowned. Towne gave the
.ailroai situation. Twsnty-two miles of
rack west Of Yuma nre under water To-
morrow the mill men will commence work
,e pairing the track vbi sh has Hoated on, and
'epsifing the road-bed. Unless further
Hood occurs the road will be open in 10
lays.