Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-17

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RACING WITH A CLOUDBUEsr.
Thrilling Adventure Of Prospector I'm Arr
| From the Chicago Inter Ocean
Speaking Of cloudbursts, !" said Col Granger
OF San Francisco the other day, 81 had Q little
personal experience in thatline once, and never
want II repeated. II was in the summer OF ls72
A young fellow named George Brown and
were prospecting In the Huachuca mountains
In Arizona Ii was a comparatively unknown
country at that time, and filed with dangers
Of al! kinds, against which we we're amply pre-
pared. We had q fine outfit, well stored With
provisions, and we carried good arms and an
abundance Of ammunition. This for the double
purpose OF killing game and defending orr
selves against possible attacks Of Apaches, who
were bad at that time. We had been out from
civilization about six weeks, and had made
some small discoveries, but nothing which we
| felt would justify us in working ut that time
so we pushed farther up the mountains. follow
I ing up a canyon as far as we conid 60 with our
| eehiu anu Nuctl COulu tAke our wagon no
further We made camp, and each day prospected
the country around it. packing our tools and
water on our mules.
'We had started out early one morning on
one of these expeditions. The air Was remark
ably calm. not a breath stirred nor was there
cloud IN the sky. The sun came up clear and
| hot, and Brown remarked to me a. we toiled up
the narrow canyon that we were sure Of a fine
| day at any rate. We reached the scene of our
operations abont o'clock in the morning, and
tying our mules to a clump Of bushes pro-
! ceeded ON our climb mp the hills. We had not
gone far when air became intensely sultry
and a mass OF light, tieecy clouds began to
| gather overhead, apparently the vanguard Of
| two denser masses which were forming north
and south of US. Then a few drops of rain fell
and the cloud masses thickened became blacker
| and seemed to rapidly approach each other.
Seeing that a storm was upon us Brown and
l started down the mountain for our mules
! the clouds above in the meantime coming to-
4 gether, the darkness increasing and drops as
large. apparently, saucers falling around u.s.
We redoubled our speed and gained our mules
| as The two cloud masses met 1t was now al
most as dark as midnight and the raindrops
Increased in size and rapidty until il seemed as
though the clouds had veritabiy burst, and
there was a rush of water like a Niagara COM
/ ing down from the heavens.
We had reached our mules and were spur
ring down the canyon for our lives. The hill
sides were raging cataract of water. Great
trees were WARNED out by the roots; huge
| boulders were rolled down into the CANYON
The water pouring down the llsides found
| small depressions, and in a few minutes tore
them GU: to ravines- In places we could see
/ the soil washed clean to the bed rock and the
whole mass turbling into the canyon through
which we were riding.
/ 1T Was u ride for life. Behind Us was a solid
wall of water fifty feet high, coming with a roar
/ of a thousand cataracts. The noise was deafen-
/ ing. In the face of this wall Of water was Q
mass OF debris-whole trees turning end over
cad, boulders as large as q house-being swept
forward by the force behind, dust is swept
! before the broom of the housewife.
I'VE were urging our poor beasts to their
| utmost limit of endurance, the water around
US growing deeper and deeper each second, the
rain still falling in torrents, while that terrible
wall behind as was increasing in height and
velocity and steadily gaining on US. was .
little in advance of Brown and shouted to him
to break for the hills, but the horrible din be-
hind drowned my voice and l could not hear II
mysef. L spurred my mule up the hillside and
looking back TO if Brown were following
SAW that irresistible current fairly lick him up
and IN a minute he, with the mule he was riding,
was absorbed in the mass which was rolling
down the canyon as one might disappear in the
NAV OF some monster.
II could not stop to look further for him.
The rolling wall Of water was coming down the
canyon with the speed of an express train and
"a =. .Ie ui''"n0o pe'"oon
a',a me Co. ne, "'s mater ,s or seu-presetvanon
= "a. taoe 40. ,oi mt win ene clements haa sos
ln e., 70 piaoe Mnere II was widen
,'s any 'ne s'.e'.ih sp'eaa out IN widsn' losing
SOIL la" ,:, ol It's uep,n pu' sun seemed 70
p.es' On me sohie hiaepus monster upon SIS
PIe' anu IearIu Iest " enouid pe banned. was
sa;,ans "n 'ne sac hiii' put tne current VS.
GAINING on me. homent oy moment IL came
I I's,; ~ was no" oot a Few zee. distsnt- u
h; eGu.u %. ioree my poor peas. rev feet
sasas -, ~ .ne ,,toun's.n We snouIa oe spovein
~, IN. " a. 'nI "a. ,ne ro"e.r oeep IN
mn uis '-acs anu ne gave mao plunge. Inc water
s s.aa re',oneo US ana lei, MN carried on bis
,.e., . s1sspea an csernanslhS oasn ana ne
' was ava" a. IN .ne lorIeh., leaving me sus.
H. ~! ice. !us' ,oa1oinS sne su,isoe OF
da,';. X .. uns W mat ousn ior my NE. ana
w. IN ao,'iS sAo , o On my per
I'm few moments the furv ~ The stor,, "A
passed the water abated sufseientIv In n.r,,;s
me TO obtain footing, and / turned NV vav
higher up the mountain to place of safety,
where drenched to the skin, awaited the sub
''e ,.1Se Oh .ne wa'er
had hssnn ,ha ~. .;, y' .e1usny ~
been little more than have t.Sen il The tsi,,nss
but in these few moments dry canyon hsd
been converted into . raging torrent, the