Tombstone epitaph., 1892-09-18
BY WIRE.

Seguoia. The affair happened on foung's place at Samson Flat. The posse, consisting of U. s. Deputy Mar shal McGinnes, Vic Wilson, l.. Olsen, Constable Warren Hill, George Will bey, two Apache scouts and one or two l others, had tracked the robbers from Dunlap 10 Samson Flat, about 45 miles eastIol here in the mountains The posse was coming down the trail by ioung's place, and when opposite Ioung's house, the door was flung violently open and Evans and Sontag appeared on the threshold. Before the officers could recover from their surprise, the two robbers opened a | deadly fire on the posse with shot guns and then with Winchesters. The posse was so demoralized by the sud den attack that they could make no effectual resistance, and four men fell under tine deadly fire of the robbers. Three were mortally wounded. The | names of the latter are U. s. Deputy Marshal McGinnis, Vic Wilson and l.. Olsen. George Wilby, who was so badly wounded in his encounter with the robbers at Visslia, was also shot l through the neck, though he is not be- lieved to be mortally wounded. The horse ridden by Constable Warren | Hill was shot from under hlm and one or two other members of the posse were slightly wounded. The Apache scouts escaped unhurt. It could not be found out whether the robbers were wounded, but likely not | Immediately alter the robbers escaped into the northeasterly direction. The dead men and George Wilby are in George Yonngs's house where the latter is receiving the best of care The whole country in the neighbor. hood of the encounter Is aroused, and it Is said no further attempt to take the robbers alive will be made.
 SAN ASToSIo-Heavy rains the past few days along the Mexican border have caused the Rio Grande to over flow its banks destroying the crops on thousands of acres of land betw cen Eagle Pass and Laredo. Many sheer and cattle have been drowned. Two hundred bales of cotton were shipped hence to-day for Yokahoms, Japan.
 LoNDoS-The Birkbeek bank is in. vplved in the failure of the London and General bank and other corpora tions and a run is being made upon it The authorities claim that they vii meet all demands and have been guar anteed by the Union ba nk the sum o one million pounds to aid them.
 | DExvER-The Democratic state con vention meets at Pueblo to-day fol
 the purpose of nominating electori and state ticket. Two sets of dele
 gates are present, one representing the
 Cleveland faction and the other tho
 Weaver, or free silver Democracy There will be an attempt to initiate
 these two on s ticket, but the proba
 bilities are that it will faIi, and the result will be the nomination of two tickets.
 If this should be the case, there viii ! be five presidential tickets in Colorado for the voters to choose from.
 T NEW YoRK-Governor Flower hal
 been telegrAphed for and is hastenint
 here with the announced intention o
 calling out state troops, if necessary
 in order to obtain possession of Fire Island. On the other hand, the bay
 men hint that by the time the troops reach Fire Island the S1rf hotel and
 the property surrounding it will bs smoking embers. There was only ont
 death from cholera yesterday among
 the : 500 quarantined passengers, and