Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-07-28
UPSET
The Nogales Stage Meets
With a Mishap in the
Santa Cruz.
A NARROW ESCAPE
From Drowning Enjoyed by the
Passengers-Nogales Enter
prise.

Rainy days, these, with grass sprout.
ing on the mesa everywhere and the
steams up and down with awful sudden,
ness and treachery. Last Thursday
Morenos stage, Nogales bound, met
disaster and wreck and almost fatality.
The passengers were a Tucson young
man, named Ronstadt, and mis- sister,
young lady. 1t was at Calabasas.
The driver had just go en- his team we'll
into the dry bed of the river, to cross,
when with a rush and roar down came
a flood, six feet high, and sweeping all
before it. The young woman screamed,
the horses plunged, and the driver
started to wheel them about, to return.
Too late. The water came up to swim
ming depth for the horses, and the
stage tiOated and tipped like the box it
was. Everything was swept out-pass-
engers satchels, Seat, all. Into the flood
they went, swiring down the stream at
giddying rate. The young woman
was carried down, and but for the brave
efforts OF her brother, would have drown
ed.
The food subsidized as quickly as it
came, but left drenched muddy and
dilapldated stage outfit. The horses
were injured, the stage broken, seat
gone, the top gone. The seat and
cushions and satcbels had fieated down
with the waters still roaring in the dis
tance.
A private conveyance brought the
half-drowned young passengers on to
Nogales.
WATER WOEK5 FOR NoGALES.
The town of Nogales Is constantly on
the improve. Not long ago they put
in an ice plant, they pushed through
the road to the Old Glory mine with
energy. and now they are getting in a
water works. Mr.. Harry Chenowith is
at the head of the enterprise. He told
me today that they will be is running
order next week. The plant is pump
ing works, with well Of 40 feet deep. |
The capacity of the well is 10000 gallons |
day, in addition to a tunnel in the |
well holding rOther 40,C 90 gallons. The |
pump has capacity OF 125,0O0 gallons |
day. The daily consumpti it is ex-
pected will be 25,000 gallons. Most of |
the business places have agreed to take |
water and others will be doing likewise
shortly, it is expected, as the water will |
be cheaper than from the present system.
Mater is now obtained here from wells,
generally raised by windmills. Tie |
mains are now being laid.
j. l.. Hathaway, principal grammar
Miss Theo Spreacher, assistant gram
mar department.
Miss Ada Skey, principal primary
The foregoing are appointments made
of the teacherships for Nogales for the
coming yesr, last Friday night.
The CITIZEN was misinformed as to
the late election of trustee for the
coming three years DR.. Doherty was
elected instead of DR.. Purdy, as we said,
by the handsome majority of 6S votes.
The contest was red hot, and the ladies
were out, both as workers and voters.
Lively challenging was done, votes be-
ing offered from residents of Nogales,
Sonora, and Calabasas.
If Nogales needs one thing more than
another, that thing Is school building.
The $4,000 bonds have been voted long
since and are now waiting purchaser,
in the hands of the board of supervi-
vors. The people here hope that they
will be sold at an early date, both from
the need of the building as for the en-
ployment that $4,000 would give. The
present quarters are utterly inadequate.
The children have been in various parts
Of the city in rented rooms. For the
coming year the Marsh opera house has
been rented for the primary department.
PERSONAL.
Col. Roberts, the American consul,
who came hele from far away Maine,
will leave Wednesday for his native
state on vacation trip. He has been
delayed by the strike for two weeks.
George Christ has returned from
trip as far east as Des Moines. He went
10 Denver and attended the republican
league. From there he went
east to his old home in Des MOines. He
was accompanied back by his daughter,
Miss Katie, charming young lady
who has been attending school there for
the past two years.
Col. Richards, superintendent of the
New Mexico & Arizona, has been grant