Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-10-10

"efchess torIenC Oh roaring water, and
that William Zsel's wife
and two children met a similar sad
late. A nunbsr of others are missing.
and it is almost hoping against hope to
think they have escaped.
condition OF telegraph wires and other
means OF communication, but it is learn
ed that Oscar Ashburn's family,
The calamity which has proven so
disastrous Was the result of a cloud
burst in the Milestone mountains to
The southwest OF Benson. All day the sky
In mat direction, SO Vie wed from Tue
son, presented black and foruIddIDg
appearance anC indicated a heavy storm.
De RorRes and RUliiss, arroyos and can
yons leading toward the SAP Pedro river
IN the direction OF the town, suddenly be-
came filled with fast travelling, deep,
angry streams, which united upon the
siopiDg pisis east OF the mouutsins, and
became one gigantic stream, broad,
foccefui, and deep, carrying with it in
Its mad course, every thing movable.
AS 1t descended it gathered momentum,
aud when it struck Benson it exerted
its mighty force upon every thing in its
path.
The western portion of the town suf-
ferred the greatest damage, being al
mos. entirely swept away. The ex-
press Office, q large well constructed
building, was washed from its founds-
ton and laamed up against the depot.
When the rushing column of water had
passed beyond the town, the baggage
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tanned ct least three feet OF mud, which
was left behind.
The Southern Pacific company an
nounces that this Ia the most damaging
storm which has ever takeG place on Its
line In Arizona, AS soon rs word OF the
disaster reached here 8 wrecking train
was dispatched 20 the scene aud the
work of rep.ir began at once. APP
preaching Benson the road runs over O
series OF little foot hills, and the in
tervening arroyas had bsen filed with
earth 10 form the road bed. Through
every one Of these Rrroyas came the
heavy streams OF water u. d carried with
them oank, track and all. In some
Instances the wsshouts reached depth
Of thirty feet. 1t would be impossible
to estimate the damage to the road lust
at present. Every effort is being made
to repair the breaks as rapidly as DOS
sible, but it will be at least forty-eight
hours before any trains can pass. The
| west bound passenger ives abandoned
last night. The east bound train ar
| rived almost on time and was at once
| dispatched to Los Angeles.
A large force OF men ia ut work on
either end OF the vashout, and are ap-
| preaching each other as fast as possible.
| The passenger trains, in the morning
will run as closely rs they can to each
other, and a transfer of passengers and
baggage will be made in wagons. 1t is
hoped by the company that by the time
the next passenger trains are due, the
damaged portions of the road will have
been sufficiently repaired to permit them
| to pass.
1t is more than probable that much
damage has been done on tue lower San
Pedro, and news from that section is
| anxiously awaited.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. The Am
erican this week will print an editorial
with the caption, "Sewsll or Watson,
Which or Neither" in which it calls on
both those gentlemen, 10 the interest Of
the election Of Bryan TO withdraw in or
der that Chairman Jones may name a
candidate who will be acceptable to all
interests.
LONDON, Oct. Williams Morris,
designer. poet aud author, who OF late
years proclaimed himself q socialist
died this morning.
MONTREAL. Oct. 2--No trains are NOV
ing regularly on the Canadian Pacific
today except between Toronto and this
city. There is talk OF a compromise be.
ing effected between the strikers and
the railroad. Rumors Of sympathetic
strikes in other branches of the train
mems organizations are rife. The road
is using every Involvement to hire oper-
ators in places of the strikers, but ex-
periences difficulty in getting competent
men.
WINNIPEG, Man., Oct. 2-Ths Cana
dian Pacific railway strike shows very
little change, bus there are indications
OF more serious happenings if settle |
ment is not reached within the next "a
hours. Superintendent White is con-
ndent the company will win. On the |
other hand the strikers are just as con-
tident.
The next important move in the Cana
dian strike will probably be made today |
IN the form OF q request from the train |
mems organizations for an interview re- |
GardlDg the trouble. The result of their |
mission will probably be divulged soon. |
TORONTO, Oct. 2-The question now
discussed regarding the telegraphers'
strike is, will the railway organizations |
join the telegrsphers in their fight |
against the Canadian Pacific. Both |
the company and strikers are awaiting
the action OF the engineers, conductors
and trainMen as to the policy which
they will adopt. When the train came
in from North Bay, over five hours late,
the conductor told a reporter that tho
operators were all out all the way from
North Bay to Port Arthur, and that
during the time he was waiting in North
Bay, about tweuty-nine hours, only one
freight train had been sent west aud
two east The trades and labor unions
in the city are in sympathy WITH the
strikers, and the fact that United States
operators are coming to this country to
bill the vacant positions, intes SITES the
feeling. Ii is proposed to urge on he
local members CT parliament the neces-
sity of making, without delay, such reg
nlations as will prohibit the importation
of American labor.
CHERBoUe, Oct. 5-The bad luck
which seems to cling to the Gear show
I'd itself again today. Tie most ella
oorste prep ratios had been. made to
eceive the Russian travellers. The way
rom the landing stage to the hall Of the
Irsenal had been covered with silk
ranging, shields, bannerettes and flow I
re, The landing stage was beautifully