Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1897-05-05
THE LATEST NEWS!! General Happenings Throughout Many
 Points Of the Country.

ST Lotus. April 2S.--A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma territory, says: Att o'clock this morning a mighty wave swept down the Cot tonwood valley and struck this city. A deafening roar went up As the water crushed houses and drove peo- pie from their homes. At the tirst rush of water every boat amt bridge was swept away. All of West Guth- rie Is submerged. Twenty business houses have ten feet of water in them. The river is twenty feet above the ordinary level. Hundreds of people are in trees, but cannot be helped. Several men trying Co swim the current and reach four women and a babe in tree, were swept away. X woman wading from her homo with babe on her head was carried away and lost. It is believed more than q score of negroes were. drowned. Persous who escaped the food estimate that fully fifty per
 sons were drowned At 10 o'clock nine people were seen to drown, two women and child were carried of on a bridge, one man and two wom- en were seen on house roof when it went to pieces, and perished. As there is no communication 1t Is ab- solutely impossible to get names. Scores are missing. Many buildings are still going down. A girl in a peach tree for hours just gave up and fell into the water. Hundreds of mon are building boats at the lumber yards. At l0:35 a. m. a cy- clone swept between Abilene and Salina, Kansas, destroying all com- munication with Denver The ey- clone is supposed to be a coutinua- ton of the frichtful storm which caused the disaster in Oklahoma.
 NEW YORK, April 2S. remark able, and. indeed, an unprecedented witness in court, will be introduced in the trial of the suit of SaueT against the New York Central and Harlem railroad m the supreme court. Mr. Sauer is a member of the Park Avenue Property Owners Association. His suit Is test oue, and about sixty others may follow. He claims that his property has de preciated in value since the con struction of the elevated tracks Of the Central road, from One Hundred and Sixteenth street to the Harlem river. Light and air have been shut out, be says, and the noise is unen- durable. The property owners on this side of Park Avenue had num- Der of graphophOne receivers put in at various points along the avenGe. The apparatus was tested early to- day. It is fitted with wide mouth trumpet aud its reproduction of the noise of the trains is said 10 be so faithful as to be almost deal ening.
 GUTHRIE, O. T. April 29.-Daylight in Cottonwood valley found dozens of people still elinging to trees, overturned houses or timbers in positions which they had sustained during all the weary night. Here and there positions known to have been occupied when darkness came on last night, were empty this morn ing, the luckless victims had drop ped into the river, drowned and their bodies swept down the stream. For miles along the scene Of de- vastation, two thousand people are homeless. Hourly, bodies left on land by the receding waters or found Pocketed in houses or piles are being brought to light. This within a few miles of Guthrie. What the damage to life and prop erty further out in the country was, will only be known when the wire and railway train communications are resumed.