The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1904-08-26
DEATH IN wake
OF arizona FLOOD
SEVEN PERSONS KNOWN TO
HAVE Persisted IN DIS
ASTER AT GLOBE.
FATAL TORNADO IN ST.
LOUIS AND VICINITY
One Death and $50 Injured Reported
from Exposition City - Heavy
Damage to Manufacturing Plants
and Residences.

Ell Paso, Tex, Aug 22.-Seven lives at
least were lost in the flood that swept
through the town of Globe, Ariz., and
surrounding country.
The known dead are: M. N. Mitchell,
Southern Pacific machinist, and his
wife; o. D. Wilson, clerk, Charles Sims.
John Epley, Mrs Hurd, Miss Moody.
According to the report of the courier
who brought the news OF the disaster to
Bowie, others were drowned besides
those named in the foregoing list, but
their names are not yet known. The
ella Valley, Globe & Northern railroad
tracks were washed out for distance of
three-quarters of mile. Telegraphic
communication with Globe is interrupt
ed and it has been impossible as yet to
learn the full details of the disaster.
Globe is located in broad valley that
slopes down to Pinal creek, which
crosses the main street of the town. The
flood was caused by cloudubrst at Pima
above Globe, on Pinal creek.
Tornado at st. Louis.
ST. Louis, Aug. pa more thorough
estimate of the damage done by the ter
nado which descended suddenly over a
small area in North ST. Louis late Fri
day, was made Saturday by business men
and others interested in property in that
vicinity. In addition to the loss of one
life and the injury to more than $50 per-
sons, the damage wrought by the storm
is now estimated at $150,000. More than
half of that amount was done to manu-
featuring plants, the remainder being d.
vided between owners of residence prop
erty, more than 100 houses having been
more or less seriously damaged
On the east side, in the Illinois towns
of Venice, Madison and Granite City, the
damage is also greater than at first sup
posed: Two lives were lost in that vi
cinity and many property owners suf-
fered losses running from $4,000 down
to $50.
After more than IL hours of steady
work by large gangs of men employed
by the telephone and electric lighting
companies, the streets where the wind
storm was felt most severely were still
Uttered with debris from wrecked build
ings and hundreds of feet of telegraph
and telephone wires. Traffic was re-
sumed on the Broadway street car line
Saturday, after having been suspend
ed for more than Is hours, although the
sides of the street are still lined with
wires and telephone cables and the side
walks Uttered with broken poles and
other wreckage.
Heavy Rain in New York.
New York, Aug. 22.-The heavy rain
fall which began late Friday night and
continued nearly ten hours without ces-
sation caused thousands of dollars of
damage and inconvenience hundreds Of
thousands of persons in this city. Cellars
were flooded, streets became miniature
rivers, water and gas mains were washed
out and scores of excavations where
building operations are in progress were
| filed with water which the overloaded
| sewers could not carry away. The
| flood caused the greatest damage at Will
liam and Frankfort streets. At this point
an excavation which had been made for
| new building became a lake. Shor-
| ing timbers were washed out, the sides
| ,rumbled away and the earth under the
water, gas and sewer pipes was torn
down. AS result the pipes broke, ne
| cessitating shutting off the gas and wa
| ter supply for large district For a dis
| lance of about $50 feet, and half the
| width of the street, the pavement was
washed away.