Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-08-26
Wrecks Everything in Path
at Trinidad, Colo.
Causes Nine Deaths and a
Large Property Damage.
Communication With Stricken District Cut
0tf--.Many Narrow Escapes.

Trinidad. Colo, Aug. 25.-According
to the belated. meagre reports, some
what conflicting, received, tonight,
about q score of miners were drowned,
or are missing, % or 30 houses and
| shanties We're washed away or dam
aged and much damage was done to
| mines and railroads near Tobsco Colo.
last night. by Il cloudburst.
Communications are so difficult that
no definite news of the disaster is
available, tonight.
At the Office of the Colorado Fuel &
Iron Co., and of the Colorado &
Southern Railway, it was said, tonight.
| that the damage to those companies
was only flooding of mines and under
mining of tracks.
All those reported dead or missing
are either Italians or MeXicans. Rep
lresontativcS of the Colorado Fuel &
IRON CO.. at the scene of the disaster
have been instructed to provide for the
families of the employees who were
drowned and as fast as bodies are re-
covered they are brought to Trinidad
for burial.
Trinidad, Colo, Aug. ga cloud
burst in the vicinity of Rhode Canyon.
through which ordinarily small
stream of water runs, last night con-
vnrted the canyon into n torrent which
swept through the towns of RerWind
and TobascO, wrecking everything in
its path and drowning at least nine
persons.
The property loss is estimated at
hIn NJ Of Toll f..
fered mostly by the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Co., and the Colorado & Southern
Railway &C.
The former company had mines and
coke ovens scattered all along between
the two mining towns of Eerwind and
Tohasco and although they were sit
uated mostly out of reach of the flood,
the tramways connecting the different
properties of the company were near
ly I'll wrecked and the loss IN this par
ticular will be large.
Communication with the stricken
towns is constantly interrupted by the
storm which still continues. so that
no accurate news as to the loss of life
and property can be obtained. Relief
parties are on their way into the cam
yOn.
From al directions are coming re-
ports of disastrous effects Of the storm
which enveloped Trinidad and the ter
ritory adjacent for miles, but no fur
Their loss of life than at Berwind and
Tobasco has been reported.
The Colorado and Southern branch
line to Rerwind was washed away AMI
a heavy volume of water rushed down
the canyon all night, making it impos-
sible to penetrate TO the point where
the loss of life is said to have occurred
RumOrS are in circulation that 10
to 20 houses were swept down the
canyon and % to 81 lives lost. These
reports are still unvcrificd al noon, to-
day.
Traffic on the Colorado and Southern,
tho Santa Fe and the Denver and Rio
Grandc railroads is interrupted owing
to the washouts in this vicinity.
Coroner Espey later received 4 mes
sage from Hastings stating that five
bodies had been recovered. The coro-
ner left Immediately on horseback for
tho scene.
\ telephone message from Hastings,
this afternoon. stated that is persons
are known to be dead or missing Six
bodies have now been recovered among
them being 4 woman with the body of
a six months old child In her arms.
Among the known dead are:
Harry ONeil and Charles r. Jeboldt,
miners.
Miss Fannie Floyd returned from Ia
basco. today. She had been visiting her
brother there and saw the food come
down the canyon. She says the inhabi-
tants had absolutely no warning of their
danger. A dozen houses We're carried
away and their occupants thrown into
tho roaring waters.