White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-21
CLOUD BURST
BRINGS DEATH
WALL OF WATER 25 FEET
HIGH SWEEPING DOWN CAN
YON DESTROYS MAZUMA AND
DROWNs INHABITANTS.

HC iuOol dioaOliOu6 llOOu THAT
ever visited Nevada occurred short
ly before O'Clock Thursday after
noon when a wall of water, caused
by a cloudburst, rushed down upon
the camps of Seven Troughs and Ma
yuma and carried nine people to their
deaths, seriously. possibly fatally in
juring nine others.
The flood came without warning.
1t was not raining in the camps at
the time, although a few drops of
water had fallen just before. The
skies, however, were oyerelouded,
but not to the extent of indicating
a downpour such as took place in the
mountains beyond the range of Wis
ion.
At a late hour Friday none of
the survivors had reached Loyelock,
30 miles from the scene of the dis
aster, and details are still lacking.
Ii is definitely determined, however,
that the wave that swept down from
the deluged mountain crest was TWEEN
ty feet in height and that 1t swept
everything before 1t. tossing giant
boulders aside, or bearing them on
ward in its course.
The business center of Seven
Troughs was destroyed but no lives
were lost there, the canyon at that
point being SO wide that the wave
spread out and did not attain the mo-
mentum and height that marked its
further sweep.
Below Seven Troughs the canyon
narrows and It's banks are precipit-
Gus, while the grade increases. The
waters here became an all destroy
ing power. There was no means by
which the people of Seven Troughs
could warn their neighbors in Ma
yuma. but they hurried along the
sides of the gulch to the rescue of
the victims of the flood.
Hf ilAliG camp VI hdENiid do
practically wiped off the map. all the
buildings in the bed of the canyon
being either overturned or swept
away
The bodies of nine people were
found half buried in the debris after
the crest of the flood had passed.
Some of them were carried as far
as three miles and all were practical
ly denuded of clothing and terribly
mangled.
Nine others, who are probably fa-
tally injured. were found along the
lower canyon. while the rescue party
recovered others who were less Sc
riously, but still seriously. hurt.
Reported Dead
John Trenchard, merchant, Ma
yuma.
Mike c. Whalen, miner, Mazuma,
thirty-fye years old.
Edna Ruddell, postmistress, Ma
yuma.
Percy Gillespie, ten years old, Ma
yuma, son of superintendent Nj. Gill
lespie of the Derby Consolidated Min
ing and Milling company.
Four children of William Keho,
under seven years old. Mazuma.
Mrs. Mclean, Seven Troughs.
Mrs. Floyd Foncannon. Seven
Troughs, drowned In Burnt canyon,
six miles north of Seven Troughs.
Three unidentified. found in Wild
Horse canyon.
Seriously Injured
Mrs. John Trenehard. Mazuma,
may die; body cut and bruised.
Mrs. William Keho, Mazuma, may
die; cut about head and face, bruised
about body.
]. o. Hanley, Mazuma; badly in
tnred, but may recover.
Six unidentified
Returning from Lovelock Friday
when news of the cloudburst which
destroyed Mazuma was received,
Fred p. Damn of the undertaking
firm of Perkins-Gullins stated that
when he left at o'clock that morn
ing two automobiles had returned
with news of the catastrophe. He
stated that while considerable dam
age had been done at Seven Troughs'
the greatest loss of life and property
occurred at Mazuma which received
the full force of the wall of water
which swept down the canyon. The
frail buildings were crushed like
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