Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-09-16

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northern river in springtime
Houses Torn Apart
One residence across the gulch
which contained five rooms parted in
the center and three rooms went ca
reening down the flood Bedding,
furniture, stoves and dishes came
tumbling out of the broken side as
the occupants scrambled out OF the
other end which rested on higher
ground. Even then they had to he
assisted to a place of safety wiki
ropes thrown by men on still higher
ground and this scene was repeated
for half an hour. A constant pro
cession of small houses kept pour
ing down the guleh and the ladics in
their homes on Main street expected
every moment to see their own house
give way.
The Tom Hurley boarding house
on West Crook street was wiped out
and Mrs. Leroy's big boarding house
on Miner and Bellevue on the oppo.
site side Of town was seriously dare
aged The Sundog grocery was turn
ed around on the lot it occupied in
the same quarter and a small house
! owned by ]. NJ Ellis, master mechan-
! ic of the MacNamara mill OF Tono-
: pah, at sos Sundog, was carried cut
Another house owned by Mr. Ellis al
5 No. 5O7 Snndog, hung over The Hood
+ but did not move. This is an index
r of the real height of the water which
$ must have climbed fourteen feet to
j, reach the underpinning Of 5O7
' A tabloid report Of the destruction
appeared in an issue blythe Goldfield
e Tribune Sunday morning.
d When it was learned in ronopat
; that the Tribune would not be able
Y TO print their regular edition owins
/ to the lack of electric power J. c
J, Martin, for the proprietor Of he 30
e nanza, rendered the use Of the 30
d nanza plant to the Tribune but th'
i" offer was declined with thanks.
It The Mexican woman was identifie,
e as Mrs Eulalie Roblies.
The Goldfield Water company los
d is placed at 10000 Heavy pipe
N and other materials were carried fror
the storehouse of the company a
Ramsey and First streets to dis
d tance of over four miles
IS Some of the Incidents.
rs Following are extracts from til
lg Tribune.
IS The wife and child of r II A.
a. brey were in the Aubrey house 0
m the brewery heights when the floo
n struck and wrecked it. They wel
able to make their way to a hig
n place on the wreckage and thei
ne they were marooned for over a
is hour. Meanwhile reports spread th
as they had been lost but rescur
party reached them and got the
safely to high ground.
re The home of William Nelson al
ho his bride, formerly Miss Neidini
,la who was deputy recorder for a viii
he was wrecked The couple bought
of of Mrs. Hulda Hughes only two wee
no ago. The rescue Of the Stackpool
til who lived nearby was effected wi
for difficulty, Oscar Olson of the fire
of partment carrying Mrs Stackpoc
on to safety while viii Catalan stf
il gered against the current with t
wn little Stackpoole girl clinging
in his neck Jack stackpoole was he
uld ed, too, to safety
til, In the low ground on Crook str'
eet there is a row of houses owned
rec Earl c. Stevens. These are 81
the stantially built. The flood fill
vas them three feet above the flo'
ON and Robert Struby and his wife, "
and live in the house formerly occup
Of by Captain Webb, were nea
/ drowned, but managed to get out
was Running through the spaces
art tween these houses and gaining TO
ZEN by the temporary blockade form
'ose the flood concentrated on the no
feet on the north side of the street o
He'd ed by Thomas Cline and occur
an by Mrs M. r. Farnsworth. n
face Farnsworth with her sister and
me band had moved into this house {
ind a fortnight ago The house was
lent ed bodily from it's foundation