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Show LATEST TELEGRAPH NEWS. RUINOUS RAINS. St. Louis, Aug. 20.-A Dallas special says: One of the heaviest rains ever known, continuing three days and nights without intermission, stopped falling in West Texas, last night. Some places have the appearance of a sea. The rain fall is estimated at six feet. The flooded section begins near Abilene and extends west for three hundred miles, including the country from the Brazos to the Pecos rivers. Miles of track of the Pacific and Texas road have been damaged and in many places serious washouts have occurred. Four miles of track west of Abilene were washed away and the trains cannot cross. Transfers have to be made. Great drifts of dead prairie dogs are piled in the rubbish. Thousands of them have been drowned and thousands more are seen struggling in the water. On these plains the waters from such floods flow southward, and the only channels to carry them away are the Brazos and Colorado, the Conchos and Pecos rivers and their small tributaries. Consequently it will be several days before the lands become dry again. The great washout referred to was the work of a waterspout between Abilene and Sweetwater. A similar one is said to have occurred near Van Horn, nearly 600 miles west of Dallas, and another spout is reported to have struck and seriously damaged the Southern Pacific track in Southeastern Arizona. It will take several days to prepare the Texas & Pacific track. It is feared that great loss of life and stock occurred in the remote and sparsely settled country to the north and northwest of the Texas & Pacific. SHIP SEARCHED-TUNNEL ACCIDENT. New York, Aug. 20.-A letter from Havana states that the American schooner Dauntless was searched, on the 11th inst., by armed and uniformed men who were in quest of a delinquent Spanish sailor. The searching party had no authority to act as it did and the subject is to be investigated. An accident occurred on the New York side of the Hudson river tunnel, this afternoon, by the blowing out of a bulkhead. No person was injured, but the work will be delayed for several days. INDIAN DEPREDATIONS IN ARIZONA. Tucson, N. T., Aug. 18.-The Star's special advices from Guaymas, Sonora, of the 16th says: Word has just been received from Trinidad, Sonora, that the Apaches are depredating fearfully and committing frightful atrocities in the Sahuahua district. A large force of Mexicans are in hot pursuit of the redskins. At Taratuo rancho the Apaches killed six men passing La Mesa Polona, two in ??, two in Arinco Honda and three hours afterward attacked ?? where they killed 11 women and a child, first stripping the women outraging them in the most brutal manner, and then putting them to death by the most cruel torture. Four of the men of the ranch who were returning saw the houses on fire and fled. The Apaches gave chase. Three of them took refuge in the rocks and were defending themselves when the fourth man, who escaped, brought the news to Trinidad. A large force of citizens started at once to the rescue and couriers were sent in all directions to warn the settlers of the whereabouts of the hostiles. No mail-riders have arrived for several days and therefore it is believed not all have fallen victims to the Apaches. The number of the hostiles is two hundred. They are commanded by ?? the Chichuahua chief, who escaped after the battle with General Fuero, last spring. Authenticated reports state a hand of Apaches penetrated Alamer and are depredating there. General Reyes, with a large force in the Sahuaripa district, declares he will not spare a buck, squaw, or pappoose, if he again encounters them. KILLED. Allentown, Penn., Aug. 20-John Heward and Willoughby Treger were killed on Saturday night near ?? by a train running into the wagon they were riding in. BRUTAL BURGLARS. Ashland, Aug. 20-Burglars entered the house of a farmer named Cox, held revolvers to the heads of the inmates, hung Cox up three times, put his frightfully to make him tell where his money was. Fortunately he had made a deposit in the bank and they got only $40. The robbers escaped. TERRIBLE TRAGEDIES. Chicago, Aug. 21.-A special from Warren, Ills., says: James Bird, a jealous roper who had quarrelled with his wife, yesterday, sought her out at her sister's house in ??. After a few minutes talk and telling her if they could not live happily together they ought at least to be friends, he drew a revolver and shot her twice, inflicting possibly fatal injuries. He then shot himself in the abdomen. Physicians say he cannot live. Mt. Pulaski, Aug. 21.-Charles McMahon, who lived five miles east of the city and who has been missing for the past three days, was discovered, yesterday, with two young men, who had been working for him, all three blindfolded and their throats cut from ear to ear. No cause is known. STRIKING SCUFFLE. Cumberland, Md., Aug. 20.-A squad of the Consolidation companies imported miners from Eckhart were sent to "Pompsey's Smash," this evening, to smother the fire in the Astor mines located there. On their arrival they were attacked by a large body of strikers and were again driven back to the barracks. Firearms were used freely by both parties, but it has been learned that no one was injured. Cumberland, Md., Aug. 20.-During Saturday night the Knights of Labor pasted bills throughout the town of ?? warning the miners not to go to work on Monday without orders from that organization, as otherwise they would be branded as blacklegs. The men of George Creek Coal and Iron Co. and of the New Central Co. say they are determined to go in to-morrow. |