Show A 1 large 16 in dri ken PRE rB ESCOTT ariz feb 22 the fine large storage dam built acres the river by the walnut grove water company two years ago at a cost of three hundred thousand dollars gave way this morning under th ehg treat great Fure 0 of f a heavy food and wa swept ept everything before it forty persons per ons ara known to leave lost alivs As theto the ton of 1 wickenburg about thirty miles b below e 3 the dam wa on the tle rame same stream great fearn fears are entertained for the of that town hut but as tb there t ito is no telegraphic p it 11 i call co muni cation no news can be b 0 0 bli of its fate late the cervice dam of the company was wa located fifteen miles below the reservoirs and fifteen miles of the flume just approaching completion was a iso dept awa the company compary lias has owr over fam on the enterprise the hydraulic mining machinery bad arrived and they expected to commence operations t I 1 ons next week the tile dam which barera held the tile waters back was oce one hun hundred fred and ten fet fiet long at the base and four hundred at the top was cne hundred and ten feet th ahk ick k at the ba lae bae e and anti ten feet deep lieutenant brodie in charge of the work was absent at phoenix nix super superintending intending the shipment of machinery to the works |