Show DAMAGE BY FLOODS accounts continue to come in 10 of damage done in the central and south orn ern counties ot of the state by floods during monday and Tue tuesday day the town which has suffered most moat seriously so eo far as aa reports that have been received would indicate to la eureka here la in addition to the damage done aone to property of various kinds two lives were lost it began to rain heavily in eureka about 2 p m yesterday monday mud for about au ait hour the water tell in houses hougee stores cellars and mines were flooded or damaged and a raging torrent of water flowed through throng h the towo town several children wert were caught in the angry stream but ail ol of them or were rescued except an italian boy named dominic castel casiel lieto aged teu ten years who was drowned drow neu nev A amen man named qua gus johnson said to be a peddler frow from giameo asbe GS be saw the ibe boy being swept down by the torrent anti and bravely plunged into the water torea lue cue him A log jog which was coming swiftly down the current struck job johle son and disabled him so eo th that a t b a was waa himself drowned martin marshal hearold also aleo attempted to save boy but was wae unsuccessful he ra himself swept far down the atrean Bt rean and narrowly escaped with his bla life mayor john mccrystal who w witnessing the progress of the flo and the damage it was doing suade ly died fromi heart failure supposed ta have been super induced by the excite ment he was much respected a ai widely known his remains were be brought to this city today who it was announced the funeral wan be held the auspices ot of the sonic J it will be ba remembered that on M MOB day richfield bavler county wi heavily damaged by a flood yester yeste day almost exactly twenty lour bou hourt alter the first arai visitation there ca cam another one worse than the farat cottonwood canyon to is about two mil northwest north V est of the towo tow D which lies in line with it A number of years ago a as a precaution against floods a all alto was dug in such a manner as to carry away from the town an excess 0 water coming down the canyon but be thin time the flood was so great that I 1 swept over and practically obliterated this the waters rushed on into the town submerging the streets filling cellars cella covering fields mud gardens with round and debris bris and destroy log crops and great quantities ot of boy bey thai aba bad been out cut Boor enormous rain cloudy cloud seem to have gathered Ra just over tb taft canyon into they poured th ther rivers ibey contained As the flood swept downward it presented a siant at once awful and grand and it was jaaj accompanied by a tremendous roaring sound that well nigh overcame anat of the almost inces incessant saut rolling thun der I 1 the damage richfield has eu fiereck from these two visitations has not becea stated elated but it will amount to man many thousands of dollars fillmore meadow scipio and angkab kan osh all shared in the second visitation which was poured out our upon them during yeat yesterday erday much damage was done in all of them three saw mills la in the call caa east of fillmore have been wash washed away they beloi god ged respectively to S joseph Hai hageon jeon john jackson and levi warner in and near the town 1 of Fill cuore lands land were lu inundated undated 1 1 crops destroyed and mud and debris spread over streeta tv fatme and at meadow similar damage was done haystacks and buil buildings diDge were t swept away and one man woo WI was attempting to save some of his prop orty eny was attacked by a swarm of bees I 1 which stung him until his li e was enu endangered angered this man lost all his bis moveable moveably move able property the other towns named above and still others in the same county mil laroa laro suffered buffered to in a similar simil arway way it to is estimated that the amount ot of damage done in the county by floods in tho two days will approximate in 0 anty destructive floods and storms of rain and ball bail also occurred prom from many towns come accounts a of damage done to crops etc which in the aggregate must be heavy in some places the hailstones hailstone were as large as hazel nuts and killed poultry near gunnison Gunn rison several aall fish were found on dry ground which indicated that the waters that had fallen from the clouda bad been drawn up from some river or lake jake by a waterspout whose diction tic tion was enough to elevate flab fish etc in baulete and bavler counties numerous wa washouts was boute shouts of railroad grades have occurred causing an interruption tn ta the running of trains the mining town of mercur also aleo had a visitation yesterday afternoon alter noon about three elock ater after a moderate rain or of about two hours the fountain to 14 the sky suddenly gave way and poured down their contents iu 10 vast torrents A river was quickly formed daod and rushed down the gulch tn in which the tee town if ie situated the flod washed out about feet or the he rail grade sod and inundated the mercur C the damage to the mill was jt not bog heavy nor was wae much other prop alty V lefty except the railroad greatly incited I 1 the NEWS correspondent at eureka rota from there at 6 5 pm fm tuesday as tol joWs it will be noticed that he be states I 1 adum that five deaths occurred but it anto to be hoped that this is an error anti and avat that only the three persons named stove ve lost their lives the terrible storm which occurred here this afternoon came without t a warnings warning carrying every before it there was the great 1 ft I excitement everywhere in the he town and abe streets of eureka seemed to be turned into last flowing streams stream main was like a river five people have nave met their death through the terrible tero foro 0 storm one of them being mr q john who rushed into the road d to got get a little boy who was being overpowered by the rushing waters iu in dropped down dead he suffered from bean ol seaBe the names of the adgas who were drowned as yet are Quit unknown cown the storm tore up the ralls rails of the U union pacific railway as 88 K they were a lot ot of match boards it alia ald partly wrecked the bridge on abc V T 1 P between mammoth and eureka kil eureka has suffered terribly and bolh ifie bu bat havoc sod a ad destruction Is in to be seen mn on an every hand band throughout the district the mammoth dam gave way but the water old did very little damage it slightly up the bat b it and carried away a 11 few cu culverts verie lverts the mcintire ranch which Is just a few miles away is in by water which has run ruin dreu from maru mammoth oth and vicinity the following to la from the NEWS farres ondene at mammoth and was written tuesday arter A heavy term storm occurred here this afternoon commencing at anu ana for over three quarters of nt ao an hour hoir the heavy rainfall soon started large lare streams running down the moun tain gain sides doing great damage to the grade of the east gintic tintic railway several places in the sidings of the grade have been washed away the grade from the depot up to the mam moth mill fared very badly the rails which were laid down on this grade last week will all have to be takes taken up uc anti ami the track will have to be reconstructed the damage done by the storm will run into inlo the thou sands ande of dollars the work of over a y J i month with a force of fifty men has baa been destroyed today in a few mid ute the dam of the sioux consolidated company gave way this afternoon owing to the heavy rain storm the water ran down into t the h e boiler house bouse carrylon carry log ig everything before it machinist Set isles had a very narrow escape as the water was several feet feel beep and it was with great difficulty that he be got out of it he was waa knocked down by the heavy doors doore of the sioux boiler bouse and had it not been for the timely aigist anoe ance of some of his hie fellow workmen who pulled him out from under the heavy doors doore he be would have been drowned in a very few moment we are pleased to say eay that he be escaped with boly a bruised hip the fireman escaped with a few marks on tile bis arm the lightning set fire to the pump hie hi ht ve e at cherry creek tuesday night but before the ibe fire could do much it id was put out by some of the workman the pump house is ie the property of the mining company |