Salt Lake Tribune | 1913-09-14 | Page 1 | Five Are Drowned in Nevada Storm

FIVE W OHED 1 U STORM Cloudburst FlooiJs GoWfielH, Destroying Life ah3 Doing Great Damage. GOLDFIELD, Nev., Sept. 18. Gold-fiold, Gold-fiold, swept by a torront from a cloudburst cloud-burst today that caused the loss of at least five lives, carried away sevoral scores of dwellings and did damage to merchandise stocks estimated at $100,-000, $100,-000, was in darkness tonight and at a late hour rain was again falling in a volume amounting almost to a second cloudburst. So far as could be ascertained in the resultant confusion, the death list waa limited to two womon, a man and two children. Most of. tho buildings carried away wero the homes of minors lining tho two gulches down which the flood waters pourod. Citizen volunteers patrolled tho desolated, des-olated, districts tonight to provent looting. loot-ing. Goldfield Is located in a basin with the Malnpai rango to tho south and two doop gulchos skirting tho east and wost sections of tho towu. Within an hour thcBO gulchos wore roaring rivers and all houses in their paths were swept away. Tonight tho known dead are: Mrs. Do Garmo aud child; a laundross, name supposed to have boon Polt, and two unidentified persons. The latters' bodies wore seen going down tho gulcheB but. wore not recovered. The Nevada California Power company com-pany suffered groat damage, putting all the mines of Goldfiold and Tonopah out of commission temporarily. Business houses having goods stored-in tho baso-ments baso-ments loBt heavily. Women assisted tho men in the work of rescue, while tho rain came down in torrents, accompanied' accompa-nied' by hail. Many hairbreadth escapes are reported, report-ed, marooned women and men being rescued from floating houses by moans of ropos. Tho telephone and power wires all are down, as are all tho tolograph wires. Communication with Tonopah ia cut off. Goldfiold Is In darkness tonight, but the scores of homelosB persons aro boing bo-ing cared for by those who30 dwollings escaped tho flood.