Show TIT II V3I BCnVT Ihe Ixw or Property on the Dam Catlmntetl at SSOOOOO PRESOOTT Arizona Feb tXa further particulars were received today to-day of the Walnut Grove disaster aster A courier has been looked for all day but ho has failed to arrive ar-rive As the distance i sixty miles and the read are washed nut and the streams badly swollen this may account for the delay Another courier was started from hero tonight to-night as the suspense continues intense in-tense and the greatest fears are entertained that It may prove wore than first reported rise stage due on that route Sunday night lias not jet arrived TIn FLOOD Fnostix Adz Feb 24No In fomution hn been received here in regard to the break of the Walnut Grove lam I the disaster ba occurred thin loss of life ant damage to property must be very great The entire valley from tho dam to Qulckcnbcn i In Iiabited principally by Mexican miners ant ranchmen and the fall of rain and tnow has been very heavy in the mountains far to the north and east I and the water here is very high Salt River rose seventeen seven-teen feet in fifteen hours Saturday Tho railroad bridge acrcso it I was washed away for two hundred feet i and half a mile of track on lliu Ink of the river is gone Telegraph communication was interrupted but a wire was placed across the river last night Later A courier just arrived from the lower dam on the Hosxay ampa reports that a tremendous mountain of water came down the Ha8ayama about 2 oclock Saturday Satur-day morning and thirtyfour menlo men-lo t their lives at the lower dam where they were at work Chewer Che-wer all whites except three Chin ce The courier retorts the town of Wlckenberg all relor The loss of life In the valley L tw < en Ulcknbtrg and the dam may not l known for some day but it i without doubt considerable and the number may possibly reach thirty or forty The courier statt the upper dam had undoubtedly broken and carried the other two dam below down with it The boa of property on the dams alone will amount to about SO |