Show SIXTY LIVES LOST As the Result of the Unrstlng of Walnut CroTc Dam Arizona A FIFTY FEET WAVE wr RUSH INC WATER 1 Salt Lake Public Bnlldln Bill Recalled lij the Senate Cenmlttect YOUNG LINCOLN IN ACRITICAL CONDITION v t 1I A Chicago Evangelical BNhojis Son Expelled From the Chllrth Br TeJesrarh to the J > 11f1 ARIZOXAH CTlSTROIn Tho Drownrd h hA w Urote Dmn herS PBCSOOTT Arlions fob 2The worst phasts of the Walnut Grove disaster ore more ilian realized although al-though the particulars come In slow and are gill meager Two tiropcc tors arrived late last nIght learn tIC upper dam They sUle Wat lacy camped nborulhtiUam Fridaynlght AUrit 1 oclock Saturday morning the dam broke the water cunning down in the narrow Trteep canyon bUne a solidbody I eighty feet high One man was rerciml from tIns top of a tree They bIte Uist not even a remnant of the tiara cifsL The immcnte body of water one and onehalf miles AllUre nnd sixty feet deep vau emptiest in ah hour They had talked with many from tao smaller dam fifteen nilkl below who said that up to Saturday evening eve-ning twentyfive bodies had been recovered but could give no additional addi-tional namer The survivors were in great destitution having neither provisions nor clothing Coarse grain sacks were being used in lieu clothing The camp of workmen engaged In bullJInt the flume ha1 not been heard from at all and it is feared that all utu hat t ICo news is yet received here from Wickenburg or from the settlement below the dam A messenger bringing further particulars of the dbotcr arrived this morning ShcrKTOXeil who went to the scene of the disaster sends the following details The UesolAlioti along the Ilassay ampa below till sites of the dams is complete For miles the waters turned free by the breaking t the dams have tilled the bet of the creek with bodies and with enormous enor-mous boulders trees and every other kind of debris IA3I11S 01 T1lh hihtornIv Following Ins partial list of the drowned llaunal TJcCarUiy t Joe Reynolds cutout lieorgu Kbbotis laborer Alexander McMillan coachman for Van Huron E U Wiieeler laborer Cone Mexican name unknown G I Cook laboreR N L White I In t hl Jbt i borer Jotn ilbte Charles Jlng I blacksmith Patrick Shay laborer Patrick Carry laborer Charles BrackenIaborer VilIiamFlanigati laborer Frederick Palmer laborer I D llayne laborer and child George Itundel laborer and eight Chinamen Besides those mentioned some twelve or fifteen miners who were placer mining between the upper and lower dnm with a number of ranchers alonj the stream are missing miss-ing and when all the casualties arc ascertained the entire loss will probably be between fifty and sixty lives livesA A number of bodies have been recovered many of which were found twenty and thirty miles from the places where the flood ovrtook them All the remains a o ILIac or Ifs mutilated while in several cases only fragments have been recovered re-covered Many bodies have doubtless doubt-less been buried in the sand others torn to pieces and otliert arc far to the south The t JMtETUS OK TilE STKKAJI of water when turned locse can hardly b apprrciated without coins ever the ground covered by It Those who saw I say itcame down almost in a perpendicular wall ninety or a 3 feet high and apparently crushed down instead of sweeping away all before It A great body of water a mile and a half square and sixty feet deep was emptied in an hour Immense boulders elzh lug tons were thrown around Enormous trees were broken in two or torn Into shred Iron bars were broken and twisted out of shape An ordinary flatiron was picked up and carried five miles and then imbedded im-bedded in the walls of the canyon eighty feet above the present level of the 61rm A large safe containing con-taining 7000 was swept away and no trace has been found of It The flood struck the lower dam at IIIamand five minutes later tlie headquarters milesTwlow wen swept away Several persons were at both points watching but notwithstanding not-withstanding this the number drowned at the first point was over thirty and those who escaped did to with only what they had on their backs Many had only their nIghtclothes night-clothes onHE HE IXJiT HIS LIFE Friday evening a courier was cent from the upper t the lower dam to warn the resident that the former structure was in danger of breaking but owing t the storm the messenger messen-ger lost his life in attempting to cross the Ilassayampa within view of survivors of the camp he tried t sve Charles Thompson the courier Thompn erer who arrived this afternoon from b low Wlckcnburg reports that nine bodies have been discovered at Vlcktnburg and three in addition to those already discovered The ranches along the river have been entirely swept away A riiTY VEET WAVE AI Pjioysrx Ariz Feb 25News from the dam disaster reaches here slowly The camp three miles below the lower dam contained 123 people two weeks airo and there were nn bably that a It at the timu of tbedisasterand fcarsareentertained that many lives were lot A courier from near there saysjthattbe wave was fifty feet high when he first saw it The canyon full ef cottonwood cotton-wood trees was swept out clean Where the dam was there was a building 240 feet long sixty feet above the bed of the river and thirty thir-ty above the surface Every vestige I of the structure was iwept away A prospector camping on the bluff our 1 g miles below Wickenburg says the right from where he stood Ins sublime in the extreme At the narrow Just below him where the contracts aboutouefourtli canyon cnlrct t abut oufour itj width between perpendicular t rocks several hundred fecthlgh ° lbe waters leaped up and piled on top of one another for a hundred feet high f lhao fearful crash I and roar awl rushed through the narrow gorge like lightning clearing the least vestige of everything moveable and leaving the bare hard rk |