Eastern Utah Advocate | 1901-10-03 | Page 1 | Thirteen Prospectors Drowned by Texas Waterspout

thirteen I 1 dro d bf by T 3 M tars ha has been received of the drowning got ot thirteen men who were prospect log for cinnabar in Pre presidio county leite lesis thursday by a cloud clou dburL bunt the meo men were lo 10 two partle parties camp ed one nille mile apart in a dry ravine known as Al aminto creek in is there had been DO no water for fifteen munt g son on account of the drought 1 clity I bey ivere were a aileen at 10 vv when hen there ther ivaa ewas f P cloudburst burst several niile miles up the ravine A volume of water twenty feet high washed down the favire and swept over ti tre tie e mea men la in the tile two compa before they were aware of their dir brnger riger six bodle bodies have been recovered