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Show WIPEO OIJTBf FLOOD NEVADA MINING CAMP SWEPT AWAY BY TEN-FOOT WALL OF WATER. One Hundred and Thirty Buildings Ruined and Five Hundred People Rendered Homeless as Result of Cloudburst. Rawhide, New Squnttortown, a settlement set-tlement Just south of Rawhide, was swept by a 10-foot wall of water, following fol-lowing a cloudburst in the hills to tho north, Tuesday night, nnd 130 buildings build-ings wero partially or completely destroyed. de-stroyed. It is reported that two women ana rour children nro missing. The cloudburst occurred at the summit sum-mit of the hills of the town nt G:30 ! o'clock Tuesday evening. In a few minutes min-utes a three-toot wall or water was pouring down the slope, covering, the distance from tho summit to Mny street with the speed of a, railway train. The flood rushed Into the street, which lies in a hollow and forms a gen-, oral drainage channel, and every busl-1 ness houso on tho east side was flood-' cd to a depth of from ono to four feet. Gathering forco ns It poured down tho channel, tho flood swept Into and over Squattertown, hair a mile farther down. The water formed a wall ten feet high ns It crashed Into the frail structures, inhabited for tho most part by miners and their families, and buildings build-ings wero overturned and demolished at tho first blow. |