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Show CLOUDBUR8T IN CANYON. Young Woman Drowned and Vast Amount of Property Destroyed. Reno, Nov. A telophono mcssago from Verdi, Nov., says a destructive cloudburst visited that sootlon bo-tween bo-tween 3 nnd 4 o'clock Sunday after-noon after-noon In which ono llfo wns lost, whilo scores ot llvo stock, cabins and n. great quantity of logs woro carried off. Miss Etta Tlxley, aged 24, daughter ot John Tlxloy, foroman of tho Vordl Mill & Lumbor company, was on tho porch of tho lumber ofllco, located In tho canyon, whon tho wntor, fully ten feet high, rushed against tho build-lng, build-lng, carrying Miss Tlxloy with It bo-neath bo-neath tho floods. Luko Smith, an old-ttmor, Is report-cd report-cd to havo lost his llfo also, but this cannot bo confirmed. A cloudburst occurring In Spanish. canyon nenr Steamboat Springs, caught sovoral peoplo In tho rush ot wators, but after battling dosporatoly thoy finally saved thomsolves. |