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Show Thirteen Prospectors Drowned by Texas Waterspout. News has been received of the drowning drown-ing of thirteen men who were prospecting prospect-ing for cinnabar in Presidio county Texas, Thursday, by a cloudburst. The men were in two parties, camped camp-ed one mile apart in a dry ravine known as Alaminto creek, in which there had been no water for fifteen months on account of the drought. They were asleep at 10 o'clock when there was a cloudburst several miles up the ravine. A volume of water twenty feet high washed down the ravine and swept over the men in the two camps before they were aware of their danger. Six bodies have been recovered. |