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Show TOWN WIPED OUT Bl CLOUDBURST WALL OF WATER SWEEP8 ' THROUGH MAZUMA, NEVADA, CAUSING LOSS OF 20 LIVES. Everything In Path of Flood Swept Away, the Body of On of the Victim! Vic-tim! Being Found Three Mile From Hie Home, Reno. Nevada. With the death of John Treuchard and the discovery of three unidentified bodies In Wild Ilone i canyon, beven miles away, the loiji', toll of the flood of Thursday bight which wiped out the camp of Muzu-ma Muzu-ma and partially destroyed Seven Trougha has been brought to thirteen. Nine are seriously Injured, six of w hom ! isre unidentified. ) Investigation shows the flood swept a wider area than first known. In ad-1 dltion to Seven Troughs and Mazuma ! It extended to liurnt canyon, several miles from Seven Troughs, and Wild Horse canyon, seven miles distant. The bodliM of victims were almost en-1 tlrcly denuded and in many cases were j carried a distance of three miles. John Trenchard and his wife, first reported dead, were found to be still alive. They ' were internally Injured and the form- ' er died Friday. Mrs. Reese, reported j jdead. Is still misting. The property loss Is estimated at ' ($20(1.000, Including the cyanide plant of the Seven Troughs Coalition Mining company, totally destroyed. Seven Troughs Is situated half way up the mountainside with Ma.uiua at (the base in a canyon three miles away. The wall of water swept down the canyon, carrying buildings before It and overturning Uie Miiuniu hotel. , Those In the streets were carried down the guich, and many were cast to safety along the sides of the canyon. can-yon. i Word was received from Vernon by telephone, and doctors, nurses and automobiles w ith provisions have gone from Lovelock. The body of John Trenchard was found three miles from his home. No loss of life, but much property damage is reported in Seven Trouuhs. A cloudburst at Tonopah Junction 'washed out a mlleVif track of the Ne- , vada ft California narrow gaug ( branch of the Southern Pacific between be-tween Mina and Keeler. No lives are reported lost. Telegraph wires are jdown. The course of the five-foot wall ..of water was towaids Tonopuh, ome . fifty miles south. |
