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Show CLOUDBURST IN NEVADA Mazuma Is Destroyed by Water Many Lives Are Lost Reno, Nev., July 19. Searching parties from Lovolock and surrounding surround-ing towns are scouring the flood swept canyon and .hillsides in the vicinity of Mazuma and Seven Troughs, in Humboldt Hum-boldt county, Nov., for remains of victims of the catastrophe which wiped out the two mining camps late yesterday afternoon. Late reports from thoscene of the disaster state that more than a score of bodies have been recovered, and It Is believed that the death list will number thirty or more. The dead MRS. M'LEAN, Mazuma. MRS. REESE, Mazuma. MRS. EDNA RUDDELL, postmistress, postmis-tress, Mazuma. MRS. FONCANNON, Mazuma. THREE CHILDREN OF Mrs. Ke-hoo, Ke-hoo, Mazuma. MIKE WHALDNG, miner, Mazuma, PERRY GILLESPIE, Mazuma. FOURTEEN UNIDENTIFIED. Missing: Mrs Kehoe, Mazuma, Expected to die: N John Tronchard, Mazuma. Mazuma is situated in a nairow canyon about half a mile below Seven Sev-en Troughs. At the latter place no loss of life has been reported, but practically all the business houses, residences and mills were wiped out. At Mazuma a solid wa'i of water, fifteen foot in height, swept down the narrow canyon without warning and with great force. It carrlod everything every-thing before It and left a desolated, dobrls-covered trail behind It. Juot how many victims were swept to their doath probably will not bo learned until late tonight, 3t which time the searching parties expect lo conclude their search. Although searching parties were bnsy nil through tho night their work wa& hampered by darkness. Robcuo work early brought gruesome grue-some ovldence of the tragedv The discovery of the bodies of Mr. and Mrs, Trenchnrd was followed by a surprlBO when It was tound that noitlur wub dead. John Tronchard Is oxpoclod to die, but hope Is held out that hla wife will recove1' Mrs Flovd Foncannon was found dead and iho throo ohlldren of Mrs Kehoo were found dead three miles from tbeii homo. The niothoi is mlcslaj and It is believed Bho perished. Mike Whalong, a minor, lost his Hfo, aB did Perry Gillespie, son of Superintendent Gillespie. The bodies of Mr and Mrs Trench-ard Trench-ard were found two miles from where thoy lived. Mr3. McLean and Miss Edna Rud doll, the postmistress , were found close together The body of John Tronchard was found three miles from his home. His wlfe'B body was later found some distance dis-tance from that of Mr Tronchard. Superintendent Glllcdp'o saved his wife from the flood but was unable to 8ao his son. Whllo the precipitation in Lovelock has been Temarkably heavy for the past threo days, the rainfall hnr. been slight in Seven Troughs As an indication of an utter absence of warning given the victims, it is related re-lated that John Trenchnrd had remarked re-marked to his wife yesterday afternoon after-noon that it looked like rain. Ho stepped to the front door of his store to note the condition of tho weather. A fow drops of rain had fallen Aa ho reached the front door he heard a heavy roar and was confronted with a wall of water, fifteen feet high, which carried him and his wife two miles away It Is expected that many bodice are strewn over the hilHides in tho gulch. Reno, Nev., July 18, HovcraJ bodies have been recovered tonlfillt) rind from five to ten more arc UelievU hi bo buried in tho dobrlu of a tilbud-burst tilbud-burst thirty miles from Lovoloeh ld-day, ld-day, which destroyed tho mining cairip of Mazuma and partially doslrojred the-nearby the-nearby camp of Sevon Trougbsi In Mnstuma, which sufferod monl, It was first believed that nearly 100 persons were missing, but latest estimates placo the loan of llfo al not more thai) twenty. Seven Troughs Is situated half way up the mountainside wltli Mazuma at the base In a canyort three miles away The wall or Waler" swenl down the canyon, carrying buljdlugs bofore It and overturning the Mnr.il-ma Mnr.il-ma hotel. Those In tho Btreets wore carried down tho gulch, and many were cast to Bafety nlon the sides' of tho canyon. Word was received from Yornou by telephone, and doctors, nurses and automobiles with provisions havo gone from Lovelock. Tho body of John Tronchard was found Inroo miles from his home. No loss of life, but much proporty damage 1b reported in Sevon Troughs, Communication by wlro was badly crippled, and tho roads wore no furrowed fur-rowed that automobiles woro obliged to make wldo detours In seeking news. A cloudburst at Tonopah Junction washed out a mile of trade of tho Nevada Ne-vada &. California narrow-gaugo branch of tho Southern Pacific between be-tween Mina and Keeler No lives are reported lost Telesraph wires are down The course of the fhe-foot fhe-foot wall of water is towards Tonopah Tono-pah some fifty miles south. |