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Show TIiaYuHia Floods,! ANumborof 1 ml Inns Reported Re-ported Drowned. The Victims of the Alia Snow Slide, And Sundry Items ot Interest l'i'or.i lixcha nge-s. THE YUMA FLOODS Special to The Denver News. Yuma , T.. M ar h 4!Iod,'es oroth ers, are just in from the west side of the river, where they have bee 1 hunting theii cattle am )Ui.r tbe Indians. They met an Indian to-dayjust up from thirty miles dowi the river in the north edge of the O'copah country, who said that many Indians had been drowned, but they could form no idea fr: m what he said of the number. Several Yuma Indians living below here make the same np. rt. It will be days before the number and the facts can be gotten. One Indian is reported to have been drovned on the Yuma reservation, across tne Coloaado from heie. Reports are in from nearly every dis-trhtand dis-trhtand each report is better. The water rose from ten to twelve feet. No bouse fell, so for as known above Gilia City. The fine ranch of G. W. Norton, in the Mohawk valley, is damaged but little. His tine thoroughbred stock are all saved and nearly all of his fine hogs. A lew have not been found. He saved some of his niighbors.who had no boats. Colonel ColeSaundeis'ranch isdaniage-ed isdaniage-ed but little. He saved neatly all his livestock The cattle and horses supposed sup-posed to have been drowned all tied to high banks where thousands of them hive been found. The Mohawk and Gila vallevs h.ve stood a test that will make them mote valuable than ever. The storm not only covered Arizona but Lower California, and was the severest ever known. Tia Juana, on the Mexican line, a town larger than Yuma, lost every house but one. Among the fine buildings lost was the custom house, cost $36,000, a large four story hotel, three large stores and a large number of fine dwellings (and cottages, beside the whole of the Mexican part of the town built of adobe Ensanada also suffered by the storm, Yuma has twenty-five houses standing whic i ttie Hood did not narm, and forty l bouses patcy ruined, which were built ' t f small posts set in the ground and fill- ' ed between with adobe or mortar. them to thitt particular part of the .coast. |