The eagle., September 05, 1894, Page 5, Image 5

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THE EAULE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1894.
RUSHING WATERS.
A Cloud Burst Deluges Gold Hill With
Water.
Two HurroH Drowned hikI Home 1'roperty
l)i'Mlrov'l hut no Human Liven I.oHt.
confined almost entirely to the basin.
There was almost no rain over the di
vide on the Silver City road. There was
quite a heavy rain in the canyon where
the Standard Company's mill in situated.
The oldest inhabitant does not remein
lier an occurrance like unto this.
The Lilieral of last Friday says that
last week Thursday afternoon about
four o'clock it began to rain at Gold
Hill. In a little while it became quite
dark, a cloud coming down to the earth.
Suddenly the cloud burst and the basin
was deluged with water. As an eye
witness expressed it, it seemed as though
two feet of water fell at one dash. The
water swept down the basin, following
the washes and often overspreading
them.
At llragaw's store the water was be
tween two and three feet deep, making
Mr. Bragaw think for a time he was
doing business in Silver City. J. P.
Kainbolt was living in the building for
merly used by Frank Kennerston for a
saloon ; the water washed by there in a
great Hood, but the big rock just alwve
the house divided the water and kept
the 'orce of the flood from striking the
lnuse. The addition at the rear of the
house was washed away together rtth
the contents. Mr. Rainbolt found pieces
of his cook stove scattered all down the
canyon.
Over in the west part of the basin the
flood caught 1'. 15. SniithV wagon, har
ness, some lumber, mining tools and
cooking outfit and washed them down
the valley. He was able to find very
little of the material washed away; an
ax was found that had been washed
some three hundred yards. The well
was filled up with silt and will have to
lie dug over again. The well owned by
the Standard Mining Co. ia in the mimic
condition, and men are at work on it.
Luckily the foundations of the windmill
were secure and it was not washed away.
The only lives lost were those of a coup
le of burros. Luckily no one was in the
canyon leading to Lordshurg when the
Hood took place or there probably would
have been a fatal accident. At the
mouth of the gorge the water was mine
than twenty feet deep. Further up
the canyon the indications are that the
water was more than fifteen feet
on the road, judging by the driftwood
on the side of the canyon. From the
time the water began to run through
the streets of the town till it reached its
highest mark was not more than ten
minutes. In ten minutes more it liegan
to recede, ami in a half an hour it had
all gone down the canyon. The water
came out of the canyon in a great river
and spread out so that it was visible
from Lordshurg. The heavy rain was
Baylor Shannon of liear Creek is a
candidate for the nomination as sheriff
on the democratic ticket. Mr. Shannon
is one of our present very efficient lioard
of countv commissioners. When the
new law was passed regulating the fees
of the sheriff it was claimed by many
patriots that a man could not afford to
lie sheriff, there were not wages in the
office. Mr. Shannon was in a position
to know considerable about the office
and made a study of it. He came to the
conclusion that if the office was properly
run that it would pay the man for the
work, and that if a good man secured
the office a great deal of money could lie
saved the county, so he concluded to In
come a candidate for the office. If a
democrat has got to hold the office there
is no one the Liberal would rather see in
it than Mr. Shannon. Wesiern Lilieral.
The Raton strikers, Bland, Walters,
Hallowell and Uunyan who were sen
tenced to imprisonment by Judge Seeds
for contempt of court in July were re
leased last Friday. Bland was sen
tenced to prison for 60 days and the
others were sentenced for 50 days. They
had served 40 days when the governor
ordered their release.
The troops which went from Fort
Bayard to the northern part of the terri
tory during the railroad strike in July
have returned. They were absent alxmt
six weeks.
Bead this issue of Tim Kahi.k carefully
and send in your subscription liefore you
forget it.
Hold at Sheriffs Sale.
Last Saturday morning at 11 o'clock
Sheriff Laird sold, under execution, the
following pieces of real estate to satisfy
a judgment obtained by E. ,L. Foster,
receiver of the First National Bank of
this city, against Perry B. Lady:
One half of the west 24 feet of loU 1, 8,
Sand 7 in blocWljFrazer's survey ,being
the premises now occupied by the South
west Sentinel printing office; lot 6, in
block 91, Fra.er's survey, being the store
occupied by J. J. Kelly; lots 2, 4, 6, 8,
10, 12, ' 14, and lti, in block 6,
Black's Addition, lieing the residence
occupied by J. II. Mudge; lots 9, 10, 11,
12, IH, and 14, in block II, Black's addi
tion, being the residence occupied by
J. J. Kelly ; lots 11, 12, i:i,'l4, 1.'), ami
16, in block 9, Black's addition, lieing
the residence occupied by C. AV.
Marriott, and lots 9, 10, 11, 12, 1Ü, 14, 15,
and Hi, in block 7, Black's addition,
lieing the homestead occupied by Mr.
Lady.
As the sheriff offered the property for
sale several notices of encumbrances
on the various pieces of property were
given. None of the property was un
encumbered, and lot 6 in block 91 was
encumbered to the full appraised value.
There was but one bidder for any of
the property except the lots in block
71. For these Allan H. Macdonald bid
$100 and E. L. Foster, receiver, bid
$340. All of the property was sold to
E. L. Foster, receiver. The lots in
block 7 Black's addition were sold for
$668; those in block 9 for $70; those in
block 11, Black's addition, sold for $200;
the eight lots in block 6, Black's addi
tion were knocked down at $100, while
lot 6, in block 91, brought only $5.
The bids were all just over two-thirds
of the appraised value, less the encumbrance.
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Stage Leaves Silver City it 8 a. m. every Monday, Wednesday
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All passenger. and express must go to Wells
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Fargo & (Vs. express
W. M. Murphey.