Casualties

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 12, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 28.

the 25th ult., totally wrecking a large brick building and a frame structure containing the post-office. Other buildings were damaged, the ground was torn up in places, and several head of stock were killed. ..... Advices from San Diego, Cal., report a shocking tragedy in connection with the rush to the gold mines in the Sierra Pintada, whose richness has proved to have been greatly exaggerated. The report is that a party of sixty prospectors, having lost their way, perished from thirst, and their bodies had been found by other wanderers. ..... Recent floods in western Texas have damaged the Southern Pacific tracks and bridges to the extent of $400,000.