Goldfield, Nevada Drowning
September 1913
FIVE drowned in path of storm
TORRENT CARRIES AWAY SCORES OF DWELLINGS IN THE
OUTSKIRTS OF GOLDFIELD.
Gulches Become Roaring Rivers and All the Houses
in Their Paths Were Swept Away, the Loss Being
Estimated at $100,000.
Goldfield, Nevada. --- This city was swept
by a torrent from a cloudburst on Saturday that
caused the loss of at least five lives, carried
away several scores of dwellings and did damage
to merchandise stocks estimated at $100,000.
So far as could be ascertained in the
resultant confusion, the death list was limited
to two women, a man and two children. Most of
the buildings carried away were the homes of
miners lining the two gulches down which the
flood waters poured.
Goldfield is located in a basin with the
Malapai range to the south and two deep gulches
skirting the east and west sections of the town.
Within an hour those gulches were rearing rivers
and all houses in their paths were swept away.
Among the dead are: MRS. DE CARMO and child;
a laundress, name supposed to have been PELT,
and two unidentified persons, a man and a child.
The latters' bodies were seen going down the
gulches, but were not recovered.
Carbon County Utah 1913-09-18
Submitted & transcribed by Stu
Beitler Thank you,
Stu!
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