Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Inyo County California
May 28, 1872
The Coshocton Democrat, Coshocton Ohio
The total loss by the late earthquake in Inyo county, California, was: Lone Pine, $132,000; Independence, $43,850; Camp Independence, $26,500; other places, $34,700. Total $237,000
February 6, 1891
New Oxford Item, New Oxford Pennsylvania
In one California county (Inyo) there were 1500 red to 600 white.
April 23, 1908
Iowa City Daily Press, Iowa City, Iowa
Skidoo, Ca. Apr. 23-Joseph Simpson who shot and killed James Arnold, was lynched here today.
August 13, 1908
Nevada State Journal, Reno Nevada
Woman's Pluck Saves Two From Death
Staggering into the state station at Ballarat at 4 o'clock
Tuesday morning, what seemed to be the wraith of a woman gave the astonished
hostlers word that Harold Braly lay out in the desert, exhausted and dying. It
was another story of the horrors of Death Valley.
For five days, through the inferno of the desert of
Southeaster California, Miss Lottie Davis, Postmistress at Skidoo, accompanied
by Braly, who is superintendent of the Skidoo Mining Company, had struggled on
towards civilization through the sand and the furnace-like heat. Finally, when
their automobile broke down for the last time, they started to walk to the next
station on the desert road. Braly gave way but Miss Davis staggered on to the
station for help for herself and for him.
The automobile, owing to the roughness of the road, occupied
five days in making a journey usually made in 10 hours.
October 16, 1911
Warren Evening Mirror, Warren Pennsylvania
PITIFUL TRAGEDY IN MOJAVE DESERT
Family Drink of Poison Springs and Father Dies.
San Bernardino, Cal., Oct. 16-One of the most pitiful
tragedies of the Mojave desert in recent years was discovered in Inyo county
yesterday when a party of teamsters on their way across the sandy waste came up
on the family of George McDermott.
McDermott and his family, consisting of his wife and five
children, started overland several weeks ago for Mill Valley, Utah. Becoming
short of water, it is thought, they drank from one of the numerous poison
springs of the desert. The horses and cow became sick and the cow died. Then
McDermott fell ill and died six days later.
The distracted widow of mother then took up the reins and
drove the nearly dead horses for miles over the desert in search of water until
she, too, was stricken and fell by the side of her husband.
When the teamsters found the family, the mother was near
death and the children, all sick, were clinging to her. All were taken on to
Mill City and it is thought the mother will die.
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