The violence of the river’s action became…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

The violence of the river’s action became fiercer and fiercer, and arose with a rapidity which was simply frightful. The Indians hur- ried back to their homes, the greedy water of the tidal wave following them on, swallowing their cattle, horses and fields of grain, driving them to the mesa, over 100 feet above the bed of the river, and the spray from the angry water even then reached them. About 7 o’clock the heavens above and the earth below tried to unite, and a good genuine earthquake warned the warriors of the Cocopath nation that a new kind of danger had befallen their people.