The violence of the river’s action became…
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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.