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The Dutchman Tom Kollenborn Chronicles
Over the years, beginning with Pierpont Bicknell in 1892 and others, including Sims Ely, Barney Bernard, Oren Arnold, Barry Storm, Ray & Lizzie Howland and Curt Gentry have written about the fabled Lost Dutchman and each has expanded on the story. In reality, there was no substantiated evidence of a massacre grounds and there was no massacre of a Peralta family. About the only thing we know for certain is there was a Jacob Waltz, but he was a German, not a Dutchman. Strangely, he never filed any claims in Pinal, Maricopa or Gila Counties.
even started yet. in franklin, louisiana in the bayous west of new orleans. people who live around the water, the bays and the rivers, several days from now major rainfall is expected. are they prepared? well, ana, we are talking about franklin here as well as morgan city and patterson within st. mary s parish that are still, right now, under flash flood warning for at least another three hours. what we re being told a few minutes ago from emergency officials here is that today they got seven inches of is more than the entirety of the barry storm event yesterday. really, the problem has come after the storm. can you see the effects of this. we are next to a parking lot of the metal shark shipyard. they make aluminum boats. this is supposed to be a parking lot. you can see seagulls everywhere. they think it s the ocean. we re looking at this barricade here. this has been here for years. they have been proeped in the past for floods like this.