Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-08-06
FLOODS DOING DAMAGE.
A Disastrous Cloud-burst in Tijeras
Canon Near AlbuquerQue-Another
Flood at Silver City.

At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon a
cloud burst deluge struck Tijeras canon,
some ten miles above Albuquerque, and
resulted in considerable damage to farm
lands and crops down the valley. A
flood thirty feet deep is said to have re-
suited and a number of settlements along
the creek below the village of Tijeras
suffered. The flood spread out over the
low lands and inundated something like
mile of the A., T.. e. s. F. road bed. As
far as can be learned no lives were lost.
ovER-DRAwN FLOOD STORIES.
Mr.. d. C. Hobart, secretary Of the terri
torial board of equalization and pro-
prietor of the fremont hotel at Silver
City, tells the New MEXICAN that the nc-
counts of the damage by the recent flood
at Silver City have been greatly over
drawn. He thinks that the damage will
not exceed 100000 and that most of the
sufferers will soon recover their feet. The
sum of $l,40O was quickly raised to clean
up the streets, and this has been so ex-
pended that evidences of the flood have
nearly all been removed. He adds that
too much praise can not be bestowed
upon Mayor Fleming and Marshal Can't
ley for their untiring efforts to restore
order. .......
SHIFTING TUE IoADBED.
Engineer Mead, of the A., T. & S. f.,
arrived from Silver City this morning
and was out bright and early hunting up
a transit with which to survey the spurs
unto the penitentiary and capitol grounds.
Floods account for the loss of Mr.. Mead's
transits just as they do for great deal
of vexatious trouble the Santa Fe road
has been subjected to during the past
four weeks. Last Saturday Mr.. Mead
was engaged in relocating the line for
the Silver City branch. He took dou
BILE team and drove eight miles down the
valley and after completing the task he
sent two of his men back to town with
the team, and IN the vehicle were his
transit, plats and books containing sur
vey memoranda. Then another food
swooped down the valley. The team was
caught up and carried 1900 feet down
stream where it lodged; the men barely
escaped with their lives; one of the horses
was drowned and everything in the bug
gy, transit and all, was carried down
stream. Remains of the case containing
some of his instruments were found
seven miles down the valley, but the tran
sit is supposed to be buried in the sand.
Mr.. Mead says the Santa Fe company
has located new route for the Silver
City branch and it is being rebuilt on
higher ground, following the edge of the
foot hills near Whitewater. At some
points the line is shifted three miles
away from the former road-bed.
STORM AT LAS VEGAS.
For three days past heavy storms have
broken about Las Vegas and vicinity. 1t
is recorded that two inches of rain fell at
Gallinas Springs; dam was washed away
and an orchard badly damaged. John
Whitmore in attempting to cross the
river on horseback unexpectedly went in
over his head Fortunately sand bar
littl, way below arrested the force of the
current and permitted his getting out
safely. Lightning struck within 100 feet
Of Max Goldenberg at the Ilfeld ranch.
The dam at the ranch was washed away.