The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-08-02
EIGHT BODIES FOUND.
But the SOcorro Death List
Must Be Much Larger.
TWO CLOUDS MET AND MELTED.
Then the Water Sought 70 Erase the
Town-Buffalo. wyo.. Nearly
swept Away.

Albuquerque. y. NJ, Aug. LIP to 10
o'clock tonight eight bodies of persons
who were stricken down by the terrible
rush Of waters Tuesday have been recov-
cred
The list of known dead is as follows:
A child OF Elias Baca, Leandro Duran.
Thomas Duran. Celie Duran, j. B. Duran.
Duran. In addition 10 these, Zafrino
Baca, grandmother of the Duran chill.
dren. VIII die Of her injuries.
Searching parties now in the bottom
lands have found a wagon and two dead
horses attached to 1t, although nothing
can be found OF the body OF the driver,
who is supposed TO have been drowned.
Reports coming into the city this even
ing are to the effect that number of per-
sons are missing from towns south of
here. Points not far distSnt from here
are almost inaccessible, as the railroad
lines are washed out and the roads are
practically impossible. even with saddle
horses. II is expected that when COM
municat'on Is again re-established the
death list will be largely increased. The
relief committee is doing al in its power
10 relieve the hundreds who are homeless
and have lost their all.
Florence. Col, Aug. IA cloudburst
this afternoon ten miles southeast of
here caused a flood in Hardscrabble and
Wetmore creeks. Crops and fruit trees
were greatly damaged. Over 300 feet of
the Denver & Rio Grande railroad main
line was washed away at the mouth Of
Haroscrabbie creek, six miles east of
Florence
Red cliff, Col, Aug. IAN eastbound
Rio Grande passenger train ran into
rock Weighing about ten tons near VOL
colt today while going at good speed.
The engineer and fireman Jumped. both
being injured. The engine jumped COM
pletely over in a somersauit and went
down an embankment of forty feet into
six feet of water. The passengers only
received a severe shaking up. Heavy
rains loosened the rock from the big cliff
above the track.
Florence, Col. Aug. 1.-The Florence &
Cripple Greek railroad track has been
washed away for fifteen miles from
point eighteen miles south of Cripple
Greek. and the roadbed will have TO he
practically rebuilt. For a distance of
three miles north OF Adelaide the canyon
is impossible. President Johnson has put
a large force of men at work, and expects
TO have repairs completed in ten days.
Albuquerque, y. NJ, Aug 1.--Another
cloudburst has occurred, and the Atlantic
& Pacific Railway Company's new bridge
at Rio Puerco has been wrecked Farm
ers' homes are flooded and fields ruined
Hail accompanied the rain, and crops on
the high ground are lying fiat. as if a mon
ster roller had passed over them. A train
was sent TO meet the east-bound train at
Rio P1arco. The country is flooded as far
south.as Ell Paso and as far west as Will
Jams. The railroad tracks in several
places are very dangerous and much care
is being taken TO have the weak places
closely watched
in the valley close TO the river could have
escaped death. The railroad company is
making heroic efforts to relay its tracks.
All day a large force of men have been
gathering the rails from all parts of the
bottom lands where sections of track had
been carried away, many Of them hun
dreds OF feet in length
The cioudburst was one Of the most re-
markable ever seen in this country. Two
clouds were approaching. each driven by
conflicting currents of air. Near Snake
creek, about eight miles from the city
the clouds met with crash that could
plainly be heard in the streets here. An
instant after three rivers poured through
the principal streets of the town. Huge
boulders. bridge timbers, logs and an
ocean of small stones poured down with
the mighty mass of waters. Nothing could
resist the torrent. 1t swept men along
with IL in its mighty rush To the great
mass of debris carried down from the
mountains was added the timbers of
homes that had stood the onslaught of
rain and wind for years. Struggling In
the mass were men, women and chndren
In danger not alone from the swift rush
from the waters but from the stones.
timbers. etc. which were being dashed
against them.
The southern arroyo destroyed great
portions of the Magdalene bridge. wash
ing sections from 100 10 200 feet into the
upper part OF the town and destroying six
bridges, The northern stream destroyed
several houses and flooded almost every
building in West Socorro. doing great
damage TO houses and gardens ard
swapping the middle part of the town.
The middle arroyo came down with the
force of a millrace, twenty feet high,
tearing everything before IL to pieces and