The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-05-29
Ell PASO WANTS AID
THOUSANDS OF HOMELESS PEOPLE
ENTIRELY DESTITUTE


Flooded Ares Largely Occupied BY Glass
Never Burdened With This Worlds
Good. and Who Will Not Have Even
Their Poor Habitations to Return to
the Water Having Resolved Their
Adobe Huts Into Their Original Mud-
Congress Asked for Ten thousand Dol
Iars-Higher Water Coming.
Ell Paso, Texas, May 2s.-Over 500
homeless families, or 1000 people, were
on the streets of Ell Paso this morning.
searching for shelter. Their furniture.
clothing, ETC., were piled upon the prin-
night the waters continued to rise, and
before day dawned the flood had reach
ed that portion of the city in and
around San Antonio street, where prom
inent business and professional men re-
side. At II o'clock tonight the food
swent over six more blacks. The wa
tiers were full Of struggling teams haul
ing our property from the houses. Six
prominent citizens residing in the vicin-
ity OF San Antonio street, headed by
Collector Of Customs Captain Davis,
armed themselves with Wjnchesters,
and crossing over the railroad levee,
cut the dixie, letting the back water out.
and it began to recede from San An
tonic street. A troop Of the fifth cav
airy from Fort Bliss came down this af
ternoon and offered their services TO
guard the property Of the homeless,
which is In the streets.
RELIEF MEASURES.
The city board Of health met this
six leading physicians to take charge OF
a relief hospital. now being established
for the homeless and sick, and the ply
sicans are taking such to the improvis-
ed hospital. Colonel Van Walzah, Of
Fort Bliss, loaned the city fifty-three
tents, and citizens committees were out
today with wagons, gathering provis-
ions for distribution among the desti-
tute. At least 400 out Of the $40 fam
lilies whose houses are under water, are
without the necessaries of life. The city
council held a meeting and authorized
the mayor 20 wire the Texas senators
and representatives in congress to ask
for an appropriation Of $1,000 for their
relief
This afternoon the river was at a
standstill, but a rise of one foot Is re-
49,
food water al FL Paso covers an area
averaging four miles long and three
fourths of mile wide, flooding not less
than 700 homes. most of which belong
ed to the poor laboring classes. The
east side OF Stanton street from Over
land to Seventh street, is continuous
pile Of ruins. The houses, having been
built close together on adobe founda-
tons, were undermined and have tum-
bled down. Many people living in
houses where the water is up TO the
doors refuse to move out and these peo-
pie will have trouble tonight if the rise
reported above reaches FL Paso.
UP IN NEW MEXICO.
Denver, Colo. May pa special to
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Gays:
Dispatches tonight state that heavy
rains nave prevailed for twenty-four
hours over the Rio Grande watershed
for distance Of $50 miles above Santa
Fe, and the river at Embudo. fifty miles
north Of here has risen twelve inches in
The past twenty-four hours. The swol-
len streams south Of Espanola will dou-
BILE this rise before II uasses Socorro,
rendering the prospects three days
hence extremely gloomy at Ell Paso and
JuraeA All the low lands in the Rio
Grande valley above Espanola are in
undated. At Artrisca, opposite Albu-
ouerque. the river cut through the bank
this afternoon. and inundated a large
part OF the town. A large force Of men
was put to work, however, and before
dark the break had been repaired.