El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-27

adjoining the Briggs place was al-O
quickly under water, but she AS saw
ed. The BRIGGS have been avlng a
hard time Of it from being impriso ii d
so long. and icing stopped from all
means of earning livel, hood. George
Gainnie was up all night with gangs Of
men ard teams strengthening the dy Ike
at his very dangerous location. George
is 2 great water fighter and has shown
an indomitable pluck and energy that
has won for him much and well merit
ed praise. His re ghbors have many
handsome things to say about him.
There is very swift current all the
way through East Ell Paso where the
@. II. tracks are once more under
water, aud the wisdom of building the
new mesa track Is amply illustrated.
0. T. Dix is making a hard fight to save
his property, and hopes to succeed in
saving most of it. S. H. Newman has
; gns posted around his dykes request
ing people to please keep off his levses
and WORK is being constantly done in
that section to stand off the water
until the fall in the water CONES
There was q rise of three inches last
night IN the beleaguered section, bat
by noon today it was thought the water
was receiing. Along Sixth street
and for Il BLOCK up on Stanton, the
water is deeper than ever. and the
same may BE- said OF Seventh street.
ADOBE houses keep tumbling down and
the rush of refugees to higher parts of
the city continues. The empty freight
cars are still flied with AIeXicans and
their hastily gotten together posse
sious, and there they viii stay until
the ears are wa1te1. and they don't
know what they will dc.
The water is running over Stanton
street bridge, but the structure stands
firm rock 30 the surprise of every
one, and shows that it was built 10 stay.
Stanton street between the river and
the canal is but a narrow strip of dry
lard that may become e1gulfed at any
moment. The south end of the Santa
Fee street bridge continues in danger.
and the approach was apparently
crumbling away in spite of the efforts
to prevent it this nom. Forty Mexi-
can soldiers came over about 10 a. M,
today, with shovelS and marched up
on this side to near the head gate
of the canal. They seemed a little
surprised to find SO much of crowd
there and said they came over
to help. They were turned pack aud
sent home where they belonged and
with Information that when they were
neeied they would be sent for. 1t may
not be true, out it wa aimed that they
were Sent over here to cut the dyke
and let the water into this city, which
won d result in relieving Juarez OF the
very much pressure. The water was
running over the Mexican d Ike and
had broken down part of it to the west
of the Santa re street bridge. The
river at the bridges is fully as big as
the Mississippi at Davenport and Rock
Island. for t is clear and uuo OStructed
water from dyke to dyke.
There was great scare this noon at
the heal gate. The wa.er began
breaking through in many places all
at once, and within a shoot d stance of
the head gate. and it required the
greatest eNertiOns to che kmate the
flow. Men are strung along the bank
placing sand bags where most needed,
and the sand bag dam below is being
greatly strengthened.
There is much surprise thai with
the water falling s. up the river. the
water here should be on the increase
Some say there is a bar formed several
miles below which can only b removed
by dynamite. But A. H Holmes saws
there Is not stick of dynamite in the
city. ard that the use of it under the
circumstances would attend with many
difficulties. Others claim that toe in
crease Is not so much an increase as it
Is the depOsiting of mud in the river
here from up sire am which has raised
the bed of the stream. SO things con-
tinue.
NO MED TO FEAR.
The HERALD wired State Engineer
john +. Fle Of Color do at Denver
snow dood waters in the RIO Grande,
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