El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-06-30
ONE BIG BOG.
This is the Condition of Ell PasO Today.
Record Beaten.

This is the Condition of Ell PasO Today. /
Record Beaten.
And the rains descended and the
floods came. That is what they did
bright and early this morning: land
the consequences were" that the enk
tire town is one vast; mud pie. The
twenty-four hours record for June was
beaten. The greatest June pcecipita-
ton heretofore known in Ell PasO, was
in June 1885, when the precipitation
for twenty-four hours was .43 inches.
But this is record breaking season in
acquatics, aud between 400 and 600 q.
m. today the precipitation was 1.70
inches; the rain came down all Of a
sudden in one vast sheet, and ere it
stopped here were i several racing
torrents rushing down sOregOn, Stan
ton, Kansas, North Campbell and Flor
ence streets. The Oregon street fresh
ct tore up the roadway, overlooked the
Southern Pacific ditch which. it we'll
nigh filled up with sand, and created a
big lake north of the S. P. track be-
also flooded the cellars of both Mil S
buildings with.mud and sand and dirty
water; the little plaza ard South Ore
gon street were washed, as we're the
promenades in the plaza. 80
: Kansas street was a bowling flood
which tore up the roadway and turned
it's waters inn over the G. Fl. yards.
The same was the case on the streets
to the east. An immense amount of
water was thrown into the railroad
yards, so that they were; entirely
flooded. Part of the flood roared down
Franklin street back of the g. h. round
house, washed out the ditch there, and
springing one section of the round
house wall, burst through, carrying an
immeose amount of mud with it. The
water in the round house was foot or
more deep. The pits of course were all
loaded up, as was the turn table pit,
thing had struck it The waters es-
capped into the flats to the north of
Myrtle avenue. The country down
To ere resembles q vast lagoon. The
Chinese round house roustabouts who
live in tents and huts south of the
tracks, were drowned out. The water
lines Myrtle avenue for half mile,
making that road suggestive of lake
side drive, and the lake is filled with
thousands Of frogs which make the air
ring with their cries. Many residents
aud the same may be said of some on
the south side, noticeably Mr.. Reck-
harris house which can be left and en-
tered only by boat or wading. There
were large ponds between Myrtle
avenue and MagOffin avenue, while
south of Ma coffin avenue the seen re-
sembed those of the late flood in from
the river. The L. & p. yards are par
TALLY under water az ain, and the same
may be said of all the low places on the
south side. The bulk of the water
came down Campbell street, spreading
over the ad jacent territory as it went
on. ALI of the south side streets are
more or less submerged, in some of the
places as on Stanton street, the water
being nearly deep enough to swim in.
The square southeast OF the court house
is under water, so that Charlie Kief-
er's house is once more an island
though the Mills buildings cellars
would not have been foC ded but for q
temporary dyke the wOrkmen on the
new building had thrown up on Ore
gOn street the previous day, and which
resulted in turning water aside from
the str eet and onto the adjoining prem
ises.
The rain washed out stretch OF the
new track come citing with the White
Oaks road. But the G. II. manage
ment had a Construct ion train down
there in short order, so that the T. &
2. passenger was only couple of hours
late.
There was considerable lightning
flying around One shaft struck the
metallic water conductor at the corner
of Mike Brannigan's North Oregon
S rect house, now occupied by Mr..
Bowles and family. About yard of
foundation was knocked out where the
fluid entered the earth, but no further
damage to speak of was done. There
is a suspicious looking hole in the
ground fronting the north west corner
of the Sheldon block. And some think
it is due to the eXcavatlng properties
of lightning. The Santa t'e people
say they have had no trouble.
The humidity Of the atmosphere this
morning was very high, being .93, and
the air was so muggy that further
dowofall was promised.
The rain must have fallen heavily
point, and at George Gaennie's the
as high as it was two weeks ago.
There is fierce current rushing by
Quinn's place.
The washouts on the new line east of
this city prove to be more serious than
was supposed. The White Oaks line
itself is washed aut, and then beyond
there are about fifteen small washouts
east of tne Junction. SuperinteL dent
Martin found that it would be better to
fix up the cd line first, and this he has
done, letting the mesa line remain for
the present. The lower lire was in
condition by 1:15 p. m, so that the de-
lay ed T. Il z. came in at 30 and the
G. Fl. was on time.
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