El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-11

| TIED to 1t so that 1t could be pulled
| back in case that enormous sum was
not needed to build dam over a mile
long.
The city solons would have been
wiser and and one hundred and fifty
dollars better off il they had given the
street commissioner that high water
| fund and told him to make it water
proof, tie brick to it aud drop it over
into the center of the river but to al
ways keep string tied to it so that
it could be pulled back after the
flood.
1t would look bad to see the "two
| most prominent people, in Ell Paso
going around with a black eye or a
broken heart just as the tiremen come
| to visit the city. Lets call the scrap
off until later in the year-or year
| hence.
1t is thought that by tomorrow the
water will be low enough to rebuild
| the washed out track on the G. II. so
| that the iremen can come into town in
vanished cars.
| Chief Counors received telegram
! this morning saying that eighty fire
men would be in on tomorrow's G. H.
train.
Mayor Whitmore says: "The HER
AID deliberately lied in stating that |
was not out Sunday morning or rather
Saturday night working to try to stop
the break in the canal" Now the
HETALD in no place ever stated that
Mayor Whitmore was not out 'Sa.ur-
day night or Sunday morning or until
) o'clock Sunday evening" to try and
stop the break. Thu HERALD report
er knew that Whitmore was there and
took some sacks down Sunday morning
and did all he could in that way, but
the HERALD reporter did say that he
was not there Sunday night when the
water was railing in the second ward
and this point Mayor Whitmora will
not deny. The HERALD has no desire
to Go Mr.. WhitmOre or any other
member of the city administration any
personal injury or reflect in any way
on their personal integrity, but it does
reserve the right to criticise their
public policy and will do so whe never
1t thinks they have acted wrong. The
HERALD DOES believe nov that the
council acted wrongly in apprOpriating
onlv $3.50, when if they had appropriate
ed $500 and rushed a Jevee through to
a point boy Ond Cotton grove that the
people who have suffered from the flood
would rot have been injured. The
present levee as far as it was built was
all right, but it was money thrown
away because it did not go far enough
to do any good, but Alderman Whit
more is no more to blame than O.her
mem bers of the council.
All SORTS of alarming reports were
circulating about the high water last
evening. One report was that a two
foot rise was at Las Cruces, and others
exaggerated this report TO six feet.
The Two foot rise at Las Cruces was the
one that reached here Sunday morn
ing, and before it reached here it had
spread out over so much country that
there was ouly six inch rise here.
This morning the river had fallen
two inches and was goin g down rapidly.
A telegram from San Marcial stated
that the river had fallen considerably
at that point and had been
falling for several days. The present
high water is over, but advices from
Colorado indicate that the present
flood does not come from there, but
that it is only the flood water of the
northern part of New Mexico. The
New Mexican people look for another
flood in June from the melted snow in
the Rocky Mountains in Colorado.
One poor Mexican, who had built an
adobe house just south of the canal and
east of Stanton street succeeded in
keeping the high water away from his
house until last night when the dam
just east of his house gave way and |
q cd a
lake, with only narrow ne:k of land
left to reach Stanton street. AS the
water did not reach the adobes his |
house will not be injured.
!
Now let there ba peace Lets lay |
aside our petty quarrels until after the |
hremen have met, ben conquered and |
have returned home. The thread Of |
discord can be taken up just where it
was left off and the rag can be chewe1 |
during the dull summer months.
One of the flood sufferers below Cot
ton grove was busy yesterday in TAX
ing his two hundred and fifty chickens
from the back water and throwing
them into the current to be washed
away. He had fine lot of chickens
md was supplying the home ma ket
with eggs and chickens.
cred" Sullivan had a little eXper-
ence yesterday in going to the fire
that he had not contracted for when he
went on as driver for the hooks. Just
as his horses were hitched and the
chain across the door was dropped the
horses started out 50 quick that Sulli-
van did not have time to climb to his
seat so he mounted the double-tree and
holding on with Oae hand be held the
reins with the other and in this way
the horses started east instead of west
On Overland street, but Sullivan made