El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-05-24


Selden fell until last midnight, some
s or 10 inches. The river was station
airy until $3.50 a. m, when it began to
rise, and by 9 a. M, it had risen
eighteen inches. TIE rise is expected
at this city tomorrow morning.
AS the Il. & 2. belt line IS under
water, all T. & P. Santa Fee switching
is being done through the G. H. yards.
With yard engines from three differe 1T
roads going through the O. H. yards,
the transfers there are somewhat live
The Santa Fe is having squally
time of it, although in two or three
days, Superintendent Hurley thinks
the main line will be open. The track
was first washed out north of Rincon.
This has been repaired. Then came a
washout at Selden of some sixty feet,
and presently one at Earlham of forty
feet. Into the Seldeu washout double
header freight train ran, throwing the
first engine off the track and partially
derailing the second. Engineer De-
hart of the first locomotive was some
what bruised. but it is reported had no
bones broken. The wreck lies there,
and no assistance can be rendered from
this end, because of the Earlham break.
AS the current is running pretty strong
the work of repair is necessarily cir
cumscribed, but everything possible is
being done.
In the meantime arrangements have
been made to run trains via Deming
over the Southern Pacific, and the
South bound trains of Saturday and
Sunday arrived last evening via Rim
con and Deming. One freight will be
run each way for the next two days. so
local shippers will be sure of getting
their goods: and today's south bouu,'
passenger train will arrive via Deming
at ) O'Clock this evening, stopping first
at the Southern Pacific depot, where
all the trains must go to register. This
Moons train left On time, and after re-
gistering at the S. P. depot went west
to Deming.
Bob Ross house fell this morning on
account of the water getting to the
walls. Charley Patterson. Madrid and
others living in the same neigh Dor hood
were moving out this morning, as the
water was getting so high it had begun
to seep through the levees. In many
places the people were at work bailing
the seep water out of their yards.
The city kept from thirty five to one
hundred men at work all night in
strengthening the levees and watching
for breaks. One hundred men have
been kept at work all day at the same
work and the canal levee is now up to
the floor of the Stanton street canal
bridge. Men will be kept busy all
night in Strengthening weak spots ard
watching for breaks. If the water
should break through it would reach
as far up as the L. X z. track, but those
who have the work in charge DO not
apprehend such a catastrophe.
The water rose about eight and one
half inches and since Saturday has teen
hitting the striugers on the Stanton
street bridge and all street car and
foot passage over the bridge
has been stop ped as it was considered
unsafe.
The water rose up to noO1 today,
but the indications were that the river
would fall before the second rise re-
ported at Selden reached here so that
the water would hardly go above the
high water mark of today.
The Santa Fee has large force of
men at work up at the headgate of the
canal strengthening the dyke there
and from al appearances it looks as
though the water will be held at its
present point.
At 2:lJ this afternoon the river was
still rising and stood at least two in
ches higher than the street car track
on Stanton street between the canal
ard the bridge. The water had also
re ached within an inch of the top Of
the outside levee in the canal, but it
was thought that if the outer levee
broke the inside levee would withhold
the water.
There was some talks of putting 400
or 800 sacks of sand across from the
ED of the Stanton street bridge to the
high land farther down the river and
thus breaking the force of the current
that row sweeps in through that break
ana hits the canal levee with full force
This would certainly lessen the strain
or the levee. Two inches more rise
and the outer levee of the canal will
wash away.
The bridge was still Standing firm at
the above time.
At 3 o'clock the water began to
break over the canal levee, near
North's brick yard but by prompt work
the break was stopped before any
damage was done. The southeast wind
is banking the water high against the
levee this afternoon.
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