Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-09-10
WAS 4 GREAT FLOOD
A Night of Terror Spent at Trim
ble's Stage Camp on the
Rio Grande.
MUCH LIVE STOCK DROWNED
Most OF the Horses We're Saved with Diff
hculty-Roads Washed Out in Other
Parts of the County ty-Another
Oloudburst.

further details received from tho
scene of the recent washouts at Coobit,
anu on the road between Thornton and
Bland show that the situation b.s hao,
III no way exaggerated, and the ac-
counts received Saturday and published
III the New Mexican rather undarst.+a
IMAM magnify Il, the facts. Saturday
hlsnt Tom Cain, an employe of w r.
Irmble at the station washed o,t
came in with wagon for supplies and
his account of the washout shows how
serious the affair was.
"hen seen by reporter of the Naw
mexican Mr.. Cain said: "It was tba
"orst ever saw, and it simply oouldn,t
De exaggerated. The storm struck us
thursday night about midnight Tho
water came down the canon abont
leet deep with force that swept every.
'hlhg before it. 1 woke I'D a littIa ho
iore IL came and I thought it must be
settihg near daylight, and 1 woke one
vi the other boys, but we found IT was
only little after IL o'clock, One of tba
boys went out to get drink of watar
ana found one of the horses had tano,ad
himself up in the rope and fallen so
we mad TO go out and get him up, We'll
we mad hardly got back in bed again
"heh the water came down on lis. At
hfst we did not think it was going to ha
serious, but after few minutes II woe
pouring in, and We had to light out.
III struck the barn and washed ev-
efything away. We had fortv.six
horses IN there, and we finally succeed
ed IN getting forty-five Of them out
safely. The other one was drowned
Inc water was rushing through the
staoles. and water trough washed
along with 1T, striking him and knock
ing him off his feet, and he was
drowned before we could get him nm
IL was hard and dangerous work and
Two OF use were caught in stall and
nearly drowned. The only means of
setIing out We're cut off. There were
Walis on three Sides and the horses,
irlgntened to death, blocked us on the
lourth slde. only that one end of the
stall gave way under the pressure of
the water we never would have gotter
out again. The barn was comnletelv
Mnlrled out OF existence. A big, 6-room
frame house near by, belonging to An.
ay Horn, was picked right up and car
rled LOCO yards by the flood and set
aown again without particle of dam
age. All our hogs were drowned. and
an the oats and feed washed away and
iost, SO we haven't any now for the
horses. The tents and the log cabins
r;x
drlmDles was carried off, and all we
found OF 1T or the furniture was the
wash pitcher. We lost all our clothes
ana shoes and bedding. The two stages
lhat were in at the time are literally
Durled In mud and stones that came
down as large as a horse.
STRUCK A HOUSE.
When we went into the corral to
turn the horses loose l left the stage
horses and saddle horse with a boy
outside, so that we would have some
thing to ride and get out with, but they
got away from him, and l had to take
a wild broncho that had never been
ridden before. He was pretty badly
scared and tried to pitch, but man
aged to ride him, and he did good sery-
ice. l tried to get the other horses.
followed what l supposed in the dark
was the horses, only to find it was An
dy Horns siX-room house floating down
the stream. When it struck my horse
ran right up against it and broke a
window and cut his nose Then we had
to fight our way back against the cur
rent.
A BOY SAVED FROM DROWNING,
We spent the night on a little mound
that was the safest place we could find
until daylight. 1t was an awful night,
and several wanted to make their way
to some other place, but if we had we
wouldn't have been able to get through.
We had a colored man and his S-year-
old boy with us. That fellow was scared
most to death, and prayed all night as
loud as he could. He put his youngster
on horse and the horse bucked him
off into the water. The man sat on his
horse and yelled, oh, Lord! save my
BOY! but was too scared to do a thing
for himself. l grabbed the boy and
pulled him out of the water, and then
the colored man prayed for us all night.
Some of the Others prayed and cursed
by turns. In the morning we hunted up
the horses and found them ALL"
Mr.. Cain reports that the road is all
washed out to Bland, and all traffic has
been suspended. The road from the sta
tion to Santa Fe is in very bad shape.
He only loaded his wagon to half its
usual capacity, and was obliged to tele-
graph for another team to make the re-
turn trip. Saturday night freighter
who had started for Bland returned,
unable to get through.
THE ORTIZ ROAD WASHED OUT.
Another party on Saturday night,
from Trimble's camp at Ortiz. on the
San Pedro road, reported that high wa
ter has completely washed out the road
to that camp, and all the men from
around the country near there are now
at work repairing it.
ANOTHER CLOUDBURST.
Considerable rain fell yesterday aft
ernoon east of the Santa Fe mountains,
and another cloudburst came down far
up in the canon, causing the Santa Fe
river again to fill up to it's banks.
TRAINS RUNNING AGAIN.
After being completely tied up for
several days the railroads are beginning
to get In running order. The Denver
g. Rio Grande has finished repairs and
the trains are again running today.
The Santa Fe is not so fortunate and
1t may be sometime yet before its trains
can run through on time between Lamy
and Albuquerque. The washOut at
Rosario is still unrepaired but the
company is now transferring its passen-
gers around the break and yesterday the
first train arrived with passengers ane
mail from the west and south. At
o'clock this morning the train left Santa
Fe to connect at Lamy with the train
from the east and returned about 1880.
1t went out again at 10 o'clock to meet
third train from the west.
WASHOUT ON THE SANTA FE.
The reports from the scene of the
washout on the Santa Fe say that the
road will hardly be open for travel with
out transfer for two or three days at
least. j. w. Akers. who went down to
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