Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1901-08-08
DESTRUCTION
| BY THE FLOOD
Particulars Of the Damage by Mon
days Freshet to the Santa Ee
Railway.
SEVEN MILES OF new TRACK
Several Steel Bridges Twisted Like Ropes
of Sand-OHicials on the Grounds With
Seven Hundred Men and Teams
A Better Route Suggested.

The damage done to the tracks Of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
company between Glorieta and Lamy is
much greater than was at first sup
posed. The food which rushed down
Apache canon on Monday morning last
destroyed practically between six and
and seven miles of track aside from
demolishing six fine new bridges, four
of them of steel, in addition to doing
great damage to telegraph lines and
everything else connected with the
track and it's operation. But two of the
new steel bridges put in within the last
two years at very heavy cost and much
labor, stood the onslaught to some eX-
tent but greatly damaged by the terri
fic' flood that filled the canon and flats
between GIorieta mountain and Lamy
with boiling, rushing and sweeping wa
ter many feet high and from GO to so
feet wide. TO all intents and purposes
a new line is being constructed now
for the purpose of re-establishing COM
munication and traffic. Several pas
sengers who walked from Glorieta to
Lamy, a distance of nine miles, inform
the New Mexican that the public high
way and roads in that section are
completely wiped out and that the only
way they managed to walk was to Sc
lect the best spots they could find to
walk on. All the county bridges are
washed out and much expense will be
put upon the county to repair the roads
and bridges in that section to any pas
sable and good condition.
General Manager Fl. U. Nudge of
Topeka, General Superintendent Res
segue, also of Topeka, and Division
Superintendent Fox, with wreckins
trains and material are on the ground
and new material for building is con-
stantly arriving. A force of about 700
men and 100 teams is employed and
work is being pushed under the per-
sonal supervision of these officials with
the utmost energy and dispatch. Not
much, however, could be done on Mon
day and Tuesday last On account OF the
great amount of water still in the can
on and from the fact that in many
places in the canon the water was sew
eral feet high and prevented the work
of reconstruction from going on. Dur
ing the past two days passengers are
being transferred by team for about
five miles and it is believed that conf
munication may be re-established by
1f
and teams is constantly arriving and as
soon as they arrive are put to work
Workmen are being brought from as
far as Topeka, and their number Is be-
ing increased right along. Some of the
new steel and iron bridges that were
washed out although of the best ma
terial and workmanship, were twisted
| by the force of the water into all con-
ceivable shapes so as to be valueless
for anything except old iron and junk
The two bridges that are still to be
seen and that are some where neal
their original places are also badi!
damaged but not so much so as tho
others. The bridge near Canoncito was
moved 60 feet from it's foundation ut
the canon by some freak of the waters
and is now simply mass of metal
The large Onderdonk warehouse abou
a mile above Lamy, was removed from
it's foundation and carried down the
track about five hundred yards ant
placed straight across the track. 1t Ii
now being demolished by workmen ant
temporary track has been constructed
around it so as to allow trains from
Lamy to go north as near as possible tt
where active work is in progress. III
damage exclusive Of loss in time an
in prestige, in passenger and freigh
traffic and the delay caused to fre1gh
traffic of perishable nature such a.
fruit and vegetables, amounts away In
to hundreds Of thousands of dollars
Transfers are still being made by wag
ons of passengers, baggage, mail ant
express and the railroad officials ar
bending every possible energy to con
struct temporary tracks through tn
canon and along the scene of the dis
aster in order to allow passengers ant
freight trains to run through withou
transfer. This paper is informed tina
several trains laden with California
fruit are being held at Albuquerque
and west and that it is highly import
ant that these be sent east with as lit
| tie delay as possible for obvious rea
| sons.
A civil engineer of this city who 1
well acquainted with the country be
tween Las Vegas and this city and be
tween the Glorieta mountain and San
| ia Fe, informs the New Mexican that
good line Of feasible grades can b
built into Santa Fe either through tn
mountains or from Glorieta to tn
capital. 1t seems in view Of the yNlrl
recurrence of floods, washouts and de
struction along the present line fror
Glorieta to Thornton that the SAINT
Fe Railway company would find it
it's benefit and would subserve its ow
best interests by looking carefully int
this matter and by relocating and re
constructing its line from Las Vega
to Thornton via Santa Fe.
i, A Suicide Caused by Liquor.
James Bucklin. of Santa Rosa, en-