Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-09-22
STORM OF SATUR-
DAY WAS SEVERE
The Arroyos and River Were Filled to
Overlooking and Much Damage Was
Done on the Low
Lands.
LIGHTNING PLAYED HAVOC
WITH ELECTRIC LIGHTS

The storm of Saturday evening was
one of the most severe and, in many
respects, one of the most unusual that
| Santa Fe has experienced, The total
rainfall for the entire storm or from
about $50 Saturday afternoon until 8
o'clock Sunday morning, was Is inch,
but it was not this amount that caused
the floods. This was caused by rain
fall of from 3S to 40 of an inch which
/ fell in about half an nours time. The
arroyos were filled and the streets were
converted into running streams of wa
ter. The hail stones which accompan-
led the rain were of unusual size and
beat down with such force as to strip
many trees of their leaves. When the
first downpour was over the ground in
the northern part of the city was white
and the foot-hills north of the city
were a white sheet. broken only by the
green of the cedar trees The greatest
fall of hail was in the northern part of
town and between the town and the
foot hills.
The Arroyo de los sbis in the eastern
part of the city, which is about y feet
deep and Is feet wide, was soon bank
full and the water flowed over the
bridge. AS it poured into the Santa Fe
river, the force of the stream was too
great for the river to overcome and the
water in the river was banked up as
though by DAM
The lowlands in the eastern part of
town were overflowed and great dam
age was done at the farm Of Enos An
drews where pigs, chickens and Belgian
hares We're drowned, 1t was with some
difficulty that his stock, including a
fine bull, was saved
In some places considerable damage
was done to fruit, but this was not
general. The Santa Fe river was bank
full for the first time in many years.
There were many washouts along the
line of the Denver & Rio Grande rail-
road and the train due here Saturday
evening was unable to get into town
until yesterday morning on account of
a culvert being washed out short dis
tance out of town. Tt was thought the
train out this morning would be aban-
doned, but a work train arrived from
the north and repaired the track so
that the morning train was enabled to
leave about two, hours' late Trains
from the north on the Santa Fe road
were three and five hours late Satur-
day night, but trains from the south
were on time. Today trains are again
operating on the regular schedule.
For awhile it was thought the capt.
tol was on fire, but later the damage
was found to be slight. A bolt of light
ming followed the electric light wires
into the building and burned out the
converter The packing and rubber
was set on fire and the |
building was filled with smoke and the
odor of burning packing. 1t was
quickly extinguished and the slight |
damage was repaired early this morn
ing.
order by the lightning and the dining
room of the Palace hotel during sup
per hour Saturday evening, was light |
ed by tallow candles in bottle candle |
sticks. The system was so disarrang-
ed that many of the churches We're |
dark last night and there We're no |
lights on the south side last night and |
a part of the night eply on Saturday |
night. The dynamo at the plant was |
injured by lightning and other damage |
was done by the washout. A large |
force of men was at work all day yes
terday in an effort to get things in |
shape so that the lights can be turned |
on this evening.