Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1902-07-22
A Number of Narrow Escapes Near Las
Vegas and at Springer Where Storm
Did More Damage Than at
First Reported.
THE PRETTY ROMANCE OF A
C0hSUMPTIVE YOUNG MAN
joys Special Daily Service.

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Vicente Dominguez arrived here to-
day with three wagon loads of sal
which he brought from the salt lakes
of eastern Valencia county.
Hon. Eugenio Romero has returned
from his trip to Rowe and vicinity ant
says that the country is still DIR,
around the tie camps there.
George Langenburg, the forest in.
spector, and Fred Fornoff, deputy T. S
marshal at Albuquerque, left here to-
day for Porvenir to look after the tres
passing reported there.
w. G. Rupp has received his 5000
pound boulder crusher and it will be
started at once grinding out material
for the cement walks to be laid here.
The capacity of the crusher is six tons
an hour
Captain r. G. Austen, Hon. j. s.
Duncan and W. G. Barnes of Colfax
county, left this afternoon to begin
their work ON the Dawson railway ad-
Justment of damages on the right-of-
way over the Pablo Montoya grant.
E. f. Gardner arrived this morning
from Chicago and went directly up to
| Ell Porvenir to superintend the mining
| operations there, and the work of the
large diamond drill. Mr.. Gardner is an
expert, and it is proposed to push the
| development at the coal mines there,
The drill will be started tomorrow.
Misses Swinford and Miss Davis were
out in all the hard rain Saturday night.
| Ihey We're returning from an excursion
and the rain came up before they could
put the side curtains on. The horse
| refused to go against the wind and
| n, so they stopped and sat the storm
| out. One Of the Miss Swnfords is sick,
but her drenching did not in the least
| injure her.
The storm at Springer, later reports
say, was even worse than at first re-
ported The hail was so strong that
iron awnings We're easily perforated. It
| is said the streets We're running with
chunks of ice formed by the large hail
| and burro was drowned right on the
streets and carried off to the river. The
| river there also got so high that it
flowed over in the town. Springer GER
talnly had narrow escape.
The rainfall Saturday night is Off
cially reported at 1,34 inches and Sun
day nights rain was Is of an inch, The
reservoirs for the water supply caught
considerable water, but not as much as
was believed owing to the storm COM
ing in a different direction. The CALI
mas river is we'll washed out, and there
is plenty of water for all purposes The
supply was getting little low before
the rain, but everything is all right
now.
DIR. hyperion Of st. Louis, one of the
directors of the new electric railway,
and who has charge of the construc-
ton, will arrive this evening on No. I
with several workmen. He will gather
a crew together and will begin work
the latter part of this week; at least
that is the intention now. The money!
is all up to pay the warrants as fast as
llley are uIdNl anu utldy Is ulcNpeC-
ted. The machinery shipments were
tied up in the Chicago strike, and are
expected here now in ten days. There
is no doubt that the company means
business.
T. A. Hayden, the Singer sewing ma
chine man, left here the middle of last
week with a fine new team of Indian
horses, one of which he had just pur-
chased, and headed for Union county.
He got no farther than Springer with
his fine new outfit AS he was nearing
the outskirts of the town Saturday ev-
ening during the terrible hail storm
from the vigorous pelting of the large
hailstones and started on a dead run
for the river. into which they plunged,
wagon and all, and were drowned. Mr..
Hayden jumped when he foresaw the
catastrophe and was not injured. The
swift current took the horses rapidly
down the stream and he found the dead
animals about three miles below with
the remains of the harness and wagon.
1t was very narrow escape for Mr..
Hayden, and he has hardly calmed
| down yet. The loss amounts to con-
| siderable, as the team was valuable
one. Mr.. Hayden is not buffed out, but
has secured another team in Springer
and will finish his trip. There were no
machines in the wagon, fortunately, at
the time of the accident
S. Irving Dennis arrived here from
Henry Ills, the latter part of last
June. He came with his father for his
health, as the doctors had told him he
had tuberculosis. Mr.. Dennis left be-
hind him young lady to whom he was
engaged and was about to marry when
he found he had developed the dreaded
disease. He and his father Immediately
left home, came here and erected a
shanty up in the canon, in the open,
where the son could get the healing
benefits of this climate. Mr. Dennis
grew rather despondent and felt that
life was becoming barren for him with
out the wife he would soon have made
his own. Miss Ada M. Beebe felt the
loneliness and despair back in her
home at Wicta, Wis, and heard that
her intended was not getting on as he
should. She took matters into her own
hands and sent word she was coming,
she was not going to stand the separa-
ton longer and yesterday ON No. she