Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1903-06-15
BRIDGES WERE
DAMAGED
Santa Fe Yesterday Expert
enced a Veritable
Flood.
ALL JUNE RECORDS BROKEN
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Overlooking of Acequias and Ar
royos Caused Much Private
Loss in the City.

Loss in the City.
Santa Fe yesterday started to take a
bath and wound up by going SWIM
ming. For short time yesterday af-
ternoon rain poured down in such
quantities that it seemed as though
there had been cloudburst, arroyos
and irrigation bitches became so full
ry off the water, streets looked like un-
usually wide bitches and considerable
damage was done. With the rain, hail
pelted down for awhile and beat
against windows as if determined to
break the glass. The precipitation yes
terday, as recorded at the local office Of
the weather bureau, was 1.10 inches
and for Saturday night was .12 of an
inch, making a total since Saturday of
1.22 inches. This breaks all previous
records for June, as the total rainfall
for the first IA days of this month has
been 3.57 inches or more than the total
for the entire month since a record has
been kept.
The water rose so rapidly yesterday
and came down in such quantities that
much damage was done. Within few
moments the water in the river and
many Of the tributary arroyos rose
bank full and but a light fall more
would have caused them to overflow.
Many of the posts which marked the
channel of the river as surveyed by the
city, were swept away and the water
paid no attention to the official chan
mel. The strain on all bridges was
great and today the only bridge which
teams were permitted to be driven
across, was that on Galisteo street
The bridge on Don Gaspar avenue was
open to foot traffic, but it was deemed
unsafe for vehicles.
The bridge over the Arroyo Sais was
swept away and number of smaller
bridges over arroyos were carried out.
A dangerous place was left on Don
Gaspar avenue east Of Manhattan av-
enue where the water washed out a
new channel across the street and let
one end of the bridge fall into the deep
arroyo. But few bridges over arroyos
were left in good condition. The foot
bridge on Canon road is among those
carried away.
The Delgado street bridge over the
Rio Santa Fe was damaged and
large amount of dirt at the end of the
Don Gaspar avenue bridge was washed
out. At Galisteo street, by the end Of
the bridge, was large pile of dirt
which has remained from the erection
of new buildings in that vicinity. This
was to great extent carried away and
there were several small land slides. :
Much damage was caused by the
flood water which poured down from
the hills north OF the city. Grant and
Washington avenues, for time, looked
like incipient rivers and the water ex-
tended over the walks as we'll as the
street. This morning the vacant lots
south OF the Palace hotel and east of
Washington avenue resembled lakes
with the water standing in them.
The house owned by Lehman Spiegel-
berg on Washington avenue, was
greatly damaged. The water came
down from the hill above in such vol
ume that in a few moments 1t rose al
most to the height of the window sills.
st. vincents' hospital did not escape.
The breaking of an acequia permitted
a large amount Of water to flow d.
rectly towards the building and there
was over two feet Of water in the eel
lar in consequence. Many trunks were
stored in the cellar and so were dam
aged. -Four rooms in the frame build
ing were flooded. The water rose so
that it flowed through the rooms but 1t
was seen coming In time to permit the
removal Of carpets. Men were kept
busy all night pumping water from the
cellars of the buildings. Some damage
was done to the new residence Of Hon.
Arthur seligman by water getting into
the cellar.
A vast amount of annoyance and, In
the aggregate, quite heavy loss. was
caused by water beating under win
dows and injuring carpets and furni-
ture. It has been a long time since
Santa Fe has had such flood and the
damage and loss from 1t will aggregate
quite a large sum.
The storm demolished a stable in
which we're about 20 goats belonging
to Manuel Montoya and Leandro Iowa
to and the falling roof and adobes kill
ed the animals. The stable was situa.
ted lust outside of the city limits IN
| precinct No. 1S. The partially finished
dam constructed by the Santa ,Fe Wa
ter and Light Company some years
ago in the Fort Marcy arroyo north OF
town. was washed away by the flood
which came down that arroyo. No other
damage was done in that vicinity as
the flood waters had the right OF way
and the earth work Of the dam was not
very solid.
/ A terrific volume Of water came
down the Arroyo SAILS in the eastern
mart Of town and across Palace avenue
for two hours. The arroyo is about si1
miles long and heads in the mountains
near Tesuque. II IL on an average \