Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-06-17

Bridges Damaged and Much Property
Destroyed By the Flood
ALL JUNE RECORDS BROKEN,

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ming. For a short time that at
ternoon rain poured down in such
quantities that it seemed as though
there had ben a cloudburst, arroyos
and irrigation bitches became so full
that it was impossible for them to car
nv 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 Ito inches
and for Saturday night was IL of an
inch. making a total since Satu1 day OF
1.22 inches. This breaks all previous
records for June, as the total rainfall
for the first fourteen days of this
month has been 3.57 inches or more
than the total for the entire month
sincea record has been kept.
TIL water rose so rapidly yesterday
and came down in such quantities that
much damage was done. Within a 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
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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 1t was deemed
unsafe for vehicles.
The bridge owe the arroyo Sais was
swept away and a number Of smaller
bridges over arroyos were carried out.
A dangerous place was left on Don
Gaspar avenue east of Manhattan ave
nue.. where the water washed out a
new channel across the street and let
one end of the bridge fall into the deer
arroyo. But few bridges over arroyos
were left in good condition. The foot
bridge on Canyon 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 thu
Don Gaspar avenue bridge was washe'
out. At Galisteo street, by the end o
the bridge, was a large pile of dir
which has remained from the erection
of new buildings in that vicinity. Thi:
was TO a great extent carried away anC
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 ant
Washington avenues for a time looked
like incipient rivers and the water ex
tended over the walks as well as tn
street. This morning the vacant lot
south of the Palace hotel and east o
Washington avenue resembled lake
with the water standing in them.
The house owned by Lehman Spieg
elberg on Washington avenue, wa,
greatly damaged. The water cam
down from the hill above in such vol
ume that in a few moments it rose al
most TO the height of the window stills
st. V~incent's hospital did not escape
The breaking of an ~acequia permitte,
a large amount of water to flow di
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 Sc
that ii flowed through the rooms but /
was seen coming in time to permit thu
removal of carpets. Men We're KEEP
busy all night pumping water from thu
callars of the buildings. Some damag,
was done to tn new residence of Hon
Arthur Seligman by water getting int
the cellar.
A vast amount of annoyance and,
the aggregate, quite a heavy loss, wa
caused by water beating under vii
down and in1ur1ng carpets n turn
ture. 1t has beer a long time sine
Santa Fe has had such a food and tn
damage and loss from it will aggregat
quite a large sum.
The storm demolished a stable
which were twenty goats belongiT
to Manuel Montoya and Leandro Low
TO and the falling roof and adobes XII
ed the animals. The stable was situa
ed just outside of the city limits
precinct No. IS. The partially finishC
dan constructed by the Santa Fe w
ter and Light company some yea
ago IN +bo E,rt AFarc,y arrDvo month